Only 3 days left

Common Management Unit (CMU) Jobs 2026 in Islamabad — 18+ Posts, TB, Malaria & HIV/AIDS Programmes

Common Management Unit (CMU), Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination — Islamabad, Pakistan (head office; field posts in Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Mohmand, Kurram and Aurakzai)

By Muhammad Younus, Editor Posted: 25 Oct 2026 Updated: 04 Nov 2026 18 min read

Common Management Unit Jobs 2026 are open for 18+ posts across the tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS programmes, and the last date to apply online is 8 November 2026. The Common Management Unit, working under the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, is recruiting specialists, clinicians, field officers and administrators for donor-funded programme posts, with the Global Fund named among the funders. Fourteen job titles are advertised, from Project Manager for tuberculosis regions and Deputy Advisor at the National Reference Laboratory down to field posts in Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the merged districts of Mohmand, Kurram and Aurakzai. Applications are accepted online only through the National Tuberculosis Programme careers portal, and by-hand submissions are not accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be called for interview, and no travel or daily allowance is paid. This article sets out every advertised title with its grade, number of posts, qualification, experience and age limit, exactly as printed in the official listing, so that a candidate can match one post before the short window closes.

About Common Management Unit (CMU), Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination

The Common Management Unit is the federal unit that runs Pakistan's three big disease-control programmes — tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS — under the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination. It coordinates programme planning, laboratory networks, drug supply chains, field monitoring and reporting with provincial health departments and district teams across the country. Much of its work is funded through donor-supported initiatives, including the Global Fund, which finances tuberculosis, malaria and HIV programmes in Pakistan. Its National Tuberculosis Programme careers portal is the official channel through which it advertises programme posts and receives applications. The unit's posts are project appointments rather than regular civil service posts, and they are graded on a project scale from M-1 to M-4, with M-1 carrying the most senior responsibilities. Candidates who join work on disease surveillance, treatment support, laboratory quality and commodity supply — the operational backbone that decides whether a patient in a remote district actually receives diagnosis and medicine on time.

Vacant Positions — Post-Wise Details

The advertisement lists fourteen titles. The posts with stated numbers add up to eighteen, and one further title, Programme Officer, carries no printed number of vacancies, so the true total is eighteen plus that post. The table below gives every title with the qualification, experience and age limit printed against it in the official listing.

