PAHO Consultant - Consultor/a Nacional - Gestión Clínica y Calidad en Salud
Organizational Context
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Job Purpose
Provide technical cooperation to strengthen clinical management, quality of care, and patient safety in public health services in Venezuela, aligning with PAHO/WHO technical frameworks and universal health strategies.
Responsibilities
Provide technical assistance in clinical management, quality of care, and patient safety. Develop analyses, proposals, methodologies, tools, and technical documents. Support the development of guidelines, guides, and protocols. Facilitate technical exchange between areas and programs. Develop proposals for monitoring and evaluating progress. Develop training content and materials. Systematize results and lessons learned.
Work Experience
Essential: Minimum of five years of experience in developing and writing technical and scientific documents in the health sector. Experience in implementing healthcare quality programs, including Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and/or patient safety, as well as clinical management experience is valued. Desirable: Experience in health education and training processes, as well as editing and reviewing scientific literature. Experience working with or providing technical collaboration to UN System organizations and/or PAHO/WHO.
Skills
Integrity, ethical approach, commitment to organizational mandate and values, responsibility, professional and respectful relationships. Respect and promote individual and cultural differences. Teamwork, collaboration, constructive working relationships, technical exchange. Communication, clear and structured technical communication, document preparation, information exchange. Produce results, efficient and autonomous work, timely delivery of quality products. Ensure effective use of resources, responsible and efficient resource utilization. Adaptability, anticipating changes, proposing solutions. Create and promote alliances, collaboration and technical exchange. Solid knowledge in developing technical and scientific health documents. Knowledge of the Venezuelan Public Health System structure and functioning. Proficiency in virtual training tools (Zoom, Moodle). Facilitation skills for training processes. Ability to prepare technical reports, proposals, methodologies, tools, and training plans. Ability to facilitate technical exchange with multidisciplinary teams. Knowledge of PAHO/WHO technical frameworks for Primary Health Care, clinical management, quality of care, and patient safety. Essential: Proficient in Microsoft 365 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, SharePoint, Outlook) and virtual collaboration platforms (Teams, Zoom). Desirable: Knowledge of content and learning management systems (Drupal, Moodle) and AI tools.