Innovations for Poverty
Action (IPA)
Job Title: Senior Field Officer - Contract Farming Recruitment
Project (CFR)
Start Date: 10th January, 2017
Start Date: 10th January, 2017
Location: Mumias
Reporting To: Field Manager
Length of Commitment: 3 months
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: Contractual
arrangements is often considered an important driver of structural
transformation and growth.
In the developing world,
including Sub-Saharan Africa, contract farming is one of the most common contractual
forms through which this transition occurs.
The Contract Farming
Recruitment (CFR) Project aims to evaluate the impact of contract farming on
small holders and to test the relative merits of various organizational forms
of cane production.
In order to achieve this; we
will randomly allocate the Mumias Sugar Company outgrowers contract across
recruited fields in the Gem region, and to measure the impact both in terms of
productivity (i.e. yields) and in terms of farmer welfare measures including
income, expenditure, overall farm and non-farm activities.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervise field
officers conducting interviews and provide feedback to the field officers
and the Field Manager.
- Coordinating
with the field officers for the scheduling of the respondents for data
collection activities.
- Assist in data
collection as and when required.
- Assist in the
management of data collection activities; collection of data from field
officers on a daily basis and turning over data to the data officer.
- Providing the
Field Manager /Research Associate with daily feedback regarding surveying
activities and any occurrences in the field.
- Recruitment of
farmers into the Mumias Sugar Outgrower Scheme
- Assist to
manage the following Mumias Sugar Activities in the Gem area;
1. Land
acquisition
2. Land
preparation
3. Input
supply
4. Cane
planting and husbandry to ensure adequate cane availability to meet factory
requirements at all times and farmer satisfactory returns.
5. Assist
to liaise with internal and external service providers to ensure farmers get
timely , adequate and quality services in order to achieve sustainable returns
from cane business at all times
6. Ensure
80 % farmer satisfaction
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
degree or college Diploma in any Agricultural related course
- Diploma with 3
years’ experience in data collection
- Experience in
data collection using SurveyCTO or ODK
- Strong oral and
written communication skills in English
How to Apply
To Apply CLICK HERE
Deadline to Apply: 23rd
December, 2016
NB: Please do not apply if
unavailable on the above specified start date.
Disclaimer: The above
statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work
being performed by the Senior Field Officer – Contract Farming Recruitment
Project- CFR. 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.