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Job ID: 2408176
Purpose of Consultancy
- Working closely with the responsible focal points within the Department of Immunization Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), the Consultant will align and collate the implementation of Big Catch-up activities, and liaise with the global BCU Task Team and regional and/or Inter-Country Support Team focal points to provide technical guidance.
Background
- In April 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) targeted a global effort to facilitate recovery of immunization systems and close immunization gaps among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, called the “Big Catch-up” (BCU).
- The BCU has three objectives: (1) restoring routine immunization coverage to at least 2019 levels; (2) catching-up missed children; and (3) strengthening health systems to sustainably reach zero-dose children and communities.
- Given the urgency to catch-up missed children and control growing outbreaks, the IA2030 Partnership has encouraged Heads of State and ministers of health to prioritize implementation of the BCU from 2023-2025. In December 2023, the Gavi Board approved to exceptionally offer fully financed doses for the BCU; all antigens already in a country’s routine programme in the period 2019-2022 can be supported, and children up to 5 years of age are eligible.
- WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), through the Regional Working Group (RWG) mechanism, have been providing support to countries to develop catch-up plans, and 35 countries are now set to receive Gavi-supported BCU vaccine doses in 2024 and 2025. With the implementation phase of the BCU now fully underway and expected to continue into 2025, WHO is playing a key role in supporting its implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Deliverables
- Deliverable 1: Contribute to the BCU project across the three levels of the Organization:
- Facilitate timely reporting of BCU activities by liaising closely with global, regional and country-level stakeholders.
- Facilitate the provision of global guidance and provide technical contributions to regional counterparts and countries.
- Maintain linkages with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the Measles and Rubella Partnership and other disease-specific initiatives to ensure opportunities for integration are leveraged where possible.
Expected by the end of the contract:
- Deliverable 2: Prepare technical materials, including presentations, pre-reads, and talking points, for internal and external use for meetings (Gavi Board, Alliance Partnership and Performance Team (APPT), Immunization Agenda 2023 (IA2030) Partnership Council)
Expected by the end of the contract:
- Deliverable 3: Review and validate the quarterly BCU monitoring reports as they become available and assist with data collation at the global level, identify challenges and opportunities for targeted technical guidance and early course correction.
Expected by the end of the contract:
- Deliverable 4: Contribute to the overall technical aspects of the BCU project including technical/financial/donor reporting quarterly.
Expected by the end of the contract:
Qualifications, Experience, Skills, and Languages
Essential:
- Advanced University Degree in Public Health, Health Management, Epidemiology or Infectious or Communicable Diseases.
Experience:
Essential:
- Between 5 to 10 years of practical national and international experience in managing and coordinating large-scale programs and initiatives, preferably related to immunization.
- Strong background in project management, particularly in the field of global public health and with experience managing projects across multiple locations.
- Experience working in multi-cultural settings, working with a large number of diverse stakeholders.
- Experience in preparing technical presentations and materials.
- Familiarity with monitoring and learning in global health settings.
Desirable:
- Experience working with Gavi operations and processes.
Skills / Knowledge:
Essential:
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong project management skills.
- Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate initiative and flexibility.
- Familiar with commonly used computer programs, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization information systems would be an asset.
- Knowledge of specialized computer programs, for example, statistical software such as XLStat may be an advantage.
Languages and Levels Required:
Essential:
- Expert knowledge of English
Desirable:
- Intermediate knowledge of French
Location:
Travel:
- The consultant is expected to travel.
Remuneration
- Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded)
- Band level B: USD7,000 - USD9,980 per month
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Job ID: 2408594
Location: Anywhere
Contractual Arrangement: External consultant
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 4 Months, January – April 2025
Organization: WP/DDC Division of Programmes for Disease Control
Purpose of consultancy
- To provide technical expertise and training to expand laboratory capacity for measles/rubella (MR) enzyme immunoassay (EIA) serology and molecular detection of virus by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) in the Solomon Islands as part of the expansion of the Western Pacific Regional Laboratory Network in the Pacific Island Countries and Areas (PICs).
- The Consultant will provide training in quality assurance of serology and molecular tests for the Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) National Laboratories of Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.
Background
- The PICs are in the elimination phase of measles with a target of verification of elimination by 2025.
- There are four countries/areas that have laboratory testing capacity for MR in the PICs: Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, and New Caledonia. Other countries must rely on the referral of samples to their nearest regional reference laboratory, usually Australia.
