Pharmaceutical Policy Specialist Consultant

3 days ago


Centurion, South Africa Jhpiego Full time

Overview:
The Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic Control (RISE) project is a multi-year global project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) working with countries to achieve a shared vision of attaining and maintaining epidemic control, with stronger local partners capable of managing and achieving results through sustainable, self-reliant, and resilient health systems. RISE will support the National Department of Health (NDoH) in improving the quality of the national immunization program and service delivery. Furthermore, RISE will support the (NDoH) Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI) unit in strengthening its capacity-building activities for pandemic preparedness. To implement these activities, RISE is engaging a Pharmaceutical Policy Specialist to work with its partners in South Africa.

**_This role is a donor-funded position and is available on a consultancy basis from January to September 2025. _**

**Responsibilities**:
**Activity**

**Number of Days**

**Timeline**

**Deliverable**

Inception meeting

1

January 2025

Inception Report

Develop a plan convert the NDOH EPI training material on the NDOH knowledge hub training material into online courses

2

January 2025

Approved Plan

Gather and identify existing NDOH EPI training material on the NDOH knowledge hub to be converted into online courses
- 2

January 2025

List of NDOH EPI training material
- Review and update the NDOH EPI training material
- 5

February 2025

Updated training material

Convert NDOH EPI training material into online courses in collaboration with NDOH and RISE Teams

30

February-June 2025

Final online courses for training

Support the development of a plan to support the modelling of identified facilities into Ideal Vaccination Centers

5

January 2025

Approved Plan

Develop/update facility quality assurance standards (QAS) for vaccination centres.
- 5

February 2025

Approved Facility QAS including a checklist

Conduct pre-assessments and develop quality improvement (QI) plans at identified vaccination centers using the QAS checklist

10

February

QI plans
- Provide TA for QI adhering to the QAS

30

March-August 2025

QI reports

Deploy real-time digital solutions to strengthen safety systems for follow-up of post-vaccination events, enhance reporting, collation, and advanced analytics

10

March 2025

Deployment Report

Pilot Interactive Voice Recording (IVR) System & SMS, tele-caller support for taking vaccination feedback & reporting post-vaccination events

20

April-June 2025

Pilot Report

Draft and finalize report including recommendations, lessons learned, best practices for expanding to other facilities

10

September 2025

Final Report

**Total**

**130**

Required Qualifications:

- Pharmacy university degree with postgraduate degree in Public Health
- At least 10 years of progressively responsible and directly relevant experience required
- Proven experience providing technical support to the NDOH and other relevant stakeholders.
- A deep understanding of the South African EPI program including vaccine safety.
- Experience collaborating and communicating with national, regional, and global stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience supporting capacity building approaches at both national and provincial levels.
- Demonstrated analytical, organizational and decision-making skills.
- Excellent policy document writing skills.
- Oral and written fluency in English and any additional South African official language.
- Previous experience with USAID local capacity strengthening in South Africa
- Ability to travel nationally (20% travel)
- Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans._

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