Assistant Vice President Quality Improvement and Performance Management

Heartshare Human Services Of New York•Brooklyn, NY

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Assistant Vice President (AVP), Quality Improvement & Performance Management is the operational leader who runs Heartshare's enterprise quality improvement and performance measurement engine. Reporting to the SVP of Data & Innovation, the AVP translates ODI's strategy into day-to-day execution — coordinating performance reviews, driving QI methodology, overseeing outcome measurement, and ensuring programs have the tools and coaching to act on data. This is a hands-on, technically fluent role. The AVP is expected to work directly in Power BI, Microsoft Fabric/Copilot, and Power Automate — building and refining dashboards, scorecards, and automations — while also leading people, facilitating meetings, and coaching program leaders toward a stronger data culture. Within the ODI operating model, this function answers one core question for the organization: “Are we getting better, and how do we know?”

Requirements

Master's degree in Public Health, Social Work, Healthcare Administration, Public Administration, Human Services, Organizational Leadership, Data Analytics, Business Administration, or a related field. Equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience will be considered.
Minimum 6–8 years of progressive experience in quality improvement, performance management, program evaluation, healthcare, or human services.
Minimum 3–5 years of supervisory experience.
Demonstrated, hands-on experience building Power BI dashboards or equivalent BI tooling — not solely directing others to build them.
Experience facilitating performance reviews and structured improvement initiatives.
Experience with, or strong demonstrated aptitude for, AI-assisted productivity tools and workflow automation.
Advanced knowledge of Continuous Quality Improvement methodologies and enterprise performance management.
Strong understanding of program evaluation, outcome measurement, and the difference between compliance review and proactive QI.
Ability to facilitate improvement initiatives and lead change management with program leaders who may be new to data-driven practice.
Strong facilitation, coaching, and relationship-building skills; ability to influence without direct authority.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including translating technical findings for non-technical audiences.
Strong project management skills; able to run multiple improvement initiatives and dashboard builds concurrently.
Working knowledge of the regulatory frameworks relevant to Heartshare's service lines (OPWDD/DQI, OCFS, ACS, OMH, COA/Social Current).
Understanding of HIPAA, FERPA, and PHI/PII handling requirements as they apply to reporting and AI use.
Experience with Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, and semantic models, or ability to ramp quickly within 90 days.
Working proficiency with Microsoft Copilot (Word, Excel, Teams) for drafting, summarizing, and analysis.
Practical, working-level understanding of generative AI capabilities and limits — enough to scope a use case, not build a model.
Experience with or aptitude for Power Automate: designing simple workflow automations (approvals, notifications, data collection) without IT dependency.
Comfort operating within an AI governance framework — understands why PHI/PII cannot go into ungoverned AI tools and models that discipline for staff.
Advanced Microsoft 365 proficiency: SharePoint, Lists, Planner, Teams, Excel.
Comfort owning a tracker or workflow end-to-end in SharePoint/Lists rather than defaulting to spreadsheets emailed around.
Can read a data model well enough to sanity-check a metric, spot a data-quality issue, or challenge an inferred (rather than measured) outcome.
Understands the difference between an output and an outcome and insists on the latter in scorecards and reports.

Responsibilities

Implement and maintain the agency's performance management framework, including the manager/program scorecard cadence.
Coordinate and facilitate enterprise performance review meetings with program and operational leaders.
Ensure performance measures, scorecards, and reporting expectations are applied consistently across service lines (DD residential, day, education, clinical, HSVS).
Monitor performance trends and flag areas requiring follow-up, intervention, or improvement planning.
Track progress against strategic plan metrics and established performance targets, ensuring every metric is grounded in a named, existing data source.
Own agency-wide QI methodology (e.g., PDSA, root cause analysis) and its consistent application across programs.
Lead cross-functional improvement projects from problem definition through measurable, sustained results.
Support departments directly with root cause analysis and improvement implementation — this is a hands-on facilitation role, not solely oversight.
Evaluate the effectiveness of improvement initiatives and course-correct when outcomes stall.
Oversee program outcome measurement, including standardized evaluation tools and methodologies.
Coordinate outcome reviews with program and leadership teams; translate findings into QI planning.
Identify trends and improvement opportunities from evaluation data, distinguishing genuine outcomes from output metrics.
Build, maintain, and troubleshoot Power BI dashboards and scorecards directly (Direct Lake mode against the Fabric lakehouse), partnering with the Data Engineer on source connections.
Identify and prototype Power Automate workflows that reduce manual reporting and data collection burden for QI and program staff.
Use Microsoft Copilot and other DAIGI-approved AI tools to accelerate report drafting, note synthesis, and analysis — modeling responsible AI use for the QI team.
Surface automation and AI opportunities to the SVP/DAIGI for governance review; lead implementation once approved.
Ensure every dashboard, scorecard, and automated report meets Heartshare's AI Acceptable Use Policy and PHI/PII handling standards.
Collaborate with Compliance on audit findings, corrective action trends, incident reviews, and quality-related risks.
Incorporate compliance findings into proactive QI planning, reinforcing the Compliance (reactive) / ODI (proactive) distinction.
Identify systemic issues that require cross-functional intervention beyond a single program.
Build organizational capacity in QI, performance measurement, and data/AI literacy.
Develop training resources, job aids, and coaching staff and program leaders on scorecards, dashboards, and AI-assisted workflows.
Facilitate cross-program sharing of successful improvement practices.
Directly supervise, coach, and develop the Director of QI and QI analytics staff.
Set departmental goals, priorities, and work plans; monitor team performance and completion of improvement initiatives.
Foster collaboration across ODI's Governance, Foundation, and Process layers.
Prepare performance analyses, quality reports, and outcome summaries for SVP and executive-level use.
Draft executive-level dashboards, scorecards, and briefing materials in partnership with Analytics, for SVP review before executive or Board distribution.
Supply performance and evaluation data that informs strategic plan updates and metric finalization with executive owners.

Benefits

Rewarding Work in a team environment.
Paid vacation, sick, personal days, and holidays.
403(B) retirement plans with employer contribution.
Health, dental, vision and life insurance.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Flexible spending account (Dependent Care, Medical, Parking, and Transit).
Employee Appreciation Programs and Events.
Tuition Assistance Program.
Professional Development opportunities.
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