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
