Overview
To strengthen national capacity for noncommunicable disease (NCD) surveillance in Pacific Island Countries and Areas (PICs) through the planning, implementation, analysis and reporting on WHO STEPS surveys and P-COSI, and through the development of analytical outputs to support policy and programme action.
Key Responsibilities
- Finalize STEPS survey implementation plans, including sampling design, questionnaires, and costing, for at least three countries.
- Conduct at least one in-country training on STEPS protocols, data collection, and quality assurance.
- Compile required field data and prepare datasets for cleaning and analysis in at least one country.
- Clean, validate, weight, and analyse STEPS datasets, including trend analysis where applicable, for at least two countries.
- Prepare draft tabulations, summary tables, preliminary analytical findings, and draft survey reports for STEPS surveys.
- Develop at least two progress reports summarizing STEPS implementation status, key issues, and actions.
- Develop and finalize P-COSI implementation plans, including questionnaires and costing, for at least two countries.
- Conduct at least one training (online or in-country) on P-COSI protocols, data collection, and data management.
- Clean, validate, and analyse P-COSI datasets for participating countries.
- Prepare preliminary analytical outputs and inputs for regional comparison for P-COSI data.
- Coordinate and document discussions with regional partners on P-COSI data storage and management approaches.
- Develop a report on identifying policy gaps, proposed context-specific interventions, stakeholder engagement approaches, and a draft monitoring and evaluation framework for at least one country.
- Compile and submit completed survey responses for at least 14 Member States for the WHO Country Capacity Survey 2026.
Required Experience
- At least five years of professional experience in public health, epidemiology, disease surveillance, or NCD prevention and control.
- Experience supporting the planning, implementation, analysis and reporting of population-based health surveys.
- Experience designing and implementing multi-country surveys.
- Experience supporting WHO STEPS surveys.
- Experience supporting childhood obesity or school-based surveillance initiatives such as P-COSI.
- Experience supporting data analysis, interpretation and reporting for NCD surveillance activities.
- Experience working with Ministries of Health, national counterparts, and international organizations, working in Pacific Island Countries and Areas.
Qualifications
- University degree in biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, health sciences, or a related field.
- Advanced university degree (master’s) and/or training in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), surveillance, epidemiology, biostatistics, or related public health disciplines.
