Summary
Date Posted: Friday, September 29 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overview:
URC under the USAID Uganda Health Activity (UHA), a five-year program is supporting the Ministry of Health’s Standards, Compliance, Accreditation and Patient Protection Department (SCAPP-D) to recruit Regional Quality Improvement Officers. The purpose of UHA is to support the Government of Uganda’s (GOU’s) efforts to increase the survival and well-being of vulnerable populations and improve overall health system resilience in seven priority regions. The program will strengthen the quality and availability of MNCH, FP/RH, nutrition, facility-level WASH services, and health systems at the regional-, district-, facility-, and community levels.

Responsibilities:
The Regional Quality Improvement officer in the respective regions will effectively plan and implement activities to: 1) build the capacity of the Regional Referral Hospital team, Partners and districts to implement Quality Improvement plans and strategies, 2) support the community health department to coordinate regional quality improvement activities 3) support monitoring and reporting of the regional Quality improvement activities.

Specific responsibilities include the following:
• Develop the regional QI work plans and budget and track its implementation working in collaboration with Regional QI committee.
• Coordinate QI activities including coaching and mentoring in collaboration with other stakeholders through the Hub and Spoke Model.
• Identify training needs and coordinate sustainable capacity-building efforts for regional and district QI coaches to support QI activities in the region.
• Provide leadership for the implementation of national and regional QI collaboratives, liaise with the MoH-QI teams to roll out the national QI collaborative including orientation of regional and district teams.
• Provide technical support (mentorship, support supervision and QI periodic review) to work improvement teams to routinely review data and update running QI projects.
• Regularly provide coaching & technical support to Regional QI and District QI committees to institute changes and evidence-based practices to improve key performance indicators.
• Conduct regional learning sessions and performance reviews to harvest success stories and lessons learnt.
• Participate in research and work with regional, district and site level QI teams to develop abstracts for various conferences and relevant publications.
• Maintain an updated CQI database for the region.
• Institutionalize use of the audit tool at district and site level to ensure planning and provision of all services for all clients.
• Coordinate client feedback surveys and RCAs.
• Institutionalize principles of 5S at the health facilities and districts.

Qualifications:
• Required Experience and Qualifications
• Degree in Medical fields such as MBChB, Nursing, and related fields and should be Registered with the relevant Professional Councils.
• A master’s in public health or health field is an added advantage.
• A minimum of four years of experience in the coordination and implementation of quality improvement activities at the regional/ national level.
• Demonstratable experience in designing Quality improvement collaboratives.
• Demonstratable experience working with multiple stakeholders.
• Other applied knowledge and skills:
• Demonstrable excellent written and oral communication skills and must be able to communicate and coordinate effectively with GoU counterparts, donors and partners.
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• Ability to manage online platforms to coordinate learning meetings.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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