World Health Organization Recruitment Application Form 2025 : This is to inform you that the World Health Organization (WHO) is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the following positions listed below.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
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World Health Organization Recruitment Application Form 2025.
We are recruiting to fill the following vacant positions below:
National Consultant – HRH Project Evaluation at World Health Organization (WHO)
Job Title: National Consultant to Conduct Final HRH Project Evaluation
Ref Id: 1904746
Location: Nigeria
Contractual Arrangement: Individual service contractor
Contract duration: 30 days
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria
Schedule: Full-time
Grade: No grade
Objective
- The ‘Enhancing the Ability of Frontline Health Workers to Improve Health in Nigeria (2014-2025)’ is a five-year project funded by the Government of Canada through the Global Affairs Canada (GAC), whose implementation commenced in 2014.
- The project has an overall goal of improving health status/outcomes of infants, children, women, and men in Bauchi and Cross River States of Nigeria by strengthening their capacities to improve the health worker situation with attention to the specific needs for male and female frontline health workers.
- It is implemented by World Health Organization (WHO), Population Council (PC) and Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA).
- The project focused on building stronger and better functioning health systems owned and managed by Bauchi and Cross River States specifically targeted at the frontline health personnel (such as nurses, midwives, CHOs, CHEWs) needed to deliver maternal, newborn and child health care services at the primary care level in Bauchi and Cross River States.
- The purpose of the final evaluation is to conduct a vigorous and objective study assessing the project’s performance against expected outcomes and targets in the project’s Performance Measurement Framework.
Scope of Work:
- Evaluate the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the project’s achievements and successes against the project’s outcomes (immediate, intermediate and ultimate)
- Examine and document the innovations employed to institutionalize and ensure sustainability of project results
- Assess best practices and key changes in policy and/or practice (institutional and person-centered stories) as planned in the logic model and document them as stories of change
- Explore unexpected outcomes (positive or negative) and make appropriate recommendations for mitigating impact
Specific Tasks
- Develop a detailed protocol for the final project evaluation including data collection tools
- Review project documents including annual and previous evaluation reports
- Undertake field trips to interview selected Federal, State and local government stakeholders, key programme staff of GAC, WHO Nigeria and Population Council, and beneficiaries at various levels
- Develop an end of project report documenting progress against impact, outcome and outputs in project performance framework (PMF), key institutional and person-centred success stories, best practices unexpected outcomes and recommendations for policy and planning.
- Conduct State-level validation events
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
- University degree in Public Health, Global Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or other relevant degrees.
- Advanced university degree in Public Health, Global Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or other relevant degree is an asset
- At least 5 years’ demonstrable experience in health systems strengthening program design, implementation and assessment, national and health workforce policy development, review and strategic planning
- Familiarity with current debates and approaches to Universal Health Coverage and health systems strengthening work within the local, state, national and international arena
- Extensiveexperience of combining quantitative and qualitative/participatory approaches to research and analyzing findings.
- Proven conceptual, analytical, research and writing skills.
Application Closing Date
22nd October, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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World Health Organization (WHO) Recruits National Consultant – Human Resources for Health Strategic Plans
Job Title: National Consultant – Support the Costing and Validation of Human Resources for Health Strategic Plans
Job ID: 1904751
Location: Abuja
Grade: No grade
Contractual Arrangement: Individual service contractor
Contract Duration: 30 days
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria
Schedule: Full-time
Objective
- The “Enhancing the Ability of Frontline Health Workers to Improve Health In Nigeria” project funded by Global Affairs Canada is in the process of plans to support the Department of Health Planning, Research and Statistics (DHPRS) of the Federal Ministry if Health Nigeria in reviewing the NHRHSP 2016 – 2025 and align the country’s HRH strategy to the Global Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030, African Regional Framework For The Implementation Of The Global Strategy On Human Resources For Health: Workforce 2030, National Health Policy 2015 and NSHDP II, as well as cost the interventions needed to actualize the strategy
- Further support is being provided to Bauchi and Cross River States to also review their HRH policies, develop HRH strategic plans and cost the interventions needed to actualize the strategic plans.
- The purpose of this consultancy is to support the costing and validation of the HRH strategic plans for national and Bauchi and Cross River States.
Specific Tasks
- Inception report with clear methodology for the assignment
- Costing of the NHRHSP 2025 – 2025, Bauchi State Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan 2025 – 2025 and Cross River State Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan 2025 -2025
- Validation of the costed plans
- Finalize post-validated versions of all costed documents.
