The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations system’s directing and coordinating health body.
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Its responsibilities include providing leadership on global health issues, influencing the health research agenda, establishing norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy alternatives, providing technical assistance to countries, and monitoring and evaluating health trends.
World Health Organization core values are:
The values of the WHO workforce furthermore reflect the principles of human rights, universality and equity established in WHO’s Constitution as well as the ethical standards of the Organization. These values are inspired by the WHO vision of a world in which all peoples attain the highest possible level of health, and our mission to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable, with measurable impact for people at country level. We are individually and collectively committed to put these values into practice.
Who We Are:
Our mission is To guide and help countries around the Region take action to reduce deaths from noncommunicable diseases, promote mental health and achieve zero hunger by 2030, to improve health and wellbeing for all, at all ages.
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We invite applications from interested and qualified candidates to apply for the Graduate Job at the World Health Organisation.
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Job Specifications:
- Full Time
- Required Qualification: BA, BSC, or HND
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
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Introduction to the Position
Background
- The World Health Organization (WHO), through its Regulation and Prequalification Department provides advice to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other United Nations agencies on the acceptability, in principle, of vaccines considered for purchase by such agencies. This service is called prequalification.
- The purpose of the WHO prequalification assessment is to provide assurance that candidate vaccines: (a) meet WHO recommendations on quality, safety and efficacy, including compliance with WHO’s recommended standards for good manufacturing practices (GMP) and good clinical practice (GCP); and (b) meet the operational packaging and presentation specifications of the relevant United Nations agency. Prequalification also supports the specific needs of national immunization programmes with regards to vaccine characteristic such as potency, thermostability, presentation, labelling and shipping conditions.
- The aim is to ensure that vaccines provided through the United Nations for use in national immunization services in different countries are safe, effective and suitable for the target populations at the recommended immunization schedules and with appropriate concomitant products.
- This important work is carried out with the support of international experts in Non-Clinical, Clinical and Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) evaluation of biological medicinal products, specifically vaccines. WHO is making a call to increase the number of consultants/experts available to support this very important public health responsibility.
Deliverables
- Produce timely assessment reports (AR) of the reviewed information.
- Report on critical, major, and other deficiencies detected during the review of the documentation/data (assigned to the consultant)
- Assess the applicant’s responses to queries raised in the AR and decide on the adequacy of each response. Several sets of queries may be necessary.
- Provide WHO with a recommendation and final remarks on the evaluation based on the documentation assigned for review to the consultant. This should be based on the most updated scientific and regulatory grounds.
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Experience and credentials:
Qualifications, experience, skills and languages
Educational Qualifications:
Essential:
Advanced university degree in medicine, biology, pharmacy or microbiology.
Desirable:
A postgraduate degree in biostatistics.
Experience
Essential:
- Over ten years’ experience in the pharmaceutical field.
- Extensive experience in the area of CMC of vaccines including the understanding of Quality Systems.
- Experience in the regulation, manufacturing and control of vaccines, and ability to work in a complex international environment.
- Experience in monitoring of regulations and regulatory systems of NRAs, including lot release, manufacture and laboratory good practices, laboratory access, post-marketing surveillance (quality aspects) and other activities like writing regulatory procedures.
Desirable:
Participation in WHO evaluations of NRA and vaccine manufacturers as well as in other WHO activities.
Skills:
Essential:
Expert must have technical skills and knowledge on the development, strengthening and monitoring of regulatory systems for vaccines, drugs, biologicals, and medical devices.
Desirable:
Familiarity with WHO prequalification procedure, with WHO activities in strengthening the capacity to regulate clinical trials, vaccines as a biological medical product and /or with the NRA assessment procedure.
Languages required:
Essential:
Expert knowledge of English.
Remuneration
Band level C: USD 500 – 625 per day.
Method of application:
Candidates that meet the requirements and are interested should click the BUTTON below to apply.
Deadline: 28th February, 2025.
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