Innovations for Poverty
Action (IPA)
Position: Field Officer - Aspirations
Project(Multiple positions)
Deadline to Apply: 16th
December, 2016
Start Date: 4th January, 2017
Location: Siaya
Eligibility: Position open to local
Kenyan hires only
Duration: 2 months
In close partnership with
decision makers, the policymakers, practitioners, investors, and donors working
with the poor around the world -- IPA designs and evaluates potential solutions
to poverty problems using randomized evaluations, the most rigorous evaluation
method available.
We also mobilize and support
these decision makers to use these solutions to build better programs and
policies at scale.
About the project: Development assistance tends to focus on
the ‘external’ constraints that poor people face while largely ignoring
‘internal’ ones.
However, social psychology
suggests that poor people’s sense of self-efficacy and control may be beaten
down by the nature of living in poverty, limiting the options they consider.
The project aims to do a
randomized controlled trial to examine the combined effect of lifting external
and internal constraints simultaneously, providing a cash transfer and an
intervention to boost poor people’s sense of self-efficacy and alter their
understanding of their opportunities, encouraging poor people to set and pursue
their own goals without directing their choices.
The research will test if a
brief, standardized psychological intervention can alter psychological outcomes
and future-oriented behaviors in a developing country and examine if such
interventions can enhance the already-known benefits of cash transfers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Arrive at work
on time
- Assist with
data entry in the office
- Complete
scheduled activities each day in a timely manner
- Demonstrate
integrity and understanding during interaction with community members and
partner organization staff
- On non-field
days, perform office duties with care
- Assist in daily
survey organization and storage
- Ensure data
integrity is maintained at all times and minimize errors in data
collection
- Administer
household surveys
- Provide the FM
with daily feedback regarding surveying activities
Qualifications and
Experience:
Required
- Excellent oral
and written communication skills in English, Kiswahili and Luo.
- Experience with
data collection through market surveys, household surveys, academic tests,
exit interviews, focus groups or observations
- Ability to
recognize when questions are difficult or unclear to subjects
- Excellent note
taking ability during interviews
- Comfortable
with interviewing individuals within their homes
- Basic computer
knowledge and skills (mandatory)
- Ability to
comfortably work with groups and within groups
Desired
- Bachelors’
degree in social sciences, health and /or business administration
- Past experience
in data collection
- Experience in
data collection using SurveyCTO or Open Data Kit (ODK)
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to apply online
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 Field
Officer-Aspirations Project. 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.