Information Management & Risk Assessment

The mission of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme (The Programme) is to help countries, and to coordinate international action, to prevent, prepare for, detect, rapidly respond to, and recover from outbreaks and emergencies.

Duties:

• Support the timely and high-quality collection, analyses, production and dissemination of data/information. This includes response specific information (what, where, who, how many, how quickly, current status), internal and external situation reports (SitReps), epidemic bulletins, rapid needs assessments, health risk assessments, and the Public Health Situation Analysis; and health inputs into humanitarian needs overviews (HNO), and strategic response plans (SRP).
• Contribute information to the drafting of all relevant planning documents including project proposals, appeals, reports, dashboards, etc.
• Aggregate and maintain inter-country information from WHO and partners including contact lists, performance monitoring, health indicator data, health situation data, health response data4. Perform basic geographic analysis for maps and other reports (such as dashboards, SitReps, etc).
• Support the Health Cluster IMO in (or undertake, if no HC IMO present) inter-agency initiatives, particularly with OCHA, related to information management, seeking to improve information sharing between institutions, to strengthen access to information from other organizations and clusters, and to contribute to inter-sectoral dashboards and reports
• Design field epidemiological surveys if/where needed, such as mortality and vaccination coverage surveys
• Provide ongoing technical guidance and training, to the team members and partners involved in the planning and data/information management process; on data gathering and analysis, quality assurance, performance monitoring, information dissemination and management.
• Perform any other related duties, as required by the functional supervisor.

Education

Essential:

• First university degree in information or data management, computer sciences, statistics, applied math, public health, or a related field, complemented by training in information management from an accredited/recognized institute.

Experience

Essential:

• At least 5 years of related experience in information management, monitoring, needs assessment, project management, data management and information dissemination in the public health sector or health development sector, part of which in emergency management or humanitarian context. Experience in developing and promoting collaborative partnerships.

Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to design, manage and analyze complex information system projects, computer-based applications and databases, web-based tools. High level of analytical skills. Knowledge of programme management and functioning of WHO and the UN system is an asset.

Language Skills:

Essential:

• Expert knowledge of English.

Source: https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2500008