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
- University Degree in Public Health, Global Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or other relevant Degrees
- Advanced University Degree in Public Health, Global Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or other relevant degree is an asset
- At least 5 years’ demonstrable experience in health policy and strategy costing at International, national and state levels using the One Health Tool
- Familiarity with current debates and approaches to Universal Health Coverage and health systems strengthening work within the local, state, national and international arena
- Extensive Knowledge of Nigeria’s health system
- Demonstrable ability to provide sound methodological and technical advice and guidance to multiple stakeholders and partners in Nigeria
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively with government stakeholders at various levels.
Application Closing Date
10:59:00pm; 22nd October, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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International Consultant – National Human Resources at World Health Organization (WHO)
Job Title: International Consultant – Review the National Human Resources for Health Policy and Development of the National Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan 2025-2025
Job ID: 1904754
Location: Nigeria
Grade: No grade
Contractual Arrangement: Individual service contractor
Contract Duration: 30 days
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria
Schedule: Full-time
Objective
- The 2015 national human resources for health (HRH) policy was developed to provide a framework and guidance for implementation of the 2007 National Health Policy and 2014 national Health Act goals towards strengthening HRH in Nigeria
- Following the review of the National Health Policy in 2015 and the development of the Second National Strategic Health Development Plan (NSHDP II) 2018 – 2025, as well as the outlining of the global strategies for strengthening HRH towards achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), there is a need to review the NHRHSP to reflect the global, regional and national strategies
- The World Health Organization plans to support the Department of Health Planning, Research and Statistics (DHPRS) of the Federal Ministry if Health Nigeria in reviewing the NHRHSP 2016 – 2025 and align the country’s HRH strategy to the Global Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030, African Regional Framework For The Implementation of The Global Strategy On Human Resources For Health: Workforce 2030, National Health Policy 2015 and NSHDP II, as well as cost the interventions needed to actualize the strategy.
Purpose of the Assignment:
- The purpose of this assignment is to review the 2015 National Human Resources for Health Policy and develop the National Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan 2025-2025 that aligns with global, regional and national strategies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and UHC
Specific Tasks
Under the supervision of the HSS cluster Lead and the NPO/HSS-HRH and in close collaboration with the national consultant and the National HRH technical working group (TWG), the consultant is expected to carry out the following tasks:
- Support the review of the existing National Human Resources for Health Policy
- Support the conduct of a national HRH situational analysis
- Support the revision of the National HRH policy
- Lead the development of the National HRH Strategic Plan 2025 – 2025
- Facilitate the validation of the National HRH policy and National HRH strategic plan 2025 – 2025
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
- Advanced University Degree in Public Health, Global Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or other relevant Degrees.
- At least 10 years’ demonstrable experience in health workforce policy development, review and planning (strategic and operational)
- Familiarity with current debates and approaches to Universal Health Coverage and health systems strengthening work within the local, state, national and international arena
- Extensive Knowledge of Nigeria’s health system
- Demonstrable ability to provide sound methodological and technical advice and guidance to multiple stakeholders and partners in Nigeria
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively with government stakeholders at various levels
Application Closing Date
10:59:00pm; 22nd October, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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World Health Organization (WHO) Recruits National Consultant – Task Shifting/Sharing Implementation – Bauchi and Cross River
Job Title: National Consultant – Assess the Task Shifting/Sharing Implementation
Job ID: 1904760
Locations: Bauchi and Cross River
Grade: No grade
Contractual Arrangement: Individual service contractor
Contract duration: 30 days
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria
Schedule: Full-time
Objective
- The ‘Enhancing the Ability of Frontline Health Workers to Improve Health in Nigeria (2014-2025)’ is a five-year project funded by the Government of Canada through the Global Affairs Canada (GAC), whose implementation commenced in 2014
- The project has an overall goal of improving health status/outcomes of infants, children, women, and men in Bauchi and Cross River States of Nigeria by strengthening their capacities to improve the health worker situation with attention to the specific needs for male and female frontline health workers
- It is implemented by World Health Organization (WHO), Population Council (PC) and Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA)
- The project focused on building stronger and better functioning health systems owned and managed by Bauchi and Cross River States specifically targeted at the frontline health personnel (such as nurses, midwives, CHOs, CHEWs) needed to deliver maternal, newborn and child health care services at the primary care level in Bauchi and Cross River States.
