[Hiring] Consultant - Expert in CRVS Health Information @Pan American Health Organization

Role Description

The purpose of this consultancy is to collaborate in the production, quality, analysis, and dissemination of annual core health indicators based on civil registration and vital statistics. Within this context, PAHO seeks to establish a roster of experts who may provide specialized technical support in health indicators, health statistics, population health monitoring, data quality, civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS), data analysis, and related areas.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the assessment and prioritization of health information and indicator needs, including review of existing indicator frameworks, national and international reporting requirements, policy priorities, data availability, reporting burden, and opportunities for harmonization and rationalization of indicator sets.
• Assess the availability, completeness, timeliness, consistency, validity, and comparability of data used to produce health indicators, including data derived from CRVS, routine health information systems, disease surveillance systems, administrative records, population estimates, and other relevant national and international sources.
• Contribute to data-quality assessments of health indicators and underlying data sources at national and subnational levels, identifying methodological, statistical, operational, and reporting issues and proposing feasible priority actions for improvement.
• Support the development and application of methodologies for assessing completeness and quality of vital statistics, including birth and death registration, cause-of-death information, under-registration, ill-defined causes, and other relevant measures of CRVS performance and data quality.
• Analyze Core Health Indicators and related health statistics to identify trends, inequalities, geographic patterns, data-quality issues, unusual changes, and other findings relevant to population health monitoring and public health decision-making.
• Contribute to the design, review, adaptation, or technical validation of guidance, frameworks, standard operating procedures (SOPs), glossaries, technical specifications, methodological manuals, data dictionaries, validation rules, checklists, templates, and other technical documentation supporting standardized health indicator production, management, reporting, and dissemination.
• Assist in the development and implementation of monitoring frameworks for routinely assessing health data and indicator performance, including the definition of quality criteria, monitoring measures, review mechanisms, and processes for using assessment findings to guide improvements.
• Provide analytical reports, data-quality status reports, country profiles, regional profiles, technical briefs, methodological reports, presentations, and other products that synthesize indicator findings, trends, inequalities, methodological considerations, data limitations, and priority areas for action.
• Develop communication and visualization products supporting the dissemination and use of Core Health Indicators, including charts, dashboards, infographics, country profiles, comparative analyses, interactive visualizations, and other products tailored to technical, policy, and general audiences.
• Support in technical consultations, expert working groups, regional and country meetings, workshops, webinars, and capacity-building activities related to health indicators, health statistics, data quality, CRVS, population health monitoring, and data use.
• Prepare or contribute to agendas, technical presentations, exercises, training materials, case studies, facilitator materials, meeting documentation, and follow-up actions for technical cooperation and capacity-building activities.
• Support the identification, documentation, and exchange of good practices and lessons learned related to indicator production, data-quality improvement, metadata management, statistical dissemination, and the use of health information for decision-making.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university in public health, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, demography, population studies, health information systems, economics, data science, or another relevant discipline related to health statistics and population health monitoring.
• Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, statistics, demography, population health, health information systems, health metrics, data science, health economics, or related discipline.

Requirements

• Required: At least seven (7) years of professional experience in health statistics, health indicators, epidemiology, population health monitoring, civil registration and vital statistics, health information systems, data analysis, or another closely related field.
• Demonstrated professional experience in production, analysis, interpretation, validation, or dissemination of health indicators and CRVS performance indicators using national, subnational, regional, or international health data.
• Demonstrated experience assessing data quality, including criteria such as completeness, timeliness, consistency, validity, accuracy, coverage, comparability, or coherence across data sources and time.
• Demonstrated experience working with multiple health and population data sources, such as CRVS, population censuses, household surveys, routine health information systems, surveillance systems, administrative data, population estimates, or international statistical databases.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting health statistics and translating analytical findings and methodological considerations into clear technical conclusions and practical recommendations.
• Experience contributing to multidisciplinary technical working groups, expert consultations, national or regional meetings, or similar collaborative processes.
• Experience with civil registration and vital statistics systems, including assessment of birth and death registration completeness, mortality indicators, cause-of-death statistics, or CRVS performance and data-quality monitoring.
• Experience contributing to the development, review, or implementation of indicator frameworks, technical specifications, metadata, methodological guidance, SOPs, data-quality frameworks, analytical reports, or statistical publications.
• Experience conducting international or subnational comparative analyses and assessing methodological differences that may affect the comparability of health indicators.
• Experience providing technical cooperation, training, or capacity-building support to ministries of health, national statistical offices, civil registration authorities, or other national institutions.
• Experience or international and national health information initiatives, international statistical standards, and regional and global health monitoring frameworks will be considered an asset.

Skills

• Strong technical knowledge of health indicators, health statistics, population health monitoring, and health information systems, including the relationship between indicator definitions, data sources, methods, data quality, interpretation, and use.
• Knowledge of indicator development and metadata standards and health data-quality concepts and methods, including assessment of completeness, timeliness, consistency, validity, accuracy, coverage, and comparability.
• Knowledge or demonstrated experience with CRVS and mortality statistics, including birth and death data, population denominators, and maternal and child mortality indicators.
• Ability to work with multiple data sources and identify discrepancies, methodological differences, data gaps, breaks in time series, and other issues affecting indicator interpretation and comparability.
• Ability to analyze health indicators over time and across populations, countries, territories, and geographic areas and synthesize findings into technically sound and actionable conclusions.
• Ability to assess indicator and information needs and contribute to the prioritization and harmonization of indicator sets in accordance with policy, monitoring, and reporting requirements.
• Proficiency in statistical and data-management software and tools relevant to the expert's area of work, such as R, Python, Stata, SPSS, SAS, SQL, Excel, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with data visualization and business-intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent platforms is desirable.
• Knowledge of data visualization principles, statistical communication, visual storytelling, and accessibility considerations for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong technical writing and synthesis skills, including preparation of analytical reports, data-quality assessments, indicator metadata, methodological guidance, technical specifications, SOPs, country profiles, technical briefs, presentations, and other statistical products.
• Strong facilitation and coordination skills for multidisciplinary audiences.
• Ability to work effectively in multicultural, multidisciplinary, and international environments and engage constructively with stakeholders from different institutional and technical backgrounds.
• Autonomy, sound judgment, attention to methodological detail.

Location

Remote (Off-site). Specific assignments may require participation in virtual or in-person regional or country activities, subject to the terms and authorization of the individual assignment.

Remuneration

Daily Pay Rate may vary from $258 to $314 USD, depending on deliverables, required expertise, and the specific assignment, the applicable daily rate will be established in accordance with PAHO contractual policies and the terms of the individual assignment.

Additional Information

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. There is no commitment on either side.