- This can result in longer times for samples to reach the laboratory and the provision of results thus delaying confirmation of measles cases and the appropriate public health response.
- The development of in-country, high quality laboratory testing would improve the turnaround time of tests and public health decision-making.
Deliverables
- Provide training in EIA and RTPCR methods for the detection of suspected cases of measles and rubella virus;
- Provide training to laboratory staff / healthcare workers of national laboratories in Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu in quality assurance in preparation for EQA performance and WHO accreditation; and
- Implement a delivery protocol of MR serology and molecular EQA panels for national VPD laboratories of Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.
Output/s:
- Output 1: Training in MR serological and molecular methods in the national laboratory of the Solomon Islands.
- Deliverable 1.1: Install and train staff in the installation of all equipment including software for MR EIAs and RTPCR.
- Deliverable 1.2: Face to face training on-site in serological and molecular methods for MR EIAs and RTPCR.
- Output 2: Training of laboratory staff/healthcare workers in delivery of high performance in EQA schemes for MR in four established national laboratories in PICs (Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu).
- Deliverable 2.1: Face to face training in the preparation, performance, and analysis of external quality assurance schemes for vaccine preventable diseases with specific reference to measles and rubella.
- Deliverable 2.2: Training in the procurement of EQA panels and the reporting of results.
- Output 3: Design and establish a delivery system for MR serology and molecular EQA panels to the newly established national laboratory network in the PICS.
- Deliverable 3.1: Organize meeting for the appropriate and responsible partners to discuss and agree shipping system for EQA panels for the laboratory network in the PICs.
- Deliverable 3.2: Write up shipping system protocol for use as standard operating procedure in the national laboratories of Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.
Qualifications, experience, skills and languages
Educational Qualifications:
- Essential: First university degree in life science, medicine, molecular biology, or medical virology from an accredited/recognized institute.
- Desirable: Training or qualification in bacteriology, infectious diseases, and/or epidemiology and laboratory techniques.
Experience:
- Essential: Minimum 3 years relevant experience on laboratory quality assurance including face-to-face training in serological (EIA) and molecular (RTPCR) methods.
- Desirable: Experience in setting up EIA and PCR equipment and software to deliver serological and molecular diagnostic service.
Skills/Knowledge:
- Essential: Expert knowledge of EIA and RTPCR techniques, quality assurance practices and their application within laboratories.
- Desirable: Writing standard operating procedures and protocols for laboratory quality management system.
Languages and level required:
- Essential: Expert knowledge of English
Travel:
- The consultant is expected to travel to provide training to laboratory staff in the national laboratory of the Solomon Islands during March/April 2025.
- The consultant may have to travel to other Pacific Island countries to troubleshoot laboratory procedures at the request of hiring manager.
Salary
USD 5,000 - USD 6,000 monthly.
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Job ID: 2408176
Purpose of Consultancy
- To synthesize evidence and draft technical guidance on prioritization of pathogens for context specific multi-pathogen wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES).
Background
- Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there is growing interest in the potential of WES to inform public health decision making for a range of pathogens and targets as part of collaborative surveillance for existing and future public health threats.
- Guidance is needed on how to prioritize pathogens for WES implementation considering; public health significance and actionability of WES results, technical and operational feasibility, acceptability and potential for optimization for integration in overall surveillance and with any existing WES. Countries also need support to use the guidance to determine localized and contextualized WES priority targets and plan their implementation considering local capability and capacity for WES including all aspects of sampling, laboratory analysis and reporting.
- Given the cross-cutting nature of WES – across disease programmes and among WES specialists and initiatives globally – there is a high need for coordination and consultation at all levels. The consultant will work under the supervision of the WHO HQ WSH team and in coordination with: a consultant environmental microbiologist, a WES expert review group, disease focal points for all selected WES-relevant diseases, regional focal points for guidance implementation, WHO HQ collaborative surveillance teams.
