Medical Officer

Grade: P4 Contractual Arrangement: Fixed-term appointment Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 2 years **Job Posting** --------------- : Nov 6, 2026, 9:47:30 AM **Closing Date** ---------------- : Nov 29, 2026, 4:59:00 PM **Primary Location** -------------------- : Switzerland-Geneva **Organization** ---------------- : HQ/HRP Special Programme for HRP PPC **Schedule** ------------ : Full-time **IMPORTANT NOTICE:** Please note that the deadline for receipt of applications indicated above reflects your personal device's system settings. **OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME** ------------------------------- The vision of the Division of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Care (PPC) is to advance health for all by anticipating change and integrating promotion, prevention and care across all health and disease areas to address today's greatest health burdens and tomorrow's challenges. Within PPC Division, the Department of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Child, Adolescent and Ageing Health (LHR) aims to advance a more just and equitable world where human rights are upheld and every person can achieve health, realize their rights, and live with dignity across the life course by harnessing science, generating and interpreting evidence, monitoring global trends, establishing international norms, and shaping integrated systems that enable individuals to thrive from birth through older age. LHR hosts the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) which is the main instrument within the United Nations system for identifying research priorities on sexual and reproductive health and rights; for promoting, conducting, evaluating and coordinating related interdisciplinary research; for collaborating with countries to build national capacity to conduct research; and for promoting the use of research results in policy making and sexual and reproductive health programmes. HRP is operated from the World Health Organization's Department of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Child, Adolescent Health and Ageing Health (LHR). The Department draws on HRP research and global expertise to generate evidence, strengthen health systems, and impact lives through work to set norms and standards and develop global guidelines, and to support programme development in sexual and reproductive health and rights. More information about LHR and HRP can be found at https://www.who.int/hrp. **DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES** ------------------------- * Provide scientific and technical leadership and expertise in contraception and fertility care, serving as a technical reference for WHO, HRP cosponsors, Member States, other UN agencies, the scientific community and other relevant stakeholders. * Contribute to setting research priorities and strategic directions in contraception and fertility care, including men's sexual health drawing on emerging evidence, identified knowledge gaps, recommendations