Roster of consultants – Data Analyst at World Health Organization

Purpose of consultancy

To establish a roster of consultants to contribute to the development and implementation of the tools/initiatives of the evidence and analytics for health security (EHS) unit, Health Security Preparedness department of the World Health Organization (WHO), in close collaboration with other units/teams and offices of WHO.  

With a focus on health analytics and evidence application for health security preparedness, the consultant will work in the following area:

• Evidence generation on outcomes and impacts of health security preparedness through data analytics.

Deliverables

The Consultant is expected to perform the following tasks: 

• Deliverables: Data analyses related to health security preparedness:
  • Provide technical expertise/guidance to EHS unit by identifying, collecting and consolidating data related to health security preparedness.
  • Develop strategies, tools and methodologies for quantitative and qualitative analysis, using health and non-health data sets and big data for health security and emergency preparedness to generate and publish analytical reports.
  • Contribute to the implementation of dynamic preparedness metric by providng feedback, data support and technical advice.
  • Conduct outcome and impact analysis of preparedness capacity.
  • Develop and disseminate training package on analytics, modelling and/or forecasting to help contribute to countries, WHO offices and partner organizations.
  • Develop reports and presentations - Country Profiles, Regional Profiles, EB and WHA, GPMB and other relevant dashboards and reports.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications:

• Advanced university degree in public health, epidemiology, health system and health policy, statistics, computer science, health economics, and health-related sciences or a related field.

Desirable: 

• Training in emergency/disaster preparedness and response, or epidemiology. 

Experience:

Essential: 

• At least five years of relevant experience with applied data analysis and evidence generation with an international development organization, academic institution, or private sector.
• Demonstrable work experience of increasing involvement and responsibility with data analytics.

Desirable: 

• Experience working with UN systems or international organizations or in multi-cultural/national teams.

Skills/Knowledge:

Essential:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and sensitivity to a political and cultural issue.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to write clearly and concisely in English.
• Expertise in writing code for Stata, SAS, XLSTAT, Matlab, or R. 
• Solid understanding of relational databases, in particular modern databases.

Desirable:

• Demonstrated knowledge of health security and IHR (2005) in particular, complemented by skills in epidemiology, health emergency preparedness and response and health system assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, scientific writing in a public health emergency and/or disaster context. 

Closing Date: Jul 4, 2022