Deliverables
- Deliverable 1: Final guidance package on public health considerations for prioritization and implementation of multi-pathogen WES
Tasks:
- Review draft prioritization package
- Incorporate expert review and regional workshop feedback into summary guidance and target sheets
- Develop at least 4 additional WES target sheet in collaboration with US-CDC, environmental microbiologist, the expert group and disease specific experts
- Provide periodic feedback on the preferred pathway characteristics (PPC) and ethical framework for WES during their development
- Prepare WES decision guidance tools in collaboration with US-CDC, the environmental microbiologist and the expert group
Deliverable 2: Four regions supported to implement the WES prioritization package:
Tasks:
- Compile existing training materials / workshop packages and adaptation to facilitate deployment in regions using multi-media training modalities
- Prepare workshop materials and decision guidance tools for use in regional workshop
- Co-facilitate regional workshops in at least 4 regions face to face and up to 2 regions online and any joint workshops with UNEP in Africa as needed
- Consolidate feedback from regional workshops for incorporation into finalized WES prioritization package under deliverable 1
- Facilitate scoping of costing / cost-effectiveness case studies for multi-pathogen WES within 2-4 countries following regional workshops.
- Provide technical response to country requests emerging from regional support and facilitate peer-to-peer connection and guidance as well as linkages with WHO HQ disease teams as needed.
Deliverable 3: Formalized ToR for WES expert group and WES represented in relevant disease specific communities of practice, plans and technical advice:
Tasks:
- Participate in relevant global and regional WES communities of practice
- Facilitate mapping of existing advisory groups and drafting of a ToR for a formalized WES expert group as well as selection and vetting of experts
- Facilitate identification of key networks, events and technical outputs for WES relevant diseases and preparation of a calendar of relevant events and output for targeted WES inputs
- Prepare for and attend disease specific meetings and events as needed to promote integration of WES as part of evidence-based multimodal surveillance
- Extract key research questions for priority diseases through engagement in disease networks and the Global Consortium for Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance for Public Health (GLOWACON).
- Encourage data sharing and incorporation of WES into existing surveillance reports and dashboards.
Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Languages
Educational Qualifications
Essential:
- An Advanced University Degree in Public Health
- An advanced university degree in Medicine
Desirable:
- An advanced university degree in disease surveillance
Experience:
Essential:
- Over 15 years of relevant experience in infectious disease program delivery and surveillance in low- and middle-income countries
- Over 2 years of relevant experience designing and leading a national wastewater surveillance program for an infectious disease
- Over 5 years of relevant experience in applied research and systematic review of evidence
Desirable:
- Experience working in varied global contexts including low-income country settings, emergency and humanitarian contexts
Skills / Knowledge:
Essential:
- Demonstrable excellent skills in communication, including written skills
- Strong ability to facilitate and provide technical guidance on complex multi-stakeholder tasks.
Desirable:
- Training and workshop facilitation skills
Languages and Levels Required:
Essential:
- Expert knowledge of English
- Basic knowledge of French
Desirable:
- Intermediate knowledge of other UN languages
Travel:
- The consultant is expected to travel.
Remuneration
- Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded)
- Band level D: USD 12,520 - 14,400 per month
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Job ID: 2408476
Purpose of consultancy
- The purpose of this consultancy is to contribute to the implementation of technical activities and to the creation of business analysis artefacts.
- The consultant will ensure the effective delivery of technology related elements and proper requirements management for several Data Science for Public Health Intelligence related initiatives.
- The consultant will work with topic area leads and teams, in the Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence System (ISY) Department within Division of Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems (WSE).
- One of WSE´s goals it to improve the digital landscape with a dedicated portfolio of projects through the design, development and integration of several Data Science for Public Health Intelligence initiatives.
Examples of Data Science for Public Health Intelligence initiatives include but are not limited to:
- AI strategy for Public Health Intelligence
- Multi-language, multi-article abstractive summarization
- Noise Reduction
- Knowledge graph and contextual PHI information
Background
- The mission of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme is to build the capacity of Member States to manage health emergency risks to contain outbreaks and provide effective relief and recovery to affected populations. Early detection and mitigation of infectious, chemical, and radio nuclear hazards are at the core of the International Health Regulations (IHR).
- The Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems division (WSE) is responsible to build a system of collaborative intelligence enabling better decisions to avert and manage public health threats and risks. Its goal is to enable, strengthen and support countries, regional and global actors in averting and managing public health threats and risks through collaborative problem solving and decision-making for short-term action and long-term policies, informed by better data and analytics.
Deliverables
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Output 1: Well-defined project plans (one for each of the assignments) to include milestones and budget along with a comprehensive tracking system to monitor project and report on project at the defined and agreed upon dates.
Delivery date: 15 March 2025
- Activity 1: Collaborate with the technical team to develop a comprehensive project plan, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation.
