Quality Improvement Advisor at Jhpiego

Jhpiego is looking for a quality improvement adviser who will assist in providing oversight in the creation, upkeep, and execution of plans to meet quality improvement objectives. The official quality improvement teams are overseen and monitored by the QI, who also creates the facilities' performance improvement goals. They must have experience creating charts and graphs that depict key performance indicators and other data since they will generate written reports and gather data. They will collaborate with the teams of the zonal technical officers and senior technical advisers to ensure the best execution of the activities linked to quality improvement throughout into the RMNCH/Malaria services. To raise the standard of care given to beneficiaries, they will work with the technical team to communicate with districts, health facilities, and zonal coordinators.

The deadline for applications is August 20, 2023. 
 

Responsibilities

• Ensure that quality improvement teams are present and operating in all health facilities sponsored by ISDA. To lead QI activities at their individual facilities, the team must comprehend their organizational structure and duties.
• Assure that the members of quality management committees, also known as quality improvement committees, have the necessary and up-to-date knowledge to maximize their functionality when using PDSA cycles and other MOH-approved quality improvement methodologies.
• Make sure that the health facility's services incorporate the client's feedback mechanisms and/or tactics. (PVP) Patient Voice Program
• Participate in Quality and Accreditation Services to create standards to gauge facilities' progress in reaching QI goals.
• Work with hospital accreditation teams to execute recommendations and measures to close compliance gaps, as well as to assist healthcare institutions in meeting the accreditation standards based on the levels.
• to effectively support ISDA's accreditation process, represent ISDA in the quality TWG, contribute to the creation and/or updating of quality-related policies, guidelines, and tools, and maintain a positive dialogue and technical exchange with other technical counterparts. backed districts
• Encourage cooperation across the seemingly unrelated QI interventions used at the facility level (mentorship, internal data validation and DQA, facility self-assessments, accreditation, death audits, ISS/DQA, rapid response teams, data dashboards, etc.). As it relates to RMNCH and malaria services, this will involve ongoing quality improvement tracking, compilation, and sharing.
• Work closely with other ISDA employees to make sure QI activities are integrated into all technical areas that are supported and that recommended quality measures are implemented and used to monitor progress.
• Ascertain that all ISDA-supported interventions adhere to MOH and international standards for the caliber of healthcare.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s in public health, nursing, midwifery, and in other related field health sciences administration or health information management. Bachelor’s in medicine is preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of expertise delivering malaria services and other mother and child health initiatives;
• 8 years or less of experience at both the central and local levels supporting MoH
• It is ideal if you have experience working on health projects funded by USAID;
• fluency in English, French, and Kinyarwanda is preferred;
• for producing case studies, recording lessons learned, and reporting on program accomplishments, strong organizational and writing abilities; and
• prior experience planning and facilitating training and capacity-building for partners and staff
• the capacity to train, mentor, and develop technical professionals in community health initiatives and national programs 
• Internet navigation and the Microsoft Office suite must be mastered. 
• being able to often travel within the country