Quality and Compliance Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Every day, people across Albuquerque face impossible choices between health, housing, safety, and survival. For more than four decades, Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless has stood alongside our community’s most vulnerable neighbors, providing compassionate care, creating pathways to stability, and championing systemic change. More than 5,000 people each year find support through our integrated model of care, but our impact extends far beyond the walls of our clinic. Through advocacy, partnership, and innovation, we are working to transform the systems that drive homelessness and build a community where everyone has the opportunity to live with dignity, health, and hope.

Quality & Compliance Specialist (Full-Time) – Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless
Ready to use your sharp eye for detail to protect and empower vulnerable communities? Join our dynamic team to support critical compliance audits, incident reporting, and data-driven quality initiatives. Working closely with our Quality & Compliance Manager and COO, you will play a foundational role in ensuring safe, compassionate, and high-impact care for our participants. Build your career where public health meets true community purpose—apply today!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Gathers and analyzes data, prepares spreadsheets, and completes audits.
• Runs standard and ad hoc reports and performs analysis of information.
• Develops new reports as needed.
• Tracks quality indicators and quality improvement tools such as PDSA.
• Assists with Meaningful Use and Patient Centered Medical Home tracking initiatives.
• Participates in incident reporting and tracking.
• Attends various meetings and takes minutes.
• Participates in HIPAA training for staff.
• Participates in various HIPAA compliance initiatives.
• Assists with Meaningful Use/PCMH and UDS data tracking.
• Participates in developing workflows for internal programs.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Must comply with AHCH policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications:

• AA in Business Administration or Health Administration, or equivalent experience.
• 2 years’ experience working with quality improvement, risk management, and compliance in a healthcare setting.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated attention to detail.
• Good organizational skills.
• Proficiency using Reporting and Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, and other databases and spreadsheets.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA in Business Administration or Health Administration.
• 4 years’ experience in a healthcare setting working with quality improvement, risk management, and compliance.
• Experience with electronic health records, meaningful use, and incident reporting.
• Prior experience working in a non-profit setting.

All benefits start the month after you begin work:

• Low cost medical, vision, and dental insurance with health club membership
• Life insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment fully paid for by organization
• Long Term Disability fully paid for by organization
• Paid Time Off - 24 days in first year of employment
• Catastrophic Sick Time accrual
• 7 Paid holidays
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401k with employer match
• New Mexico State License renewal paid for by organization
• Yearly stipend towards CEUs
• Student loan forgiveness eligible 
  

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin,  veteran or disability status.

This organization participates in E-Verify.