ALIMA PRESENTATION

THE ALIMA SPIRIT: ALIMA’s purpose is to save lives and care for the most vulnerable populations, without any discrimination based on identity, religion, or politics, through actions based on proximity, innovation, and the alliance of organizations and individuals. We act with humanity, impartiality, and respect for universal medical ethics. To access patients, we are committed to operating in a neutral and independent manner.

THE VALUES and PRINCIPLES of our action, included in our CHARTER:

1. The patient first
2. Revolutionizing humanitarian medicine
3. Responsibility and freedom
4. Improve the quality of our actions
5. Trust
6. L’intelligence collective
7. Environmental responsibility

ALIMA promotes and defends the principles of fundamental human rights. ALIMA has a zero-tolerance approach to those guilty of acts of gender-based and sexual violence, as well as to inaction in the face of alleged or actual violence. Protecting the people benefiting from and impacted by our work is our top priority in everything we do. Everyone working with ALIMA commits to:

• Respect the charter, the code of conduct, institutional policies including the policy of protection against abuse of power and sexist and sexual violence, the policy of prevention of corruption and fraud;
• Report any violation of policies, documents, framework and procedures to a superior or a referent.

CARE – INNOVATE – TOGETHER: Since its creation in 2009, ALIMA has treated more than 13 million patients in 15 countries, and currently operates in 12 African countries and Haiti. In 2022, we developed 62 humanitarian medical response projects to meet the needs of populations affected by conflict, epidemics, and extreme poverty. All of these projects support national health authorities through nearly 511 health facilities. We work in partnership, particularly with local NGOs, whenever possible to ensure that our patients benefit from expertise, whether in their own country or elsewhere in the world. In addition, to improve the humanitarian response, we conduct operational and clinical research projects, particularly to combat malnutrition and viral hemorrhagic fevers.

OUR PROJECT THEMES: Malnutrition, Sexual and reproductive health including gender-based violence, Primary and secondary health, Pediatrics, Malaria, Epidemics (Hemorrhagic fevers, meningitis, Cholera, Measles, Dengue, COVID-19).

THE ALIMA TEAM: More than 2,000 people currently work for ALIMA. The field teams, closest to patients, receive support from the coordination teams, generally based in the capitals of the countries of intervention. These receive support from the four desk teams and the emergency and openings department team based at the operational headquarters in Dakar, Senegal. The Paris and New York teams actively work on fundraising as well as representing ALIMA. The rest of the ALIMA Galaxy includes individuals and partner teams who work on behalf of other organizations such as the medical NGOs BEFEN, ALERTE Santé, SOS Médecins / KEOOGO, AMCP, the research organizations PACCI, INSERM, the Universities of Bordeaux and Copenhagen, the NGO Solidarités International, and many others.

OUR COUNTRIES OF OPERATION: Mali, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Guinea, Sudan, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Haiti.

ALIMA IN CHAD:

Chad is experiencing a severe food and nutrition crisis, exacerbated by significant population influxes and its vulnerability to natural disasters and epidemics. ALIMA began its activities in Chad in 2012 in partnership with the Chadian medical NGO Alerte Santé.

In 2012, the project implemented in the Ngouri health district, in the Lac health province, was implemented with the support of ECHO, OFDA, UNICEF, and WFP. The project focused on improving the quality of care, a major challenge in Chad given the difficulty in mobilizing qualified medical skills. Since 2021, Alerte Santé & ALIMA has been conducting the OptiMA study project in the Ngouri, Dibinitchi, and Isserom health districts with financial support from Givewell, as well as the CRESH resilient hospital project with support from several foundations.

Since April 2013, ALIMA & Alerte Santé have also been supporting SAM treatment in N’Djamena. Before the implementation of this ALIMA & AS project, only the Notre Dame des Apôtres dispensary in the South District offered free malnutrition treatment in the capital. After two years of operations, the project has demonstrated the scale of the malnutrition problem in urban areas (in N’Djamena, where the SAM rate reaches 2.8%).

Since 2021, an OptiMA study project has been underway within the UNT of HATC in N’Djamena.

ALIMA has also been running a community project in the 9th arrondissement of N’Djamena since 2022 in partnership with the French Development Agency for the treatment and prevention of malnutrition.

In the Lake Chad Basin, the humanitarian situation has deteriorated following the upsurge in attacks by the GANEs and the effects of climate change.

Since 2019, ALIMA/AS has been providing free, high-quality medical and nutritional care to children under 5, as well as free preventive and curative health care to displaced populations and those living in the Liwa Disaster Relief Program affected by the Lac crisis. ALIMA/AS’s approach makes it possible to provide medical and nutritional care in areas far from health centers, thereby providing access to health care for displaced populations.

In response to the Sudanese crisis and the influx of Sudanese refugees into Chad, ALIMA began operating in 2023 to conduct health and nutrition activities for refugees and host communities in the east of the country. ALIMA is currently operating in the Sila province, supporting the medical care of patients in refugee sites as well as in a health center.

Thanks to its extensive coverage and the recognized quality of its intervention, ALIMA has established itself as a major healthcare player in Chad.

Between January and September 2024, ALIMA treated more than 35,000 cases of acute malnutrition in children under 6 years old, representing nearly 9% of the country’s total treatment.

Over the same period, 140,669 outpatient consultations, 1,146 hospitalizations and 13,000 home care treatments were carried out by our teams across all our areas of operation.

