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People's Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI) Balochistan Jobs 2026 — 34 Management, Medical & Technical Posts

People's Primary Healthcare Initiative Balochistan (PPHI-B) — Quetta and various districts of Balochistan (head office, regional offices, Basic Health Units and Telehealth Nerve Centre)

By Muhammad Younus, Editor Posted: 29 Oct 2026 Updated: 30 Oct 2026 20 min read

The People's Primary Healthcare Initiative Balochistan (PPHI-B) has invited online applications for 34 temporary posts across healthcare, finance, monitoring and evaluation, information technology, administration and technical services, at its head office, regional offices, Basic Health Units and Telehealth Nerve Centre in Quetta and various districts of Balochistan. The largest shares are 12 Finance Officers and 5 IT Assistants and 5 Office Assistants, with single specialist posts including a Pharmacist, a System Administrator and a Software Developer, and monthly gross salaries from Rs. 40,700 for the Electrician posts to Rs. 150,000 for the System Administrator and Software Developer posts. Appointments are purely temporary in the first instance, for one year, with possible extension on the basis of the annual performance report. Applications must be submitted through the official PPHI Balochistan careers portal at jobs.pphib.org by 12 November 2026; applications by hand or through any other method will not be accepted. The age requirement stated for this round is less than 55 years for all advertised positions. Selection runs through shortlisting followed by the PPHI-B Promatrix Examination and an interview, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. One honesty note on the vacancy total: the post-wise break-up below sums to 34 posts, while one secondary listing quotes 29 vacancies for the same advertisement and deadline; this article follows the detailed post-wise break-up and advises applicants to confirm the count on the official portal before applying, since the break-up, not the headline total, is what a candidate actually applies against. The recruitment office is the Director Human Resource, PPHI Balochistan, 8-A Jinnah Town, Samungli Road, Quetta, telephones 081-2863620 and 081-2862623.

About People's Primary Healthcare Initiative Balochistan (PPHI-B)

The People's Primary Healthcare Initiative Balochistan is a not-for-profit company registered under Section 42 of the Companies Ordinance 1984, now the Companies Act 2017, and it manages and delivers primary healthcare services across Balochistan on behalf of the provincial government. Its network is built around Basic Health Units in districts across the province, supported by regional offices, a head office in Quetta and a Telehealth Nerve Centre, and its work therefore needs a wider staff mix than a hospital alone: doctors and paramedics at the facilities, finance and monitoring officers who keep the district operations funded and measured, information-technology staff who keep the telehealth and record systems running, and administrators and technicians who keep the offices and equipment working. That structure is visible in this round's post mix, which pairs district-level finance and monitoring posts with head-office technology posts and facility-level psychosocial and technical posts, rather than recruiting for a single cadre. PPHI-B recruits repeatedly through the year as its district operations expand or turn over, and its rounds share a recognisable pattern: a one-year temporary appointment extendable on performance, a gross monthly salary stated per post, an online-only application through its own careers portal, and a shortlisting stage followed by its Promatrix Examination and an interview. Candidates who have seen earlier PPHI-B rounds should not assume this round repeats them: earlier rounds in 2026 carried different post mixes, different district lists and earlier deadlines, and the only safe authority for this round is the current advertisement and the current portal listing, which is why this article names the portal, the deadline and the post-wise salaries exactly as reported for this round and flags the one point, the headline vacancy total, on which secondary listings disagree.

Vacant Positions — Post-Wise Details

The round carries 34 posts across ten categories, and the table below follows the post-wise break-up, which sums to 34: twelve plus four plus one plus one plus one plus one plus two plus five plus five plus two. Salaries are monthly gross figures as printed, and the advertisement also mentions Risk Allowance and Pay for Performance where applicable under PPHI-B rules. The largest intakes are the Finance Officer posts spread across regional offices and the IT Assistant and Office Assistant posts, while the specialist head-office posts carry single seats and the highest salaries, so a candidate's real contest depends on which category is chosen, not on the headline total alone.

• Finance Officer: The largest intake of the round, posted to regional offices including Khuzdar, Naseerabad, Loralai, Pishin, Awaran, Kachi, Jhal Magsi, Jaffarabad, Surab, Barshore and Chaman; district finance work, not head-office accounting alone.
• Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer: Posted to Basima (Washuk), Barkhan, Barshore and Dera Bugti regional offices; field monitoring of health facilities, where a social-science or medical background and field experience both count.
• Pharmacist: A single head-office post; pharmaceutical services, patient counselling and safe medication management, with Council registration as a hard requirement rather than a preference.
• System Administrator: The joint-highest salary of the round and a single head-office seat; servers, Windows and Linux, virtualisation, network and firewall security, and backup and disaster recovery, with CCNA, VCP or equivalent certification preferred.
• Software Developer: The other joint-highest salary and a single head-office seat; C#, ASP.NET Core MVC and Web Forms, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript and MS SQL Server, with RESTful API work and legacy-system modernisation preferred.
• Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer: A single head-office post; manual and automated testing, test-case design and execution, bug tracking, regression and API testing, with Selenium, Postman and JIRA knowledge preferred.
• Psychologist / Psychosocial Case Worker: Female candidates only, posted to BHU Surgesha-Chagai and BHU Urgas-Killa Saifullah; Psychological First Aid, referral pathways and local-language proficiency preferred.
• IT Assistant, Level 2 Support: Posted to the head office and the Telehealth Nerve Centre in Quetta; end-user support, printers and IT assets, with Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and remote-desktop knowledge an advantage.
• Office Assistant: Posted to Basima (Washuk), Khuzdar, Quetta, Naseerabad and Loralai regional offices; general office and record support across district operations, with no experience period printed for this category.
• Electrician: Posted to the Telehealth Nerve Centre in Quetta; the only Matric-level category of the round, where certified electrical and generator or solar experience and safety standards carry the application.

