Consultant - WHO MOSAIC framework

Job Description - Consultant - WHO MOSAIC framework (2500964)

Consultant - WHO MOSAIC framework - (2500964)

Contractual Arrangement: External consultant

Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 11 months

: Mar 11, 2025, 10:09:49 AM

: Mar 25, 2025, 10:59:00 PM

: Anywhere

: HQ/EZD Emerging Diseases & Zoonoses EPP

: Full-time

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that the deadline for receipt of applications indicated above reflects your personal device's system settings.

Purpose of consultancy

To develop and support implementation of WHO’s MOSAIC framework, within the context of a national program being conducted in all federative units.

Background

This mosaic framework demonstrates how surveillance approaches may be implemented as coordinated and collaborative systems, well-matched to specific priority objectives. It helps national stakeholders to identify priority surveillance objectives; identify the surveillance approaches that may be used to meet these objectives; prioritize required enhancements of existing surveillance; develop implementation plans appropriate to national context; and prioritize and align technical assistance and financial investments from partners. This framework will also help national authorities extend partnerships for surveillance and collaborative analyses of data across partners and sectors. Doing so will improve data for decision-making during interpandemic periods and to help ensure that surveillance is both timely and scalable in emergencies. One of WHO member states will be implementing various initiatives to strengthen national capacities for surveillance of epidemic prone diseases and piloting the adaptation of the MOSAIC framework to arboviuses, including a joint initiative with the three levels of the health system working together on detection, monitoring and intervention evaluation.

Deliverables

• Deliverable 1: Report on the National Meeting to strengthen disease surveillance within the framework of the MOSAIC national plan.

Expected by: End of the 2nd month.

• Deliverable 2: Report detailing the materials and support tools developed for subnational workshops aimed at improving surveillance using the MOSAIC methodology.

Expected by: End of the 3rd month.

• Deliverable 3: Report on the implementation of the national plan to enhance surveillance, guided by the MOSAIC methodology.

Expected by: End of the 5th month.

• Deliverable 4: Report assessing the performance and participation of workshop participants involved in strengthening surveillance under the MOSAIC methodology.

Expected by: End of the 7th month.

• Deliverable 5: Summary report of the evaluations from subnational workshops and the implementation of action plans to improve surveillance in at least three (3) Federative Units.

Expected by: End of the 9th month.

• Deliverable 6: Report on the national strategy for wastewater surveillance aimed at infectious diseases in the country level including Zika virus.

Expected by: End of the 11th month

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

• First university degree in nursing, medicine or public health

Desirable:

• Advanced university degree (master's level) in public health, tropical medicine, epidemiology, or a related field

Experience

Essential:

• A minimum of five years of relevant work experience in the management and/or coordination of public health areas in institutions at municipal, state, and federal levels, with a focus on the implementation of health policies and programs and responses to public health emergencies.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams and in adapting national strategies to local realities.
• Experience in carrying out timely and accurate risk analyses during the response to complex emergencies, contributing to strategic decision-making.

Desirable:

• Experience in cooperation between different levels of government, ensuring the efficiency of integrated responses.
• Experience in the improvement of the surveillance of high threat pathogens at the federal, state, and municipal levels.

Skills/Knowledge:

Essential:

• Ability to organize and implement response actions in the different levels of the organization
• Expertise in coordinating response actions between epidemiological surveillance and health service organization.
• Ability to conduct timely and accurate risk analyses during complex emergency responses, supporting strategic decision-making processes.
• Excellence in oral and written communication, including the development of reports, technical documents, and presentations.
• Exceptional writing and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly, concisely, and effectively to diverse audiences.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including the ability to collaborate harmoniously within a team and interact diplomatically with national counterparts, demonstrating tact, patience, and courtesy.

Desirable:

• Ability to maintain a positive and flexible problem-solving approach with a can-do attitude.
• Commitment to implementing the goal of gender equality by ensuring the equal participation and full involvement of women and men in all aspects of work.

Languages required:

Essential:

• Expert knowledge of English

Desirable:

• Expert knowledge of another WHO official language

Location

Off-site: Home based.

Travel

The consultant is expected to travel.

Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded):

Remuneration:

Band level A: USD3,955 - 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 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.
• For information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int.
• WHO is committed to workforce diversity.
• 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 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