Do you find great enthusiasm in enhancing the quality of healthcare and actually changing local environments? Looking for driven people to be Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Advisors for their team, Jhpiego is With five positions open, this is your opportunity to be instrumental in guaranteeing excellent voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services over several areas of Tanzania.

About the RISE Project and Your Part in It

Renowned health group Jhpiego has received more money from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Running from October 1, 2024, until September 30, 2025, this money is a part of the Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic Control (RISE) Project. The initiative is to keep providing necessary VMMC services in the Tabora, Iringa, Morogoro, Njombe, Singida, areas.

By providing voluntary medical male circumcision—a major intervention shown to lower the risk of HIV transmission—the VMMC program is meant to help stop the virus from spreading. Working closely with regional health teams, healthcare providers, and other important actors, the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Advisor will make sure these services not only are safe but also delivered with the highest levels of care.

To supervise the quality of VMMC services, you will work with the Ministry of Health (MOH), the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG), and several regional and council health management teams (RHMTs and CHMTs). This means you will be central to the project, making sure that everything we do revolves on always improving quality.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Your main responsibility as a CQI Advisor will be to oversee and guide the Quality Assurance (QA) Assistants allocated to every area supported by a project. The execution of ongoing quality improvement initiatives all throughout the project depends critically on these helpers. Being a major member of the Project Management Team (PMT), you will thus be in a leading role in all CQI-related affairs.

The following summarises your areas of responsibility:

Working with RHMTs and CHMTs, you will help healthcare practitioners develop their capacity to conduct safe, high-quality virtual reality medical consultations. Training courses, seminars, and on-the-job mentoring all fit here.

Part of your responsibility is to inspire a constant quality improvement attitude all over the healthcare system. By means of organised mentoring, you will develop work and quality improvement teams (WITs/QITs) so enabling their awareness of the relevance of quality standards and their means of attainment.

You will mentor council health managers and advocate for the integration of VMMC within their regular Continuous Quality Improvement initiatives. You will also be working with them to guarantee regular provision of supporting supervision.

One of the essential components of preserving quality is avoiding and controlling adverse occurrences (AEs.). You will help to identify, document any problems with VMMC services and make sure healthcare personnel has the knowledge to avoid typical AEs.

You will try to guarantee that every VMMC service satisfies MOH, USAID, PEPFAR criteria. This implies doing internal and external quality checks as well as ensuring that the given services meet these criteria.

By spotting quality assurance objectives and tactics, you will help create project work schedules. Achieving and maintaining CQI goals throughout all areas will depend much on your observations.

Applying the USAID Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) approach will help you bring fresh ideas for raising the calibre of services into play. This entails developing understanding of what is working, what has to be improved, and supporting modifications meant to benefit the project.

You will help with reports, presentations, abstracts, even success tales on the accomplishments of the project. Through performance data analysis and insightful generation, you will enable Jhpiego to highlight best practices for ongoing quality improvement and exhibit the effect of the RISE project.

Representing Jhpiego: At national, donor, and organisational meetings you will present the project. These sessions will allow you to communicate the knowledge gained from the CQI process and provide suggestions to support best practices on other healthcare initiatives.

What specifically we are looking for? Necessary Skills

Success in this position will depend on combining knowledge, experience, and personal abilities. We are searching for this:

Preference is for a Bachelor’s degree in medicine, nursing, or a health-related field—especially public health. That could also be possible, though, if you have a lot of practical expertise handling quality assurance and improvement.

expertise: Particularly in HIV prevention initiatives, we are looking for someone with at least 7 years of expertise using quality assurance and quality improvement. One really benefits from experience with virtual machines. You should also have at least five years of expertise controlling quality standards for initiatives sponsored by donors.

Skills with Teams: Experience collaborating with teams dedicated to quality improvement is quite sought for. Working with regional medical officers (RMOs), district medical officers (DMOs), RHMTs, and CHMTs should make you at ease. Second nature to you should be encouraging group projects and use statistics to guide decisions.

Previous experience with USAID, MOH, PORALG, international NGOs (INGOs), and civil society organisations (CSRs) adds added value. We are seeking someone who knows how these companies operate and how best to cooperate with them.

Strong change management abilities, a results-oriented attitude, and ease of decision-making will all be vital traits of your leadership. Someone who can drive change and enable others to recognise the need of ongoing quality improvement is what we are seeking for.

Since mentoring and training are a major component of your responsibility, you will need experience in organising training courses and therefore enhancing the capacity of people and companies.

English and Kiswahili both need for outstanding written and spoken communication abilities. Given that you will be representing Jhpiego at national and international conferences, presentation techniques are particularly vital.

Your daily job will depend on MS Office, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, thus you will need to be at ease using these programs.

Travelling to project areas (up to 40% of your time) is part of your job, hence you should be ready and able to do so as needed.

Method of Application

We would be happy to hear from you if this sounds to be the ideal fit for you. This is a full-time job; applicants have October 10, 2024 as its deadline. Just click the link down below to apply.

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