- Activity 2: Conduct regular project planning meetings to ensure alignment and understanding of project goals among team members.
- Activity 3: Prepare regular financial and progress reports for review by project sponsors and stakeholders.
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Output 2: Well-defined product backlog for the Data Science related projects.
Delivery date: 15 May 2025
- Activity 1: Conduct requirements elicitation interviews and workshops with the project key stakeholders.
- Activity 2: Organize the requirements into a prioritized product backlog.
- Activity 3: Work closely with the project lead and data scientist on defining the best technical solution.
- Activity 4: Measure project progress, revise the product backlog as needed, and support the team in communicating and coordinating with stakeholders.
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Output 3: Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Public Health Intelligence.
Delivery date: 30 June 2025
- Activity 1: Conduct regular meetings with project key stakeholders that can provide input and feedback on the document.
- Activity 2: Coordinate the copy-editing, design, translation and publication processes.
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Output 4: Proofs of concepts of practical data science and AI applications for collaborative surveillance.
Delivery date: 30 July 2025
- Activity 1: Conduct requirements elicitation interviews and workshops with the project key stakeholders to select and document suitable PoCs.
- Activity 2: Organize the requirements into a prioritized product backlog.
- Activity 3: Work closely with the project lead and data scientist on defining the best technical solution.
- Activity 4: Measure project progress, revise the product backlog as needed, and support the team in communicating and coordinating with stakeholders.
Qualifications, experience, skills and languages
Educational Qualifications
Essential:
-
Minimum first university degree in Public Health, Public Administration, Project Management, Business Administration, Computer Science or related fields.
Experience
Essential:
Skills/Knowledge
Essential:
- Excellent coordination and project management skills, including ability to work with wide range of stakeholders across the spectrum of government, donors, technical partners, civil society, humanitarian actors, and other expanded partners
- Proactive identification, reporting and resolution/mitigation of issues and risks
- Political acumen and ability to drive change and improvements in challenging, inter-cultural and complex environments
- Excellent interpersonal negotiation skills, including ability to problem solve and manage conflict, including with senior counterparts at government level and amongst Gavi partners
- Excellent communication skills
Languages and level required
Essential:
Desirable:
Travel: The consultant is expected to travel.
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Job ID: 2408086
Purpose of consultancy
- Provide guidance and support in coordinating the delivery and evaluation of learning and capacity-development activities in the context of health emergencies.
Background
- The mission of WHO's Health Emergencies Programme (The Programme) is to build the capacity of Member States to manage health emergency risks and, when national capacities are overwhelmed, to lead and coordinate the international health response to contain outbreaks and to provide effective relief and recovery to affected populations.
- The Learning and Capacity Development unit (LCD) in the Executive Director’s (EXD) Office seeks to provide a learning environment for WHO staff and partners in which they can share and acquire health emergency-specific knowledge, skills and competencies. In addition, LCD is nurturing a learning ecosystem
- that involves a wide range of stakeholders and that facilitates resilience of national and local systems, supports preparedness capacity development, and enables emergency learning for staff, response partners and frontline responders, facilitating a safe, efficient and effective response. The immediate strategic objectives of LCD are:
- To provide a strategic and operational framework in which WHE-related learning can evolve.
- To foster a learning ecosystem through partnerships with a wide array of learning stakeholders, and through broad agreement on standards and competencies, and through shared content and structures for learning.
- To develop and maintain an arsenal of learning tools and resources, including technology-enhanced learning through open-access online learning, virtual classrooms and experiences, or simulation exercises; and
- To facilitate the development and piloting of Flagship Trainings, i.e. training that are of crucial importance to achieving the overall goal of WHE in the area of learning and capacity development, which is the constitution of a Global Health Emergency Workforce.
Deliverables
- Provide capacity-building and project coordination expertise to deliver learning activities in support of the LCD objectives.
- Identify and help implement strategies to increase learning transfer of WHE online, hybrid and face-to-face courses and application of learned skills within local contexts.
- Identify and implement optimal mechanisms for outreach to health care professionals and other stakeholders working in health emergencies
- Develop curriculum and produce course materials for online and face-to-face capacity-development activities for the WHO Health Emergencies programme.
- Produce new knowledge resources on health emergencies based on evolving technical guidance.
- Check online materials to ensure full alignment with WHO’s latest technical guidance and recommendations on COVID-19 and other diseases.
