Kenya
Water Services Trust Fund (KWSTF)
Position: Field Officer
(10
Positions)
Deadline
to Apply: 9th September 2016
Start
Date: 3rd
October 2016
Location: Based in Nairobi, Embu, Nakuru
Reporting
To: Associate
Field Manager
Eligibility: Position open to local Kenyan hires only
About
Innovations for Poverty Action: Innovations
for Poverty Action (IPA) is an international non-profit research organization
dedicated to discovering and promoting effective solutions to global poverty
problems.
IPA works
in partnership with development partners and academic researchers to create and
evaluate approaches potential solutions to poverty problems using randomized
evaluations in the fields of health, education, microfinance, governance and
agriculture.
We
also mobilize and support these decision makers to use these solutions to build
better programs and policies at scale.
About
the project: As
part of the Kenya Water Services Trust Fund’s mission to provide water and
sanitation services to the poor, the WSTF partnered with the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation to scale-up their services for the urban informal settlement
populations across Kenya.
Under
this partnership, the WSTF with funding from the Gates Foundation, provided
subsidies to landlords living in urban areas across the country to construct
toilets.
IPA
has since been contracted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to
independently verify specific indicators related to the WSTF project.
A
representative sample of all households that have received a toilet will be
visited to verify these indicators.
Duties and Responsibilities
General:
- Prompt
arrival to work.
- Completion
of scheduled activities each day in a timely manner.
- Interact
with community members with the highest level of respect and understanding
- On
non-field days, conscientious performance of office work.
- Ensure
proper storage and handling of field equipment such as tablets etc.
- Maintaining
high standard of professional integrity in all activities.
- Successfully
complete all tasks assigned by the KWSTF management team.
Data
Collection:
- Identifying
and confirming eligible study respondents.
- Get
informed consent from study participants.
- Ensure
data integrity is maintained at all times and minimize errors in data
collection.
- Administer
household questionnaires and observations.
- Responsible
for ensuring that all updated documents are carried to the field along
with everything on the Survey Checklist.
- Filling
data forms and uploading data onto the server.
Qualifications:
- A
Bachelor’s degree or college diploma with 3 years’ experience.
- Excellent
oral and written communication in both English and Swahili.
- Good
interpersonal skills specifically able to create good rapport with
respondents.
- Past
experience in data collection through survey CTO desirable but not a must.
- Ability
to work as a team.
To
Apply: Click
here: https://poverty-action.formstack.com/forms/fo_kwstf
Position: Senior Field Officer (3 positions)
Deadline
to Apply:9th September 2016
Start
Date: 3rd
October 2016
Location: Based in Nairobi, Embu, Nakuru
Reporting
To: Research
Associate
Length
of Commitment: 1
month
Eligibility: Position open to local
Kenyan hires only
About
Innovations for Poverty Action: Innovations
for Poverty Action (IPA) is an international non-profit research organization
dedicated to discovering and promoting effective solutions to global poverty
problems.
IPA
works in partnership with development partners and academic researchers to
create and evaluate approaches potential solutions to poverty problems using
randomized evaluations in the fields of health, education, microfinance,
governance and agriculture.
We
also mobilize and support these decision makers to use these solutions to build
better programs and policies at scale.
About
the project: As
part of the Kenya Water Services Trust Fund’s mission to provide water and
sanitation services to the poor, the WSTF partnered with the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation to scale-up their services for the urban informal settlement
populations across Kenya.
Under
this partnership, the WSTF with funding from the Gates Foundation, provided
subsidies to landlords living in urban areas across the country to construct
toilets.
IPA
has since been contracted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to
independently verify specific indicators related to the WSTF project.
A
representative sample of all households that have received a toilet will be
visited to verify these indicators.
Duties and Responsibilities
General:
- Prompt
arrival to work.
- Completion
of scheduled activities each day in timely manner.
- Interact
with community members in the highest level of respect and understanding.
- On
non-field days, conscientious performance of office work.
- Maintaining
high standard of professional integrity in all activities.
- Successfully
complete all tasks assigned by KWSTF management team.
- Knowledge
of assigned task and delivery as according to SOP.
- Ability
to work with minimal supervision.
- Team
player- Interacts well with colleagues and offers support in the field and
in the office.
- Responsible-
takes up responsibility, shows initiative in solving issues and report s
challenges to supervisor.
Data
Collection:
- Identifying
and confirming eligible back check study respondents
- Get
informed consent from study participants
- Collecting
back check data from respondents in the field with strict adherence to the
data SOP
- Ensure
proper storage and handling of field equipment such as tablets etc.
- Responsible
for ensuring that all updated documents are carried to the field along
with everything on the Back Check Survey Checklist
- Filling
Back Check data forms and uploading data onto the server.
Qualifications:
- A
Bachelor’s degree or college diploma with 3 years’ experience.
- Experience
with electronic data collection through survey CTO and data management.
- Ability
to work independently with minimum supervision and a team player.
- Should
be a person of high integrity.
- Excellent
organizational skills.
To Apply: Click here: https://poverty-action.formstack.com/forms/sfo_kwstf
Disclaimer: The
above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the
work being performed by the Senior Field Officer – Kenya Water Services Trust
Fund - KWSTF. 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.