🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ World Health Organization (WHO) – 2 Positions

World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) GIS Specialist
2.) State Data Assistant (Roster)

Job Title: GIS Specialist

Location: Kastina
Employment Type: Contract
Contractual Arrangement: Special Services Agreement (SSA)
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 6 Months
Schedule: Full Time
Grade: G7

Job Description

• In the context of the WHO Health Emergencies Incident Management System (IMS), at the EOC state level, the incumbent will be responsible for managing GIS systems, collect, analyse, update, and maintain geospatial datasets pertaining to the emergency incident, coordinate field data collection, create maps and other cartographic products, as required; to enable team leads within the incident management system and health cluster partners to take strategic decisions

Main Objective Of Assignment

• The mission of WHO's PEP Programme (The Programme) is to build the capacity of Member States to manage health emergency risks and, when national / state capacities are overwhelmed, to lead and coordinate the SIAs / OBRs response to contain outbreaks and to provide effective relief and recovery to affected populations.

Specific Tasks
The incumbent is expected to support the state EOC GIS / data management in the following specific tasks:

• Reporting to the Information Management Team Lead, under the overall guidance of the Incident Manager and the Head, WHO Country Office, and working closely with counterparts at the respective Zonal office and WCO, the incumbent will have front line responsibility for the GIS activities at the SEOC level. He/she will collect, analyse, update, and maintain geospatial datasets pertaining to the surveillance / SIAs / OBRs, ensuring their reliability and accuracy.
• The Incumbent Will Build And Maintain a Library Of Geospatial Data Including Incident Specific Datasets And Base Data. S/he Will Have Ongoing Contacts With LGA / State / Zone / WCO
• Provide technical support to the incident management team in developing effective tools and processes to collect, manage and combine spatial datasets.
• Conduct geospatial analysis on collected datasets; create maps, infographics, and other cartographic products on a regular and ad-hoc basis; in response to functional team leads' technical needs.
• Standardize and clean geospatial datasets and associated attributes across incident management system specific datasets.
• Lead field data collection efforts as necessary using different data collection techniques such as mobile data collection devices and applications.
• Provide inputs in developing the tools for loading/transferring GIS data between different systems; design and maintain the structures necessary for GIS data storage.
• Manipulate presentation of geographical information by creating programs to convert GIS information from one format to another.
• Adapt tools to join together different GIS datasets and create new information or investigate patterns, e.g. estimating the number of people affected by any event, etc.Perform any other related incident specific duties, as required by the functional supervisor.
• Ensure availability of quality, timely, and complete information that guides the Polio Eradication program in the EOC.
• Conduct all round data analysis of the polio related data sets including some GIS analysis
• Track, Collate and clean all vaccination conducted in insecure settlements by either SIAs (OBRs, NIPDs, SNIPDs) as well as RES strategy
• Create and secure back-up copies of data in the state EOC, especially as relate to GIS datasets.
• Perform other activities as required by the EOC Incidence Manager.

Qualifications & Experience
Education:

• Essential: Diploma in Computer Science, Statistics, Monitoring & Evaluation, or data management related science field with additional data management training.

Experience:

• Essential: At least 3 years’ experience in health-related data management. Experience in data collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of health information for program planning and management.
• Desirable:Working knowledge of statistical application programs (EPI INFO, SPSS, STATA etc.) and mapping programs (QGIS, ArcGIS, Healthmapper etc)

Use of language skills:

• Essential: Proficiency in English Language

Application Closing Date
23rd May, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: State Data Assistant (Roster)

Location: Abuja
Contractual Arrangement: Special Services Agreement (SSA)
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 6 Months

Purpose of the Position

• The objective of the post is to support the WHO data management activities at zonal level and provide evidence driven information for actions aimed at supporting the state to (a) ensure availability of quality, timely, and complete information that guides the surveillance and immunization program  (b) monitor achievement of recommended surveillance performance indicators for Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP), other Vaccine Preventable Diseases as well as other diseases of public health priority as highlighted in Nigeria's Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy. c) provide evidences through the timely utilization of different data available and guide the program

Description of Duties
Under the overall guidance of the WHO country office representative and over all supervision of IVE focal point and guidance of the  state coordinator the  State Data Assistant will carry out the following specific task:

• Capture, maintain and up-date databases pertaining to each programmatic area in EPI/PEI at state level including SIAs, RI, and surveillance data.
• Maintain and ensure that the hard copy filing of disease CIFs are up to date with lab results within the state offices
• Support the LGA Facilitators to make LGA level entries to the data tools provided from Zonal and National levels
• Assist state coordinator with data presentations, analysis, and interpretation.  Prepare reports and disseminate as required to relevant levels
• Ensure all disease line lists are up-to date . Copies shared with zones in timely manner
• Provide all round technical data management support during IPDs including pre, intra, and post campaign data management.
• Provide technical support in the administration of ODK checklist and use of ODK.
• Maintain records of all hard copies of documents forwarded to WCO
• Create and secure back-up copies of data in the state.
• Provide all round data management support to the state
• Perform other activities as required by the State Coordinator

Required Qualifications
Essential:

• Diploma in Computer Science, Statistics, Monitoring & Evaluation or Data Management related field with additional data management training.

Essential:

• At least 3 years experience in health related data management.
• Experience in data collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of health information for program planning and management.

Desirable:

• Working knowledge of statistical application programs (EPI INFO, SPSS, STATA etc.) and mapping programs (QGIS, ArcGIS, Healthmapper etc)

Use of Language Skills:

• Essential: Proficiency in English Language

Specific Skills Required:

• Basic knowledge of ICT, mobile and web - based data technology
• Ability to acquire sound knowledge of WHO rules, regulations and procedures.  Demonstrated abilities for team-work.
• Ability to establish and maintain good relations with people at various levels and of different background.

Application Closing Date
21st May, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online