Global Health Corps (GHC) Careers – Health System Quality Improvement Coordinator at Ruhiira Millennium Villages Project

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Organisation: Global
Health Corps (GHC)
Placement Organisation: Ruhiira
Millennium Villages Project
Duty Station: Mbarara, Uganda
Salary: Monthly Stipend
of 550 dollars per month
About GHC:
Global Health Corps pairs
intelligent and passionate fellows with organizations that require new thinking
and innovative solutions. We provide these young leaders with the tools to
remain connected after their fellowship year finishes, deepening their ability
to enact change through heightened skills and strong partnerships. We currently
place fellows in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States, and
Zambia.
About Us: 
The Millennium Villages Project is an international development organization
implemented by the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York,
Millennium Promise, and the United Nations Office for Project Services. It
works to address the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan
Africa. The initiative works directly with local and national governments, as
well as non-governmental organizations to show how rural communities can lift
themselves out of poverty. The project started in 2006 and its mission is to
achieve Millennium Development Goals at the community level by 2015. The
project introduces a broad range of interventions simultaneously to address the
specific needs of each village. The communities themselves own and drive all
the work being done.
Job Summary: The GHC
Health Systems Quality Improvement Coordinator will have a main focus on
HIV/AIDS and TB interventions.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:  
  • Assess existing care practices in HIV/AIDS and TB interventions,
    identify gaps and then finding solutions to address the gaps
  • Work with health coordinators and facilitators to develop health
    facility quality improvement teams that can independently and regularly
    conduct self-assessments, identify operational gaps, and develop action
    plans to resolve any existing or emerging operational constraints
  • Improve and ensure effective and close follow-up of TB patients and
    HIV clients (including all mothers on the PMTCT program and all exposed
    babies) by designing a follow-up system, especially focusing on those
    patients outside the catchment area
  • Ensure that quality health care services are provided at all the
    HIV/AIDS clinics; to foster good client provider relationships by:
  • Monitoring and supporting supervision of the clinics
  • Perform client satisfaction surveys
  • Confirming health workers managing HIV/AIDS and TB have refresher
    courses and trainings and are up to date in knowledge concerning HIV and
    TB management
  • Preventing stock outs of ARVS and drugs for treatment of OIs in all
    the health facilities
  • Facilitate a smooth transition from option B to option B+ of PMTCT
    in all health facilities, by ensuring that all health facilities are well
    equipped with HAART for PMTCT mothers and provide training for health
    workers in option B+ of PMTCT
  • Improve quality of TB care services, by ensuring that all health
    workers have refresher TB management trainings every quarter as well as
    ensuring that case detection for TB cases is improved in all health
    facilities doing TB diagnosis
  • Ensure a centralized system for managing the collection of dried
    blood samples; acting as the link between CPHL and the health facilities
    to prevent misplacement of test results
  • Document best practices and implement these practices at other
    health facilities
  • Perform any other reasonable duties as may be assigned by the
    supervisor or management
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The applicant must possess a Master’s degree in Public Health
  • Experience working with a health program
  • Program auditing skills
  • Good data analysis skills
  • Knowledge of quality improvement standards 
  • Possess an interest in public health and understanding of public
    health-related issues in this area
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Excellent communication and coordination skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
  • Strong interest in global public health
  • Ability to work in a team environment, but with self-sufficiency and
    self-motivation
  • Strong interpersonal skills coupled with excellent communication
    skills: verbal, written, listening, presentation and facilitation
  • Fluency in both spoken and written English
  • Capacity to multi-task: flexible and capable of working under
    pressure and tight deadlines with demonstrated ability to prioritize
    across multiple projects and relationship

Age: Below 30 Years

Job Terms and Conditions:
Fellows will be provided with housing, health insurance and a living stipend of
$550/month. Additionally, fellows will receive an award of $1500 upon
successful completion of the fellowship year. Flights to and from the placement
site and all other costs associated with GHC programming are included,
including $600 in professional development funds. Housing will be arranged at
or near the placement site in Mbarara, a rural community in Western Uganda.
Note: The living stipend
and completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency, as determined by
the placement organization.
How to Apply:
All applicants who desire to be
placed by the Global Health Corps in the aforementioned organization should
express interest by clearly following the instructions at the web page below.
Deadline: 26th January, 2014

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