Quality Improvement Advisor / State Team Lead at Jhpiego Nigeria

Jhpiego, an Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is a global leader in improving healthcare services for women and their families.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Improvement Advisor / State Team Lead

Job ID: 2026-7572
Location: Dutse, Jigawa
Employment Status: Full-Time
Category: International Positions

Overview

• Jhpiego seeks a Quality Improvement (QI) Advisor and State team lead for The Global Fund funded, “Quality Improvement and Leadership and Management Strengthening through Technical Assistance”.
• The project aims to implement an innovative approach for integrated supportive supervision (ISS) that includes collaborative improvement, training, a web-enabled supervision checklist, and supervision of supervisors to improve health worker performance and quality of care for integrated HIV/TB/Malaria/COVID19/primary health care services for underserved population including community interventions working with CHIPs, as well as strengthen leadership and management skills among Ministry of Health and local government staff for QI and improved integrated service delivery in health facilities and communities.
• The QI advisor will work under the supervision of the Nigeria Project Director and technical director to lead quality improvement for selected elements of disease programs, provide clinical care and insights to Qi interventions and support leadership and management activities in assigned state working closely with the State Ministry of Health and other government agencies and with the QI specialist.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical assistance for quality improvement and leadership and management activities in Nigeria to achieve rapid and sustained goals, objectives and targets,
• Lead preparation, planning and implementation of QI capacity-building activities (training and mentoring) for facility health workers and district managers in program districts using virtual and in-person methods as appropriate
• Support development, adaptation and use of QI and L&M training curricula and tools as part of QI capacity-building activities and ongoing support of QI teams and district MOH managers
• Provide onsite and virtual support and mentoring to at least 15 sites in the selected project region for quality improvement activities related to HIV/TB/Malaria/primary health care services.
• Provide leadership and management to Jhpiego State team on the QI project
• Collaborate with MOH counterparts to align program-supported QI activities with existing MOH structures and processes including:
  • Activation and ongoing support of QI teams to implement QI processes, including root cause analysis of critical quality gaps, change management to overcome gaps and regular monitoring and analysis of quality indicator results/trends
  • Support to district managers and facility QI teams to calculate, visualize and analyse trends in quality of care results
  • Support and help synthesize regular peer to peer and cross-site QI learning and exchange (virtual and in-person).
• Moderate and manage communication via selected virtual platforms
• Participate in any existing HTM and QoC technical working groups in program-supported districts
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with participating MOHs and other in-state level stakeholders and involve them in this process.
• Contribute to preparation of program reports, communications and presentations.
• Represent program as requested in meetings, working groups and communications with external stakeholders and funder within the state
• Share project’s progress, achievements and lessons learned to ministry of health officials, key stakeholders, and through meetings and presentations.
• Monitor project activities to ensure they are on track and communicate regularly with the project management team about progress.
• Coordinate planned activities with relevant MoH department and other stakeholders, leadership and staff and ensure support and collaboration
• Lead technical assistance in the areas of quality improvement, leadership and management.
• Coordinate work planning and reporting processes in close collaboration with the project team.
• Provide leadership in ensuring all donor and Jhpiego deliverables are submitted on time and in high quality
• Write and review project materials related to State and Nigeria
• Supervise QI specialist and other team members in the state.

Required Qualifications

• Health professional (e.g. Doctor, Nurse, Midwife) with at least 8+years’ experience leading and implementing public health programs.
• Strong familiarity with health system and HIV, TB, COVID19, Community interventions working with CHIPs and Malaria service delivery 
• Previous experience in quality improvement, capacity development and health system strengthening
• Previous experience working in HIV, TB and Malaria across health facilities
• Ability to interact with established networks of senior level international health professionals, ministry of health officials and other partners
• Previous experience working closely with the Ministry of Health in Nigeria
• Comfortable with a team approach to programming and the ability to manage several major activities simultaneously
• Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office
• Willingness to travel within Nigeria

Salary
Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, and references.
• The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
• Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer