National Professional Officer (Tuberculosis), Kathmandu

National Professional Officer (Tuberculosis)

Grade: NO-B
Contractual Arrangement: Fixed-term appointment
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 2 years
Job Posting: Oct 26, 2026, 3:49:05 AM
Closing Date: Nov 9, 2026, 10:59:00 PM
Primary Location: Nepal-Kathmandu
Organization: SE_NEP WR Office, Nepal
Schedule: Full-time

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OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

The objective of the WHO Nepal Country Office is to implement the Country Cooperation Strategy by supporting the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), Government of Nepal (GoN) in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of national health polices, strategies and plans and developing and managing WHO's technical cooperation programmes at the country level. The Country Office collaborates with the Government of Nepal and relevant stakeholders in support of their efforts of achieving national health goals; of ensuring the attainment of universal health coverage and of contributing to global and regional public health action by providing need-based technical assistance in national level policy formulation, setting norms and standards, improving knowledge dissemination and management, monitoring country health situation and building sustainable institutional capacity, to play a greater leadership role in different national level policy technical forums. The Unit of Disease Prevention and Control aims at providing technical assistance to the programme areas belonging to communicable Diseases (TB, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Hepatitis, NTDs, VBDs and other Communicable Disease programmes), antimicrobial resistance and One Health. This is to strengthen national capacity to prevent, control and reduce morbidity, mortality, disability & deformity caused by Communicable Diseases, strengthen surveillance, support implementation of cost-effective public health and health care interventions, monitoring of Communicable Disease Epidemiology, programmatic & social impact, strengthen antimicrobial effort, One Health approach and resource mobilization.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

Under the overall guidance of the Head of WHO Country Office and the direct supervision of the Senior Public Health Specialist (Disease Control, AMR and One Health), the incumbent will perform the following tasks:

1. Provide and mobilize the required technical support and assistance to the MoHP, the National TB Control Center (NTCC) and the National control Aids, STD Center (NCASC) for planning and implementation of the national strategic and operational plans for TB and HHS programmes to achieve the end TB strategy, the UN general Assembly TB political declaration targets and goals, the Global strategy target for the HIV, Hepatitis and STI and SDG Target 3.3.
2. Facilitate WHO's strategic and operational contributions to enable effective implementation of TB interventions focused on strengthening programme capacities and implementation at national, provincial and local levels with close collaboration with relevant partners to facilitate promotion and adoption of WHO policies and strategies.
3. Facilitate WHO contribution and support for conducting TB epidemiological and programme reviews, evaluation of progress in TB prevention and control, operational research and surveys.
4. Assist the National TB programme in establishing a supervision plan and contribute to regular field monitoring visits to review the TB activities. Provide mentoring assistance in recording, reporting, data management and surveillance activities at the field level.
5. Provide support to the National TB programme in planning and implementation of innovative approaches to enhance TB screening, diagnosis and scale up of Drug-Resistant TB programme.
6. Facilitate WHO's strategic and operational contributions to enable integrated TB services at PHC and scale up of TB Free Nepal Initiative in the country.
7. Facilitate cross-border coordination and collaboration between Nepal-India Ministries of Health to strengthen the control and prevention of TB and HIV.
8. Provide the required technical support for resource mobilization for TB and HHS programs.
9. Provide and mobilize technical support required for capacity building on TB, HHS, development of guidelines, SOPs, manuals and training materials ensuring their alignment with WHO guidelines and promoting use of global TB learning platforms.
10. Support the National TB programme to strengthen the multisectoral collaborative actions and assist to establish effective mechanism for collaboration with key stakeholders beyond health sector including scale up of public private mix and private sector engagement.
11. Facilitate close collaboration, effective working relations and coordination with other Units of WCO, other UN agencies, NGOs in joint efforts related to TB and HHS programmes.
12. Participate in preparation of biennial workplan (BWP), budgets and periodic analytical review on progress and challenges.
13. Contribute to the development of IEC, web stories, multimedia, social media messaging and community awareness campaign for TB, and HHS.
14. Perform any other assignments as delegated by the supervisor.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: A university degree (bachelor's) in a relevant field (such as public health, epidemiology or another medical field).

Desirable: Postgraduate degree in Public Health (or) Epidemiology (or) tuberculosis

Experience

Essential: Minimum of 2 years' relevant work experience in public health interventions at the national and sub-national level

Desirable: - Professional experience providing technical or programme services to national counterparts, Ministries of Health, and other partners on TB and HHS related issues. Relevant work experience, with WHO and/or UN agencies, health cluster partners, non-governmental or humanitarian organizations.- Some of the above-listed experience to have been obtained in an international context.

Skills

• Demonstrated Knowledge of Tuberculosis programme and drug-resistant TB, WHO strategies, guidelines and guidance and tools.
• Infectious disease expertise including epidemiology, diagnostics, disease control and elimination strategies, updated knowledge of new tools and national strategy development.
• Good interpersonal skills, able to work as a team member in a multi-cultural environment.
• Ability to travel exclusively within the country and to perform practical hands-on field work.
• Ability to participate actively and cooperatively in knowledge sharing and policy forums at various levels and to coordinate with the GoN agencies.
• Good report writing skills and analytical skills including ability to collect and analyze technical data and information and to draw and present conclusions in written and spoken form.
• Documentation skills and good writing skills in English and Nepali including ability to write clear and concise progress reports, analytical reports, plans and proposals.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office: word processors, spreadsheets and other data processing, programme presentation, Outlook and Internet, and email is essential. Proficiency in Statistical / Epidemiological Analysis software desired.

WHO Competencies

• Teamwork
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• Communication
• Producing results
• Building and promoting partnerships across the organization and beyond

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English. Expert knowledge of Nepali.

Desirable:

REMUNERATION

Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at NPR 3,630,199 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable) and 30 days of annual leave.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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