Overview
Jhpiego seeks a Quality improvement advisor will support to provider oversight in the development, maintenance, and implementation of plans to achieve quality improvement goals. The ISDA supports the Rwandan Ministry of Health (MOH) to contribute to the reduction of infant and maternal mortality and incidence of malaria in Rwanda, focusing on improving the availability, quality and utilization of RMNCH and malaria services and improving the health of women, adolescent, and children under five. The QI oversees and monitors a formal quality improvement teams and develops their performance improvement targets across the facilities. They will prepare written reports, assemble data, and must also be experienced in developing charts and graphs representing key performance indicators and other data. They will work in concert with the senior Technical advisors and zonal technical officers’ teams to ensure optimal performance of quality improvement related work across into RMNCH/Malaria services. In collaboration with the technical team, they will liaise with zonal coordinators, districts and health facilities to improve quality of care provided to beneficiaries.
Applications will be closed on 20th August 2023.
Responsibilities
- Ensure existence, and functionality of quality improvement teams in all ISDA supported health facilities. The team need to understand their structure, roles and responsibilities so they can lead QI activities at their respective facilities
- Provide oversight and strategic direction to the members of quality improvement committees (also known as quality management committees) have adequate and updated knowledges to optimize the functionality on QI work related using MOH approved quality improvement methodologies, including but not limited to PDSA cycles.
- Ensure the implementation of client’s feedback mechanism/strategies and their implementation within the health facilities services Patient voice program ( PVP)
- Participate in Quality and Accreditation services to develop criteria to assess the progress toward achieving QI objectives within facilities
- Support health facilities to achieve the accreditation standards based on the levels, as well as the implementation of recommendations/measures to address compliance gaps in collaboration with hospital accreditation teams
- Represent ISDA in the quality TWG and contribute to development and/or update of quality related policies, guidelines and tools as well as maintains a constructive dialogue and technical exchange with other technical counterparts to effectively support accreditation process in ISDA Supported districts
- Foster synergy between the seemingly parallel QI interventions implemented at facility level (Mentorship, Internal DQA/data validation, Facility Self Assessments, Accreditation, Death Audits, ISS/DQA, Rapid Response Teams and Data Dashboards, etc). This will include continuous tracking, compilation and sharing of quality improvement progress as it relates to RMNCH and Malaria services.
- Work closely with other ISDA staff to ensure QI activities are integrated across all supported technical areas and recommended measures of quality are put in place and used to track progress.
- Ensure all ISDA supported interventions meet MOH and global recommendations/standards for quality of health care.
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 8 years of experience implementing maternal and child health programs, including malaria services;
- Minimum 8 years of experience in supporting MoH (central and decentralized levels)
- Experience working with USAID-funded health projects is preferred;
- Proficiency in Kinyarwanda and English, French will be an advantage;
- Strong organizational and writing skills, for writing case studies, documenting lessons learned and reporting on program results; and
- Previous experience in organizing and providing training and capacity building to staff and partner
- Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff in community health
- Must be familiar with Microsoft Office package and internet navigation
- Ability to travel nationally (frequently)
Preferred Qualifications
Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.
Please apply at www.jobs-jhpiego.icims.com
Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, references, and salary history.
For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org
Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
Jhpiego does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing, orientation or any other fees
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