PAHO Consultant - AI Project Coordinator Consultant for Machine-Learning Analytics and Measles Microplanning

Job description

OBJECTIVE OF THE OFFICE/DEPARTMENT This is a requisition for employment at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Contractual Agreement: Non-Staff - International PAHO Consultant Job Posting: August 28, 2026 Closing Date: September 8, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern Time Primary Location: Off Site Organization: EIH Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Schedule: Full time PURPOSE OF CONSULTANCY Organization: Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health (EIH), PAHO Immunization and Measles Teams, and collaborating technical partners. Background The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Global Immunization Division (CDC GID Atlanta), is supporting the development and pilot implementation of a machine-learning analytics tool to strengthen the identification of measles zero-dose and under-vaccinated populations at local level. The tool is intended to support, not replace, country and immunization-program processes. It will combine country-specific immunization and surveillance data, analytics, geospatial intelligence, and AI-assisted interpretation to identify potential hotspots and priority areas for review, validation, and action. Machine-learning capabilities may improve hotspot prediction, anomaly detection, and prioritization as sufficient high-quality historical data become available, while country teams remain responsible for interpreting and acting on findings. Effective development and piloting require sustained coordination among PAHO, CDC, the selected AI tool developer, national and subnational immunization programs, data and surveillance teams, district personnel, and other stakeholders. PAHO therefore requires an AI Project Coordinator to provide project management, technical liaison, data-governance support, pilot coordination, validation, capacity building, documentation, and logistical support through December 2026. Purpose Coordinate the development, localization, validation, and time-bound pilot implementation of an AI-supported analytics tool for identifying and mapping measles zero-dose and under-vaccinated populations at national, subnational, and district levels. Ensure that project activities reflect country priorities and operational realities; comply with applicable data-governance, privacy, ethical, and responsible-use requirements; and generate documented evidence, user feedback, lessons learned, and recommendations for subsequent refinement. DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES: Responsabilities The consultant will coordinate, document, and support the assigned project components through the following activities: 1. Project management, monitoring, reporting, and logistical coordination Develop and maintain the project work plan, timeline, milestones, implementation tracker, stakeholder roles, communication pathways, and risk and issue log. Monitor progress against deliverables; identify bottlenecks, risks, issues, and dependencies; recommend mitigation measures; and escalate concerns as appropriate. Coordinate meetings, workshops, consultations, travel, procurement, administrative processes, and submission of required documentation in accordance with organizational procedures. Maintain records of meetings, decisions, action items, and implementation progress, and submit monthly progress reports in English covering accomplishments, next steps, timeline adherence, problems, concerns, and recommendations. 2. Stakeholder engagement and country liaison Serve as the principal liaison among the AI tool developer, PAHO, CDC GID Atlanta, the pilot country's national and subnational immunization program, district teams, and other designated stakeholders. Coordinate regular technical and programmatic meetings, stakeholder consultations, requirements-gathering sessions, and follow-up actions. Communicate country priorities, operational needs, constraints, and user perspectives to the developer and ensure alignment with national immunization-program priorities. Support engagement with immunization, surveillance, data-management, municipal, outreach, and district-level personnel participating in the pilot. 3. Technical, data-systems, and requirements support Document the country's immunization-data ecosystem, including source systems, datasets, reporting and operational workflows, decision-making processes, governance structures, interoperability considerations, and analytical capabilities. Map data required for model development, testing, historical back-testing, and validation; advise on data definitions, quality, completeness, formatting, and contextual factors affecting analyses. Translate public-health and program needs into functional and technical requirements, review specifications and prototypes, and recommend localization and feasibility adjustments. Coordinate access to relevant stakeholders and approved data sources and confirm whether data availability and quality are sufficient to proceed, documenting required mitigations when readiness criteria are not met. 4. Tool-development coordination, validation, and pilot implementation Coordinate with the AI tool developer, PAHO Immunization and Measles Teams, CDC GID Atlanta, and pilot-country counterparts throughout tool development and time-bound pilot implementation. Review prototypes; coordinate user-acceptance testing, expert review sessions, tabletop exercises, historical back-testing, and structured review of false positives and false negatives. Capture whether outputs are plausible, understandable, and actionable, and channel user feedback into recommendations concerning thresholds, variables, analytics, visualizations, and display refinements. Develop the pilot implementation plan; coordinate onboarding, orientation, testing, troubleshooting, and monitoring; and document lessons learned, challenges, and good practices. 5. Capacity building, knowledge transfer, and sustainabil