Overall Purpose: The Quality Improvement Advisor will work with other members of Jacaranda Health’s Quality Improvement team to support the execution of our external QI partnerships, engage in our Community of Practice for QI Champions, and help us realize our vision in the longer term.
Duties and Responsibilities
Work requirements and tasks will be guided by the department’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and which are reviewed periodically but will fall broadly in the following Key Responsibility Areas (KRAS)
1. Enable and support the execution of QI Public Sector Partnerships through:
a. Designing and conducting QI training at the partner public hospitals and facilitating the execution of relevant, measureable and sustainable quality improvement projects working alongside QI teams in each facility.b. helping develop capacity, systems and an organizational structure that enable the ongoing application of QIc. Serving as one of the contact persons for Jacaranda Health with partner public hospitals and providing on-going coaching for public hospital QI team members to ensure smooth execution of QI work
2. Help lead a QI Community of Practice for QI practitioners in Kenya
3. Provide internal training and decision-making support to managers and clinical staff on continuous performance measurement and quality improvement activities
4. Work with the data team internally and the M&E team externally to track and interpret key data for performance improvement and wider learning
5. Develop internal hospital-level quality champions to become mature QI advisors
6. Document QI efforts for public dissemination and for publication in refereed journals
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree
Formal training in Quality Improvement (e.g. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Improvement Advisors Course,)
At least 3 years’ experience of working independently as a Quality Improvement Advisor/Black Belt in healthcare in a low-resource setting
Strong IT literacy and application of statistical process control methodology
Application of Monitoring and Evaluation strategies
Demonstrated ability to facilitate teams in clinical settings in low resource countries
Preferred Qualifications:
Trained and practiced as Doctor/Midwife /Social Scientist/Public Health Specialist
Masters-level education in relevant field
