Project Field Officer Job Vacancy at Unconditional Cash Transfer in Rarieda Kenya November 2014
Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) Effects on Domestic Violence
Job Title: Field Officer
Busara Center for Behavioral Economics is a research organization that seeks to improve the understanding of how people living in poverty make decisions and to leverage that knowledge to produce better social outcomes.
About the project: This is a follow-up study of a recent Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCT) project in Nyanza, that aims to measure the impacts of purely unconditional cash transfers on domestic violence.
Description of Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prompt arrival at work.
- Administer household surveys
- Completion of scheduled activities each day in a timely manner.
- Successfully working in a team.
- Organizing data collected from the field.
- On non-field days: conscientious performance of office work (such as matching IDs, translation of work, photocopying, etc.)
- Assist in daily survey organization and storage
- Ensure data integrity is maintained at all times and minimize errors in data collection
- Maintaining high standard of professional integrity in all activities.
- Providing the Project Lead with daily feedback regarding surveying activities.
Required
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in Dhuluo (must), English and Kiswahili
- Experience with data collection through household surveys, academic tests, exit interviews.
- Ability to recognize when questions are difficult or unclear to subjects
- Excellent note taking ability during interviews
- Experience in conducting qualitative research and/or moderating focus groups is a plus
- Comfortable with interviewing interviews within their homes
- Basic computer knowledge and skills (mandatory)
- Ability to comfortable work with groups and within groups
- Bachelors’ degree or college diploma in social sciences, economic, development studies and/or business administration
- Past experience in data collection- show proof of this in application
- Experience using computer assisted interviewing or ODK is a plus
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.