Health Data Platform Consultant
Pay and conditions
Salary
USD 425 per day
Hardship
A
Source: WHO Careers + estimates by grade and duty station. Click the cards for more details.
Job Description
WHO seeks an International Consultant in Manila to operate and improve health-data platforms, survey systems and dashboards. The role maintains data and access layers, ingestion pipelines and digital tools; builds the Primary Health Care Maturity Index application; manages AI-assisted analysis safeguards; and delivers technical documentation, training and handover for platform operation.
Key Details
Department
WP/DSI Data Strategy and Innovation
Position Details
Experience level
Senior
Minimum experience
8 years
Employment type
Contractor / Full-time
Arrangement
Onsite
Minimum education
Postgraduate degree
Contract duration
Eleven months
Work hours
Full-time
Language Requirements
Required
English
Summary of Responsibilities
- Maintain and administer the WPRO Regional Data Platform and Data Explorer, including security, dependency and feature updates
- Maintain platform data and access layers, regional datasets, interoperability modules and identifier crosswalks
- Maintain the indicator registry, data-quality layer and data-upload pipeline with staged review and rollback
- Build the Primary Health Care Maturity Index application and dashboards
- Train national and WHO country-office staff and document and hand over the application
- Maintain AI-assisted analysis features, grounded context assembly, prompt configuration, answer caching and governance controls
- Maintain the online survey system, digital data-collection tools, custom forms, reports and dashboards
Role Requirements
- Master’s degree in information and technology, computer science, technology management, knowledge management or a related field
- At least eight years of experience developing and managing information and database systems
- Experience in full-stack web development
- Experience developing online survey systems, web-based data-collection tools, custom digital forms, dashboards and reporting tools
- Advanced written and spoken fluency in English
Desired Criteria
- Experience in WHO Western Pacific Region countries
- Experience in WHO survey platforms or other digital data-collection and analytics systems
- Experience with health-indicator registries, composite indices or analytical health-data platforms
- Experience with DHIS2
- Experience with analytical or columnar databases, retrieval or assisted-analysis components, geographic data formats or web-mapping libraries
- Proficiency in another Western Pacific Region language
Skills
Tools and Technologies
Additional Information
- Duty travel to support Member State and Country Office requests is required
- Travel costs are excluded from remuneration
- Living expense payable to on-site consultants under Information Note 08/2019
Source & verification
IGO Jobs sourced this vacancy from WHO Careers, on 11 Sep 2026.