Senior Animal Health Information Officer

• Coordinate the completion of the work in their area of responsibility to the required standard against relevant deadlines, and provide progress reports
• Provide leadership, expertise, guidance, and training to team members, ensuring consistency in approach
• Identify risks and issues to delivery, consider options for management of risks and issues, and inform the management and the team
• In collaboration with the WAHIS Project Manager, coordinate responses to relevant WAHIS Support Desk items as per customer service requirements
• Manage the communication and engagement activities within WAHID and with other stakeholders as directed by Head of WAHID
• Follow the WAHID reporting processes by designated countries or territories
• Apply a standard verification process and interact with Members’ nominated representatives on issues related to reporting
• Follow up with countries to encourage them to provide regular and timely animal health reports in line with their obligations
• Review existing business intelligence tools and participate in the development of automated processes to facilitate verification and follow-up processes
• Develop and establish monitoring and evaluation indicators of the verification and follow-up processes
• Verify non-official information related to the animal and public health situation
• Contact the countries where needed to verify information found through the active search
• Contribute as needed to the Global Early Warning and Response activities (GLEWS+)
• Implement data governance and management principles to ensure maintenance of data quality
• Conduct analyses including preparation of graphics and maps as needed to support WAHID and WAHIS advocacy efforts
• Contribute to the maintenance of WAHIS reference tables including preparation of annual updates
• Monitor the extraction of quantitative data from the WAHIS early warning module, ensuring its quality and completeness
• Maintain and extend as needed the business intelligence tools developed to support WAHID activities
• Provide support to WAHIS users
• Support the development of training content for WAHIS users
• Participate in the preparation and design of material for training WAHIS users and WOAH Focal Points
• Review and improve training methods
• Oversee and contribute to the development of e-learning platforms
• Contribute to the scoping of needs and development of functional specifications
• Participate in the functional testing and validation of functionalities, providing feedback to the project management team
• Contribute to the identification of needs and follow-up on future evolutions

• A graduate degree in veterinary sciences (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine)
• At least 5 years of professional experience in veterinary fields
• At least 2 years of international experience
• Proven experience with data collection, processing, and analysis of (animal) diseases
• Excellent command of English, both written and oral
• Proficiency in a second WOAH official language (French or Spanish)
• Very good command of the Microsoft Office Package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
• Proactivity and initiative
• Keen sense of observation, attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work under pressure, and to efficiently prioritise work across multiple parallel tasks
• Courtesy, tact, and the ability to establish and maintain good working relations in a multinational and multicultural environment
• Good communication skills and team working abilities especially under tight deadlines

• Additional degree in aquatic and/or terrestrial animal health, wildlife health, epidemiology, or public health
• At least 2 years of experience with government veterinary services
• Good knowledge of a third WOAH official language (French or Spanish), or Russian
• Good computer skills in developing data visualisations (e.g. Power BI)
• Good computer skills in geographical information systems (e.g. QGIS)
• Good computer skills in database management systems (e.g. Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres)
• Good computer skills in statistical software (e.g. R)

Salary is exempt from income tax in France