Technical Project Advisor I - Supply & Demand Planning

Project: Delivering Innovation in Self-Care (DISC)

Location: Any DISC Country - Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Pakistan, Ethiopia, DRC, Kenya
Location type: Remote Eligible - Location subject to manager approval
Reports to: DISC Deputy Project Director
*If you are unsure if you are in an eligible location, please visit our Career page for more details.

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PSI is a network of locally rooted, globally connected organizations working to achieve consumer-powered healthcare — people-centered health systems that ensure quality, affordable care wherever and whenever it is needed. Our origins in sexual and reproductive health have grown into a broader mission. Today, we work with the public and private sectors as well as local communities, prioritizing people’s voice and choice and developing solutions to meet their essential health needs. Over the past five decades, we have helped push boundaries, break taboos, set trends, and develop innovative solutions to complex global health challenges.

Do you want to join PSI to help make it easier for all people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire? Read on!

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The Delivering Innovation in Self-Care (DISC) project is a multi-country initiative funded by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), with co-funding from the Gates Foundation. DISC works with Ministries of Health and partners in countries including Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Pakistan, Ethiopia, DRC, and Kenya to expand women’s access to self-care sexual and reproductive health (SRH) methods, particularly DMPA-SC self-injection, through demand generation, provider training, and health system strengthening.

Reliable demand and supply planning is critical to DISC’s success, ensuring that women can access their chosen method without interruption. DISC has made meaningful progress in improving supply visibility and linking supply to real demand across administrative levels in its current and planned countries.

PSI seeks a Technical Project Advisor (TAI) to lead DISC’s efforts to ensure that demand forecasts drive better supply decisions and that teams can respond quickly to emerging supply risks. It will involve integrating timely data from multiple sources, improving visibility at all levels, and enabling proactive, data-driven decisions that work across diverse country contexts and systems.

This role will strengthen end-to-end supply chain visibility, planning, and coordination across the projects footprint. Combining strategic leadership in demand forecasting with operational oversight of supply planning, the Advisor will support internal and external capacity building efforts, and work with DISC Country Leads, Implementing Partners, and Ministries of Health to ensure that national and subnational supply decisions are timely, accurate, and based on robust data. This role will report to the DISC Deputy Project Director.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the development and implementation of the project's technical supply and demand planning activities and strategy, overseeing specific project deliverables to ensure they are completed on time and in accordance with PSI quality standards.
  • Integrate analysis of historical service data and consumption patterns, with DISC and partners future plans, to produce demand forecasts to inform planning at both project and national levels.
  • Work with country teams to embed demand forecasts into routine requisitions and quantifications at subnational level.
  • Develop models and tools to identify and flag emerging supply-demand mismatches.
  • Work with country teams and multiple data sets to track supply levels at national, subnational, and facility levels.
  • Regularly assess demand-supply alignment and recommend course corrections.
  • Develop tools for tracking DISC supply management interventions.
  • Support and track quantifications and requisitions for supply planning.
  • Design and manage regular supply review processes.
  • Coordinate the use of dashboards and analytics during planning meetings and technical working groups.
  • Support and capacity build DISC country leads and implementing partners to use the data to inform decisions both at project and national/subnational level.
  • Support the development of data transformation pipelines and cleaning processes to standardize inputs from multiple, inconsistent LMIS and Excel-based tools.
  • Triangulate secondary (VAN, LMIS, HMIS) and primary data (e.g., from FP coordinators) to ensure a complete and current picture of supply realities.
  • Support the development, maintenance, and scale-up of demand and supply dashboards that visualize shipment plans, stock levels, projected consumption, and other key indicators.
  • Coordinate integration of multiple data sources, including LMIS, pipeline data, warehouse reports, and primary data from local coordinators.
  • Liaise with national and subnational stakeholders to validate assumptions and co-develop planning tools and dashboard use cases.
  • Provide technical support and training to enhance local use of dashboards and planning outputs in supply decisions.
• Contribute to regular reporting on DISC Demand & Supply activities, including documenting key learnings and guidelines, timely preparation and submission of project technical reports for management and donors' decision-making process, synthesizing lessons learnt documentation and dissemination of best practices.
• Contribute to development of project technical Demand & Supply management guidance. Provide technical assistance and/or training to build capacity for project staff, partners, and stakeholders to effectively manage Demand & Supply planning and deliver the desired project results.
• Undertake regular field monitoring of technical Demand & Supply activities to ascertain progress and utilization of resources against the workplan and make timely recommendations for follow-up. Provide inputs to the project's program management team for the development of budgets and budget realignments by project's program management team.
• Embody PSI’s values: Measurement, Pragmatism, Honesty, Trust, Collaboration, and Commitment.