- The project supported the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) to develop/review evidence-based and gender-mainstreamed national HRH policy, HRH Strategic Plan and the task shifting/ sharing policy. Bauchi and Cross River States were also supported to domesticate and implement these documents
- In enabling the implementation of the Task Shifting/ Sharing (TSS) policy, context-specific priority tasks to be shifted at primary healthcare centres (PHCs) were identified, and frontline health workers trained and mentored accordingly
Purpose of the Assignment
- The purpose of this assignment is to assess the task shifting/sharing implementation in Bauchi and Cross River State based on the State Task Shifting and Sharing Policies.
Scope of Work
- Evaluate the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of task shifting and sharing interventions and practices in both states
- Explore the experiences and perceptions of policy makers, health workers and beneficiaries of task shifting and sharing in urban and rural health facilities
- Explore factors promoting implementation of task shifting and sharing in the states in rural and urban contexts
- Examine and document person-centred case studies, stories of change, success stories and best practices resulting from implementation of task shifting and sharing in both states.
Specific Tasks
- Develop a detailed protocol for the assessment including data collection tools
- Undertake field trips to states to collect needed data from mapped stakeholders and beneficiaries at various levels
- Develop State -specific technical reports on methodology and findings including person-centred case studies, stories of change, success stories and best practices resulting from implementation of task shifting and sharing, and recommendations for policy, planning and sustainability
- Conduct State-level validation events
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
- University Degree in Public Health, Global Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or other relevant Degrees
- At least 5 years demonstrable experience in health systems strengthening program design, implementation and research
- Extensive experience of combining quantitative and qualitative/participatory approaches to research and analyzing findings
- Proven conceptual, analytical, research and writing skills.
Application Closing Date
10:59:00pm; 22nd October, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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National Consultant – Document the Achievements of HRH Project at World Health Organization (WHO)
Job Title: National Consultant – Document the Achievements of HRH Project
Job ID: 1904764
Location: Nigeria
Grade: No grade
Contractual Arrangement: Individual service contractor
Contract duration: 20 days
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria
Schedule: Full-time
Objective
- The ‘Enhancing the Ability of Frontline Health Workers to Improve Health in Nigeria (2014-2025)’ is a five-year project funded by the Government of Canada through the Global Affairs Canada (GAC), whose implementation commenced in 2014
- The project has an overall goal of improving health status/outcomes of infants, children, women, and men in Bauchi and Cross River States of Nigeria by strengthening their capacities to improve the health worker situation with attention to the specific needs for male and female frontline health workers. It is implemented by World Health Organization (WHO), Population Council (PC) and Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA)
- The project focused on building stronger and better functioning health systems owned and managed by Bauchi and Cross River States specifically targeted at the frontline health personnel (such as nurses, midwives, CHOs, CHEWs) needed to deliver maternal, newborn and child health care services at the primary care level in Bauchi and Cross River States.
Purpose of the Consultancy
- The purpose of this consultancy is to document case studies, stories of change and/or success stories on the achievements of the project at national level and in Bauchi and Cross River States and lead the development of the technical content for short videos on the project’s accomplishments.
Specific Tasks
- Develop an inception report with clear methodology and implementation plan with timelines
- Undertake field trips to interview selected Federal, State and local government stakeholders, key programme staff of GAC, WHO Nigeria and Population Council, and beneficiaries at various levels
- Facilitate data/ information collection on achievements of the project in Bauchi and Cross River States and document this evidence as people and institutional – centered case studies, stories of change and/or success stories
- Lead the development of the technical content for short videos on the project’s accomplishments working closely with World Health Organization Communications team
- Compile and present the draft case studies, stories of change and success stories as well as technical content of short videos for review by the WCO oversight team
- Update the draft case studies, stories of change and success stories and short videos based on feedback of the oversight team into final versions and submit.
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
- University Degree in Public Health, Global Health, Epidemiology, Health Promotion, Communications or other relevant Degree
- Advanced University Degree in Public Health, Global Health, Epidemiology, Health Promotion, Communications or other relevant Degree is an asset
- At least 5 years’ demonstrable experience in health systems strengthening programs, communication, knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, and policy brief development
- Extensive experience in developing scripts, briefs, cases studies, stories of change and/or success stories
- Extensive experience in combining quantitative andqualitative/participatory approaches to evidence generation and documentation
- Proven conceptual, analytical and writing skills.
