Jobs at Pan American Health Organization

Provides regional technical cooperation to strengthen quality control laboratories for medicines, vaccines, and other health technologies. Supports WHO GBT assessments, regulatory maturity improvements, Institutional Development Plans, laboratory quality systems, reliance frameworks, training resources, technical working groups, laboratory networks, and international partnerships. The consultant also conducts technical assistance and missions, develops guidance and procedures, supports regulatory functions such as market surveillance and lot release, and reports on donor-funded program activities.

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.

Provides technical leadership for immunization information systems across the Americas. Responsibilities include improving immunization data collection, validation, analysis, governance, reporting, digital registries, vaccination certificates, equity analysis, and program monitoring. The role advises Member States, develops standardized methodologies and capacity-building initiatives, prepares technical reports and research products, supports evaluations, and coordinates with health ministries and international partners.

Delivers hands-on Microsoft Power Platform solutions, including Power Automate flows, Power Apps, Dataverse, integrations, reporting, and AI-enabled Copilot Studio workflows. Responsibilities include requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing, deployment, production support, governance, security, ALM, monitoring, documentation, reporting, and knowledge transfer. The consultant must apply responsible AI controls, maintain solution and benefits registers, manage capacity and licensing, and ensure production readiness and sustainable support.

Operate and administer PAHO’s Microsoft Fabric data and analytics platform, including capacities, workspaces, pipelines, lakehouses, warehouses, semantic models, security, integrations, and support. Build data engineering solutions, optimize performance and costs, establish architecture and governance standards, maintain documentation, and create an evolution roadmap. Assess and pilot AI-enabled analytics while applying responsible AI and data protection controls. Coordinate stakeholders, manage a technical backlog, provide knowledge transfer, and submit monthly operational and performance reports.

Deliver hands-on Workday reporting and integration solutions across HCM and Financial Management. Build and optimize reports, calculated fields, dashboards, EIBs, connectors, RaaS, and web services; troubleshoot failures; manage releases, testing, security requirements, documentation, and data reconciliation. The consultant will maintain the report catalogue, rationalize reports, coordinate with business teams, Workday Security, and AMS partners, provide first-line support, and transfer knowledge to PAHO staff.

Provides strategic and technical leadership for communicable disease prevention, surveillance, control, and elimination programs in Suriname. Advises health authorities, analyzes epidemiological and surveillance data, supports outbreak preparedness and response, strengthens health services and information systems, and coordinates multisectoral partnerships. The role covers malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis, antimicrobial resistance, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, neglected diseases, One Health, climate-sensitive health risks, and International Health Regulations implementation.

Leads regional efforts to address air pollution and its health impacts across the Americas. Provides technical leadership, policy guidance, and technical cooperation to Member States; develops air-quality and environmental-health strategies, standards, and programs; analyzes and disseminates scientific evidence; builds partnerships with institutions and experts; mobilizes resources; and integrates air-quality priorities into climate-change and sustainable-development agendas.

Lead regional cooperation to strengthen pharmaceutical regulatory systems using WHO benchmarking, harmonization initiatives, and capacity building. Provide technical guidance, policy advice, resource mobilization, partnership building, and program management to improve medicines quality, safety, and access across Member States.

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.