PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health.
PATH is seeking to recruit a Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) Officer for the Integrated HIV/AIDS Project in Haut Katanga and Lualaba (IHAP-HK/L) to support quality improvement at the facility-level in order to achieve 90-90-90 objectives, under the supervision of the IHAP-HK/L Deputy Chief of Party for Clinical Services. Specific job duties include:
- Reinforce the capacity of key actors at various levels of the health system to use QA/QI approaches in order to improve the quality of HIV care and treatment services in support of 90-90-90 objectives.
- Initiate and support key partners at the facility- and community-levels in a process to identify gaps in service delivery, develop a plan to improve the quality of services provided, and implement established plan, with a focus on utilization of data to inform quality improvement.
- Support the implementation of the Quality Improvement Collaboratives (QIC) approach in all IHAP-supported facilities and community sites, including revitalizing existing QIC teams and coaches in facilities in Haut Katanga and Lualaba.
- Identify and support quality improvement coaches to assist facilities and community sites with performance improvement.
- Support the establishment of a collaborative approach for learning for facility and community-levels, including organizing learning exchanges for facilities to discuss problems and share best practices/lessons learned and packaging common best practices/lessons learned for dissemination with all project-supported facilities and community-sites.
- Support coaching efforts at the facility- and community-level to improve utilization and analysis of data to inform decision-making on service delivery, including using simple visualization tools to identify gaps in service delivery or areas that need improvement.
- Participate in routine data quality assessments at project-supported facilities.
- Contribute to operational research studies, such as patient satisfaction studies at IHAP-HK/L supported health facilities and community service delivery sites.
- Organize and carry out joint coaching/supervision visits with IHAP-HK/L project staff, health zone management teams, DPS-PNLS, and PNLT.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of work plans and project reporting, as requested.
- Participate in IHAP-HK/L coordination meetings.
Required Experience
Required Skills:
- Degree in Medicine; medical doctor preferred, with demonstrated experience in HIV/AIDS case management or service delivery
- Extensive experience in working with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and Word.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to product products with minimal errors.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in multicultural environment.
- Excellent written and spoken French and strong English skills.
Required Experience:
- A minimum of five years of experience working on health systems strengthening and/or HIV/AIDS programming in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Previous experience working on USAID- and/or PEPFAR-supported HIV/AIDS projects is preferred.
- Previous experience utilizing QA/QI approaches, including the Quality Improvement Collaboratives approach, is strongly desired.
Applicants considered for this position are to be DRC nationals. This position is based in Lubumbashi. Candidates outside of Lubumbashi will be responsible for their relocation to Lubumbashi.
Please submit a cover letter with your curriculum vitae/resume describing your interest in this position, how you meet the requirements, and previous experience with the above-listed job duties.
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