Consultant – Immunization Data Analysis

Purpose of consultancy

To provide technical expertise to the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), Immunization Analysis and Insights (IAI) Unit to collect, consolidate, validate, manage and analyze immunization data from different sources.

Background

The WHO IVB IAI Unit is responsible for collecting, harmonizing, managing and disseminating data on immunization. This allows the IAI Unit to fulfill WHO’s mandate to:

• Monitor immunization programme performance and vaccine preventable diseases surveillance.
• Track progress towards global and regional immunization indicators.
• Monitor progress towards the Immunization-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Guide global and regional immunization strategies.

Deliverables

• Perform data collection cleaning, and preprocessing:
  • Review, validate and analyze collected data.
  • Establish automatized data cleaning and review processes.
• Build and maintain data pipelines, develop and implement data models and algorithms.
• Develop detailed documentation of data flows and data processing, including metadata.
• Perform data analysis for global meetings working groups reports as follows:
  • Contribute to the analyses and the refinement/development of indicators for the global and regional IA2030 M&E frameworks.
  • Provide analysis for inputs to global immunization related reports and publications, WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) meetings, WHO’s Executive Board and the World Health Assembly.
• Produce data visuals using various tools, including WHO corporate ones and contribute to the dissemination of the data and analyses performed.
• Deliverable 1: Automatized ingestion of data sets in WIISE Mart, including data modeling and pipeline creation.
• Deliverable 2: Developed views using SQL language to expose the data for its dissemination in various repositories through API connections.
• Deliverable 3: Produce data analyses for IVB global meetings, working groups and reports.
• Deliverable 4: Produce data visuals, graphs and maps.
• Deliverable 5: Provide detailed documentation of all processes for the management and visualization of immunization data.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

• First-level university degree in health or data sciences, statistics, epidemiology, or another related field.

Experience:

Essential:

• At least 2 years of professional experience in data management, data mining, analysis and data visualization.

Desirable:

• Experience of WHO operations from within the organization and/or as a partner.
• Experience working with XMart.

Skills:

• Proven expertise in data analysis.
• Demonstrated effective working relations with multi-disciplinary and multicultural teams.
• Excellent command in SQL language, Power BI or other visualisation tool, and statistical software (i.e. “R”).
• Knowledge of vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization information systems.

Languages required:

Essential:

Expert knowledge of English.

Desirable:

Expert knowledge of another UN language.

Location

Off site: Home-based.

Travel

The consultant is expected to travel.

Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded):

Remuneration:

Band level A – USD 3,955 – 6,980 per month.

Living expenses (A living expense is payable to on-site consultants who are internationally recruited):

N/A

Expected duration of contract:

11 months. Additional contracts may be offered based on funding availability and satisfactory performance.

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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• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.
• Applications from women and from nationals of non and underrepresented Member States are particularly encouraged.
• WHO prides itself on a workforce that adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards and that is committed to put the WHO Values Charter into practice.
• WHO has zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct (i.e., discrimination, abuse of authority and harassment). All members of the WHO workforce have a role to play in promoting a safe and respectful workplace and should report to WHO any actual or suspected cases of SEA, sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct. To ensure that individuals with a substantiated history of SEA, sexual harassment or other types of abusive conduct are not hired by the Organization, WHO will conduct a background verification of final candidates.
• Consultants shall perform the work as independent contractors in a personal capacity, and not as a representative of any entity or authority. The execution of the work under a consultant contract does not create an employer/employee relationship between WHO and the Consultant.
• WHO shall have no responsibility whatsoever for any taxes, duties, social security contributions or other contributions payable by the Consultant. The Consultant shall be solely responsible for withholding and paying any taxes, duties, social security contributions and any other contributions which are applicable to the Consultant in each location/jurisdiction in which the work hereunder is performed, and the Consultant shall not be entitled to any reimbursement thereof by WHO.
• Consultants working in Switzerland must register with the applicable Swiss cantonal tax authorities and social security authorities, within the prescribed timeframes (Guidelines issued by the Swiss Mission are available at: https://www.eda.admin.ch/missions/mission-onu-geneve/en/home/manual-regime-privileges-and-immunities/introduction/Manuel-personnes-sans-privileges-et-immunites-carte-H/Non fonctionnaires et stagiaires.html