Job Openings at World Health Organization (WHO)

Summary of Assigned Duties

Under the overall guidance of project management officer and with a view to achieve the expected results set, the incumbent will have the following responsibilities in his/her assigned area of work:

• Collect, store and manage program data, reports and documents from program units
• Develop and manage a central repository of program data, reports and documents
• Develop program monitoring indicators
• Support the program team to improve tools for data collection, compilation and analysis
• Provide assistance to SMOH in data management as necessary
• Manage data from health sector partners on emergency response
• Compile data and report for weekly management updates
• Provide training on data management
• Conduct supervision of data management at production and other levels with focus on recording and reporting.
• Monitor data from various sources to triangulation
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor
• Participate in planning, review meetings, and monitoring and evaluation activities
• Coordinate with relevant data managers and monitoring and evaluation officers of WHO for sharing of data. Monitor the performance of hard-to-reach mobile team and CORPs performance.

Recruitment Profile

Competencies:

• Teamwork
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• Communication
• Promoting innovation and organizational learning
• Moving forward in a changing environment

Functional Knowledge and Skills

• Professional experience with demonstrated skills in Developing and implementing M&E systems (including database design).
• Collecting data, Remote monitoring, Data analysis
• Good skill of MS Excel, Access, EPI Info, GIS, DHIS2
• Good skills on mobile data collection technology and practice
• Good skills on data validation techniques.

Education Qualifications

Essential

• First University Degree in Statistics or Public Health or Social Science

Desirable

• Masters University Degree in Statistics or Public Health or Social Science

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 2 years of experience in health data management, health program monitoring and evaluation

Desirable

• Relevant work experience in WHO, other UN agencies in health data management, health program monitoring and evaluation

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DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

Summary of Assigned Duties (Describe what the incumbent has to do to achieve main objectives; include main achievements expected):

The incumbent will perform some or all of the following duties

• Assess threats to human life and health, damage to health infrastructure for primary and secondary care, the state of health referral and support systems, including cold chain, laboratory, essential drugs and health information systems, and the vital needs of the affected populations.
• Collaborate with national authorities and health partners to coordinate and implement public health response activities as part of the health cluster's strategic response; analyse existing coordination mechanisms, designing and recommending improvements.
• Provide analysis of the public health risks, needs and capacities and advise on priority interventions for WHO and partners; challenges and operational course correctors, as applicable.
• Monitor progress towards achievement of universal health coverage; analyse social determinants of health and their impact on the incident management system, including identifying inequities, gaps in the delivery of health services or emergency interventions, recommending appropriate actions and innovative approaches to improve the situation.
• Facilitate the implementation of effective, evidence-based policies, public health programmes and interventions through all life cycles, this might include maternal and new born health, health promotion and education, NCDs, the elderly, social determinant of health, violence and injury prevention including road safety, gender and health equity and other related areas. Secure information from a broad range of health sectors, analysing such and consolidating health data in trends and trends assessment, with particular attention to surveillance, monitoring and early warning. Position Description - Professional .
• Coordinate meetings with all relevant partners and incident management team, producing and circulating minutes, related decisions and tracking the latter, and developing detailed “lessons learnt” reports, recommending improvement to current and future field operations.8. Provide input to communications and information products (Sitreps, health cluster bulletins, outbreak bulletins etc.) as required.
• Ensure compliance with IASC principles and the Humanitarian Programme Cycle in delivering WHO's health response.
• Perform any other related incident-specific duties, as required by the functional supervisor

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Essential: University degree (Master's level or above) in public health and/or health-relatedfields from an accredited/recognized institute
• Desirable: Doctorate degree in public health. Post graduate studies or specialized training in emergencyresponse or disaster management in the context of public health. Diploma in tropical medicine or diploma in disaster management

Experience

Essential:

• At least five years of relevant experience, at the national and international levels, in publichealth in emergencies response or health sector coordination, with emphasis on managingoutbreaks and health emergencies and/ or health consequences of emergencies and crises.Experience in capacity building, developing and promoting collaborative partnerships

Desirable:

• Relevant work experience in WHO, other UN agencies, health cluster partners, recognizedhumanitarian organizations or relevant nongovernmental or humanitarian organizations. Experience in capacity building programme planning/development, project management,monitoring and evaluation.Experience with resource mobilization in emergency settings.

Skills

• In-depth knowledge of public health programmes with focus on health system, and the Millennium Development Goals.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of operational management of health aspects/consequences of humanitarian crises and outbreaks in field settings.
• Demonstrated skills in capacity building, proposal and report writing, knowledge of and experience with needs assessments in emergency settings, strategic information analysis and planning and ability to anticipate new trends in the field of public health and take actions accordingly.
• Managerial skills for the development, implementation and analysis of technical cooperation programmes and activities, including the development of programmatic indicators

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DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

The specific functions of the incumbent are:

• Provide technical support to the incident management team in developing effective tools and processes to collect, manage and combine spatial datasets.2
• Conduct geospatial analysis on collected datasets; create maps, infographics, and other cartographic products on a regular and ad-hoc basis; in response to functional team leads' technical needs.
• Standardize and clean geospatial datasets and associated attributes across incident management system specific datasets.
• Lead field data collection efforts as necessary using different data collection techniques such as mobile data collection devices and applications.
• Provide inputs in developing the tools for loading/transferring GIS data between different systems; design and maintain the structures necessary for GIS data storage.
• Manipulate presentation of geographical information by creating programs to convert GIS information from one format to another.
• Adapt tools to join together different GIS datasets and create new information or investigate patterns, e.g. estimating the number of people affected by the incident, etc.Perform any other related incident-specific duties, as required by the functional supervisor

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Essential: Bachelor degree in geography, cartography, GIS, information management, engineering, geometrics, computer or earth sciences from an accredited/recognized institute.
• Desirable: Post graduate courses in GIS.

Experience

• Essential: At two years' relevant experience, combined at the national and international levels in GIS management, using different GIS tools such as QGIS, other open sources, GIS software and/or ArcGIS Online. Experience in supporting field data collection in emergency or humanitarian context.
• Desirable: Experience in emergency disaster and health outbreak response, particularly in developing countries. Prior humanitarian working experience at field level, with WHO/UN agencies, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or with an international nongovernmental organization.

Skills

• Thorough knowledge of data management/ICT skill; Strong analytical skill