Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of 21 conditions that are mainly prevalent in tropical areas, where they mostly affect impoverished communities and disproportionately affect women and children. These diseases cause devastating health, social and economic consequences to more than one billion people. The NTD road map 2021-2030 provides the overall guidance for the implementation of NTD activities worldwide.

In December 2020, the NTD department published its first online course in the OpenWHO portal. Since then, three years later, OpenWHO has a dedicated channel on skin NTDs where over 65 courses are published and over 125 000 learners are enrolled.

The success of that initiative has created a severe backlog of courses that are waiting to be published due to the shortage of staff available.

The consultant will facilitate and provide technical guidance to edit, adapt and publish online courses and related activities for the Global NTD Programme.

The Global NTD programme has a software to build nice and interactive timelines. For the last five years the leishmaniasis timeline has not been updated and at least two additional timelines on Chagas disease and sleeping sickness need to be created. The consultant will build and complete that work.

Deliverables

• Adapt content received from experts to the standards of the OpenWHO on online courses.
• Upload course material for publication in the OpenWHO platform.
• Adapt content and upload course material in the WHO Academy.
• Analyze data and create dashboards to visualize indicators related to the online courses.
• Prepare summaries for publication on NTD online courses.
• To liaise with translators to get translated versions in the right format.
• To update the leishmaniasis timeline in the online software.
• To create at least two timelines upon receiving the technical content.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

• First university degree in medicine or health-related field.

Desirable:

• Advanced university degree in public health or related field.

Experience:  

Essential:

• Up to 5 years of experience working in low/middle-income countries (LMIC) in health-related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in capacity building, online courses, in LMIC on health-related fields, including identification of training needs and development of capacity building plans.
• Experience in integrating cross-cutting issues such as environment, gender and children into capacity development programmes.

Desirable:

• Experience in working at the international level, hardship environments, refugee camps and cross-border programmes.
• Experience in monitoring and analyzing intervention’s progress.

Skills: 

Essential:

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Publisher).
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Ability to work harmoniously in a team, adapt to a diverse working and cultural environment.
• Ability to take initiatives and provide innovative ideas related to training material and other tools.