Consultoría - Actualización de la Norma Nacional de Vigilancia de la Salud y elaboración del Manual de Puestos y Funciones de la Unidad de Vigilancia de la Salud (UVS), Honduras, 9 meses (Remoto)

Leads a remote consultancy to update Honduras' national health-surveillance standard and develop the Health Surveillance Unit's functions manual. The assignment strengthens the Unit's regulatory framework, aligning it with the International Health Regulations, One Health and pandemic-preparedness requirements through technical review, stakeholder consultation and organizational design.

• Update the National Health Surveillance Standard in line with current international standards
• Develop the Health Surveillance Unit's positions and functions manual
• Review gaps in the Unit's regulatory and institutional framework
• Align proposed standards with the International Health Regulations and One Health approach
• Facilitate multi-stakeholder consultation and regulatory validation processes
• Define functional structures, critical roles and lines of authority for health surveillance

• Postgraduate degree in Public Health, Global Health, Field Epidemiology or a related discipline
• At least 10 years of professional experience in public health or epidemiology, including at least five years updating health-sector policies, standards, guidelines, protocols or regulatory frameworks
• Expert-level Spanish for technical regulatory writing and facilitation of meetings and workshops

• Experience updating officially adopted national epidemiological-surveillance standards in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Experience integrating One Health and the International Health Regulations into surveillance frameworks
• Experience designing organizational manuals for health-sector institutions
• Knowledge of Honduras and Central American public-health systems

• Public Health Surveillance
• Epidemiology
• Regulatory Harmonization
• Organizational Design
• Stakeholder Facilitation
• Project Management
• Data Collection

• KoBoToolbox
• ODK

• Remote consultancy
• Technical and methodological proposal required
• Financial proposal required