Job Openings at Jhpiego

Project Summary

Jhpiego seeks to hire qualified candidates for The Global Fund funded, “Quality Improvement and Leadership and Management Strengthening through Technical Assistance”. The project aims to provide support to Global Fund programs in 5 countries: Chad, DRC, Niger, Nigeria and Mali to implement an innovative approach for integrated supportive supervision (ISS) that includes collaborative improvement, training, a web-enabled supervision checklist, and supervision of supervisors to improve health worker performance and quality of care for integrated HIV/TB/Malaria/primary health care services for underserved population, as well as strengthen leadership and management skills among Ministry of Health staff for QI and improved integrated service delivery in health facilities and communities. The project will be implemented in Jigawa State.

Position: Quality Improvement Advisor

Position Reports to: Nigeria Project Lead

Location: Jigawa

Job Summary:

Jhpiego seeks a Quality Improvement (QI) Advisor for Jigawa State for The Global Fund funded, “Quality Improvement and Leadership and Management Strengthening through Technical Assistance”. The QI advisor will work under the supervision of the Nigeria Project Lead and Regional Program Manager to lead quality improvement and leadership and management activities in Jigawa state working closely with the State Ministry of Health and other government agencies and with the QI specialist.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical assistance for quality improvement and leadership and management activities in Nigeria to achieve rapid and sustained goals, objectives and targets,
• Lead preparation, planning and implementation of QI capacity-building activities (training and mentoring) for facility health workers and district managers in program districts using virtual and in-person methods as appropriate
• Support development, adaptation and use of QI and L&M training curricula and tools as part of QI capacity-building activities and ongoing support of QI teams and district MOH managers
• Provide onsite and virtual support and mentoring to at least 15 sites in the selected project region for quality improvement activities related to HIV/TB/Malaria/primary health care services.
• Provide leadership and management to Jhpiego State team on the QI project
• Collaborate with MOH counterparts to align program-supported QI activities with existing MOH structures and processes including:
• Activation and ongoing support of QI teams to implement QI processes, including root cause analysis of critical quality gaps, change management to overcome gaps and regular monitoring and analysis of quality indicator results/trends
• Support to district managers and facility QI teams to calculate, visualize and analyse trends in quality-of-care results
• Support and help synthesize regular peer to peer and cross-site QI learning and exchange (virtual and in-person).
• Moderate and manage communication via selected virtual platforms
• Participate in any existing HTM and QoC technical working groups in program-supported districts
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with participating Jigawa MOHs and other in-country stakeholders and to involve them in this process.
• Contribute to preparation of program reports, communications and presentations.
• Represent program as requested in meetings, working groups and communications with external stakeholders and funder
• Represent Jhpiego and the project’s progress, achievements and lessons learned to ministry of health officials, key stakeholders, and through meetings and presentations.
• Monitor project activities in Nigeria to ensure that they are on track and communicate regularly with the project management team about progress.
• Coordinate planned activities with relevant MoH department and other stakeholders, leadership and staff and ensure support and collaboration
• Lead technical assistance as a trusted partner of host country governments in the areas of quality improvement, leadership and management.
• Coordinate work planning and reporting processes in close collaboration with the project team.
• Write and review project materials related to Nigeria.
• Collect data as needed related to QI activities and submit them to the project central monitoring and evaluation advisor

Required Qualification

• Health professional (e.g., Doctor, Nurse, Midwife) with at least 7-10years’ experience leading and implementing public health programs.
• Strong familiarity with health system and HIV, TB and Malaria service delivery context in Jigawa and Nigeria
• Previous experience in quality improvement, capacity development and program management.
• Previous experience working in HIV, TB and Malaria across health facilities
• Ability to interact with established networks of senior level international health professionals, ministry of health officials and other partners
• Previous experience working closely with the Ministry of Health in Nigeria
• Comfortable with a team approach to programming and the ability to manage several major activities simultaneously
• Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office
• Willingness to travel within Nigeria

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Reports to: Quality Improvement Advisor

Job Summary:

Jhpiego seeks a Program Assistant for Jigawa State on The Global Fund funded, “Quality Improvement and Leadership and Management Strengthening through Technical Assistance”.

