Senior Animal Health Officer (One Health/AMR)

Location: hirify.global headquarters, Rome, Italy

Company

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations supports the transformation of agrifood systems and provides technical expertise, policy advice, and country assistance in animal production, health, One Health, and antimicrobial resistance.

What you will do

• Lead and coordinate hirify.global's One Health and antimicrobial resistance work across divisions, decentralized offices, and corporate priorities.
• Lead the One Health Technical Working Group and coordinate engagement with the Quadripartite partnership comprising hirify.global, WHO, WOAH, and UNEP.
• Develop corporate strategies, programmes, guidance, reports, investment proposals, monitoring frameworks, and other technical and policy products.
• Provide technical and policy advice to Members and decentralized offices on national action plans, surveillance, capacity development, and programme implementation.
• Strengthen integrated AMR surveillance, laboratory capacity, antimicrobial stewardship, data management, and evidence-based decision-making across terrestrial and aquatic animal production systems.
• Lead partnerships, resource mobilization, donor engagement, high-level meetings, and international policy dialogue.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in biology, life sciences, veterinary medicine, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in animal health and production, public health, disease prevention and management, including regulatory aspects, standard setting, medical microbiology, and/or epidemiology.
• Demonstrated international-level and national-institute experience in One Health and antimicrobial resistance programmes.
• Working knowledge of English at proficiency level C and intermediate knowledge at level B of another hirify.global official language: Chinese, French, Spanish, Arabic, or Russian.
• Experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions.
• At least two years of relevant AMR and animal health experience in more than one location, particularly in field positions or direct support to countries and regions.
• Relevant experience coordinating One Health and/or AMR programmes in agrifood systems at international, regional, and country levels, including multidisciplinary disease prevention and management.
• Knowledge of One Health and/or AMR in food and agriculture, including multisectoral coordination, responsible antimicrobial use, surveillance, evidence generation, food safety, animal health systems, and national strategies and action plans.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary and interagency initiatives with international organizations, partnerships, regional bodies, national authorities, and governance or standard-setting mechanisms.
• Experience planning, implementing, monitoring, and reporting development programmes and projects, including capacity development, knowledge generation, policy dialogue, communication, monitoring frameworks, and results-based reporting.
• Ability to develop project proposals, investment cases, and resource mobilization strategies and organize high-level international meetings, consultations, seminars, and training courses.
• Knowledge of the One Health Joint Plan of Action, hirify.global One Health in Agrifood Systems Framework, Global Action Plan on AMR, hirify.global Resolution on AMR, UNGA Political Declaration on AMR, and Quadripartite collaboration.
• Experience supporting AMR surveillance systems, laboratory networks, epidemiological analysis, antimicrobial use monitoring, and data management platforms such as InFARM.
• Ability to edit and write clear, concise technical content using digital and AI tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Fixed-term staff appointment for two years, with a possibility of extension subject to performance and funding.
• Competitive UN compensation and benefits package, including dependency allowances, rental subsidy, education grant, home leave travel, and pension entitlements.
• 30 working days of annual leave per year, international health insurance, optional life insurance, and disability protection.
• Family-friendly policies, flexible working arrangements, and an emphasis on diversity, inclusion, integrity, and professional conduct.
• Work within an international, multisectoral organization supporting sustainable agrifood systems and global One Health coordination.

Hiring process

• Submit a complete online profile, employment records, academic qualifications, language skills, and a letter of motivation through the hirify.global recruitment portal.
• Selected candidates may undergo performance assessments, rigorous reference and background checks, medical certification, accreditation, residency or visa checks, and security clearances.