国立国際医療研究センター グローバルヘルス人材戦略センター

Name

国立国際医療研究センター グローバルヘルス人材戦略センター

Legal name

国立国際医療研究センター グローバルヘルス人材戦略センター

Website

https://hrc-gh.ncgm.go.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

HRC-GH is a Japanese government-affiliated free employment placement agency, established in 2017 within the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It connects Japanese professionals with careers at international health organizations through job listings, CV editing, and talent registration services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Workforce Career Placement Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Workforce Development & Capacity-Building (HLAJAKAM)

Keywords

• Global health careers
• International organization employment
• Talent recruitment services
• Health workforce development
• Job placement agency

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Free Employment Placement Services: The center operates as a free employment introduction agency (職業無料紹介所), providing placement services to job seekers at no charge. Services include CV and cover letter editing support, job listings for international and domestic organizations, and talent registration. Revenue is not generated from job seekers; the center is funded through government institutional budgets rather than user fees.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

HRC-GH operates as a free employment placement agency (職業無料紹介所) connecting Japanese nationals and residents with career opportunities at international organizations and domestic global health institutions. It provides an integrated job-search platform, a talent registration and matching database, CV and cover letter editing services, career role-model profiles, events, and newsletters. All services are offered at no charge to job seekers, with the center funded through government institutional budgets under the oversight of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• International Organization Job Search System (国際機関の空席情報/求人サイト)

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• UNICEF (国際連合児童基金)minorOthers · 10 July 2026UNICEF has listed a public partnership internship recruitment notice through the center's platform on July 10, 2026, indicating an informal job-posting partnership where UNICEF utilizes the center as a recruiting channel for Japanese talent interested in public partnership internships. The relationship is mediated through the center's role as a global health career platform.
• Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省)coreOthersMHLW is listed as a key partner link on the center's website. As the parent ministry overseeing the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), MHLW provides institutional oversight and policy alignment, constituting the center's primary government linkage for global health human resources policy.
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) 國際協力機構coreOthersJICA is listed as a key partner organization on the center's website, with a direct referral link. JICA serves as a major counterpart for Japanese global health professionals and is a key source of international cooperation job opportunities promoted through the center's platform.
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs — International Research and Cooperation Center (外務省 国際交流局)minorOthersMOFA's International Research and Cooperation Center is listed as a partner link on the website, indicating a cross-referral relationship for information sharing and career pathway alignment between Japan's diplomatic and global health human resource programs.
• National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) 国立研究開発法人 国立国際医療研究センターcoreOthersNCGM is the parent institution within whose campus and organizational structure the HRC-GH center operates. The center's website URL (jihs.go.jp) and the NCGM system portal (ncgm.go.jp) are directly integrated, indicating a deeply embedded institutional relationship where NCGM provides the operational base and brand affiliation for the center.
• National Institute of Health and Human Services (国立重度知的障害者研究所 / IHP)minorOthersListed as a partner link on the center's website. While not a direct recruitment partner, IHP (part of NCGM) serves as a related institutional node within Japan's health research ecosystem, facilitating broader referral networking for health-sector professionals.
• University of Tokyo School of Public Health (東京大学 公共卫生学修士課程)minorOthersListed as a partner link, indicating an academic referral and talent pipeline relationship with the University of Tokyo's School of Public Health, a key feeder institution for global health professionals entering the center's programs.

Scale indicators1 record

Emerging players

• ReliefWeb: Humanitarian job board operated by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), listing humanitarian, disaster, and global health vacancies from international organizations. Overlaps with HRC-GH's job aggregation service in the adjacent humanitarian/global health recruitment space.
• Global Health Corps: US-based nonprofit building a global pipeline of emerging leaders in global health through paid fellowships and a talent community. Comparable mission of connecting young professionals to global health organizations, though focused on emerging leaders rather than mid-career Japanese talent.
• Devex Careers: Commercial international development job platform with strong coverage of multilateral and NGO roles, including in global health. Competes for the same Japanese professional audience seeking international organization careers, though with broader geographic scope.

Broad incumbents

• United Nations Careers: Official careers portal of the UN system aggregating vacancies across UN agencies (including WHO, UNICEF). Functionally similar to HRC-GH's job-search system but operated directly by the prospective employer, making it a substitute as well as a referral channel.
• WHO Health Workforce Department: Global policy body responsible for health workforce strategy, capacity building, and workforce data across WHO member states. Aligned with HRC-GH's health workforce development mandate at the policy and global framework level.
• Hello Work (公共職業安定所): Japan's nationwide government-run free employment service under MHLW. Operates as a sister government placement agency and shares parent ministry oversight with HRC-GH, though it serves general employment rather than global health niches.

Direct peers

• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA): Japan's primary international cooperation agency under MHLW/MOFA. Operates an extensive human resource and training pipeline (including JICA Partnership Program) serving Japanese professionals in development work, directly adjacent to HRC-GH's mandate and listed as a core partner.

Regional players

• Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA): South Korea's government agency for international development cooperation, with its own human resource development programs and an Overseas Volunteer/KOICA Fellowship. Structural parallel to JICA/HRC-GH but operating in Korea rather than Japan.

Market position

Customer concentration

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