Application Closing Date
10:59:00pm; 22nd October, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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World Health Organization (WHO) Recruitment of National Consultant – Human Resources for Health Policies and Development
Job Title: National Consultant – Review of the Human Resources for Health Policies and Development of Human Resources for Health Strategic Plans 2025-2025
Job ID: 1904767
Location: Nigeria
Grade: No grade
Contractual Arrangement: Individual service contractor
Contract Duration: 60 days
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria
Schedule: Full-time
Objective
- The national human resources for health (HRH) policy 2015 was developed to provide a framework and guidance for implementation of the National Health Policy 2007 and National Health Act 2014 goals towards strengthening HRH in Nigeria
- The goal of the policy is to develop and maintain a health workforce that is appropriately sized, structured, skilled, well balanced, distributed, resourced, committed and performing efficiently and effectively in order to provide all Nigerians with equal access to a minimum health care package.
Purpose of the Assignment:
- The purpose of this assignment is to review the Human Resources for Health Policy and develop the Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan 2025-2025 that aligns with global, regional and national strategies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and UHC.
Specific Tasks
- Review the National HRH Policy
- Lead conduct of a National HRH situation analysis
- Lead conduct of a HRH situation analysis in Bauchi and Cross River States
- Lead the review the National HRH policy and the Bauchi and Cross River State HRH Policies
- Support the revision of the National HRH policy and lead the revision of the Bauchi and Cross River State HRH Policies
- Support the development of the National HRH Strategic Plan 2025 – 2025
- Develop the Bauchi and Cross River State HRH Strategic Plans 2025 – 2015
- Contribute in the preparation and facilitation of the validation workshops.
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
- University Degree in Public Health, Global Health, Human Resource Management or other relevant Degrees
- Advanced University Degree in Public Health, Global Health, Human Resource Management or other relevant degree is an asset
- At least 5 years demonstrable experience in health workforce policy development, review and strategic and operational planning
- Familiarity with current debates and approaches to Universal Health Coverage and health workforce strengthening work within the local, state, national and international arena.
Application Closing Date
10:59:00pm; 22nd October, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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National Consultant – Essential Diagnostic List (EDL) at World Health Organization (WHO)
Job Title: National Consultant – Support the Development of the Nigerian Essential Diagnostic List
Job ID: 1904786
Location: Nigeria
Grade: No grade
Contractual Arrangement: Individual service contractor
Contract duration: 25 days
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria
Schedule: Full-time
Background/Objective
- In 2018, the WHO has published a model list of essential in vitro diagnostics, a catalogue of the tests needed to diagnose the most common conditions as well as a number of global priority diseases
- The new Essential Diagnostics List (EDL) is intended to be used as a reference for (developing) countries to update or develop their own list of essential diagnostics that should be widely available, accessible, and affordable throughout health systems.
- A critical component to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC), is the access to essential products, including diagnostic tests. Testing is crucial for quality healthcare and to ensure the optimal use of essential medicines, to detect outbreaks, and to have robust surveillance systems for antimicrobial resistance and pandemics.
- The objectives of this project are to develop the national EDL and to determine the barriers to accessing diagnostic testing services across Nigeria through the implementation of a survey.
Specific Tasks
- To provide technical expertise to develop a survey tool to assess laboratory infrastructure and services throughout the health system
- To facilitate a workshop to train volunteers to implementing the survey tool at State level
- To support the development of the agendas for 2 national workshops
- To provide technical expertise to analyse the data collected from the survey tool
- To provide technical expertise to develop the 1st draft of the national EDL
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
- University Degree in Medicine, Life Science, Medical Virology from an accredited/recognized institute
- Certified training or qualification in molecular biology, virology,bacteriology, infectious diseases, and/or epidemiology and laboratory techniques
- Advanced University Degree in Public Health, or other health related Degree is an asset
- At least 5 years experience establishing or improving laboratory infrastructure for microbiology and/or detection of infectious diseases.
- Experience in planning and implementing laboratory trainings at national and regional levels.
- Previous experience in UN organizations/agencies, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations, international institutions or nongovernmental organizations, particularly in developing countries.