Eligibility Criteria — Who Can Apply

• Finance Officer (12 posts): MBA Finance, M.Com, BBA Finance or an equivalent qualification from a recognised university, with a minimum of 2 years of relevant finance experience; monthly gross salary Rs. 85,000.
• Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (4 posts): bachelor's or master's degree in Social Sciences, MBA, MBBS or an equivalent qualification from a recognised university, with 2 years of relevant field experience; monthly gross salary Rs. 85,000.
• Pharmacist (1 post): Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm-D) or equivalent, with 2 years of relevant professional experience and registration with the Pharmacy Council; monthly gross salary Rs. 110,000.
• System Administrator (1 post): bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science or an equivalent discipline, with at least 2 years of relevant experience in enterprise IT infrastructure and system administration; monthly gross salary Rs. 150,000; CCNA, VCP or equivalent certification preferred.
• Software Developer (1 post): bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or an equivalent field, with at least 2 years of relevant experience in software development, web applications and database management; monthly gross salary Rs. 150,000.
• Quality Assurance Engineer (1 post): bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or an equivalent discipline, with at least 1 year of relevant software quality assurance experience; monthly gross salary Rs. 100,000.
• Psychologist / Psychosocial Case Worker (2 posts): bachelor's or master's degree in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work or a related field, with at least 1 year of relevant experience in psychosocial support or case management; monthly gross salary Rs. 110,000; female candidates only.
• IT Assistant, Level 2 Support (5 posts): bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science or an equivalent discipline, with Level 2 troubleshooting and end-user support skills; monthly gross salary Rs. 70,000; female candidates are encouraged to apply.
• Office Assistant (5 posts): bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Public Health, Computer Science, BS (IT) or an equivalent qualification from a recognised university; monthly gross salary Rs. 50,000.
• Electrician (2 posts): Matriculation with a relevant technical diploma or electrician certification, with at least 2 years of experience in electrical installation, generator or solar operations, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair; monthly gross salary Rs. 40,700.
• Age requirement for all posts in this round: less than 55 years, as stated in the advertisement for this round.
• Local domicile holders receive preference, and candidates must apply through the official careers portal by 12 November 2026; applications by hand or through any other method will not be accepted.

Eligibility for this round is post-specific in a way that rewards a careful reading of the table, because the ten categories do not share a single qualification bar, a single experience bar or a single duty station. The finance and monitoring categories, which together account for sixteen of the 34 posts, both ask for a degree plus two years of relevant experience, but the degrees differ: the Finance Officer line names MBA Finance, M.Com and BBA Finance or an equivalent, while the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer line accepts a bachelor's or master's in Social Sciences, an MBA, an MBBS or an equivalent, so a finance graduate fits the first line and a social-science or medical graduate fits the second, and neither line can be borrowed for the other post. The specialist head-office categories raise the bar in their own directions: the Pharmacist post adds Pharmacy Council registration to the Pharm-D and two years of experience, which makes registration a hard gate rather than a desirable extra, and the System Administrator and Software Developer posts both ask for a relevant bachelor's degree plus two years of experience, but the experience itself is defined by technology stacks, enterprise infrastructure and system administration for one post and C#, ASP.NET, Angular and SQL Server development for the other, so a strong developer record does not automatically fit the administrator post or the reverse. The Quality Assurance Engineer post is the most accessible of the technology posts on experience, asking for one year rather than two, while the Psychologist and Psychosocial Case Worker posts ask for one year of psychosocial or case-management experience and add a gender condition, female candidates only, that is stated in the advertisement itself and must be read as a condition of those two posts, not as a general preference. The IT Assistant posts ask for a relevant bachelor's degree and a defined set of support skills without a printed experience period, which makes them the most accessible graduate technology posts of the round, and the Office Assistant posts ask only for a relevant bachelor's degree, again without a printed experience period. The Electrician posts are the round's only Matric-level category, but they are not the round's easiest posts: they require a technical diploma or certification plus two years of electrical, generator or solar experience and an understanding of electrical safety standards. Across all categories, the age condition for this round is stated as less than 55 years, which is more generous than the 18 to 50 range printed in some earlier PPHI-B rounds, and candidates should rely on the current round's figure rather than a remembered one. Local domicile holders receive preference, female candidates are encouraged to apply generally, and the application channel is itself an eligibility condition in practice: only the official portal counts, and an application submitted by hand, by email or through any other route is not an application for this round.