• District Monitoring Officer: A malaria field post based in Mohmand, Kurram or Aurakzai, one post in each district. The work covers field monitoring and supervision of malaria case management, long-lasting insecticidal net distribution and indoor residual spraying, plus district-level data collection, verification and reporting through DHIS-2 and LMIS, and close coordination with district health offices. Extensive travel inside the assigned district is a core part of the job.
• Senior Provincial Programme Officer (Gilgit-Baltistan): Coordinates the provincial tuberculosis programme in Gilgit-Baltistan, covering planning and monitoring, analysis and reporting of provincial tuberculosis indicators, liaison with the provincial health department and district tuberculosis coordinators, and training and capacity building of field staff, using MS Office and DHIS-2 and the e-TB Manager system.
• Pharmacist - PMDT: Manages and dispenses medicines for drug-resistant tuberculosis, keeps inventory and stock records of anti-tuberculosis drugs, counsels patients on adherence and on managing side effects, and maintains records and reporting through e-TB Manager in coordination with treatment coordinators and clinicians.
• Nurse (ART Site - Gilgit-Baltistan): Provides clinical nursing care for HIV and AIDS patients at an antiretroviral therapy centre, covering therapy initiation, follow-up and adherence support, infection prevention and control, patient counselling and strict maintenance of confidentiality.
• Data Entry Operator (ART Centre - Azad Jammu & Kashmir): Enters patient records accurately and on time into HIV and antiretroviral therapy databases, runs data quality checks and reconciliation, protects the confidentiality of patient information, and works with MS Office and Excel and database software alongside patient counselling duties.
• Treatment Coordinator - PMDT: Coordinates drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment at the Gilgit-Baltistan treatment site, monitoring patient adherence, tracing defaulters, liaising with hospital staff, laboratories and field teams, and entering and reporting data on e-TB Manager.
• Manager Warehouse: Runs warehouse and inventory management for programme stocks, applying good storage and distribution practices, logistics and distribution planning, stock reconciliation and reporting, and warehouse and inventory software, Excel and barcode stock-tracking systems.
• Programme Officer: The one post in this advertisement whose number of vacancies is not printed. The work covers programme monitoring and data analysis, report writing, microbiological and diagnostic knowledge of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, laboratory data quality assurance, and close attention to detail, communication, teamwork and accountability, with MS Office.
• Internal Audit Officer: Carries out internal and financial audit, risk assessment and control evaluation, applying knowledge of Global Fund financial and procurement policy, writing audit reports, using data analysis for audit sampling, and working with Excel, audit software, computer-assisted audit techniques and accounting or enterprise resource planning systems review.
• Project Manager - TB (Regions): Leads tuberculosis programme management, field supervision and monitoring across regions, with laboratory quality assurance coordination, drug adherence and case management monitoring, tuberculosis surveillance data analysis, stakeholder management and work on DHIS-2 tuberculosis case-based surveillance and mobile data-collection tools.
• Deputy Advisor, National Reference Laboratory: Provides technical leadership on tuberculosis laboratory diagnostics and quality systems, including laboratory quality assurance and external quality assessment participation, analytical review of laboratory performance, surveillance data verification, troubleshooting of diagnostic network bottlenecks, and coordination with reference laboratories, provincial programmes and technical partners.
• Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist: Handles pharmaceutical and health commodity procurement and supply chain management, including forecasting, quantification, warehousing and distribution logistics, working within Global Fund procurement and supply management policy and Public Procurement Regulatory Authority rules and quality assurance standards for health commodities, and watching supply chain risks and stock-outs.
• Manager Human Resources: Leads human resource planning and recruitment and selection for donor-funded and project positions, applies Global Fund human resource and administrative policy, Government of Pakistan service rules and labour law compliance, and manages performance, staff capacity building, human resource policy implementation and personnel record-keeping systems, with MS Office and e-Office.
• Contract Manager: Manages the full contract lifecycle with particular depth in post-award administration, interpreting contractual terms, identifying rights and obligations, analysing risk, advising on performance, change control, cost and price implications, claims, dispute avoidance, remedies and closeout, and preparing concise reports and briefs for senior management in English and Urdu.

Eligibility Criteria — Who Can Apply

• Pakistani national holding the qualification printed against the chosen post, from a Higher Education Commission-recognised institution (and Pakistan Medical and Dental Council-recognised where the post states it).
• The experience printed against the post, ranging from one to two years for the junior clinical and data posts up to twelve years for Contract Manager.
• Age within the limit printed against the post: 35 years for the District Monitoring Officer, the antiretroviral therapy Nurse and the Treatment Coordinator, and 50 years for the remaining titles.
• Government employees must apply through the proper channel.
• A complete application with CNIC, current curriculum vitae, all degrees, experience letters and a recent photograph, submitted online only.
• Willingness to work at the station printed against the post, including extensive field travel for the District Monitoring Officer and postings in Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir for the programme field posts.

Common Management Unit Jobs 2026 set the bar post by post, and the official listing is unusually precise about what each role demands, so a candidate should read the line for one chosen post rather than the advertisement as a whole. The senior M-1 posts ask for a Master's degree plus seven years of relevant work: the Project Manager for tuberculosis regions must be a doctor with a Master's in public health, health management or epidemiology and seven years in tuberculosis programme management or communicable disease control, while the Deputy Advisor at the National Reference Laboratory needs an MBBS with an MPhil in pathology or microbiology, or a Master's in laboratory technology, microbiology or public health, with seven years in infectious disease laboratory diagnostics, quality assurance or laboratory network management. Manager Warehouse needs a Master's in supply chain, logistics, pharmacy or business administration with seven years of inventory management, and Manager Human Resources a Master's in human resources, public administration or business administration with seven years in the field. Contract Manager is the most demanding post of all, asking for twelve years of progressively responsible contract experience, seven of them managing complex contracts, and five years in public-sector or donor-funded programmes. The middle tier is led by the Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist, who needs a Master's in a relevant discipline and five years handling medicines and health products, and the Senior Provincial Programme Officer for Gilgit-Baltistan, who needs a Master's in public health or health management with five years at provincial or district level in tuberculosis work. Internal Audit Officers need a Master's in accounting, finance, commerce or business administration, or a professional qualification such as CA, ACCA or ACMA, with seven years of audit experience. At the field and clinical end, the District Monitoring Officer needs a sixteen-year Bachelor's degree in public health or life sciences with two to three years of field monitoring, the Pharmacist for drug-resistant tuberculosis needs a Pharm-D or B.Pharmacy registered with the Pharmacy Council of Pakistan, the antiretroviral therapy Nurse needs a general nursing diploma registered with the Pakistan Nursing Council or a BSN, the Data Entry Operator a fourteen-year Bachelor's degree, and the Treatment Coordinator a fourteen-year Bachelor's degree preferably in a health field. Programme Officer is the entry-level graduate post, asking for a BS (Hons) in Microbiology with demonstrated entry-level experience in public health or laboratory diagnostic data. Age limits split cleanly: 35 years for the three field and clinical posts named above, and 50 years for every other title. No post in this advertisement carries a gender restriction in the official listing, and no salary figure is printed for any post, so this article states none.

