Jobs at Pan American Health Organization

Provides advanced analysis of routine vaccination and measles surveillance data across the Americas. Develops and validates data-quality methodologies, evaluates surveillance information systems, supports PAHOabc indicators, improves EPI performance-monitoring tools, assists countries with implementation, and prepares regional analyses, reports, visualizations, and communications. The consultant also integrates laboratory, immunization, and surveillance information systems and recommends improvements based on identified system strengths and gaps.

Provides statistical modeling and analytical support for respiratory virus forecasting, nowcasting, excess mortality monitoring, and RSV burden estimation. Maintains analytical scripts, statistical tools, dashboards, and data workflows; evaluates models and uncertainty; analyzes incomplete reporting and hospitalization data; contributes to scientific manuscripts, technical reports, training materials, and country-level implementation. The consultant supports PAHO’s AMoMo mortality monitoring network and regional respiratory virus surveillance activities.

Assess Suriname’s public laboratory network using the WHO Laboratory Assessment Tool and supplementary modules. Conduct facility, equipment, diagnostic capacity, staffing, quality, biosafety, information-management, specimen-referral, and resource assessments. Classify laboratory functional levels, identify and prioritize gaps, develop cost estimates, and produce a two-year National Laboratory Improvement Plan. Facilitate stakeholder consultations, validation sessions, reporting, database handover, and skills transfer to national counterparts.

Lead the strategy, governance, delivery, operations, and continuous improvement of digital products and platforms supporting PAHO Procurement Funds. Responsibilities include managing roadmaps, releases, backlogs, budgets, risks, vendors, service outcomes, platform assessments, cybersecurity, performance monitoring, and stakeholder engagement. The role requires enterprise cloud platform leadership, IT service management, product governance, and oversight of innovation, automation, data, and responsible AI initiatives.

Provides technical and operational support for PAHO’s household air pollution and clean household energy roadmap. Responsibilities include compiling country data, developing prioritization matrices and technical cooperation materials, maintaining implementation trackers, supporting country engagement, monitoring indicators, and preparing reports and forward workplans. The consultant will coordinate with government and international stakeholders and deliver products over a six-month, part-time consultancy.

Coordinates end-to-end talent acquisition, including sourcing, assessment, interviewing, selection, vacancy management, compliance, reporting, and HR systems administration. Advises on recruitment policies, supports workforce planning, analyzes talent acquisition data, improves recruitment processes, and manages internship and contingent workforce programs. Builds relationships with hiring managers, HR partners, academic institutions, and external organizations while supervising and coordinating HR team activities.

Project-based internships supporting PAHO programs: literature reviews, web research, data collection and organization, drafting/editing policy briefs and tools, assisting event organization, and contributing to departmental projects under technical supervision.