[Hiring] Neglected Tropical Diseases (NID) @Pan American Health Organization

Role Description This requisition is for a consultancy at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO). The consultant will support the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NID) team within the CDE/VT Unit in providing technical cooperation to Member States for the prevention, control, elimination, and post-elimination sustainability of priority neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the Region of the Americas, in alignment with PAHO/WHO policies, regional and global strategies, WHO NTD road map, and the 2030 PAHO elimination agenda.

• Provide technical support to Member States on prevention, control, elimination, and post-elimination surveillance of priority NTDs.
• Support the planning and implementation of integrated NTD interventions, including preventive chemotherapy, case management, MMDP, and cross-cutting approaches.
• Contribute to surveillance activities, including data collection, validation, analysis, and interpretation for program monitoring and decision-making.
• Support monitoring and evaluation of NTD programs and progress toward national, regional, and global targets.
• Coordinate with PAHO country offices, technical units, and national counterparts to align activities with country priorities.
• Promote interprogrammatic collaboration, including linkages with WASH, environmental health, gender, intercultural approaches, and primary health care.
• Prepare technical reports, summaries, and briefing materials documenting activities, results, challenges, and recommendations.
• Support the development of technical and communication products, such as country profiles, presentations, and knowledge-sharing materials.
• Facilitate coordination with partners and stakeholders, including WHO Collaborating Centers, NGOs, academic institutions, and donors.
• Contribute to planning and documentation processes, including workplans, program reviews, and technical dossiers, as applicable.

Qualifications

• Essential: Bachelor’s degree in health science related to the functions of the post.
• Desirable: Master’s degree in communicable diseases, public health, epidemiology, or related field.

Requirements

• Essential: At least seven (7) years of national and/or international experience in public health, epidemiology, or communicable disease programs, including implementation of public health projects.
• Desirable: Experience working on NTD programs, such as lymphatic filariasis, leprosy, trachoma, STH, Chagas disease, schistosomiasis, leprosy, fascioliasis, among others NTDs particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Theoretical and programmatic expertise in neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and communicable disease prevention, control, and elimination.
• Strong technical knowledge of public health strategies for NTD programs, adaptable to different disease contexts and implementation approaches.
• Familiarity with integrated and crosscutting NTD programming, including multisectoral and health system-based interventions.
• Strong managerial, planning and project monitoring and execution skills, including operational aspects of prevention, control, and elimination programs such as transmission assessment surveys and sentinel surveillance methods.
• Strong professional oral and writing skills, including the development of systematic reviews, articles to be submitted for peer-review, funding proposals, reports, oral presentations, and technical/persuasive documents for consideration at the highest levels of the Organization.
• Very good command in English and Spanish. Working knowledge of the other NU official languages (French and/or Portuguese) will be an asset.

Benefits

• This vacancy notice may be used to identify candidates for other similar consultancies at the same level.
• Successful candidates will be placed on the roster and subsequently may be selected for consultancy assignments falling in this area of work or for similar requirements/tasks/deliverables.
• Inclusion in the Roster does not guarantee selection for a consultant contract.
• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.
• All applicants are required to complete an on-line profile to be considered for this consultancy.
• A written test may be used as a form of screening.

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