Innovations
for Poverty Action (IPA)
Position: Field Officer - Farmers Skills Project
Deadline to Apply: Rolling Basis
Deadline to Apply: Rolling Basis
Start
Date: 1st
August (Subject to change)
Project: Farmers Skills
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 Objectives: Presently, we are conducting a follow-up survey to analyze the impacts of farmer managed research trials currently being implemented by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
The
research trials were first implemented during the long rain season of 2014 and
this follow up survey should be conducted just after the harvest.
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, Wagai 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. 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.
- Collecting
data using Netbooks
Qualifications:
Required
- Bachelors’
degree in Social work and Agriculture.
- Diploma
with three (3) years’ experience working on data collection activities.
- Strong
written and oral communication skills
- Ready
to provide feedback to teammates
- Basic
computer skills
Desired
- Fluent
in Luo
To
Apply: Click
here - https://poverty-action.formstack.com/forms/fo_farmers_skills
Disclaimer: The
above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the
work being performed by the Field Officer-Farmers Skills. 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.