Salary & Benefits

The official listing for Common Management Unit Jobs 2026 does not print a salary, monthly package or pay figure for any of the fourteen titles, and this article therefore gives no rupee amount. The posts are graded on the project's own M scale, from M-4 for the junior clinical and data posts up to M-1 for the senior management posts, and the grade is printed against every title in the vacancy table above. Project appointments of this kind are normally paid a consolidated monthly package fixed by the project, rather than a basic pay scale with annual increments, but because the advertisement itself states no figure, candidates should confirm the package for their post from the programme office before accepting an offer, and should not rely on figures quoted on unofficial job sites. What is certain from the advertisement is the contract character of the work: these are donor-funded project posts, not regular government appointments, and the usual project terms apply, including no travel or daily allowance for interview attendance. The value of these posts lies less in a printed figure than in the experience they carry — tuberculosis, malaria and HIV programme work under a federal unit, with Global Fund systems, laboratory networks and national surveillance platforms on the curriculum vitae.

Selection Process

Selection for Common Management Unit Jobs 2026 follows the shortlisting model used for specialist project recruitment. Applications arrive only through the National Tuberculosis Programme careers portal, where each post has its own listing and application form. The programme office screens applications against the printed qualification, experience and age limit for that post, and only shortlisted candidates are called for interview. There is no written test stage mentioned in the official listing, and no travel or daily allowance is paid for attending an interview, which matters for candidates travelling from Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir or the merged districts. Government employees must route their applications through the proper channel, and incomplete applications are not entertained. Because the window is only fifteen days from publication, candidates should apply as soon as their documents are ready rather than waiting for the last day, when portal load and document errors are most likely to cost an otherwise eligible application.

Documents Required

• Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC).
• Current curriculum vitae with complete employment history.
• All academic degrees and transcripts for the qualification claimed.
• Experience letters covering every period of experience claimed.
• A recent passport-size photograph.
• Registration certificate where the post requires it, such as Pharmacy Council registration for the Pharmacist post or Nursing Council registration for the Nurse post.
• No-objection certificate through the proper channel for government employees.
• Domicile certificate, if asked for at the interview stage.
• Any additional certificates in DHIS-2, e-TB Manager or laboratory quality systems, where the candidate holds them.
• Original documents for verification at the time of interview, as the advertisement makes original documents mandatory at that stage in comparable federal advertisements.

Terms & Conditions

The terms printed in the official listing are short and strict. Applications must be submitted online through the careers portal within fifteen days of publication, and the last date of submission is 8 November 2026. Incomplete applications will not be entertained. Government employees must apply through the proper channel. Only shortlisted candidates will be called for interviews, and no travel or daily allowance will be paid. Candidates must attach their CNIC, current curriculum vitae, all degrees, experience letters and a recent photograph with the online form. The programme reserves the usual right to accept or reject any application, and the contract character of the posts means appointment is for the project, not a regular civil service appointment. Candidates should also note that the advertisement prints no salary figure and no separate test date, so any figure or date quoted elsewhere should be treated as unofficial until the programme office confirms it.

Frequently Asked Questions