Overview
The Health Emergency Data and Information Management Officer will strengthen data information collection by ensuring systematic tracking of data points, enhancing data quality and use, and supporting evidence-based decision-making across preparedness, alert, response, and recovery phases of operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain, update and quality assure regional WHE datasets (M&E indicators and disease-specific datasets), including surveillance, event monitoring, verification, risk assessment, preparedness, response, training, deployment, and monitoring and evaluation data, including monitoring timeliness and completeness of reporting
- Assist in organizing and logging signals/events, maintaining databases and electronic sources for surveillance, and supporting the tracking of verification and risk assessment processes
- Support compilation and timely submission of validated data to WHO global and regional reporting systems.
- Periodically review indicator definitions, inclusion/exclusion criteria, and data collection requirements to ensure feasibility and analytical value.
- Map existing data flows across WHE technical areas and identify opportunities to streamline data collection, aggregation, storage, retrieval, and reporting.
- Develop and apply standard data collection, cleaning, validation, coding, and version-control procedures consistent with WHO data governance standards to improve completeness, consistency, timeliness and accuracy of data.
- Organize and maintain electronic information repositories, including SharePoint sites, dashboards, trackers, and structured folders for WHE data and reporting products.
- Work with WHO business services counterparts and WHE teams to maintain and update WHE dashboards and related analytical products.
- Ensure alignment and interoperability with global and regional systems, including EMT databases and WHO emergency management systems.
- Analyse health emergency and programme data to identify trends, data gaps, reporting delays, progress against baselines, and priority issues requiring follow-up.
- Prepare tables, charts, dashboards, maps and other data visualization products to support surveillance reports, situation reports, technical briefs, data notes, presentations, regional updates, donor reports and management briefings.
- Generate standard monitoring and reporting outputs, including summaries of indicators, activity tracking, country-level updates, and progress against targets.
- Assist and coordinate with WHO Country Offices and WHE technical units to follow up on timely data submissions, resolve discrepancies, and ensure appropriate documentation of data sources and means of verification.
- Provide data management and reporting support to WHE technical units, and WHO Country Offices, including follow-up on data requests and clarification of reporting requirements.
- Promote consistent use of data templates, repositories, dashboards and reporting tools across WHE technical units and WHO Country Offices.
Required Experience
At least 3 years of experience in data and information management including data analysis, quality assurance and the production of visualisations, dashboards and other analytical outputs.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in or equivalent in epidemiology, information technology, health sciences, statistics, applied math, data science, public health or a related discipline that includes a significant quantitative component.
