Paho Consultant

## PAHO Consultant
- Field Coordination Consultant Apply: Off Site: Part time: Posted Today: Req-06133OBJECTIVE OF THE OFFICE/DEPARTMENTThis 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 ConsultantJob Posting:October 30, 2026Closing Date:November 17, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern TimePrimary

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Off SiteOrganization:DHE Social and Environmental Determinants for Health EquitySchedule:Part timePURPOSE OF CONSULTANCYSpecific Objectives 1. Support the organization of day-to-day field activities of the team designated by SEDESA, ensuring that data collection is carried out in accordance with the work plan, protocols, and instruments defined by the Principal Investigator in agreement with PAHO and Mexico City technical counterparts. 2. Serve as the operational liaison among the SEDESA team, the Principal Investigator, and PAHO, facilitating communication, information flow, and follow-up on agreements. 3. Facilitate territorial and institutional coordination with the Utopías Cabinet, the teams at each Utopía, communities, and data collection partners (e.g., UNAM), including access arrangements, permits, and schedules. 4. Ensure the organization, secure custody, integrity, and timely delivery of information collected in the field, in accordance with approved data management and ethics protocols. 4. Scope of Work and Activities The Field Coordinator is not responsible for methodological design, the design or validation of instruments, the analysis of mechanisms/CMO, or the drafting of the evaluation’s analytical outputs, which are the responsibility of the Principal Investigator and the designated technical counterpart. The role is primarily operational, involving coordination and liaison, without precluding potential substantive contributions. The main activities are as follows: 4.1 Coordination of the Field Team Designated by SEDESA
• Prepare the field operations plan based on the evaluation design and in agreement with the PI and technical counterpart: schedule of visits, assignment of sites and tasks, routes, and logistical needs.
• Organize the onboarding of the SEDESA team: define operational roles, focal points, and internal communication mechanisms.
• Organize and facilitate logistics for team training sessions on the instruments and protocols defined by the PI (the PI is responsible for the technical content of the training).
• Monitor implementation progress and report operational issues: adherence to schedules, complete administration of instruments, documentation of informed consent, among other matters.
• Carry out checks for completeness and basic consistency of the collected information (completed forms, audio recordings and field notes, file coding) before submitting it to the PI for methodological review.
• Maintain the field log and records of progress, deviations, and operational adjustments. 4.2 Liaison with the Principal Investigator and PAHO
• Participate in periodic (virtual) coordination meetings with the PI and PAHO; prepare operational agendas, meeting minutes, and follow-up on agreements.
• Refer technical questions from the field team to the PI and relay the guidance received back to the team.
• Provide PAHO with timely updates on progress, risks, and implementation bottlenecks, proposing operational solutions.
• Support coordination with PAHO/WHO for any required institutional arrangements. 4.3 Territorial and Institutional Coordination
• Arrange access, permissions, and schedules with the Utopías Cabinet and each site team for observation visits, interviews, and other field activities.
• Follow up on the formalization of data-sharing protocols with the Utopías Cabinet and on ethics approval procedures, in coordination with PAHO and the PI.
• Arrange for the collection of documentary and administrative information (Cabinet meeting minutes, coordination records, attendance data, service utilization and referrals, and spatial and population information) requested by the PI.
• Coordinate operationally with the partner responsible for surveys (e.g., UNAM or another organization): scheduling, access to intervention and comparison communities, and monitoring data collection progress.
• Facilitate contact with key informants, Utopías personnel, and community representatives, as well as communities at the four sites proposed for the next expansion phase. 4.4 Logistics for Validation and Learning Activities
• Organize logistics (invitations, venues, materials, participant registration, and documentation of proceedings) for Theory of Change validation workshops, evaluation capacity-building workshops, and the PI’s in-person visits.
• Support the distribution and sharing, with Utopías teams, of outputs prepared by the PI (e.g., rapid learning briefs). 4.5 Field Information Management
• Organize and securely maintain the field i