Grade : No grade
Contractual Arrangement : External consultant
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days) : 11 months
Job Posting : Jun 8, 2022, 10:08:26 AM
Closing Date : Jun 15, 2022, 4:59:00 PM
Primary Location : Egypt-Cairo
Organization : EM/WHE WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE)
Schedule : Full-time
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* Purpose of the Consultancy
To provide technical lifesaving support to the Health Information Management
team to enhance the quality of information products for prioritization,
coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of the revised humanitarian response
plan.
* Background
The WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) is mandated to enhance WHO's
capacity for the rapid detection, assessment and follow up of all public
health risks. This provides the opportunity to establish a framework that
facilitates the implementation of a common approach to epidemic intelligence
and public health event management across all levels of the organization.
Please be advised that the Syrian crises and the massive population movement
with millions of people displaced, coupled with the presence of millions of
Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, who require
humanitarian assistance, have put an additional burden on already weak and
disrupted health systems reporting critical shortages of essential medicines,
vaccines, supplies and medical personnel.
While significant progress has been made in some areas of the emergency
response, information management to permit a continuous analysis of the
situation and monitoring of health response remains a challenge.
The consultancy being considered is critical for the Whole-of-Syria approach
and will help to promptly assess the health needs of populations affected by
crises; identify main causes of ill-health & death; prepare damage estimates &
emergency response and rehabilitation plans; provide prompt and credible
health information; ensure that critical health response gaps are rapidly
identified; and monitor emergency health response efforts under the aegis of
the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Health Cluster, of which WHO is the lead
agency.
The WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) is mandated to enhance WHO's
capacity for the rapid detection, assessment and follow up of all public
health risks. This provides the opportunity to establish a framework that
facilitates the implementation of a common approach to epidemic intelligence
and public health event management across all levels of the organization.
Please be advised that the Syrian crises and the massive population movement
with millions of people displaced, coupled with the presence of millions of
Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, who require
humanitarian assistance, have put an additional burden on already weak and
disrupted health systems reporting critical shortages of essential medicines,
vaccines, supplies and medical personnel.
While significant progress has been made in some areas of the emergency
response, information management to permit a continuous analysis of the
situation and monitoring of health response remains a challenge.
The consultancy being considered is critical for the Whole-of-Syria approach
and will help to promptly assess the health needs of populations affected by
crises; identify main causes of ill-health & death; prepare damage estimates &
emergency response and rehabilitation plans; provide prompt and credible
health information; ensure that critical health response gaps are rapidly
identified; and monitor emergency health response efforts under the aegis of
the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Health Cluster, of which WHO is the lead
agency.
Start date: 18/07/2022
End date: 17/06/2023
Deliverables
1. Technically contribute to the roll out of Public Health Information
Services (PHIS).
2. Assess available health resources and services for primary and secondary
healthcare using relevant tools such as Health Resource Availability Mapping
System (He RAMS).
3. Rollout and monitor the standard multi sectorial rapid assessment tools
developed by sector/cluster lead agencies for implementation within the health
cluster.
4. Guide the health cluster agencies to gather data and monitor selection of
indicators to demonstrate progress. This is in line with the revised
humanitarian action plan.
5. Provide technical advice to implementation, assessment, and evaluation for
the WHO Country Office on the proposed solutions for sustainable and efficient
reporting processes (i.e. designing emergency health information systems based
on needs analysis).
6. develop reliable data management processes including standardization of
data format, sustainable structure of data collection, validation, analysis
and dissemination of results.
The selected consultant will work under the supervision of:
Responsible Officer:
Dr. Abdihamid AHMED, WoS Health Sector Coordinator ; [email protected]
Manager:
Dr. Kamil Mohamed, WHE EMO Manager ; [email protected]
Specific requirements
* Qualifications required:
Education Minimum first university degree for lower end of range, an
advanced university degree for mid and high end of range in information or
data management, computer sciences, statistics, applied math or public health,
complemented by training in databases development and/or management from an
accredited/recognized institute.
Desirable Specialization in information management systems. Specific
training in humanitarian response or emergency information management.
* Experience required:
* Essential : five to 10 years' relevant experience combined at the national and international levels in data and/or information management, including experience in emergency operations or humanitarian context.
Desirable : Prior emergency disaster and health outbreak response or
humanitarian working experience at field level, with WHO/UN agencies, health
cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or with an
international nongovernmental organization.
* Skills / Technical skills and knowledge:
1) Demonstrated knowledge of information management and monitoring systems as
related to emergency response and relief operations. 2) Demonstrated knowledge
of health information systems with ability to identify and manage difficult
situations. 3) Proven skills in the field of statistical data collection,
assessment, analysis and monitoring in a public health context. 4) Advance
ability to design, manage, analyze and coordinate complex information system
projects, computer-based applications and databases, web-based tools 5)
Experience in transferring knowledge to diverse audiences through training,
mentoring, workshop. 6) Experience in establishing clear workflows for data
collection, data input oversight, multi-variate data analysis and
dissemination of mapping tools. 7) Proven skills in the assessment,
monitoring, analysis and evaluation of emergency health situations.
8) Knowledge of programme management and functioning of WHO and the UN system
is an asset. 9) Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and
in writing.
* Language requirements:
* Essential : Excellent knowledge of English Desirable : Intermediate knowledge of Arabic.
OTHER SKILLS
1) Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
2) Working knowledge of online data collection applications, statistical
analysis packages (Stata, SPSS, etc).
3) Good knowledge of database and Geographic Information System programmes
(e.g., ArcView)
4) Understanding of data and information needs for programme management and
decision making and experience with development and roll out of data
management tools in support of the humanitarian coordination activities of the
Health Cluster;
* Place of assignment
Amman, Jordan
Travel to other countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region may also be
possible.
* Medical clearance
The selected Consultant will be expected to provide a medical certificate of
fitness for work.
9. Travel
The Consultant is expected to travel. Destination and duration of travel will
be identified through the progress work identified in countries
All travel arrangements will be made by WHO - WHO will not be
responsible for tickets purchased by the Consultant without the express, prior
authorization of WHO. While on mission under the terms of this consultancy,
the Consultant will receive subsistence allowance .
Visas requirements: it is the consultant 's responsibility to fulfil visa
requirements and ask for visa support letter(s) if needed.
Additional information:
* This vacancy notice may be used to identify candidates for other similar consultancies at the same level.
* Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.
* A written test may be used as a form of screening.
* If your candidature is retained for interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.
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