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Specific responsibilities include the following:

• Cultivate and sustain working relations and collaborations with relevant MoH entities responsible for fostering quality of healthcare across UHA’s family health scope. These include the SCAPPD, RCH, Nutrition division, clinical services and their respective TWGs and sub-committees.

• Manage dissemination and operationalization of the RMNCAH QoC implementation guidelines as a springboard for institutionalizing QI into the RMNCAH programs at the national, regional and district levels.

• Work with the UHA IHSD team to accelerate the uptake of key MNH, FP, CH, SSNB and nutrition care packages as prescribed by WHO and adopted by MoH.

• Provide technical leadership, assistance, and capacity building for the application of quality improvement methods across the UHA’s Family health thematic areas, at all levels of implementation.

• Support the project, and regional teams to design, implement, and monitor, responsive QI collaboratives and to document and disseminate results from these collaboratives for the different Family health thematic areas.

• Identify and implement appropriate training, coaching experiential learning exchange activities, and family health QI capacity-building needs across the different levels of project implementation.

• Work with the MoH RMC working group to integrate RMC practices in the delivery of RMNCAH services across the UHA regions. This will include the development of tools and approaches to advance RMC at the facility level.

• Scale up data use at the sub-national level through building (data use) capacity in existing platforms like the regional performance review meetings, regional MPDSR meetings, the RECO and DICO meetings, and the Local Maternity and Neonatal systems platforms to analyze and use their data to drive action on referrals, mentorships, supply chain management and other RMNCAH HSS aspects.

• Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning teams to establish/maintain robust QI data management systems for the different improvement collaboratives.

• Lead the documentation and dissemination of Family Health QI-related activities, progress reports, successes, lessons learned and best practices.

• Develop QI/QM knowledge management products and support a system for reporting, documenting, and sharing QI results at domestic and international levels.