Adviser — Hospital Performance Improvement
Nigeria·Healthcare & Life Sciences·Healthcare operations· Abuja·Posted 23 September 2026
Applications close 30 October 2026
Healthcare operations organisation in Nigeria
Partner-sourced
Sourced through a partner search firm or the sponsor's own nomination committee, and verified before listing.
The problem this seat exists to solve
Candidates should have hospital operations or healthcare performance-improvement experience with demonstrated implementation results. They need financial awareness, analytical judgement and credibility with frontline and clinical teams. Experience working within constrained resources is particularly useful.
Separate recoverable inefficiency from a resource deficit
The adviser will assess hospital performance and recommend improvements grounded in the actual operating constraints. The assignment requires a balanced view of utilisation, cost, service reliability and patient experience rather than a single drive to increase activity.
Diagnostic priorities
Review selected service lines, support functions and administrative processes. Identify avoidable cancellations, idle capacity, procurement delays and repeated operational failures. Test whether reported performance reflects data quality issues or genuine variation before recommending targets.
Improvement advice
Develop a prioritised plan with operational owners, resource requirements and realistic sequencing. Distinguish changes that can be made through management discipline from those requiring investment or specialist clinical redesign. Recommend short improvement trials where uncertainty is high, with measures of benefit and unintended consequences.
Performance recommendations should show the cause of the problem, the proposed change and the mechanism by which improvement is expected. If cancellations arise from equipment unavailability, a scheduling target alone will not solve them. The adviser should identify which measures reveal sustained improvement and which could be met through workarounds. Compare the cost of additional capacity with the opportunity to recover existing capacity, and make any quality or workload trade-offs explicit for the appropriate clinical and operational leaders to assess.
Acceptance and handover
Deliver a clear diagnosis, feasible interventions and a review process that management can sustain. Candidates should discuss a cost-saving proposal they rejected because it would have increased service failure or shifted cost elsewhere. The adviser does not take over clinical decisions or operational management unless separately appointed; recommendations should be specific enough for accountable leaders to act on and evaluate.
Terms
- Where the board sits
- Abuja, Nigeria
- Applications close
- 30 October 2026
- Appointment
- Advisory engagement
Before you apply — an advisory engagement
No office of director, and no appointment formalities.
An advisory engagement creates no directorship in Nigeria. There is no registry filing, no regulator pre-approval, no residency arithmetic and no statutory director liability — which is why it is so often the right first step into a market you do not yet know.
- On this brief
- Independence
- Where the engagement specifies independence from any search that follows, that is a requirement of the engagement rather than a courtesy — an adviser to a board is not a candidate for it.
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