Project HOPE is an international NGO with employees and volunteers who work around the globe, responding to the world’s most pressing global health challenges. Throughout our 65-year legacy, Project HOPE has treated millions of patients, provided more than $3 billion worth of medicines to local health care organizations around the world helped build hundreds of health programs from the ground up, and responded to humanitarian crises worldwide.
BACKGROUND ON THE INTEGRATED HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITY
The purpose of the USAID-funded Ghana Integrated Health Partnership (IHP) activity to strategically contribute to the Government of Ghana’s strategies to reduce preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths, including stillbirths, and improve their overall health and well-being by 2030. Activities are expected to advance Ghana toward increased localization, strengthening the capacity of Ghana institutions and local organizations to introduce, deliver, scale-up, and sustain the use of evidencebased, quality integrated Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health and Nutrition and Malaria services. The program will strengthen Ghana’s Networks of Practice in six regions and 31 districts to
deliver integrated RMNCH+N+M services in primary care settings and will support high burden District, Regional and Teaching Hospitals serving large numbers of mothers, newborns and children nationwide to immediately and significantly reduce preventable deaths.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Quality Improvement (QI) Advisor will provide strategic leadership and technical assistance for Project HOPE on quality management on the Integrated Health Partnership Activity along the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health, Nutrition and Malaria continuum of care. He/she will lead the design, implementation, monitoring, documentation, and evaluation of the quality management activities in collaboration with the relevant Ghana Health Services counterparts, lead implementing sub partner Christian Health Association Ghana (CHAG) and technical resource partners. In addition, the QI Advisor will support the development and evolution of the relevant standards along the RMNCH+N+M continuum and the associated QI tools, quality database, and dashboards. He/she will be responsible
for strengthening the capacity of QI teams at regional, district and facility levels for them to implement the PDCA model, including QI assessment, roots cause analysis, development of improvement plan, change management and improvement activities implementation. The QI Advisor will lead the QI approach through District Clinical Specialists and networks of internal and external full-time and parttime Mentors.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Education Required: Master’s Degree
- SKILLS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- A master's degree in public health or a related field with a minimum of 5 years’ work experience in the public health sector is required.
- A relevant degree in nursing or clinical medicine with experience in clinical management of RMNCAH+N+M-related services is required. Medical Doctor an advantage.
- Experience in mentoring and supervising RMNCAH+N+M sites, providers and system managers.
- Demonstrable knowledge and skills in the implementation of QI interventions in the context of developing countries and the management of QI data and databases.
- Strong expertise and/or education in research design and methodology and a proficiency in the use of SPSS and EpiInfo software packages.
- Ability to analyze data.
- Ability to work independently and take initiative.
- Good report writing skills.
- Capacity to design and manage result-oriented programs and to bring conceptual innovations in the technical support provided as expert.
- Demonstrated competence USAID monitoring and evaluation systems and reporting requirements.
- Strong verbal and written English language skills.
- Good computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENTThe physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Physical demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be mobile in an office environment and able to use standard office equipment.
- Must be able to communicate in verbal and written form.
- Work environment:
- May experience the current weather while performing job duties.
- Typical office environment with exposure to a minimal noise level.
- Project HOPE employees work in the global health field and may be required to travel or work in countries where working conditions are classified as “hardship”.
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