PHARMACISTS & PHARMACIST ASSISTANTS – TALENT POOL (CONTRACT POSITIONS)
Location: Office-based: Cape Town, Johannesburg
Remuneration: Market-related; depends on project scope and duration
Contract Type: Fixed-term, project-based contracts
Contract Period: Varies by project
Recruitment Window: Ongoing over the next 12 months
Start Dates: As projects are initiated
Background
EMGuidance is a trusted mobile and web-based medicines and treatment platform. We help healthcare professionals at the point of care with unbiased information, and we build insights and digital solutions for the wider healthcare ecosystem. Our values are transparency, innovation, excellence and keeping information up to date.
We are a globally award-winning, venture-funded med-tech start-up based in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Our team wants to add value and make work easier for medical professionals, patients, and the pharmaceutical and healthcare organisations we serve. We’re looking for people who share these ideals and want to make a positive difference to the country’s healthcare system.
About This Talent Pool
Over the next 12 months, EMGuidance will run a significant clinical content expansion. The aim is to broaden and deepen the medicine and clinical information healthcare professionals rely on at the point of care, and to strengthen the unique value of our platform.
To support this, we’re building a talent pool of registered pharmacists interested in contract positions on clinical content projects within our Clinical Team. These projects will cover a wide range of medicine information, clinical guidelines and clinical decision-support content. The work may include research, content development, review, updating, digitisation and quality assurance.
As each project is planned or started, we will contact suitable candidates from the talent pool with the full project details, including scope, duration, deliverables, time commitment and remuneration. Joining the talent pool does not guarantee a contract.
Qualifications
Essential
- BPharm Degree (for Pharmacists) or Post-Basic Pharmacist Assistant Qualification (for Assistants)
- Registered with the South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC)
- Current practising & compliant status with SAPC
Experience
Essential
- Strong medicine and pharmacotherapy knowledge
- Ability to research and critically evaluate clinical and medicine information
- Experience working with high volumes of detailed information
Advantageous
- Research experience
- Medical writing or clinical content development
- Formulary or guideline development
- Clinical or academic writing
- Experience reviewing educational or CPD content
- Experience in private hospital, retail pharmacy, pharmaceutical, academic or healthcare technology environments
- Experience working with digital clinical content
- Exposure to AI tools or digital healthcare technologies
Key Competencies
Skills
- Strong medicine and pharmacotherapy knowledge
- Clinical research and information retrieval
- Medical and scientific writing
- Clinical content review and QA
- Guideline interpretation
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Critical thinking and analytical ability
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Digital literacy
- Ability to assess AI-generated clinical information critically
- Ability to work efficiently with large volumes of information
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
- Google Workspace proficiency
- Ability to learn new systems and technologies quickly
Attributes
- Accurate and methodical
- Curious and research-oriented
- Critical thinker and fast learner
- Self-motivated, proactive and comfortable working independently
- Strong team orientation
- Able to work at pace without compromising quality
- Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with changing priorities
- Comfortable working across different content types
- Willing to learn and test new technologies, including AI and digital tools
- Strong sense of accountability; takes ownership of deliverables
- Resilient under pressure and solutions-oriented
What We Expect From Contract Pharmacists or Pharmacist Assistants
Our contract roles are hands-on and focused on delivery. Each project has clear objectives, timelines and output targets. Pharmacists or Assistants may move between content types within a project, so they need to work at pace, stay highly accurate and adapt quickly.
The goal is to increase the depth, quality and usefulness of EMGuidance’s clinical content, and to deliver it accurately and efficiently.
INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR TALENT POOL?
Send your CV and a short video introducing yourself. In the video, tell us about your experience, the areas of clinical content you’re most interested in or experienced with, and your availability (for example, start availability and whether you prefer full-time or part-time contracts).
Email your application to careers@emguidance.com. Please use this subject line:
Talent Pool – Pharmacist or Pharmacist Assistant – [Your Full Name]
(e.g. Talent Pool – Pharmacist – Jane Smith)
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We’ll contact you when a project matches your profile. Joining the talent pool does not guarantee a contract.
By applying, you consent to EMGuidance keeping your application in our talent pool for up to 12 months so we can consider you for future contract positions, in line with our Privacy Policy and POPIA. You may ask for your information to be removed at any time.