State Team Lead/Service and Quality Improvement Coordinator at Jhpiego – John Hopkins University
About Jhpiego – John Hopkins University
“What are we aiming at?” That’s the question our first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, asked at his inauguration in 1876. What is this place all about, exactly? His answer: “The encouragement of research . . . and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell.” Gilman believed that teaching and research go hand in hand-that success in one depends on success in the other-and that a modern university must do both well. He also believed that sharing our knowledge and discoveries would help make the world a better place. After 140 years, we haven’t strayed from that vision. This is still a destination for excellent, ambitious scholars and a world leader in teaching and research. Distinguished professors mentor students in the arts and music, humanities, social and natural sciences, engineering, international studies, education, business, and the health professions. Those same faculty members, and their colleagues at the university’s Applied Physics Laboratory, have made us the nation’s leader in federal research and development funding every year since 1979. That’s a fitting distinction for America’s first research university, a place that revolutionized higher education in America.
Location: Ebonyi, Kwara, Kano, Katsina and Kebbi States, Nigeria
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance on service and quality improvement that is sound, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of the appropriate State and US
- Provide technical leadership, and build local capacity using proven training approaches and quality improvement methodologies.
- Provide trainings (providers and training of trainers) as well as follow-up support and clinical mentoring as necessary for QI at secondary and primary health care facilities.
- Support service/quality improvement efforts, approaches and tools at all supported health facilities in selected states.
- Support nutrition and referral services and systems at the state to ensure they are functional.
- Develop strategies for increasing the percentage of pregnant women, including married adolescents, who deliver under the care of a skilled birth attendant
- Advocate with State Ministry of Health for adoption of new evidence based quality improvement (QI) best practices at health facilities in project sites.
- Advocate with other ministries, community, NGO’s, and religious leaders to support and promote service/quality improvement components and increase uptake of health facility services by women and their children.
- Contribute to and coordinate with the program’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team on activities to ensure that the program meets set targets in accordance with national and USG standards.
- Represent program at state level stakeholder meetings and technical working groups in relation to service/quality improvement of RMNCH, Nutrition and related technical areas.
Management
- Provide leadership of the MCGL QoC/CEmONC team at the State.
- Contribute to annual work planning, training plans and quarterly reports and other
- required technical reports.
- Contribute to timely, accurate and appropriate reporting of program activities and results.
- Ensure quality program implementation consistent with MOH Nigerian Guidelines, global best practices and US Government Nigerian Strategic Directions.
- Evaluate program progress against deliverables on a quarterly basis
- With the State Team, oversee program design, implementation, quality assurance and monitoring of work plan.
- Coordinate with the other members of the technical team and NGO partners to develop and implement feasible facility and community-based approaches
- Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor which contribute to the achievement of program goals.
Required Qualifications
The State Team Lead/Service/Quality Improvement Coordinator must be a proven leader in the field of RMNCH service and quality Improvement with senior-level management experience in public health programs. The State Team lead/Coordinator must be intimately familiar with the context in Nigeria and have in-country experience with US Government programs. Additional qualifications include:
- An experienced Midwife/Nurse or any other closely related health care professional; other related courses (e.g. MPH, MSC or other relevant degree) will be an advantage.
- Minimum 8 years of experience working in RMNCH in Africa, preferably in Nigeria
- Demonstrated expertise in working directly with host-community, senior government officials and policy makers in RMNCH.
- Experience working with host-country partners, organizations, and institutions
- Strong skills in management of staff, program design, implementation and monitoring of program components; e.g. services, training, supportive supervision, clinical mentoring, advocacy and coordination.
- Demonstrated capacity to work with State Ministry of Health, SPHCDA, Local Government Authority and partners in developing technical materials and providing training to improve service delivery, advocacy and resource mobilization for expanding quality improvement of RMNCH services.
- Experience with working on RMNCH programs funded by the US Government and/or other donor programs in developing countries, with significant Nigeria experience.
- Strong verbal, listening, writing, and intrapersonal skills essential for effective coordination among several institutions and staff involved in a broad range of activities.
- Fluent in English, (written and oral communication) and Hausa and/or Fulfulde.
- Willingness to travel throughout Nigeria as necessary.
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