Health Information Management & Risk Assessment

The mission of the WHO 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:

• Lead the team and be responsible for overseeing the work of the Information Management unit and/or coordinate the work of Information Management assets located throughout disparate units.
• Manage the timely and high-quality collection, analysis, 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), 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).
• Lead the development of project documentation based on the overall strategy and plan, for use by the emergency leadership to mobilize resources.
• Continually adapt planning and project documents based on available information and revolving emergency situation, as required; this includes planning and management of human and material resources, expenditure, status of interventions and partner activities, progress towards achieving objectives, etc.
• Develop and improve field information management procedures at the local and regional levels to ensure that information management in the field provides the best possible functionality and usability to stakeholders.
• Ensure inter-cluster communication and information sharing.
• Oversee and design field epidemiological surveys if/where needed, such as mortality and vaccination coverage surveys, with support from epidemiologists as needed.
• Build the capacity of team members and partners involved in the planning and data/information management process; provide ongoing technical guidance and training on data gathering and analysis, quality assurance, performance monitoring, information dissemination and management.

Required Qualifications:

Education

Essential:

• Master’s level in Information Management, Public Health, or Epidemiology; Business or Public Administration, complemented by training in information management from an accredited/recognized institute

Experience:

Essential:

• At least 7 years of related experience with proven international exposure 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 in leadership positions. Experience in developing and promoting collaborative partnerships.

Skills:

• Demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills, negotiation skills.
• Advanced ability to design, manage, analyze and coordinate 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=2402676