Early Detection & Cancer Prevention Programs Expert

Project and role

Assignment focus

• Provide technical assistance to design, strengthen, and implement evidence-based cancer prevention and early-detection programmes.
• Support national screening guidelines, clinical decision pathways, community awareness initiatives, health workforce training, and referral systems.
• Translate evidence into operational screening algorithms, referral criteria, and monitoring indicators.
• Develop community awareness and risk-communication approaches that support early care-seeking.
• Design workforce training curricula and competency-based capacity-building packages.
• Support functional referral links between primary healthcare and diagnostic or treatment facilities.
• Facilitate technical working groups and multistakeholder consultations.

Qualifications and experience

• Master's degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, or a related field; alternatively, a medical degree with clinical or public-health specialization in Oncology or Family Medicine.
• At least 7 years of professional experience in NCD prevention and control, with substantial cancer early-detection and screening programme experience.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate technical working groups and multistakeholder consultations.
• Ability to turn epidemiological evidence into screening algorithms, referral criteria, and monitoring indicators.
• Familiarity with health-promotion and behaviour-change communication for cancer prevention.
• Experience designing or revising national screening guidelines and clinical pathways aligned with WHO and IARC recommendations.
• Experience developing community awareness and risk-communication strategies, including in low-health-literacy or disrupted-access contexts.
• Experience designing health-worker training on clinical breast examination, visual inspection methods, and referral triage.
• Prior experience piloting cancer screening programmes and establishing referral links to diagnostic or treatment facilities is required.

Language and preferred experience

• Professional working proficiency in English is mandatory, especially for technical documentation and international partner coordination.
• Fluency in Arabic is highly desirable.
• Experience in post-conflict, fragile, or early-recovery health systems is a strong asset.