Application Closing Date
10:59:00pm; 16th October, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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Health Cluster Coordinator at World Health Organization (WHO)
Job Title: Health Cluster Coordinator
Job ID: 1904870
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Grade: P5
Contractual Arrangement: Temporary appointment under Staff Rule 420.4
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria
Schedule: Full-time
Objectives of the Programme
- The objectives of WHO’ s OHE Programme are: to help Member States build their capacity to manage health emergency risks and, to lead and coordinate the international health response to contain outbreaks and to provide effective relief and recovery to minimize the impact on the health of affected populations as well as the impact on the health system
- WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme directs all of the Organization’s work in health emergency risk management, with an all-hazards approach comprising risk reduction, preparedness, readiness, response and early recovery activities
Description of Duties
Needs Assessment and Gap Analysis:
- Manage, coordinate and be the overall lead within the Health Cluster or at Inter-Cluster level for rapid health needs assessments, as well as participatory assessments (Multi Cluster/Sector Initial Rapid Assessments and Humanitarian Needs Overviews, post-event risk assessment Post Disaster/Post Conflict Needs Assessment); be familiar with and ready to choose from existing tools to confirm that the Health Cluster covers all identified humanitarian health needs of the affected population,
- Collect information from all health partners on Who’s Where, since and until When, doing What (4Ws), and regularly feed the database managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA)
- Provide consolidated feedback to all partners and the other clusters.
Strategic Planning:
- Lead the development, in cooperation with the Health Cluster Members, of the health sector components of the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) as well as contingency planning for potential new events and other interagency planning, ensure proper linkages with the incident management system, disaster risk reduction, relief and recovery to complement national health sector preparedness/response plans.
- Ensure full compliance with national and international Norms and Standards, oversee that Cross-Cutting issues are mainstreamed in the Health Cluster Response and implementation plans, taking into account the need for local adaptation.
Coordination of the Health Cluster:
- Facilitate health partner coordination and involvement in health and other related sector assessments (e.g. nutrition, WASH), planning, information, interventions, monitoring and quality assurance, and regularly report on health services delivered to the affected population.
- Identify urgent technical gaps and training needs in relation to technical standards and protocols for the delivery of key health services to ensure their adoption and uniform application by all Health Cluster partners; identify opportunities for capacity building in collaboration with partners.
- Ensure appropriate links among humanitarian actions and longer-term health sector plans, incorporating the concept of ‘building back better’ and specific risk reduction measures.
- Convene and facilitate consultative and results-oriented meetings in line with the principles of partnership. Organize and conduct joint support missions to field operations
- Oversee the development of a functional Information Management strategy and mechanism for the Health Cluster to facilitate information sharing as well as monitoring and reporting; ensure that the Health Cluster produces and disseminates to partners, donors, government and other stakeholders regular updates, technical reports, bulletins and briefings on the health status of the affected people, response activities, resources mobilization, achievements, challenges and the remedial actions when necessary.
- Support national (health system) capacity building in emergency preparedness and response in accordance with the IASC Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP) Approach and other related guidance.
Required Qualifications
Education:
- Essential: An Advanced University Degree (Master’s level or above) in Public Health, Medicine or International Health or related field.
- Desirable: Specialized training in emergency management, international aid, humanitarian principles, health system recovery, and health cluster coordination.
Experience:
- Essential: At least 10 years of relevant experience -at national and international level, in developing and promoting collaborative partnerships in emergency and humanitarian relief operations, including experience in managing and coordinating health programs in chronic and acute, sudden-onset emergencies..
- Desirable: Relevant work experience in WHO, other UN agencies, relevant non-governmental or humanitarian organizations.
Skills:
- Demonstrated knowledge of the rapid response operations and their implementation in emergencies as related to public health, complemented by demonstrated ability to identify and manage difficult situations, to lead and direct multidisciplinary and multinational staff.
- In-depth knowledge of emergency relief policies and practices within the UN, other UN Specialized Agencies, donor agencies, national and international NGOs.
- Sound knowledge and experience about disaster prevention and preparedness programs and the incident management system.Excellent negotiation skills and ability to convene stakeholders and facilitate a policy process among UN, NGOs, national health authorities and donors.
WHO Competencies
- Building and promoting partnerships across the organization and beyond
- Teamwork
- Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
- Creating an empowering and motivating environment
- Communication
Use of Language Skills:
- Essential: Expert knowledge of English.
- Desirable: Intermediate knowledge of French.
Remuneration
- WHO salaries for staff in the Professional category are calculated in US dollars
- The remuneration for the above position comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 87,108 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable), a variable post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station, and currently amounts to USD 2519 per month for the duty station indicated above
- Other benefits include 30 days of annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave, and an education grant for dependent children.
Application Closing Date
10:59:00pm; 29th October, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
