Key Performance Areas:

• Ensure the procurement, storage, handling, and dispensing of pharmaceutical supplies in full compliance with SAPC, DoH, pharmaceutical legislation, and relevant donor guidelines.
• Provide indirect supervision of grant-supported drop-in centre medicine storerooms operated by professional nurses and pharmacy stock controller, ensuring GPP compliance across all supported sites.
• Oversee end-to-end medicine stock management, including forecasting, ordering, FEFO stock rotation, expiry monitoring, redistribution, and prevention of stock-outs, wastage, and overstocking.
• Implement, maintain, and routinely review supply chain management systems, inventory control tools, reporting mechanisms, and stock accountability processes.
• Develop, implement, and monitor quality assurance and QI systems, and support pharmaceutical audits, inspections, and corrective action plans to strengthen service delivery.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and auditable pharmaceutical records, including stock records, dispensing registers, temperature logs, and regulatory documentation.
• Conduct routine site inspections, mentorship visits, and assessments of medicine management practices, with structured feedback and follow-up actions.
• Provide clinical pharmacy support, including guidance on rational medicine use, adherence support, pharmacovigilance, and management of adverse drug reactions where required.
• Train, mentor, and build capacity of clinical staff, pharmacy personnel, and stock controllers on GPP, medicine management, procurement processes, SOPs, and regulatory compliance.
• Contribute to programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting, including compilation and submission of pharmaceutical and donor reports for MSM and TG services.
• Ensure health products are managed in line with funder requirements and develop and execute a health products quality assurance plan.
• Collaborate closely with programme teams, clinics, community-based services, and external stakeholders to strengthen integrated, client-centred pharmaceutical service delivery for MSM and TG populations, including differentiated service delivery (DSD) and community-based models.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) and current registration with the South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC). 
• Postgraduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy will be an added advantage
•  Valid South African driver’s licence and willingness to travel. 
• 5 years’ post-registration experience (hospital or NGO setting). 
• Experience in supply chain management, Quality Improvement (QI) systems, and project management. 
• Experience in HIV/AIDS, TB, public health, and health systems strengthening. 
• Strong knowledge of DoH systems and HIV guidelines. 
• Understanding of biomedical and behavioural HIV prevention interventions. 
• Experience working with key populations is an advantage. 

Competencies

• Solid program/ project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Command of other official local languages (multilingual) would be an added advantage.
• HR management and capacity development skills incl. solid understanding of SA labour laws.
• Sound problem solving and decision-making skills
• Effective time management, organising and coordination skills.
• Competent in Microsoft Office Suite and project management tools.
• Valid South African Driver’s Licence. 

Travel Requirements
Local travel is inherent to the position.