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IfeanHealth Nigeria Limited is hiring a full-time Writer in Lagos to create research-driven content, thought leadership, patient stories, and digital materials that amplify its prosthetics, orthotics, and rehabilitation mission across Nigeria and Africa. The role combines healthcare communication, SEO content, and cross-platform storytelling.

• Full-time Writer role based in Lagos
• Focus on healthcare, prosthetics, orthotics, and rehabilitation content
• Involves thought leadership, research, and storytelling
• Requires translating complex health information into accessible narratives
• Includes SEO and digital content development

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Writer at IfeanHealth Nigeria Limited ⏲ Aug 18, 2026, 11:13 AM ⋕ View all Medical & Healthcare jobs IfeanHealth is West Africa’s leading prosthetics, orthotics, and rehabilitation organisation, committed to restoring mobility, dignity, and possibility for individuals and communities across Nigeria and Africa. As the organisation expands its national footprint and strengthens its role as a voice within the industry, we are recruiting a highly skilled Writer to develop world‑class content that amplifies our mission and narrative frames. This role is central to shaping how IfeanHealth communicates its impact, expertise, and leadership across multiple platforms, from articles and reports to thought leadership pieces and multimedia storytelling. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Writer Location: Lagos Employment Type: Full-time Role Purpose The successful candidate will be expected to translate complex healthcare information, research findings, patient experiences, and organisational initiatives into compelling and accessible narratives for different audiences. The Writer will be responsible for developing high-quality, research-driven written content that communicates IfeanHealth’s expertise, impact, and strategic priorities across multiple platforms. The role combines creative storytelling, research, thought leadership, healthcare communication, and digital content development. The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer, rigorous researcher, thoughtful storyteller, and strategic communicator who understands how strong content can influence perception, build authority, and advance organisational goals. Key Responsibilities: Content Development & Thought Leadership: Develop content around IfeanHealth's programmes, partnerships, research, community initiatives, and impact. Develop compelling patient stories, beneficiary profiles, community impact stories, and organisational success stories. Develop long-form content for the IfeanHealth website, publications, newsletters, reports, and external media platforms. Support the development of executive thought leadership content, including articles, speeches, opinion pieces, presentations, and public statements. Produce high-quality articles, opinion pieces, reports, newsletters, blog posts, features, speeches, and other editorial content. Identify relevant industry conversations, emerging trends, and topics that can be converted into strategic content opportunities. Develop thought leadership content that positions IfeanHealth as a credible voice in prosthetics, orthotics, rehabilitation, preventive health, disability inclusion, healthcare access, and social impact. Research & Insight Generation: Review academic publications, research papers, reports, industry publications, and credible data sources. Conduct in-depth research on healthcare, rehabilitation, prosthetics and orthotics, disability inclusion, public health, wellness, and social impact. Interview internal subject-matter experts, healthcare professionals, beneficiaries, partners, and other relevant stakeholders to develop original stories and insights. Translate complex research, statistics, and technical information into clear and engaging content for non-technical audiences. Monitor industry developments, healthcare trends, policy discussions, and emerging issues relevant to IfeanHealth. Ensure all research-based content is accurate, properly contextualised, and supported by credible sources. SEO & Digital Content: Review existing content and recommend opportunities for optimisation and repurposing. Develop SEO-friendly headlines, subheadings, meta descriptions, and content structures. Apply SEO principles to website articles, blogs, and other digital content. Work with the digital/marketing team to identify opportunities to improve organic visibility and website engagement. Conduct basic keyword research and incorporate relevant keywords naturally into content. Cross-Platform Content Adaptation: Collaborate with designers, content creators, videographers, and other members of the Marketing & Branding team to develop integrated campaigns. Provide written concepts, scripts, captions, storyboards, interview questions, and supporting copy for multimedia content where required. Repurpose long-form content into shorter formats for social media, email newsletters, websites, presentations, and other communication channels. Ensure that messaging remains consistent while being appropriately adapted for different audiences and platforms. Patient & Human-Interest Storytelling: Handle sensitive personal stories with empathy, professionalism, confidentiality, and respect. Conduct interviews with patients, families, healthcare professionals, community members, and other stakeholders. Obtain and maintain appropriate consent before publishing patient or beneficiary stories. Ensure storytelling preserves dignity and avoids exploitative or sensational narratives. Identify and develop meaningful patient and beneficiary stories that demonstrate the impact of IfeanHealth's work. Editorial Quality & Brand Alignment: Edit and proofread written materials produced by the organisation or assigned teams. Maintain consistency in terminology, tone, style, and messaging across communication channels. Ensure all content aligns with IfeanHealth's brand voice, messaging framework, values, and strategic communications objectives. Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of editorial guidelines and content standards. Maintain consistently high standards of grammar, structure, clarity, accuracy, and readability. Fact-check content before publication and promptly correct inaccuracies when identified. Content Planning & Editorial Management: Maintain an organised archive of published and unpublished content, research materials, interviews, and relevant references. Work with the Marketing & Branding Director to prioritise content according to organisational objectives. Track deadlines and ensure assigned content is delivered within agreed timelines. Maintain a pipeline of relevant content ideas, story angles, and thought leadership opportunities. Contribute to the development and implementation of the organisation's editorial calendar. Decision-Making Authority: The Writer will have: Authority to request relevant information, interviews, data, and expert input required to produce accurate content. Authority to propose content themes, story ideas, editorial angles, and thought leadership opportunities. Full ownership of assigned content development, research, drafting, editing, and submission. Responsibility for recommending improvements to content development and editorial workflows. Responsibility for identifying content gaps and opportunities across IfeanHealth's communication channels. All content involving sensitive patient information, major organisational announcements, official positions, or external representation will be subject to the appropriate review and approval process. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Performance in this role will be assessed against: Content Production: Development of a consistent pipeline of content ideas and story opportunities. Consistent delivery of assigned articles, reports, stories, and other content within agreed deadlines. Quality, originality, relevance, and strategic value of published content. Content Engagement: Newsletter engagement and readership where applicable. Social media engagement generated from repurposed written content. Website traffic and engagement generated by written content. Growth in organic search visibility for relevant content. Thought Leadership: Contribution to strengthening IfeanHealth's authority and visibility within the healthcare and rehabilitation sectors. Opportunities secured in relevant external publications and platforms. Number and quality of thought leadership pieces developed and published. Editorial Quality: Compliance with IfeanHealth's brand voice and editorial standards. Minimal grammatical, factual, or formatting errors in submitted work. Accuracy and reliability of published content. Research & Storytelling: Ability to transform complex information into accessible and engaging narratives. Number and quality of original patient, beneficiary, expert, and community stories developed. Quality and credibility of research supporting published content. Required Qualifications & Experience: Demonstrated portfolio of high-quality articles, reports, features, thought leadership pieces, or other published work. Experience: conducting research and converting research findings into compelling written content. 3–6 years of professional writing experience, preferably in healthcare, development, social impact, journalism, corporate communications, or a related sector. Experience: working with subject-matter experts and translating technical information into accessible language. Basic understanding of SEO and digital content optimisation. Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Journalism, Public Health, Social Sciences, Mass Communication, or a related discipline. Experience: writing for different audiences, platforms, and communication objectives. Key Competencies & Attributes: Exceptional Writing Ability: Demonstrates excellent command of written English, strong storytelling ability, compelling narrative structure, and the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively. Research & Analytical Thinking: Able to gather information from multiple credible sources, identify key insights, verify facts, and synthesise information into meaningful narratives. Strategic Communication: Understands how content contributes to brand positioning, reputation, audience engagement, stakeholder communication, and organisational objectives. Empathetic Storytelling: Able to tell human-interest and patient stories with sensitivity, dignity, compassion, and respect. Attention to Detail: Demonstrates strong editing, proofreading, fact-checking, and quality-control skills. Creativity: Consistently generates fresh content ideas, compelling angles, and creative approaches to communicating complex subjects. Collaboration: Works effectively with healthcare professionals, researchers, management, designers, content creators, videographers, and other internal and external stakeholders. Digital Literacy: Comfortable working with content management systems, SEO tools, social media platforms, digital publishing tools, Google Workspace/Microsoft Office, and other relevant content technologies. Adaptability: Able to adjust writing style, tone, format, and complexity according to the audience, platform, and communication objective. Working Relationships: The Writer will work closely with: Marketing & Branding Director Graphic Designers Management Clinical and Healthcare Teams Research and Programme Teams External partners and media contacts where required Content Creators Operations Team Videographers What Success Looks Like: The successful candidate will help transform IfeanHealth's work, research, patient experiences, and community impact into stories that educate audiences, build trust, strengthen the organisation's reputation, and position IfeanHealth as a leading voice in healthcare, rehabilitation, disability inclusion, and social impact. Within this role, success means that IfeanHealth consistently has credible, compelling, well-researched, and strategically aligned content that communicates its expertise and impact. How to Apply Interested candidates should submit their CV and writing portfolio demonstrating relevant experience: in professional writing, research, storytelling, thought leadership, journalism, healthcare communication, or related fields to: info@ifeanhealth.com using "the Job Title as the subject of the email. Note: IfeanHealth is committed to building a team of talented professionals who share our commitment to restoring mobility, dignity, and possibility. Candidates without a writing portfolio may not be considered. Application Deadline: 30th September, 2026. View all Jobs in Nigeria Lagos State Writer job vacancies in Nigeria