PAHO Consultant - Data, Analytics, and AI (ITS)
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 21, 2026
Closing Date
September 20, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Primary Location
Off Site
Organization
ITS Information Technology Services
Schedule
Full time
PURPOSE OF CONSULTANCY
This requisition is for a consultancy at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO).
1. Objective of the Department
The Information Technology Services Department (ITS) provides leadership and direction in the deployment of information and communication technologies and systems to support the Pan American Health Organization/Regional Office of the Americas of the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in carrying out its mandate. ITS establishes and maintains strategies, policies, standards, and procedures to ensure the effective and efficient provision of information and communication services in a geographically dispersed environment.
2. Purpose of the Consultancy
PAHO operates Microsoft Fabric as its corporate data and analytics platform. The environment consolidates information from the Organization’s enterprise systems, including the Workday-based PAHO Management Information System (PMIS), corporate applications, and technical data sources, into a common lakehouse and semantic layer that supports institutional reporting, dashboards, and analytical services used by Headquarters, country offices, and centers across the Region of the Americas. Current architecture is built on Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, and SQL Managed Instance architecture, with BI workspaces provisioned in MS Fabric capacities.The platform has grown substantially in scope, data volume, and user base since its adoption, and now underpins reporting relied upon for management and technical decision-making. To sustain this growth and prepare the environment for AI-enabled analytics, PAHO requires an experienced Data, Analytics and AI consultant who can operate the platform on a day-to-day basis while establishing an engineering-grade foundation for its next phase: a complete and maintained architecture and operations baseline, documented platform standards, measurable capacity and cost efficiency, and a progressive Fabric adoption plan with prioritized evolution roadmap for ITS management decision.
This is a hands-on, delivery-focused technical consultancy that combines daily platform operations and support with platform engineering, modernization, and innovation. The consultant will report to the Senior Advisor Applications Development and Support. The consultant will collaborate with ITS units, data and application owners, subject matter experts, and departments across PAHO. The consultant works autonomously against an assigned and prioritized task backlog,...