- Analyse user feedback on existing learning materials and address any misunderstanding and frequently asked questions through course material revision in consultation with subject-matter experts.
- Reporting and evaluation of health emergency learning activities.
- Define key indicators and methodologies for assessing impact across the unit’s learning activities, ensuring alignment with WHO guidelines and standards.
- Design surveys to assess the impact of the learning initiatives among WHO personnel and partners working in health emergencies.
- Analyze data to identify trends, insights, and areas for improvement.
- Prepare a comprehensive report summarizing the findings and outlining feedback and recommendations for further action.
Qualifications, experience, skills and languages
Educational Qualifications
Essential:
-
Minimum first university degree in Sciences, Social Sciences, Management, Public Health or a related field relevant to the position.
Desirable:
Experience
Essential:
- Between 5 to 10 years of professional experience in the area of capacity-building through training and exercises.
- Demonstrated experience in project management.
- Experience working at the international level.
- Extensive experience working within a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment.
Desirable:
- Experience in visual design.
- Experience working with a United Nations agency
Skills/Knowledge
Essential:
- Very strong project coordination skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Good analytical skills
- Excellent writing/editing skills, good communicator
- IT savvy
- Ability to coordinate writing of official documents with various stakeholders
- Self-motivated
- Capacity to produce at short notice and against tight deadline
- Ability to work in multicultural teams
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Desirable:
Languages and level required
Essential:
Desirable:
Travel:
- The consultant is not expected to travel.
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Job ID: 2407255
Purpose of Consultancy
- To define the risk level for countries endemic for yellow fever using standardized methodologies.
Background
- To respond to the increased risk of large urban yellow fever outbreaks with international spread that could threaten global health security, the comprehensive, multicomponent Global Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics (EYE) strategy was developed by EYE partners. The EYE Strategy endorses a continuum of preventive activities, ranging from preventive vaccination activities with implementation tiered according to risk, to rapid detection and response to outbreaks. The EYE vaccine delivery working group (VDWG) is one of the four technical working groups of the EYE Strategy that provides technical guidance on vaccination.
- Since 2020, a resurgence of yellow fever (YF) outbreaks in Africa has caused concerns about the sustainable elimination of these epidemics. Since late 2020, 15 countries have reported confirmed and probable YF cases, with 30 outbreaks recorded, of which 12 were disruptive. A large-scale investment has been made under the EYE Strategy. Since the Strategy’s inception, mass vaccination campaigns have protected around 264 million African people against yellow fever. This investment risks being jeopardized in 10-15 years unless a targeted policy is operationalized.
- This consultancy aims to support yellow fever risk assessment initiatives. The consultant will provide direct assistance to the EYE Strategy secretariat and the EYE Risk Analysis Working Group (EYE-RAWG), helping with national and subnational risk analysis assessments in countries across the African, Eastern Mediterranean, Latin American, and Caribbean regions. They will also develop and adapt tools and resources for these purposes.
- The consultant will prepare background documents and outputs for the annual risk assessment for vaccine allocation and support workshops to discuss methodologies for national and subnational risk assessments. Additionally, the consultant will assist with a risk prioritization exercise in urban centers in countries with high to moderate yellow fever risk.
Deliverables
Output 1: To enhance risk assessment for endemic and epidemic yellow fever in high-risk countries by optimizing data, standards, and sources:
- Output 1.1.: Identify additional data sources that more accurately reflect the risk of yellow fever.
- Expected by: end of the consultancy.
- Output 1.2.: Utilize these identified data sources to update the national and the subnational risk assessment tools.
- Expected by: end of the consultancy.
Output 2: To assess sub-national yellow fever risk in African countries:
- Output 2.1.: Gather subnational data for high-risk yellow fever countries in Africa.
- Expected by: end of the consultancy.
- Output 2.2.: Output 2.2.: Evaluate subnational risk using the assessment tool and collected data, in collaboration with country stakeholders and EYE partners.
- Expected by: end of the consultancy.
- Output 2.3.: Validate or modify the subnational risk assessment tool based on evaluations from the high-risk countries, in collaboration with country stakeholders and EYE partners.
- Expected by: end of the consultancy.
Output 3: To contribute to the work of the EYE-RAWG acting as member of the secretariat:
- Output 3.1.: Prepare the meeting agenda, slide deck and meeting minutes of the EYE-RAWG.
- Expected by: end of the consultancy.
