United States of America: Director, Health Commodity Services
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 08 Sep 2013
Opportunity Profile
You have a passion for working toward the alleviation of poverty and injustice in the developing world. You know how to partner with corporations to provide needed material aid to the world’s poor. You are a strategic thinker and effective team leader, and you know what it takes to operate an efficient global supply chain. Your efforts consistently deliver a significant, measureable, and sustained impact.
If this is you, let’s talk.
Medical Teams International is an internationally-recognized Christian relief and development organization with a 33-year history of responding to natural and man-made disasters, implementing community health development programs, providing medical and health services and supplies, and delivering preventative and emergent dental care to people in great need. Mobilizing people of compassion to care for the world’s most vulnerable is what sets Medical Teams International apart. Each year, thousands of medical, dental and support volunteers and corporate partners donate their time, resources and expertise to join with us in providing life-changing care to those in need.
As we seek to expand our reach and impact in the world, we are looking for a Director of our Health Commodity Services group. Recently integrated into a single operating unit, our team has shipped over $1.75 billion in health-related humanitarian aid around the world over the last two decades, helping millions of people. But there is so much more that can and must be done. To lead this strategic growth initiative, we are seeking a strong, inspiring, and capable leader with demonstrated experience in resource acquisition (Gifts In Kind/Donations of Product and cash) and distribution strategies to support our relief and development programs..
Position Summary
The Director of the Health Commodity Services group reports directly to the Vice President, Operations Support. This position is based at our headquarters office in Portland, Oregon. The overarching responsibilities include:
- Key member of senior leadership leadership team, jointly responsible for the development and execution of significant enterprise-wide initiatives aligned with our mission,
- Leading an effective health commodity (Gift-In-Kind/Donations of Product) strategy through proper planning, prospecting, procurement, distribution, and monitoring activities,
- Optimizing commodity-supported relief and development interventions within Medical Teams and NGO partner programs,
- Leading a team of 7+ staff and coordinating their efforts with 200 professional and lay volunteers who serve in our distribution centers, and
- Building and maintaining a secure and efficient global supply chain for the donated medical and health related materials we receive, process and provide.
Personal and Professional Qualities
The successful candidate will be a person who thrives in a dynamic, collaborative, high performing team environment and who possesses the following qualities and work experience:
- Passionate about leading and serving their teams in service to those in extreme need,
- Highly committed to MTI’s mission, vision and values,
- Skilled and effective communicator capable of representing MTI with a wide range of constituents and related settings,
- Strong, inspirational and effective leader with ten years or more of progressively increasing strategic leadership responsibilities,
- Demonstrated experience in resource acquisition, supply chain management, and relief and development programming,
- Enthusiastic about travel in the U.S. and overseas, typically not more than 10% of the time, and
- Educational background aligned with and in proportion to career track and aspirations.
Interested and qualified parties are invited to respond.
Must be eligible to work in the United States and posess a current visa
How to apply:
To learn more about this position and to apply please visit our website at www.medicalteams.org