MISSION LOCATION: N’DJAMENA /CHAD

JOB TYPE

The Logistics Coordinator’s role is to ensure technical and logistical support for missions, the relevance and consistency of logistics programs, and their adequacy with resources. Although generally based in the capital, the Logistics Coordinator is primarily a field player. Thus, he or she will spend at least 50% of his or her time there, actively participating in the launch and development of our programs, training and supervising field logisticians, ensuring the implementation of policies and the use of the most appropriate techniques and equipment.

PROTECTION OF BENEFICIARIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Level 3: As part of their duties, the position holder will be required to visit programs and be in contact with children and/or vulnerable adults. Therefore, a criminal record check or the presentation of a certificate of good character will be required. In situations where it is impossible to provide a criminal record or a certificate of good character, a sworn statement will be requested.

FUNCTIONAL AND HIERARCHICAL LINKS

He/She reports to the head of mission and to the general coordinator (line managers) based in coordination.

He/she reports to the logistics representative (technical representative) at headquarters.

He/She supervises/manages the mission’s logistics team

He/She collaborates with the coordination (medical, logistical and financial and resources

Human) and with partners.

MISSION AND MAIN ACTIVITIES

Activity monitoring and goal setting

• Describes and analyzes its activity in its environment:
• Compiles logistics data and analyses,
• Contributes to the implementation of tools enabling the desk and teams to participate in monitoring the mission and in decision-making (sitreps, activity reports, visit reports, etc.)
  • Participate in discussions on project management and definition of objectives:
• Participates in detection (visits and information searches) and rapid response to emergencies,
• Participates in monitoring operations on projects,
• Travels to ensure supervision and monitoring of logistics activities in the field.

Implementation of programs

• Organize and supervise the logistical operation of the coordination base (capital): (Organizational chart, job profiles, supervision, training, control procedures, etc.).
• Organize and control the supply of projects (international and local orders, storage, reception, delivery, transport, etc.).
• Plans and monitors the logistics programs of various projects in line with medical needs (inventory, priorities, budget, technical choices, advanced supervision of projects, etc.).
• Organize and supervise the operation of mission logistics (briefing, visits, personnel, field log support, etc.).
• Guarantees the adequacy of equipment, its maintenance and renewal (equipment and needs, procedures, fleet management, anticipation, planning, renewal, etc.).
• Supervises the application of hygiene measures in health structures with the medical coordinator (Water, hygiene, sanitation, vector control, etc.).
• Ensures the adequacy of the teams’ living conditions (Buildings, comfort standards, recovery, etc.).
• Supervises security management in conjunction with the Head of Mission (risk analysis, monitoring of movements, drafting of security guides, etc.).
• Limits the risks taken by the teams, by ensuring the presence, reliability and proper use of the means and methods used for security (information, equipment, briefing, training, etc.).
• Ensures the financial and logistical management of the program:
  • Develops the logistics budget and ensures budget revisions based on work in progress and plans future activities;
  • Monitors expenses by analytical axis and analyzes them, in collaboration with administrative managers.

Logistics human resources management

• Team composition
  • Defines the positions required in relation to its activity and establishes the job profiles;
  • Organizes the recruitment of staff in its activity (with the support of CORH);
  • Organize with supervisors the replacement of absent staff.
• Team management
  • Organizes and supervises the work of his team members,
  • Supervises and organizes regular team meetings;
  • Manages the flow of information within his team;
  • Identify potential within the staff of its activity.
• Individual assessments
  • Produces individual reports for the activity managers for which he is responsible and delegates the production of reports for other staff.
• Formation continue
  • Defines the training needs of his team in line with the project objectives;
  • Participates in the training of team members through support in their work.
• Administrative framework
  • Comply with internal regulations in the organization of working hours and possibly other aspects.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

Ensure that all logistical activities supporting the programs comply with the procedures detailed in the TVE (Expenditure Commitment Table).

Apply yourself to developing quarterly logistics reports: documenting the status of the logistics families in application, analyzing the data, etc.

Supervises the quality of use of the ALIMA log pack on the Chad mission: Collects the fundamental tools of the project log pack, logistics coordination, analyzes them, provides feedback and then shares the relevant issues with coordination and its contact at headquarters.

EXPERIENCES AND SKILLS

Experiences

• Successful experience of at least 2 years in a similar position (with a high volume of activities).
• Proven experience in the implementation and monitoring of logistics and security management plans for NGOs.
• Experience in a context of intervention for the management of malnutrition, wash in nut.
• Experience in team management.
• Experience working in an emergency context
• Knowledge of the Chadian context is an asset.

Candidate Qualities

• Leadership
• Strategic vision
• Sense of diplomacy
• Flexibility and stress management
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Ability to analyze and synthesize
• Organizational capacity
• Autonomy, curiosity and critical thinking
• Patience and professional maturity
• Ability to work in a team in multicultural contexts
• Good physical condition
• Basic computer skills (Word, Excel and internet).

LANGUAGES

• Good command of French (reading, writing, speaking) essential
• English is an asset.

CONDITIONS

Duration and type of contract : 6-month fixed-term contract with possibility of renewal

Start date : As soon as possible

Salary : According to ALIMA salary scale + experience + per diem.

ALIMA supports:

• Shared accommodation supported by ALIMA
• Daily per diem according to the ALIMA per diem policy of the country and proportional to the presence of the expatriate in the country of mission
• Health insurance covered by ALIMA for him and his dependents.
• Plane tickets for Breaks every 3 months (from 6 months of mission).
• Internal travel provided by ALIMA