Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Position: Field Officer – EMERGE – Storybooks for Promoting Early Literacy Project
Position: Field Officer – EMERGE – Storybooks for Promoting Early Literacy Project
6 Positions
Reporting To: Senior Field Officer/AFM
Deadline to Apply: 28th February 2019
Start Date: 25th March 2019
Location: Ahero with frequent travel throughout Nyanza region.
Eligibility: Position open to Local Kenyan hires only (External advert)
Duration: 3 Months
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
is a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting effective
solutions to global poverty problems. 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: EMERGE is a randomized control trial which aims to improve
early childhood literacy and school readiness. In Kenya and throughout
sub-Saharan Africa, many primary school children read below grade level. While
there are many causes of low literacy in primary school, a key contributing
factor to the widespread lack of literacy is low level of child readiness for
primary school.
Our research focuses on an
innovative, light touch early childhood intervention to improve school
readiness and classroom-level pedagogy through the provision of children’s
books, in local language as well as English, and dialogic reading training to
parents of children between 2 and 6 years of age in rural, Western Kenya.
This impact evaluation measures the
impact of distributing children’s storybooks and supporting family reading on a
range of child, household, and school-level outcomes. We seek: first, to
quantify the effects of inexpensive literacy interventions on learning
outcomes; second, to quantify parent behavioral responses to the availability
of the new educational materials; and third, measure the change in classroom
environment brought about by improved student preparation before school age.
About the Position: The Field Officer, under the supervision of Senior Field
Officers and Associate Field Manager, will be primarily responsible for field
data collection activities, including interviews and observations of children
and caregivers. In addition, the field officer may be involved in community
entry activities, including meeting with area leaders, or participating in
presenting the project and answering questions about the project at community
barazas.
The Field Officer will also be
expected to assist with office tasks such including translations and data
entry.
Duties and Responsibilities:
·
Prompt arrival at work and completion
of scheduled activities each day
·
Conducting surveys in EMERGE
evaluation sites throughout Nyanza
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Visiting and tracking of survey
respondents to administer questionnaires
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Data collection prep work, including
translations, pretesting, and piloting
·
Diligent completion of checklists and
other means of monitoring data
·
Data entry tasks as assigned by the
Project Management
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Helping organize materials in
readiness for field work and for data processing and organizing data collected
from the field
·
Ensuring high data quality (low error
rates)
·
Proper use and maintenance of project
equipment (phones, GPS machines, headphones, etc.)
·
Successfully working in a team and
avoiding/minimizing conflicts with the rest of the team members.
·
On non-field days, conscientious
performance of office work (respondent phone calls, translations, photocopying,
organizing data, etc.)
·
Positive, hard-work attitude, with
the aim of individually and helping the team complete the work.
·
Other tasks as assigned by Project
Management
Qualifications and Experience:
Required:
·
Diploma in relevant field (social
sciences, development studies, early childhood education, or community
development)
·
Excellent oral and written
communication in English, Kiswahili, and Dholuo
·
Excellent management and
organizational skills
·
Computer literate.
Preferred:
·
Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
(social sciences, development studies, early childhood education, or community
development)
·
Experience working with children and
mothers
·
Experience with child education
research, or conducting child observational measures
·
Experience working on health,
education, or early childhood development projects
·
Experience in data collection and
survey administration, preferably using CAI (SurveyCTO).
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to apply
online
Position: Associate Field Manager – Environmental Surveillance for STH (ESTH) Project
1 Position
Reporting To: Research
Associate
Deadline to Apply: 5th
March, 2019
Start Date: 1st
April, 2019
Location: Nairobi
Eligibility: Position
open to local Kenyan hires only
Duration: 1
Month
Innovations
for Poverty Action (IPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering
and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems. 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: Environmental
surveillance for Soil Transmitted Helminths (ESTH) project seeks to develop,
validate, and field test a standardized protocol for employing molecular-based
assessment methods to detect and quantify soil transmitted helminth (hookworm, Trichuris, and Ascaris) material in soil, water, animal feces and assess its ability to predict community level
human infection for STH control programs.
assessment methods to detect and quantify soil transmitted helminth (hookworm, Trichuris, and Ascaris) material in soil, water, animal feces and assess its ability to predict community level
human infection for STH control programs.
Studies
have shown that environmental surveillance has been successfully used as a tool
for monitoring transmission of poliovirus and has been integrated into
surveillance guidelines by the
World Health Organization’s Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
World Health Organization’s Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Despite
strong evidence that STH are commonly found in the environment, little work has
been done to explore the role of environmental sampling in STH surveillance.
Environmental surveillance of STH could serve as a low-cost tool for monitoring
STH human infection prevalence levels or transmission break within populations.
About the Position: The
Associate Field Manager will be expected to manage data and samples collection
and delivery to KEMRI, Field Supervision of field officers during data and
samples collection with strict adherence to the SOP. Ensure data collected is
of high quality and standard.
