Consultant - Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Management at World Health Organization

Purpose of consultancy

To provide technical expertise to the clinical management and operations unit to implement and perform different activities.

Deliverables: 

Deliverable 1: 

• Provide technical support to WHO secretariat in the development of the GRADE based, Clinical management guidelines for EID (including but not limited to Lassa fever, mpox, cholera, COVID, Ebola).
  • Prepare planning proposals for the Guideline Review Committee
  • Prepare power point presentations and agenda to support WHO secretariat in the convening of WHO steering committee and Guideline Development group meetings.
  • Work with systematic review teams to prepare evidence summaries for meetings. 
  • Work within electronic publication platform to draft guidelines based on outcomes from GDG meetings.
• Develop derivative products such as posters and care pathways (from clinical guidelines)
• Update training materials for openwho.org and aids for health workers.

Deliverable 2:

• Provide technical expertise to WHO staff in the preparation and execution of Global webinars on clinical management.  
  • Set topics and agenda of clinical webinars.
  • Identify and communicate with clinical experts that will participate in the webinars.
  • Draft text updates to the clinical management website to highlight and disseminate the webinars. 

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages.

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

• A first university degree in medicine.

Desirable: 

• Specialty training in Infectious diseases, Internal medicine, Paediatrics, Emergency medicine, Critical Care or other relevant clinical specialty.
• Post graduate degree in public health, research, or related discipline.

Experience

Essential:

• Five years of experience as clinician with Research experience (clinical research and or clinical trials).
• Experience in creating training materials for health workers.  
• Experience in making clinical presentations.

Desirable: 

• International work experience.
• Experience working in disease outbreaks or health emergencies.

Skills

• Demonstrated knowledge of research methods and GRADE, and leading systematic reviews.
• Excellent English writing.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary and cross-cutting environment.
• Excellent organizational skills combined with the ability to multi-task and produce accurate results under pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, diplomacy, tact and discretion, sound judgment and initiative.
• Ability to work under pressure and to clearly articulate and present concepts and procedures to a broad range of audiences

Closing Date: Feb 3, 2023