- Output 3.2.: Document the work of the EYE-RAWG in the format of a scientific publication containing, for each one of its major tasks, a list of the related “activities”, “achievements”, “challenges” and “moving forward”.
- Expected by: end of the consultancy.
Output 4: To contribute to the work of the yellow fever surveillance:
- Output 4.1.: Conduct activities related to the data collection, data analysis and data dissemination of yellow fever cases in the African Region.
- Expected by: end of the consultancy.
- Output 4.2.: Produce a bimonthly epidemiological update of yellow fever in the African Region.
- Expected by: end of the consultancy.
Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Languages
Educational Qualifications:
Essential:
Desirable:
Experience:
Essential:
- At least seven years of relevant experience combined at the national and international levels, in the areas of epidemiology, field epidemiology, public health risk analysis, public health needs assessments, health emergencies or health response support.
- Field experience in the African, Eastern Mediterranean, Latin American, or the Caribbean regions.
Desirable:
- Experience in operational research, implementation research, data analysis.
- Experience with the United Nations agencies, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), or a health cluster member organization.
Skills/Knowledge:
Essential:
- Proven ability in managing and analysing public health data sets, including large databank sets.
- Ability to work with governments to implement immunization initiatives.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work as a team with a variety of stakeholders and meet deadlines.
- Proficiency in the Microsoft office suite of applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint) and remote working technologies.
- Proficiency in interactive data visualization software packages, including Tableau and Mocrosoft Power BI.
- Proficiency in geographic information system software, such ArcGIS®.
Desirable:
- Expertise in risk analysis tools and modelling of communicable diseases.
- Background/familiarity with emergency settings.
- Sound knowledge of yellow fever surveillance.
- Languages and level required (Basic/Intermediate/Expert):
Essential:
- Expert knowledge of English
- Expert knowledge of French
Desirable:
Travel:
- The consultant is expected to travel.
Remuneration
- Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded)
- Band level B: USD7,000 - USD 9,980 per month.
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Job ID: 2408096
Background
- The mission of WHO's Health Emergencies Programme (The Programme) is to build the capacity of Member States to manage health emergency risks and, when national capacities are overwhelmed, to lead and coordinate the international health response to contain outbreaks and to provide effective relief and recovery to affected populations.
- The Learning and Capacity Development unit (LCD) in the Executive Director’s (EXD) Office seeks to provide a learning environment for WHO staff and partners in which they can share and acquire health emergency-specific knowledge, skills and competencies.
- In addition, LCD is nurturing a learning ecosystem
- that involves a wide range of stakeholders and that facilitates resilience of national and local systems, supports preparedness capacity development, and enables emergency learning for staff, response partners and frontline responders, facilitating a safe, efficient and effective response.
The immediate strategic objectives of LCD are:
- To provide a strategic and operational framework in which WHE-related learning can evolve.
- To foster a learning ecosystem through partnerships with a wide array of learning stakeholders, and through broad agreement on standards and competencies, and through shared content and structures for learning.
- To develop and maintain an arsenal of learning tools and resources, including technology-enhanced learning through open-access online learning, virtual classrooms and experiences, or simulation exercises; and
- To lead the development and piloting of Flagship Trainings, i.e. training that are of crucial importance to achieving the overall goal of WHE in the area of learning and capacity development, which is the constitution of a Global Health Emergency Workforce.
Deliverables
Learning Design Framework for health emergencies:
- Conduct contextualized learning needs assessments to identify learning priorities during health emergencies
- Develop customized curriculum plans with adaptable content and methodologies suited to the specific health emergency context in order to provide ‘just-in-time’ learning
- Create instructional resources to facilitate learning and capacity development in health emergencies
Implementation and capacity-building:
- Design training programs to equip facilitators with the skills to deliver emergency learning activities
- Establish best practices and protocols to monitor and adjust learning delivery in response to real-time challenges
- Provide technical support tools and guides to ensure the effective use of technology for remote or in-person learning
Evaluation and Monitoring Plan:
- Define a set of key performance indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of the health emergencies learning interventions
- Implement a relevant data collection and feedback mechanism to gather relevant key indicators and insights
- Prepare evaluation report highlighting successes/enablers, challenges/gaps and recommendations for improving future emergency learning efforts.
Qualifications, experience, skills and languages
Educational Qualifications
Essential:
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Advanced university degree in public health, management, international relations, adult learning, administration, or equivalent.
