Consultant – Post COVID-19 Condition at World Health Organization

Purpose of consultancy

To provide technical expertise, to deliver improvements to clinical care for the Post COVID-19 condition and to contribute to the clinical management and operations unit activities.

Deliverables: 

Deliverable 1: Normative deliverables.

• Develop a living guideline for the clinical management of post-Covid-19 condition.

Deliverable 2: Country and data support.

• Provide technical expertise and contribute to the production of a report on post-Covid-19 condition with country partners who will collect clinical data as part of the Global Clinical Platform.

Deliverable 3: Training.

• Develop training materials derived from clinical guidelines and updates from contemporaneous literature. Outputs will include quick reference materials describing best clinical practice for healthcare professionals; infographics to enhance awareness of the phenotypes and treatment options, and communicate this quickly to healthcare professionals and lay-readers; webinars to promote a freely accessible resource for updating clinical non-experts on the state of the art.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages.

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

• A first university degree in medicine, nursing or allied health sciences.

Desirable: 

• An advanced degree or post graduate degree in public health, research, or related field.        

Experience

Essential:

• Minimum five years of experience as healthcare worker (delivering clinical care).
• Experience in research (clinical research and or clinical trials). 
• Experience in creating training materials for health workers.
• Close leadership involvement with the production of systematic reviews.

Desirable: 

• International work experience.

Skills

• Demonstrated excellent English writing.
• Ability to write scientific articles independently.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary and cross-cutting environment.
• Excellent organizational skills combined with the ability to multi-task and produce accurate results under pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, diplomacy, tact and discretion, sound judgment, and initiative.
• Ability to work under pressure and to clearly articulate and present concepts and procedures to a broad range of audiences.
• Demonstrated applied knowledge of research methods and GRADE methodology for systematic review.

Closing Date: Jan 31, 2023