Senior Quality Improvement Specialist at Jhpiego Nigeria in Gombe and Jigawa

The Senior Quality Improvement (QI) Specialist provides clinical and technical leadership for the design, implementation, scale-up, and institutionalization of Quality Improvement (QI) approaches across states, LGAs, health facilities, and communities.

The role is hands-on, field-oriented, and clinically grounded, with direct responsibility for ensuring high-fidelity application of QI tools, methods, and standards, particularly in high-volume and high-burden facilities and communities.

Job Title: Senior Quality Improvement Specialist

Job ID: 2026-7567
Locations: Gombe and Jigawa
Employment Status: Full-Time
Category: International Positions

Required Qualifications

• Health professional qualification (Medical Doctor, Nurse, Midwife, Public Health, or related clinical discipline).
• Minimum of 7 – 10 years of experience in public health program implementation with strong emphasis on clinical Quality Improvement and service delivery.
• Demonstrated experienceleading and supervising QI teams and supporting complex, high-volume health facilities.
• Proven experience integratingHIV, TB, Malaria, RMNCH, and community health services using QI methodologies.
• Strong experience working withgovernment counterparts at state and LGA levels.
• Experience supportingdigital health tools, dashboards, or data-driven QI is an advantage.
• Excellent facilitation, mentoring, analytical, and technical writing skills.
• Proven ability to manage complexity, multiple stakeholders, and multi-state programs.
• Willingness to travel extensively within assigned states.

Responsibilities
Clinical & Technical Leadership in Quality Improvement:

• Provide advanced clinical and technical leadership, together with the QI Advisor, for the design, implementation, expansion, and institutionalization of Quality Improvement (QI) and Leadership & Management (L&M) interventions across states, LGAs, facilities, and communities.
• Lead rigorous application of QI methodologies (e.g., PDSA cycles, root cause analysis, process mapping, driver diagrams, run charts) to address complex clinical quality gaps, patient flow challenges, and service delivery bottlenecks—particularly in high-volume and high-burden facilities and communities.
• Serve as thetechnical authority on QI standards, indicators, tools, and measurement, ensuring fidelity, clinical rigor, and consistency across all service delivery platforms.

Supervision, Capacity Building & High-Volume Facility Backstopping:

• Supervise, mentor, and coach QI Specialistsand provide technical oversight to government QI teams to strengthen coaching, supportive supervision, data use, and implementation fidelity.
• Lead and supportQI capacity building through training, on-site mentoring, skills-building, peer-to-peer learning, and clinical improvement collaboratives using blended in-person and virtual approaches, including support to monthly Leadership & Management meetings.
• Providedirect technical backstopping to high-volume and high-burden facilities and communities demonstrating complex clinical, operational, or data-quality challenges, ensuring quality, safety, and patient-centred care.

Integrated Service Delivery, Scale-Up, Digital Innovation & Data Use:

• Guide and support the integration of HIV, TB, Malaria, RMNCH, and community interventions at service delivery points using QI approaches to improve coordination of care and patient-level outcomes.
• Provide senior technical oversight for expansion and scale-up of QI into new LGAs, facilities, and communities, ensuring quality is maintained during rapid growth and adaptations remain context-appropriate.
• Provide technical leadership for the use of HMIS and digital QI tools, including DHIS2, facility registers, dashboards, and digital reporting platforms.
• Strengthen data analysis, interpretation, and visualization to support real-time decision-making, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement at facility, LGA, and state levels.

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Sama’ila Muhuddin is a dedicated Registered Nurse and humanitarian professional with over seven years of frontline experience. Since May 2018, he has served with prominent international non-governmental organizations, including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Holland, Spain, France projects and ALIMA, responding to emergencies and providing critical care in some of the most challenging humanitarian settings.