POSITION: Research Associate (1 position)
REPORTING
TO: Research Coordinator
START
DATE:
2nd May 2022
LOCATION: Busia
DURATION: 6
Months
DEADLINE: ASAP
ELIGIBILITY:
Position is open to local Kenyan hires only
About Innovations for Poverty Action:
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:
The Social
Accountability Project (SAP) is a multi-year NIH-funded study that seeks to address
barriers to access family planning services in all the 146 public health
facilities in Kisumu County. The study will employ two main interventions i.e
the Community Score Card and the Citizen Score Card and will use both
quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. The study will be
launched towards end of May 2022.
About the Position:
The Research Associate,
under the general supervision of the Research Coordinator and within the limits
of Innovations for Poverty Action-Kenya policies and procedures, coordinates
the facilitation of field and data activities and functions within IPAK. Below
is a list of some of the general duties and responsibilities of the Research
Associate, to be carried out as needed according to the determination of the
Research Coordinator.
Duties and
Responsibilities Data Management
- Data Processing, and Storage
- Designing smooth, functioning,
and timely data flow between various project activities according to
Standard Operating
- Using Stata to process, clean
data and prepare summary
- Designing and implementing
Stata auditing tools for high frequency checks and back-checks.
- Ensuring proper handling of
audio files and coordinating processing of qualitative
- Ensuring proper storage of all
computer data including regular
- Survey Programming
- Developing data collection
instruments for computer-aided interviews (CAI) using Survey
- Designing and pre-testing of data collection
- Data Protection and Security
- Ensuring all staff comply with
all policies and procedures relating to data handling and
- Ensuring appropriate security
on all devices handling data including surveyCTO server, computers, and
tablets are fully
- Policy and Documentation
- For all areas of
responsibility, contribute to the development of policy briefs, Project
summary web page as well as compliance with all aspects of Policy Minimum
Must Dos (MMDs).
Field Management
- Human Subjects
- Ensuring that all field team
comply with the IRB requirements including the study’s human subject’s
protocol
- Managing IRB for the project including preparing
the documents for submission as well as timely submission as required
- Field Logistics
- Conducting spot checks for the
field enumerators and providing feedback
- Supporting the process of
locating respondents, while ensuring compliance with protocols
- Supporting project guidelines
governing field staff who work remotely and locally
- Aid in the procurement,
upkeep, and calibration of field supplies
- Supervising field activities
with the other field management team
- Send weekly field report to
the PI team
- Human Resource Management
- Participating in the selection
process for staff hiring and assist with training as needed
- Assisting with staff
evaluations and make recommendations regarding renewal of staff contracts
- Enforcing all IPAK policies
and communicate regularly with management team
- Financial Management
- Keeping track of project
expenses and prepare financial summary reports
- Reviewing expense reports and
sharing feedback and/or reports as required
- Perform any other assigned duties related to
project implementation and administrative tasks as needed
QUALIFICATIONS AND
EXPERIENCE:
- Preferably Master’s degree in management, social
sciences, public policy, economics, or a related Bachelor’s degree
(required).
- Proven minimum 5 years of field management Extensive
experience supervising, designing, and implementing data collection and/or
fieldwork activities, and managing teams of field workers.
- Previous experience in managing data collection
and survey administration
- Experience in training staff to improve data
collection efforts and accuracy (required)
- Advanced experience in programming longs survey
with multiple randomization and skips using SurveyCTO (required).
- Strong problem-solving skills with a good
understanding of team
- Proven experience in managing IRB for a
- Ability to manage and clean complex datasets,
preferably, using
- Excellent management and organizational Ability to
effectively manage multiple data collection activities in a project will
be a requirement.
- Excellent financial management
- Flexible, self-motivated, and able to manage
multiple teams in different locations and across different complex
activities efficiently, and a team
- Demonstrated ability to manage high-level
relationships with stakeholders including multiple PI team(s), partner
organizations and policy
- Advanced user of Microsoft Office suite especially
use of Excel to generate summary productivity reports (Required).
- Proven experience in coordinating and managing
large
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in
both English and Kiswahili and proven ability to make presentations of
field reports to the
- Excellent supervisory and management experience
related to fieldwork and data collection
How to Apply
Please click here to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an
interview.
DISCLAIMER: The above statements
are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being
performed by the Research
Associate- SAP. 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.
Applicants are encouraged to confirm the information listed above with IPA.
