MCSP, USAID ,Quality Improvement and Scale-up Advisor Jobs in Rwanda

ate goal of ending
preventable child and maternal deaths within a generation. The Program is
focused on ensuring that all women, newborns and children most in need have
equitable access to quality health care services to save lives. USAID’s MCSP
supports programming in maternal, newborn and child health, immunization,
family planning and reproductive health, nutrition, health systems
strengthening, water/sanitation/hygiene, malaria, prevention of mother-to-child
transmission of HIV, and pediatric HIV care and treatment. USAID’s MCSP engages
governments, policymakers, private sector leaders, health care providers, civil
society, faith-based organizations and communities in adopting and accelerating
proven approaches to address the major causes of maternal, newborn and child
mortality such as postpartum hemorrhage, birth asphyxia and diarrhea,
respectively, and improve the quality of health services, from household to
hospital.

• Assist in development
  and implementation of quality improvement approaches and tools in
  alignment with Ministry of Health and MCSP guidelines

• Provide technical
  leadership and guidance to technical and program staff in quality
  improvement activities per technical area and district to correctly
  identify and address gaps

• Ensure documentation
  of quality improvement activities, trainings, improvements, assessments
  and data, including timely reporting to USAID

• Ensure that Health
  Care services provided by district health facilities comply with Quality
  standards to ensure that services meet requirements of accreditation
  program and meet client expectations and acceptable clinical standards.

• Assist in the
  development and testing approaches for quality and performance improvement
  and/or human resources development according to the local context

• Apply quality
  standards to ensure that health services meet accreditation program
  requirements, as well as meet client expectations

• Ensure learning
  activities are implemented in a timely manner and according to protocol

• In collaboration with
  the Learning and Quality improvement team lead, work with the MOH to
  employ process documentation for learning activities

• Conduct technical
  debriefing meetings with the technical teams to present advances in the
  learning and quality improvement agendas

• Coordinate with the
  administrative and technical teams for the reproduction and distribution
  of learning materials

• Monitor, analyze and
  synthesize MCSP’s contribution to the national achievement of EPMCD

• Advise technical teams on the relevant
  M&E systems based on needs, MoH requests and MCSP and USAID
  requirements and standards.

• Work with program staff to ensure that
  lessons learned from project and program evaluations create new learning
  that influence quality of service provision.

• Establish and maintain good working relations
  with the relevant MoH technical working groups, as well as other
  higher-level stakeholder groups.

• Contribute to annual
  planning process

• In collaboration with program staff and
  M&E team, ensure that necessary quality improvement planning,
  budgeting, and management activities occur to facilitate smooth and
  efficient program functioning

• Monitor and track improvements and progress
  towards quality goals

• Manage the Collaborative improvements approach
  in project supported districts to reinforce the peer review process
  through sharing lessons learned and best practices adopted to
  continuously bridge performance gaps.

• Provide input for study reports, journal
  articles, conference posters or presentations to disseminate the findings
  of the learning/research activities

• Assist the M&E Learning and QI Lead in
  results reporting to USAID by providing written documentation on the
  Learning Agenda indicator results for progress and annual reports.

• Ensure high-quality implementation,
  consistent with Rwandan national health guidelines, protocols,
  information and reporting systems

• Work with the technical teams to ensure that
  the project achieves its deliverables related to quality improvement

• Document the process of systematizing the
  Learning and Quality Improvement approach

• Contribute to the development of MCSP annual
  action plans and reports and make presentations to relevant technical
  meetings, missions and partners in a timely manner.

• Advanced degree in
  public health, midwifery, nursing, social sciences or other relevant area

• Minimum 3 years of work experience in
  health-related monitoring and evaluating projects in RMNCH and/or malaria
  in Rwanda or another East or Southern African Nation

• Proven expertise in quantitative and
  qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management
  information systems, reporting, knowledge management and documentation,
  data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation

• Demonstrated strong management, coordination,
  teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to
  function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the
  public and NGO sectors

• Experience applying quality improvement
  techniques to health projects/activities

• Familiarity with Rwanda’s health management
  information system and other national M&E systems

• Ability to work
  effectively with diverse international teams

• Ability to work in a complex environment with
  multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform

• Strong technical skills, including ability to
  process and analyze data using one or more statistical
  software packages, including at least two of the following: SPSS,
  Epi-Info, Stata, MS Access

• Proficiency in word processing and Microsoft
  Office

• Strong oral and written communication and
  presentations skills in English; working knowledge of French and
  Kinyarwanda is preferred

• Ability to travel nationally