The Senior Quality Improvement (QI) Advisor assists the QI Director and Country Program Teams in the development and oversight of I-TECH program quality improvement and operations research components with the goal of ensuring the quality and effectiveness of human capacity development efforts targeting diverse health care professionals and providers of care and support to persons living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world. The Senior QI Advisor supports the development and evolution of I-TECH performance management frameworks, continual quality improvement activities, and operations research through on-going support to core and field staff. This may involve clarifying objectives, improving indicator and data quality, identifying and/or developing M&E methods and tools for special studies, and identifying and implementing PDSA cycles for quality improvement. The Senior QI advisor will assist field based teams in tracking progress towards objectives of human capacity development activities and support I-TECH offices in meeting minimum standards for quality management. The Senior QI Advisor works with headquarters and in-country staff to identify individual and group training needs, improve systems, and increase the overall efficiency and quality of program implementation. In short, the Senior QI Advisor works with country program managers and in-country I-TECH staff to assure principles of quality improvement are integrated in all areas of technical assistance, and provides leadership in strengthening QI systems across all activity areas.

The International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) is a federally-funded project which supports the development of HIV/AIDS care and treatment training initiatives serving healthcare providers in 25 developing countries acutely impacted by the global AIDS epidemic. I-TECH currently supports 10 international offices and approximately 500 international and domestic staff. I-TECH is an initiative of the University of Washington schools of Medicine and Public Health & Community Medicine and it partners with the University of California, San Francisco.