Offer
support in supply inventory management and to ensure that samples are delivered
at KEMRI at the end of each day. Liaising with local county and provincial
administration and local
leadership before and during data collection. Work closely with our collaborators KEMRI lab staff with utmost professionalism
leadership before and during data collection. Work closely with our collaborators KEMRI lab staff with utmost professionalism
Duties and Responsibilities:
·
Supervise collection of data related
to stool, soil, water and domestic animal fecal samples at households on survey
CTO platform with strict adherence to the SOP and ensure data collected is of
high quality.
·
Offering support in getting the
approvals from the study Counties and national governments and liaising with
local provincial administration and local leadership before and during data
collection
·
working closely with our
collaborators KEMRI lab staff and therefore is expected to be always
professional.
·
Developing and implementing data and
sample collection field work plans and logistics through consultation with the
project staff.
·
General supervision of field staffs
during data collection and carrying out performance evaluation of field
officers and submission of timesheets.
·
Explaining study objectives and
obtaining informed consent from all respondents before data and sample
collections.
·
In the morning, organize all the
equipment needed for sample collection as per field checklist and accompanying
the field work team daily to the field and collect drinking water, soils, stool
samples from all eligible study households.
·
Ensuring samples are collected
handled aseptically according to the SOP during transport to the lab without
cross contaminations or loss.
·
Maintaining the daily sample logs
from the field to the KEMRI lab by keeping electronic logs of all the samples
collected and ensuring that all samples collected are delivered, received and
logged at KEMRI lab every evening.
·
Maintain and update daily the
supplies and equipment inventory log of the project to minimize stock outs,
loss and wastage of field supplies. Liaise with KEMRI lab personnel to ensure
that materials, such as icepacks, are sufficient for the next day’s exercise.
·
Ensure that at the end of field work,
all used cooler boxes and ice packs are returned to KEMRI and sterilized, ready
for use the following morning.
·
Take part in training and
re-training, as necessary, administrative tasks such as printing, data entry,
and filing, as needed.
Qualifications and Experience:
·
Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in
Public Health/Environmental Health or Biological Sciences.
·
Demonstrated experience in
supervision and managing data, water, stool and soil sample collection.
·
Excellent oral and written
communication skills in both English and Swahili
·
Excellent management and
organizational skills
·
Flexible, self, motivating, and able
to manage multiple tasks efficiently, a team player.
·
Computer literate
·
Previous experience in data
collection and survey administration
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to
apply online’
Position: Field
Officer – Environmental Surveillance
for STH (ESTH) Project
4 Positions
Reporting To: Research
Associate
Deadline to Apply: 5th
March, 2019
Start Date: 1st
April, 2019
Location: Nairobi
Eligibility: Position
open to local Kenyan hires only
Duration: 1
Month
Innovations
for Poverty Action (IPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering
and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems.
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: Environmental
surveillance for Soil Transmitted Helminths (ESTH) project seeks to develop,
validate, and field test a standardized protocol for employing molecular-based
assessment methods to detect and quantify soil transmitted helminth (hookworm,
Trichuris, and Ascaris) material in soil, water, animal feces and assess its
ability to predict community level human infection for STH control programs.
Studies
have shown that environmental surveillance has been successfully used as a tool
for monitoring transmission of poliovirus and has been integrated into
surveillance guidelines by the World Health Organization’s Global Polio
Eradication Initiative.
Despite
strong evidence that STH are commonly found in the environment, little work has
been done to explore the role of environmental sampling in STH surveillance.
Environmental surveillance of STH could serve as a low-cost tool for monitoring
STH human infection prevalence levels or transmission break within populations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
·
Explaining project objectives and
obtaining informed consent from all respondents before data and sample
collections.
·
Assist with translations, pretesting
and piloting surveys, providing feedback during debriefs on field operations
and survey instruments that will inform and monitor improvements in survey
tools.
·
In the morning, collect all the
equipment and supplies needed for sample collection as per field checklist.
·
Administer samples collection survey
tool and collect drinking water, soils, stool samples from all eligible study
households using survey CTO.
·
Ensuring samples are collected
handled aseptically according to the SOP during transport to the lab without
cross contaminations or loss.
·
Ensure that samples collected from
the field are timely delivered, received and logged at KEMRI lab every day at
the end of field work.
·
Ensure that all the supplies and
equipment are returned to the lab at the end of field work and liaise with
supervisors to ensure that materials, such as icepacks, gloves, stool, water
and soil sampling containers are enough for the next day’s exercise.
·
Ensure that at the end of field work,
all used cooler boxes and ice packs are returned to KEMRI and sterilized, ready
for use the following morning.
·
Maintain professionalism when working
with the collaborator (KEMRI)
Qualifications and Experience:
·
Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in
Public Health / Environmental Health or Biological Sciences.
·
Diploma or bachelor’s degree in
biological or social sciences with previous field experience in sample
collection preferred.
·
Excellent oral and written
communication skills in both English and Swahili
·
Excellent management and
organizational skills
·
Flexible, self, motivating, and able
to manage multiple tasks efficiently, a team player.
·
Computer literate
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to
apply online
Disclaimer: The
above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the
work being performed by the Field Officer-ESTH 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. Please note that
IPA will never request any form of payment or request any form of payment for
any document processing from an applicant.. Applicants are encouraged to
confirm the information listed above with IPA.