Salary & Benefits

The advertisement prints a monthly gross salary for every category, and this article quotes those figures exactly as printed, because they are the figures a candidate will actually be paid against, subject to PPHI-B rules. The range runs from Rs. 40,700 per month for the two Electrician posts to Rs. 150,000 per month for the single System Administrator post and the single Software Developer post. Between those ends, the Finance Officer and Monitoring and Evaluation Officer posts carry Rs. 85,000, the Pharmacist and Psychologist and Psychosocial Case Worker posts carry Rs. 110,000, the Quality Assurance Engineer post carries Rs. 100,000, the IT Assistant posts carry Rs. 70,000, and the Office Assistant posts carry Rs. 50,000. These are gross monthly figures, and the advertisement also mentions Risk Allowance and Pay for Performance where applicable under PPHI-B rules and policies, which means the gross figure is the base for the post and any additional allowance depends on the post and on the organisation's rules rather than being guaranteed to every appointee. Because the appointments are temporary for one year in the first instance, extendable on the annual performance report, the salary should be read as a contract salary for that period rather than as a permanent-scale entitlement, and candidates comparing these figures with permanent government scales should compare gross with gross and contract with contract. The advertisement prints no application fee, and this article states none; the only money-related condition stated is a negative one, and it matters for planning: no travel allowance and no daily allowance is paid for the Promatrix Examination, so attendance at that stage is at the candidate's own cost.

Selection Process

Selection for this round follows the PPHI-B sequence stated in the advertisement: online applications are screened against the advertised requirements, shortlisted candidates are contacted for the PPHI-B Promatrix Examination, and the interview follows according to the recruitment schedule, with the date and time communicated to shortlisted candidates. Candidates who successfully complete all stages may receive an offer letter, and applicants placed on a waiting list may be considered if a selected candidate does not join. Because only shortlisted candidates are contacted, an applicant who hears nothing after the closing date should read that as not shortlisted rather than as a lost message. The screening stage is where most applications are decided, and it turns on the printed lines applied exactly: the post's degree, the experience period where one is printed, the registration requirement for the Pharmacist post, the gender condition for the Psychologist posts, and the age condition of less than 55 years. The Promatrix Examination stage then tests what the screening cannot, and candidates should prepare for it on the post they applied for rather than on a general syllabus that the advertisement does not publish: finance and monitoring candidates on their professional field, technology candidates on their stacks and support practice, and facility candidates on their clinical or technical work. The document gate runs through the whole process: candidates found ineligible during document scrutiny may be rejected at any stage, so every certificate, experience letter, registration document and photograph claimed on the form must be genuine and available. PPHI-B may amend, cancel or modify the recruitment process or the number of posts at any stage, and no applicant should treat the 34 advertised posts as fixed until appointments are made. No travel or daily allowance is paid for the Promatrix Examination.

Documents Required

• Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC).
• Domicile certificate, with local domicile holders receiving preference in this round.
• Degree certificates and detailed marks sheets for the post applied for, from a recognised university or institution.
• Experience certificates showing the experience period printed for the post, where an experience requirement applies.
• Pharmacy Council registration certificate, for the Pharmacist post.
• Technical diploma or electrician certification, for the Electrician post.
• Hifz or professional certifications claimed, such as CCNA, VCP or equivalent networking, virtualisation and cybersecurity credentials, for the System Administrator post where claimed.
• Recent passport-size photographs, as the portal requires.
• Updated CV or resume with accurate personal, educational and professional information, as the portal requires.
• No Objection Certificate from the employer, for candidates already working in a government or semi-government organisation, if the portal or the interview stage requires it.
• Printed or saved copy of the submitted online application, for reference at the examination and interview stages.
• Any additional document the official careers portal asks for against the post selected.

Terms & Conditions

All appointments are purely temporary, initially for one year, with possible extension based on the annual performance report. The age requirement for this round is less than 55 years for all advertised positions. Local domicile holders receive preference, female candidates are encouraged to apply, and the two Psychologist and Psychosocial Case Worker posts are restricted to female applicants as stated in the advertisement. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the written Promatrix Examination and interview, candidates found ineligible during document scrutiny may be rejected, and no travel or daily allowance is paid for the Promatrix Examination. Applications must be submitted through the prescribed online portal by 12 November 2026, and applications by hand or through any other method will not be accepted. PPHI-B may amend, cancel or modify the recruitment process or the number of posts at any stage, and candidates should verify the latest position on the official portal before relying on any secondary report, including on the vacancy total, where one secondary listing quotes 29 against the post-wise break-up of 34 followed in this article.

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