Field Officers and Team Leaders Job Vacancy at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in Siaya Kenya December 2013
Position: Field Officers and Team Leaders
Deadline to Apply: December 6th, 2013
Start Date: December 16th, 2013
Location: Siaya Town
Eligibility: Position open to local Kenyan hires only
About Innovations for Poverty Action: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a non-profit research organization that creates and evaluates approaches to solving development problems. IPA disseminates the results of its evaluations to policymakers, practitioners, investors and donors around the world.
Project Specifics: Presently, we piloting a survey which is scheduled to be deployed in the beginning of January.
This survey assesses the cognitive, non-cognitive, and technical skills of rural farmers. Additionally, it will be also used to analyze the impacts of farmer managed research trials currently being implemented by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
This project also is experimenting with various randomization techniques to study whether order of questions has a significant impact on responses.
Field officers will gain valuable experience in field data collection. Field officers will work directly with survey respondents.
The field officers will work closely with team leaders and project managers to improve their own skills. Field officers will be based in Siaya town and will travel throughout Yala, Ugunja, Ukwala, and Boro.
The field officers will be expected to work Monday through Friday.
In addition, team leaders will be selected from the pool of field officers.
In addition, team leaders will be selected from the pool of field officers.
Team leaders will report directly to the project manager and will be responsible for coordinating the activities of a small team of field officers.
Team leaders will organize transport, ensure that data is collected from field officers and properly transferred to project supervisors, ensure that payments are being made to respondents correctly, and coordinate with village partners to conduct data collection activities.
Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities:
- Arrive to work promptly and reliably, always setting an example for one’s colleagues.
- Interact with community members with the highest level of integrity and understanding.
- Collaborate with teammates to improve own skills and those of teammates.
- Relay field costs to project manager/team leader for reimbursement.
For team leaders
- Supervise field officers conducting census mapping and provide feedback to field officers and field coordinator
- Coordinating with field officers for scheduling of respondents for data collection activities
- Assist in the management of data collection activities: collecting data from field officers on a daily basis, and turning over data to project manager
- Manage different payments for respondents and distribute to field officers as needed
Qualifications:
Required
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- History of providing feedback to teammates and examples of this feedback improving teammates’ work
- Has, at least, basic computer skills
- Willingness to work on Saturdays for some weeks
Desired
- Bachelors’ degree or college diploma/certificate
- Experience working on data collection activities
- Experience with conducting census mapping and interviews
- Fluent in Luo
To apply:
Please send a cover letter and detailed CV, 3 references, daytime phone number(s), and email address.
Your CV should include your scores or grades and other measures of academic achievement, and details about any relevant work experience.
Applications can be submitted to any of our branch offices,
or by email to jobs-kenya@poverty-action.org,
or by post office using P.O Box 373, Busia area code 50400 Kenya.
If you submit by email, please ensure that the subject line reads: “Field Officer / Team Leader” REF NO. Farmers Skills -2013-11-1.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted by email for an interview.
Applicants are encouraged to apply early, as applications will be reviewed on a ROLLING BASIS.
Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the (Field Officer/Team Leader). The statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all possible duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary. Please note that IPA will never request any form of payment from an applicant. Applicants are encouraged to confirm the information listed above with IPA prior to releasing any extensive personal information to the organization. Please direct questions to jobs-kenya@poverty-action.org.