Knowledge Management and Reporting Officer

Contract

This is a P-2 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 2 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 103,732 USD and 140,894 USD.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

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.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

Within the context of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, the incumbent will support the development and implementation of knowledge management activities for the collation, tracking and analysis of relevant public health intelligence information, as well as reporting related to WHE programme activities, at the country and regional level.Specifically:1. Support the collection, analyses, production and dissemination of data/information. This includes supporting response-specific information (what, where, who, how many, how quickly, current status of events), internal and external situation reports (SitReps), epidemic bulletins, rapid needs assessments for acute events, health risk assessments, and the Public Health Situation Analysis; and health inputs into humanitarian needs overviews (HNO), and strategic response plans (SRP).2. Aggregate and maintain inter-country and country information from WHO and partners including contact lists, performance monitoring, health indicator data, health situation data, health response data.3. Participate in the basic data visualization and geographic analysis for maps and other reports (such as dashboards, SitReps, programmatic reporting etc).4. Upon delegation provide information sharing between institutions, to strengthen access to information from other organizations and clusters, and to contribute to inter-sectoral dashboards and reports.5. Provide information management input into the planning and data/information management process; on data gathering and analysis, quality assurance, performance monitoring, information dissemination and management.6. Conduct the standardization of reliable data management processes of data formatting, sustainable structure of data collection, validation, analysis and eventually results dissemination.7. Generates routine narrative and analytical reports as required, based on the existing databases.8. Performs all other related duties as assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: First level university degree in a life sciences or health-related field, or a related field. Desirable: Graduate level degree in public health or related field. Specialization in information management systems, statistics or related field. Specific training in humanitarian response or emergency information management.

Experience

Essential: At least two years of related experience in public health, information management, monitoring, and data analysis. Desirable: Relevant work experience in WHO, other UN agencies; experience working in relevant nongovernmental or humanitarian organizations.

Skills

Sound skills in the area of public health, information management, data analysis, and statistics. 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.

WHO Competencies

Teamwork Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences Communication Knowing and managing yourself Producing results

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English. Desirable: Intermediate knowledge of WHO official lang..

REMUNERATION

WHO salaries for staff in the Professional category are calculated in US dollars. The remuneration for the above position comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 48,805 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable), a variable post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station, and currently amounts to USD 2741 per month for the duty station indicated above. Other benefits include 30 days of annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave, and an education grant for dependent children.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level

• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

• A written test may be used as a form of screening.

• In the event that your candidature is retained for an 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.

• Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and Manual.

• Staff members in other duty stations are encouraged to apply.

• For information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int.

• WHO is committed to workforce diversity.

• WHO's workforce adheres to the WHO Values Charter and is committed to put the WHO Values into practice.

• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.

• WHO has a mobility policy which can be found at the following link: http://www.who.int/employment/en/. Candidates appointed to an international post with WHO are subject to mobility and may be assigned to any activity or duty station of the Organization throughout the world.

• Applications from women and from nationals of non and underrepresented Member States are particularly encouraged.

• *For WHO General Service staff who do not meet the minimum educational qualifications, please see e-Manual III.4.1, para 220.