Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Job Title: Field
Officer – Medicine Access (NAP) Project
17 Positions
Reporting To: Field Manager
Start Date: 9th January, 2018
Duration: 1 Month
Deadline to Apply: 5th December,
2017
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: Medicine Access
Project that aims to evaluate the impact of a new non-communicable disease
medicine access program on the availability and price of the new medicine
included in the program portfolio at health facilities and households in 8
counties targeted by the program in Kenya using a cluster-randomized trial
design.
Access to medicine in Kenya is via public,
non-for-profit. In the private sector patients pay the price of the medicines
out-of-pocket; in the public and not-for-profit sector - Ministry of Health
facilities or facilities affiliated with faith-based organizations - patients
may be charged either the full price or a partial cost-recovery fee.
Out-of-pocket spending can result in
catastrophic health expenditure and increased poverty.
A household survey conducted in 2008
indicates that 82% of patients pay out of pocket for their Non-Communicable
Diseases (NCD) medicines.
About 33% of respondents who reported being
diagnosed and prescribed an NCD medicine had that medicine available in their
house at the time of the survey.
We seek to evaluate the impact of the new
medicine access program on the availability and pricing of the new medicine in
the program at the facilities and households in target counties.
Data for the evaluation will be collected
at two levels: health facilities and households.
We are preparing for midline data
collection, the third of five phases of data collection, after the program
implementation.
Duties and Responsibilities:
·
Electronic
data collection on Survey CTO: Assist with translations, pretesting and
piloting surveys, conducting data collection, providing feedback during
debriefs on field operations and survey instruments that will inform and
monitor improvements in project operations
·
Supports
qualitative data collection through in-depth interviews and recording
·
Ensure
data integrity is maintained at all times and minimize errors in survey
administration
·
Completion
of scheduled activities each day in a timely manner
·
Interact
with community members with the highest level of integrity and understanding
·
On
non-field days, conscientious performance of office work, for instance
translations, and peer training/learning
·
Assist
in daily electronic devices maintenance and storage
·
Maintaining
high standards of professional integrity in all activities
·
Successfully
complete all tasks assigned by the NAP management team
·
Other
tasks as assigned by the Field Manager/Research Associate/Research Manager
Qualifications and Experience:
Required:
·
Bachelor’s
Degree in Public Health Science, Pharmaceutical technology, Social Sciences or
other related disciplines.
·
Diploma
in Public Health Science, Pharmaceutical technology, Social Sciences or other
related disciplines with over 2 years of experience in respondent tracking and
data collection
·
Excellent
oral and written communication skills in both English and Swahili
·
Excellent
management and organizational skills
·
Flexible,
self-motivated and able to manage multiple tasks efficiently, a team player.
·
Computer
literate
·
Previous
experience in data collection and survey administration
·
Experience
with position responsibilities listed above
·
Previous
electronic data collection experience.
·
Fluency
in local language(s) of the areas of operations
·
Candidates
with public health or community health or pharmaceutical technology background.
Preferred:
·
Demonstrated
experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative methods of data
collection.
How to Apply
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apply online
