Project Overview

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the Reaching Impact, Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE) Project additional one-year funding (1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025) to continue supporting voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services in Iringa, Morogoro, Njombe, Singida and Tabora regions. The USAID RISE VMMC Project works collaboratively with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG) with implementation oversight from five Regional Health Management Teams (RHMTs) and 35 Council Health Management Teams (CHMTs) in project-supported regions.

Position Summary

The Quality Assurance (QA) Assistant leads continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities in project-supported regions working collaboratively with VMMC master trainers (TOTs) and VMMC focal persons at regional and council level. The QA Assistant supports and co-facilitates implementation of MOH’s minimum standards for VMMC service delivery among health care providers working collaboratively with the RISE regional team (RRT), RHMTs and CHMTs in consultation with the RISE CQI Advisor, to whom the QA Assistant reports. Within RRT, the QA Assistant works closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant and Cluster Project Officer (CPO) positions to engage RHMTs and CHMTs using the national CQI tool for VMMC to monitor compliance, document gaps and support timely and targeted course correction and remediation. S/he provides follow through and documentation of site progress to achieving the minimum QA standards through structured mentorship and joint supportive supervision..

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Reports to: Advisor – Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

Position supervised: None

Location: Iringa, Morogoro, Njombe, Singida or Tabora regions

Required Positions: 5 (one each Region)

This position will be closed on October 10. 2024

Responsibilities
Promote awareness, understanding and integration of the minimum standards for VMMC defined by MOH in the national CQI tool in VMMC service delivery in project-supported regions.
Lead the project’s quality assurance and quality improvement (QA/QI) initiatives, support its dissemination and monitor and report progress and outcomes during its implementation.
Conduct root cause analysis with council counterparts to understand chronic CQI challenges at facility, council or region level and support locally led initiatives to implement changes.
Support facilities to develop, implement and update remediation plans based on recommendations from joint supportive supervisions and internal/external quality assurance assessments.
Prepare activity plans related to CQI, coordinate participant logistics within and outside region, and organize materials, stationeries and equipment required to support QA/QI activities.
Keep the project updated and orient the team from time to time on CQI updates and best practices and facilitate seminars or workshops to disseminate the new ideas, tools and techniques.
Contribute to CQI documentation and knowledge management including activity reports, data analysis, presentation slides, success stories, technical briefs and conference abstracts.
Support other Jhpiego projects and initiatives as opportunities arise.
Perform other duties assigned from time to time by your supervisor.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in medicine or nursing or diploma with relevant workplace experience of at least 2 years
Technical knowledge in performance improvement, quality assurance, quality improvement, and clinical mentoring principles, tools and approaches.
Experience implementing quality assurance activities. Evidence of participation in PEPFAR, USAID or VMMC quality assurance activities will be an added advantage.
Experience in adult learning and training methodologies.
Demonstrate capacity and readiness to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team supporting highly experienced health professionals.
Good understanding of how the health system in Tanzania is structured. Experience engaging with RHMTs and CHMTs in collaborative work desirable.
Exceptional interpersonal communication, teamwork, partnering and consensus building skills.
Ability to prioritize and self-manage time productively.
Be prepared to travel, up to 50% of work time, ofttimes in rural and hard-to-reach areas.
Oral and written proficiency in English and Kiswahili.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external customers those contacted during work.
Planning and negotiation skills required
Good level of computer literacy, conversant with all Microsoft products