This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that an incumbent is expected to perform but is instead a summary of the primary responsibilities and requirements of the job. The incumbent may be asked to perform duties not included above. PSI reserves the right to revise job profiles at any time based on changes to the required job responsibilities.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree (or international equivalent) in Public Health, Supply Chain Management, Data Science, or a related field.
• Master’s Degree (or international equivalent) in Public Health, Supply Chain Management, Data Science, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in supply planning, demand forecasting, or supply chain analytics—ideally in low- and middle-income country settings. Equivalent combination of related education and experience may be substituted.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrated experience working with complex, fragmented datasets.
• Experience with health logistics systems, LMIS platforms or similar tools used for health commodity tracking.
• Experience with health service reporting systems, DHIS2 platforms or similar tools used for tracking uptake of services
• Familiarity with VAN or other procurement pipeline tools.
• Demonstrate solid technical knowledge in the relevant technical area.
• Ability to provide technical assistance to project staff and external stakeholders with support.
• Ability to implement technical products and tools.
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with internal colleagues. Able to work as a member of a team and independently
• Creative thinker with ability to contribute to technical approach.
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365. Familiarity with a quantitative or qualitative data analysis program preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Proficiency in English (spoken and written) as well as the language of the applicable country and/or region.
• Cultural humility and respect.
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We know that a long list of requirements may be discouraging, but don’t let imposter syndrome or the confidence gap get in the way of you applying — we’d love to hear from you.

Why Work at PSI?
PSI's work is about enabling families to live happy and healthy lives—we think this should apply to our employees, too.

• Diversity & Inclusion: PSI affirms its commitment to diversity and believes that when people feel respected and included, they can be more honest, collaborative, and successful. Want to be involved in our DEI work at PSI? We have a council made up of PSIers that drive, sustain, and deepen our DEI practices.
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• Time Away: We want you to take time away when you need it. PSI offers a competitive leave package. On top of our leave, some PSI offices offer a compressed work week throughout the year, giving you additional work-life flexibility.
• Learning & Development: PSI is committed to your career growth. Through PSI’s job architecture, there are many potential career paths you can follow depending on your skills and interests. Additionally, PSI University, our learning management system, offers hundreds of courses, hosts org-wide trainings, offers Great Manager/Leader trainings, as well as a mentorship program for all staff levels.
• Innovation & Collaboration: With over 53 years of insight, PSI reimagines how to bring quality healthcare closer to those who need it most. Innovation requires stepping out of comfort zones, and our employees are encouraged to think beyond boundaries, collaborate to drive impact, challenge conventions, and pioneer new solutions.

Salary Ranges:*

PSI is committed to pay equity and transparency. We ensure pay meets the market within each country. This approach minimizes our impact on local talent markets and allows PSI to attract and retain employees, while staying cost-competitive.

Actual base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, experience, internal equity, external market analysis, and other business factors permitted by law. Hiring above the mid-point of the range below would not be typical in order to allow for potential future salary growth.

Please note that those hired outside of the US will be employed through the local PSI office. Pay and benefits may be commensurate with the role and practices of the local office, including payment in local currency. Details will be provided during interview process.

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