The Program Assistant will work under the supervision of the Quality Improvement Advisor to support quality improvement and leadership and management activities in Jigawa state working closely with the State Ministry of Health and other government agencies and with the QI specialist.**

Responsibilities;

• The Program Assistant will assist in the implementation, documentation and logistics support for QI, leadership and management activities in the state/LGA/facilities
• Assist in the development of work plans, budgets, liaising with GoN stakeholder and implementing partners regarding activities.
• Support Project team in preparation of activities, including scheduling meeting, creating attendance list, corresponding with attendees, preparing materials, setting up meeting rooms, taking meeting minutes, amongst other task
• Support to maintain records and files, distributing of project information and documentation
• Assist in the asset management and documentation
• Assist in the smooth running of project office, maintenance of assets and project materials
• Ensure availability and efficient use of general office consumables, safe storage and proper use of equipment, update newly purchased items to inventory
• Conduct preliminary review of vendor invoices and advances to ensure completeness, accuracy, reasonability and validity according to Jhpiego and donor guidelines
• Assist with drafting, editing and proofreading of technical materials and appropriate reports of program activities and results for technical leads and supervisors as requested.
• Ensure expense reports, payment schedules are properly prepared, scanned and shared with the Country office, also ensuring financial documents are filed in an orderly manner
• Responsible for the collation, harmonization and regular updates of program management tools such as scorecard, stakeholder’s database, facility directory and other tools as maybe be requested.
• Coordinate staff travel logistics and retirements.

Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Social sciences, Public Health or related field, and equivalent job experience 2-3 years' in programmatic support of international health projects
• Experience in providing programmatic, administrative, financial support to public health programs
• Strong familiarity with health system and HIV, TB and Malaria service delivery context in Jigawa and Nigeria
• Ability to interact with established networks of senior level international health professionals, ministry of health officials and other partners
• Previous experience working closely with the Ministry of Health in Nigeria
• Comfortable with a team approach to programming and the ability to manage several major activities simultaneously
• Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office
• Willingness to travel within Jigawa state

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Reports to: Quality Improvement Advisor, Jigawa, Nigeria

Location: Jigawa, Nigeria

Job Summary:

Jhpiego seeks a Quality Improvement (QI) Specialist for Nigeria on The Global Fund funded, “Quality Improvement and Leadership and Management Strengthening through Technical Assistance”. The QI specialist will support quality improvement and leadership and management activities in Jigawa state and will work closely with the QI advisor to implement project activities, in coordination with the Ministry of Health and other government agencies.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical assistance for quality improvement and leadership and management activities in Jigawa to achieve rapid and sustained goals, objectives and targets.
• In collaboration with the QI Advisor support QI capacity-building activities (training and ongoing mentoring) for facility health workers and LGA and state coordinators using virtual and in-person methods as appropriate
• Support use of QI and L&M training curricula and tools as part of QI capacity-building activities and ongoing support of QI teams and MOH
• Provide onsite support and mentoring to project sites in the selected project region for quality improvement activities related to HIV/TB/Malaria/primary health care services.
• Support coordination and administration of virtual and/or in-person activities
• Moderate and manage communication via selected virtual platforms
• Contribute to preparation of program reports, communications and presentations.
• Work closely with the QI Advisor to develop and maintain strong working relationships with MOHs, State GoN agencies, LGA and health facility stakeholders and involve them in this process.
• With the QI Advisor, represent Jhpiego and the project’s progress, achievements and lessons learned to ministry of health officials, key stakeholders, and through meetings and presentations.
• Monitor project activities in Jigawa to ensure that they are on track and communicate regularly with the project management team about progress.
• Support the coordination of planned activities with relevant MoH department and other stakeholders, leadership and staff and ensure support and collaboration
• Provide technical assistance in the areas of quality improvement, leadership and management.
• Support work plan development and reporting processes in close collaboration with the project team.
• Write and review project materials related to Jigawa.
• Collect data, review and ensure quality as related to QI activities and submit them to the central monitoring and evaluation advisor

Required Qualifications:

• Health professional (e.g. Doctor, Nurse, Midwife) with at least 5-years’ experience leading and implementing public health programs.
• Previous experience in quality improvement, capacity development, stakeholder engagement and program management.
• Previous experience working in HIV, TB and Malaria
• Strong familiarity with health system and HTM service delivery context in Jigawa and Nigeria
• Ability to interact with established networks of senior level international health professionals, ministry of health officials and other partners
• Comfortable with a team approach to programming and the ability to manage several major activities simultaneously
• Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office
• Willingness to travel within Nigeria and especially Jigawa