Data & Quality Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

What You’ll Be Doing

You will be working to support data and quality efforts for a collective Foster Care program across three agencies, Child & Family, NAFI, and Children’s Friend. This position will report to the PQI Supervisor and Foster Care Director, collaborating with program managers in all three agencies. Responsibilities include identifying data needs, issuing data reports, and implementing performance and quality improvement processes and policies. The Data and Quality Specialist will oversee and collaborate with our Foster Care agency collaborative program to identify outcome metrics, measure fidelity to evidence-based programming, and support contract management efforts.

Your Main Priorities

While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily :

• Provide ongoing support and implementation of the Foster Care Performance and Quality Improvement (PQI) plan.
• Provide support for all data-driven program initiatives and produce all annual, quarterly, and monthly reports, as well as any additional reports requested; maintains program census, evidence-based model fidelity, and foster parent recruitment data.
• Ensure data quality by performing regular audits.
• Support end users and administrators with electronic health record functionality, including interoperability between different systems.
• Support and monitor program goals, baselines, and outcome development using logic models.
• Participate in Foster Care program and PQI initiatives across the collaborative as needed.
• Participate in Active Contract Management (ACM) with contract holders.
• Deliver data, reports, or dashboards to stakeholders as needed.
• Administer annual satisfaction surveys.
• Travel as needed between the three agencies’ primary locations (Providence, Warwick, Middletown).

Skills & Abilities

Travel Requirements

Site location : Middletown

Statewide travel required.

Physical Requirements

Operational staff :

This position involves work in an office setting. Tasks include operating a computer for extended periods, communicating with colleagues, and occasional lifting of office / department materials up to 25lbs. The role also requires the ability to sit for extended periods, bending, reaching, hearing and vision.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies :

Affirmative Action

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.

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