Desirable:
Experience
Essential:
- Over 10 years of relevant experience in learning and training domain.
- Experience working at the international level.
- Extensive experience in public health instructional design, e-learning, and learning facilitation/delivery.
Desirable:
- Experience in health emergency response and incident management.
- Experience working with United Nations agencies
Skills/Knowledge
Essential:
- Very strong project coordination skills; certification would be an advantage
- Strong organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Good analytical skills
- Excellent writing/editing skills, good communicator
- IT savvy
- Ability to coordinate writing of official documents with various stakeholders
- Self-motivated
- Capacity to produce at short notice and against tight deadline
- Ability to work in multicultural teams
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Desirable:
Languages and level required
Essential:
Desirable:
Travel:
- The consultant is not expected to travel.
Salary
USD 10,000 - USD 12,500 monthly.
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Job ID: 2408243
Purpose of Consultancy
- The purpose of this consultancy is to enhance WHO’s capacity to integrate gender -responsive, rights-based, inclusive and equity-oriented principles and approaches into WHO’s policies, programmes, and operations through a strategic and sustainable approach to capacity development and knowledge management.
- The consultant will focus on three main (inter-related) streams: (1) Developing, implementing and assessing GRED learning modules and approaches, (2) building and maintaining a GRED knowledge management system, and (3) Supporting and managing the roll-out of a GRED certification programme targeting WHO business units across the three levels of the organization.
Background
- The Department for Gender, Rights, Equity and Diversity (GRED), situated in the Director General’s Office, supports and catalyzes the integration of gender equality, human rights and equity perspectives in WHO at global, regional and country levels in line with the commitment to leave no one behind. Using a twin-track approach, GRED Department promotes systematic change embedded in WHO’s policies and practices, making GRED a core part of the health agenda, and by delivering targeted interventions for populations living in vulnerable and often marginalized situations to prevent a one-size-fits-all approach.
- The programme works closely with an organization-wide network of gender equality, human rights, health equity and DEI focal points. It collaborates across the UN and multilateral system on related topics and represents the Organization in external activities on these issues.
- To drive this, the GRED Department developed the Roadmap for the WHO Secretariat to Advance Gender Equality, Human Rights, and Health Equity, which outlines strategic priorities for capacity building, knowledge management, and mainstreaming these principles across the organization. WHO is now entering a critical phase of implementing this plan to equip its workforce to integrate GRED principles effectively across all programs and levels. The GRED Department has also developed WHO’s DEI strategy through a fully participatory organization-wide process.
Deliverables
- GRED Learning Modules
- Deliverable 1.1: Co-design a series of e-learning modules, facilitator guides, and assessments in partnership with WHO Academy, tailored for various WHO workforce segments, including senior leadership, technical staff, program managers, and country office teams.
Expected by October 2025
- GRED Knowledge Management
- Deliverable 2.1: Identify and advise on key knowledge areas, tools, and resources to be integrated into WHO’s knowledge management efforts, ensuring these resources are relevant to global and regional initiatives promoting GRE principles and approaches.
Expected by October 2025
- Deliverable 2.2: Develop action plans, lessons learned and case studies, to increase the engagement of WHO staff, Member States, and partners in GRED capacity-strengthening and knowledge outreach activities and the effective dissemination of tools, resources, and lessons learned.
Expected by October 2025
- GRED Certification Programme
- Deliverable 3.1: Design, adapt and roll out a certification programme for WHO business units, including training content, interactive toolkit and assessments, which provides different streams/levels based on varying needs and operational structures at global, regional and country levels. The certification programme should be aligned with the WHO accountability frameworks and obligations.
Expected by October 2025.
Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Languages
Educational Qualifications:
Essential:
- Advanced University Degree in Social or Political Sciences, Public Health, Education or Law.
Experience:
Essential:
- 5 to 10 years of experience in international development, public health, policy development, or related fields, including at least 3 years of relevant experience in adult learning, training course development, or project management, as well as in one or more of the following areas: health equity, gender equality, or human rights.
Desirable:
- Previous experience in leading and managing learning initiatives within the United Nations system.
Skills / Knowledge:
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Expertise in knowledge management, capacity strengthening, communications skills, and management skills.
Languages and Level Required:
Essential:
- Expert knowledge of English
Desirable:
- Intermediate knowledge of another UN official language
Remuneration
- Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded)
- Band level B: USD 7,000 - USD 9,980 per month
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