CFA - Artificial Intelligence and Health Informatics Specialist (P)

Introduction

Established in 1951, IOM is a Related Organization of the United Nations and the leading UN agency in the field of migration. Working closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners, IOM promotes humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It saves lives and protects people on the move, drives solutions to displacement, and facilitates pathways for regular migration, while providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

IOM is committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive and supportive workplace where all employees can thrive professionally and feel valued. By creating such an environment, IOM aims to better harness the full potential of migration and strengthen its support to people on the move.

IOM invites candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process when required. Learn more about IOM’s workplace culture at IOM workplace culture | International Organization for Migration

Internal and external candidates will be considered for this vacancy.

For the purposes of this vacancy, internal candidates are defined as staff members holding a regular, fixed-term or short-term graded or ungraded contract, including Junior Professional Officers (JPOs), UN Volunteers with at least twelve (12) months of continuous service in IOM, staff on Special Leave Without Pay (SLWOP), and staff members on secondment/loan released by the Organization, unless otherwise specified in their contract. Staff members holding a regular, fixed-term or short-term graded contract will not retain their contract type if appointed to an ungraded position.

Organizational Context and Scope

Within the Department of Mobility Pathways and Inclusion (DMPI), the Migration Health Division (MHD), has the institutional responsibility to oversee, support and coordinate IOM’s provision of migration health services globally. Through MHD, IOM delivers and promotes comprehensive, preventive and curative health programmes that are beneficial, accessible, rights-based and equitable for migrants and communities. IOM fosters an enabling environment to advance evidence-informed, inclusive health and migration policies, thereby enhancing migrants’ empowerment, inclusion and resilience, while contributing to improved public health for all. To fulfil its strategic objectives, IOM collaborates with partners to ensure that migrants and communities achieve the highest attainable standard of health and well-being along migration pathways.

The Migration Health Informatics (MHI) unit leads digital transformation and advanced analytics for the Health Assessment Programme of the Migration Health Division (MHD). To strengthen AI tools use and integration into Health Assessment Programme (HAP) activities and IT systems, MHI is establishing an AI team, and the incumbent will provide support for the effective, safe, and ethical use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in HAP medical workflows and strengthen data management, analytics, and quality assurance at the global level in close coordination with the Migration Health Informatics Manager. The role will support applied AI projects in health informatics, supporting innovation and operational efficiency. Ongoing initiatives include feedback sentiment analysis, health chatbots, electronic job aid tools for clinical coding, diagnosis and treatment recommendations, Power BI Q&A, and computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), as in the Qure AI study for chest X-ray review for Tuberculosis screening.

In close coordination with Migration Health Informatics Manager, the incumbent will assist in reviewing AI Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and specialized AI technology stacks such as the already mentioned Qure AI, Cad4TB, Azure Healthcare agent service in Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure Health AI Actions (incl. Clinical Coder), the Azure Healthcare Orchestrator, the multi-agent Healthcare Agent Orchestrator in Azure AI Foundry and Azure Dragon Copilot, as well as comparable open-source AI models and services.
The selected candidate will work closely with the AI Work Group based in Manila and cooperate with the MHD Senior Health Operations and Compliance Officer and the team promoting AI in MHACs and HAP operations.

Under the overall supervision of the Programme Coordinator (Global Health Assessment Programme) and direct supervision of the Migration Health Informatics Manager, the Artificial Intelligence and Health Informatics Specialist will support the Migration Health Informatics work in cooperation with other colleagues in MHD Teleradiology, MHI Data Quality, Reporting and Research, MHI Software Development, IOM Data Science and IOM Information and Communication Technology (ICT).