Improvement Advisor

**Improvement Advisor**

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. For 30 years, IHI has used improvement science to advance and sustain better outcomes in health and health systems across the world. IHI brings awareness of safety and quality to millions, catalyzes learning and the systematic improvement of care, develops solutions to previously intractable challenges, and mobilizes health systems, communities, regions, and nations to reduce harm and deaths. IHI collaborates with a growing community to spark bold, inventive ways to improve the health of individuals and populations. IHI generates optimism, harvests fresh ideas, and supports anyone, anywhere who wants to profoundly change health and health care for the better. Learn more at ihi.org.

**_ This is a full-time position that may be fully remote (work from home) if your time zone aligns with Qatar (note that occasional travel to Qatar is required)._**

**Responsibilities**

**Responsibilities**:

- Design and lead the implementation of activities to **improve the management of health training institutions**;
- ** Design curricula** that are appropriate for the service delivery demands, including the integration of **gender-sensitive modules**;
- Strengthen continuing education and in-service training in the health system;
- Design and implement activities that increase the availability and quality of instructors, including **efficiency improvements using innovations** such as distance-based learning;
- Foster **quality improvement processes** for maternal and child services competencies;
- ** Strengthen quality through standard setting and regulation** including ensuring adherence to standards;
- Ensure close collaboration and networking with professional organizations;
- Oversee a **baseline assessment** of pre-service training institutions to benchmark institutional performance in order to determine a process for continuous improvement, systems development, and undertaking reforms.

**Qualifications**
- Post-graduate degree or higher in public health, health systems, health policy and planning, or other related field.
- Proven success in designing and implementing effective training and capacity development interventions, including an understanding of curriculum design and participatory training methodology.
- Professional experience interacting with health training institutions.
- Familiarity with ongoing Government of Nigeria efforts aimed at addressing the HRH crisis in the country.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, oral, and written communication skills in English; demonstrated supervisory skills; and ability to work well on a team.

**Specific Project(s)**:
This role will support IHI's work in Qatar, specifically: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), a government-owned corporation, is the main health care provider for the state of Qatar, delivering at least 80 percent of the country's secondary and tertiary care. Employing approximately 24,000 staff, HMC consists of a network of eleven hospitals, a national ambulance service, and home health care service on which a major proportion of Qatar's population - citizens, expatriate workers and their dependents, and visitors and tourists - rely for medical care, including emergency care. HMC is the first health care provider in the region to have its hospitals reaccredited by the Joint Commission International.

IHI is partnering with HMC to support five central activities: strategic guidance and will building, the annual Middle East Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, leading patient safety and quality improvement initiatives, testing and implementing methods to increase efficiency and value, and dissemination. The goal of this work is to create a sustainable and reusable infrastructure for health and health care improvement within Hamad Medical Corporation, Hamad Healthcare Quality Institute and a network of safer hospitals across Qatar with markedly increased ability to improve.

At IHI, we are inspired to do our best work and be our best selves by leaning into our values and uniting in our vision to create a future in which everyone has the best care and health possible. We ensure that people feel valued and supported in meaningful ways, as demonstrated in our total rewards package that features competitive compensation, full medical coverage, tuition reimbursement, a personal development allowance to support what matters to you, a professional development allowance to support continued learning, respect for personal commitments and flexibility to manage them, generous time off including vacation time, Summer Fridays, a paid week off between Christmas and New Year's Day, wellness and wellbeing time, and other special programs to support employee wellbeing.