Consultant Regional HEARTS Monitoring, Evaluation and Digital Systems Architecture

Position: PAHO Consultant - "Regional HEARTS Monitoring, Evaluation and Digital Systems Architecture"

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:

February 26, 2026

Closing Date:

March 14, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Primary

Location:

Off Site

Organization:

NMH Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health

Schedule:

Part time

PURPOSE OF CONSULTANCY

Under the supervision of the Senior Regional Advisor for Cardiovascular Disease Management, and in close coordination with the HEARTS Regional Technical Team, relevant PAHO technical units, and implementing countries, the Consultant will provide highly specialized technical support for the development, maintenance, and continuous updating of the digital architecture of the HEARTS regional monitoring and evaluation system, ensuring interoperability, sustainability, and long-term institutionalization of its core digital components.

This includes the consolidation and optimization of the DHIS2-based regional system, programmatic evaluation at the country level, quality self-assessment and certification tools, the cardiovascular risk calculator API (Cardiocal), and the HEARTS mobile application as an integrated regional digital ecosystem. The consultant will provide technical accompaniment to countries in the implementation, adoption, dissemination, and structured use of the monitoring and evaluation system, supporting its operational integration and sustained utilization across implementing countries.

DESCRIPTION

OF DUTIES

Consultant will be responsible for delivering the following products & services with input from the respective project manager:
Pedro Ordunez

Scope of Deliverables

• Strengthen and consolidate the regional HEARTS Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system, ensuring its institutionalized, regular, and sustainable use across implementing countries, and reinforcing evidence-based decision-making.
• Ensure interoperability, integration, and centralization of the HEARTS digital ecosystem through the strengthening of the DHIS2-based technical architecture, including data governance standards and regional scalability.
• Consolidation of the regional hierarchical database architecture including systematic georeferencing and the standardization of unique identifiers (UIDs) for primary health care (PHC) facilities to strengthen interoperability with national information systems and ensure traceability of HEARTS implementation across the Region.
• Maintain and update the Cardiovascular Risk Calculator (Cardiocal) in alignment with HEARTS 2.0 standards, ensuring methodological consistency, facilitation of national integration, promotion of regional adoption, and long-term technical sustainability including technical documentation and maintenance including the API.
• Update the official HEARTS Mobile Application (HEARTS App) as a regional digital governance and integration platform.
• Generation of scientific evidence derived from aggregated regional HEARTS data to document implementation progress and support accountability and technical publications.

Deliverable
1. Administration, Maintenance, and Optimization of the Regional HEARTS Monitoring and Evaluation System

Planning and execution of system updates, optimization and technical management actions to ensure operational stability, security, performance, and sustainability of the DHIS2-based regional HEARTS monitoring and evaluation system in response to sustained platform growth and increased regional demand. This includes evaluation and implementation of infrastructure improvements, updated technical documentation, consolidation of the 2026 technical roadmap, and annual system evaluation with definition of sustainability plan.

Deliverable

2. Technical Accompaniment to Implementing Countries and Institutionalization of System Use

Provision of specialized technical accompaniment to all HEARTS-implementing countries to strengthen regular and institutional use of the regional DHIS2 system, with prioritization in 2026 of Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Ecuador, and continued consolidation support to Cuba and El Salvador. This includes strengthening data quality and consistency, consolidation of the quality self-assessment as a core monitoring axis, support for semiannual evaluation processes, promotion of evidence-based monitoring adoption, and measurement of system adoption indicators.

Deliverable

3. Structural Integration and Operational Implementation of the HEARTS Quality Self-Assessment and accreditation Module

Design, structuring, and operational implementation of the Quality Self-Assessment module within the regional information system under the certification and continuous quality improvement framework, including systematic measurement of fidelity, feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of HEARTS implementation in primary health care centers; automated linkage to performance, maturity, and implementation indicators;…