Animal Health Officer (Vaccine and Quality Assurance)

Closes: 17 Feb 2026

Organizational Unit: NSA

Job Type: Staff position

Type of Requisition: Professional

Grade Level: P-3

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Fixed-term: two years with possibility of extension

FAO as an Animal Health Officer (Vaccine and Quality Assurance), P‑3 (Post No. 0413992) within Animal Production and Health Division.

Technical Focus

The Animal Health Officer (Vaccine and Quality Assurance) will support veterinary vaccine procurement/quality assurance activities as well as improvement of vaccine production capacities within the One Health Programme Priority Area of FAO (including priority transboundary, emerging zoonotic diseases and AMR) with a special focus on vaccine and quality assurance.

 

 Key Results

Research, technical analysis and project related services to support the delivery of programme projects, products and services.

  

Key Functions

  • Researches and analyses technical, social, economic, environmental, institutional and technology related information, data and statistics and/or related policy issues to support the delivery of programme projects, products and services.

  • Produces a variety of technical information, data, statistics and reports as well as input for technical documents and web pages.

  • Provides technical support/analysis to various assessments, studies and initiatives and provides technical backstopping to field projects.

  • Collaborates in the development of improved/updated tools, systems, processes and databases.

  • Participates in multidisciplinary teams and/or leads working groups/teams collaborates with other centres/divisions/offices and agencies on work groups and committees and promotes best practices.

  • Collaborates in, provides technical backstopping to and ensures the quality/effectiveness of capacity development activities within Members such as policy support, organizational development and individual learning events including preparation of related information, learning materials and on-line tools.

  • Promotes knowledge sharing and best practices at international meetings and conferences and influences partners in stakeholder consultations.

  • Supports resource mobilization activities in accordance with the FAO Strategic Framework.

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