Junior Consultant, World Health Organization
Category : Alumni
Purpose of Position
To provide technical and project management support for Vaccine Impact Estimates for IA2030 analysis, within the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) Immunization Analysis and Insights (IAI).
Background
Reduction in child mortality continues to be a major goal for global health investment and strategies. Decisions regarding specific global priority investments are increasingly based on quantitative analysis of benefits. In particular, it is critical to update the modelled health impact estimate and document the methodology in a transparent manner for the coming decade to inform strategic priorities for IA2030 and the Triple Billion targets for GPW13. To this end, WHO IVB and DDI will collaborate with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium (VIMC), Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and other partner institutions to generate global and regional estimates of lives saved due to vaccination based on transparent methodologies.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide technical and project management support to generate modelled estimates of lives saved due to vaccination for 194 WHO Member States by January 2021
- Produce a progress report to the stakeholder committee and presentation of final results (a slide deck, draft manuscript and database)
- Weekly calls with the WHO focal points to discuss progress
- Periodic meetings with the stakeholder committee and partners
- Provide technical and project management support for the analytics lead
- Conduct scoping exercises for data sources, VIMC model outputs and available models for pathogens that are not within the scope of VIMC
- Collate all available information and perform constructions of datasets and data management and cleaning
- Assist with data analysis and preparation of progress reports and final deliverables
- Perform other duties and tasks as assigned
Requirements
- Master’s degree in [statistics, data science, demography, epidemiology, public health]
- Minimum 2 years of professional experience in quantitative data analysis
- Experience of working in the field of immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases desired
- Demonstrated experience in quantitative data analysis
- Highly organized and strong project management skills
- Ability to prioritize and work under pressure and to deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills in English
Application Process
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- Qualified applicants should submit their CV along with a cover letter, in English, by 15 August 2020 to So Yoon Sim at email: sims [at] who [dot] int.
- Applications received after this date will not be accepted.
- In the email subject line, please put “Consultancy to provide technical and project management support for Vaccine Impact Estimates for IA2030 analysis”.
- Only successful candidates will be contacted. CVs received from this posting may be used to fill other current and future openings requiring a similar skill set.
