Position: Field
Assistant, Kenya Life Panel Survey Tracking Project
Deadline To Apply: 5pm, Friday, November 18th 2011
Start Date: December 5th 2011
Location: Nairobi, with flexibility to travel to Eastern province, Coast and Rift Valley.
About Innovations for Poverty Action: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a non-profit research organization that creates and evaluates approaches to solving development problems and disseminates information about what works and what does not to policymakers, practitioners, investors and donors around the world.
Description of Work:Deadline To Apply: 5pm, Friday, November 18th 2011
Start Date: December 5th 2011
Location: Nairobi, with flexibility to travel to Eastern province, Coast and Rift Valley.
About Innovations for Poverty Action: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a non-profit research organization that creates and evaluates approaches to solving development problems and disseminates information about what works and what does not to policymakers, practitioners, investors and donors around the world.
The Field Assistants will assist the Kenya Life Panel Survey (KLPS) Tracking team.
Activities include administering surveys to individuals and households, meeting with teachers, ligurus, and relatives to locate respondents, and traveling to those areas in order to interview individuals.
Netbooks will be used to administer the surveys.
Most of the work in this project will be Nairobi-based, but some interviews will take place in other locations in Eastern province, Coast and Rift Valley.
Visiting these respondents can include taking public transport, bodaboda, boats and walking long distances.
Carrying out these interviews can involve staying away from Nairobi at hotels in distant locations for several weeks at a time.
Working outside of standard business hours either in the morning or evening or on weekends is sometimes necessary as well.
Other tasks include taking anthropometric measurements, taking hemoglobin levels, organizing data in the field, office based matching of ID lists, compilation of survey information, photocopying, translation between Kiswahili and English and any other tasks needed to make the project run effectively or assigned by a supervisor.
Work duration:
Successful applicants will initially be hired for a two-week training period.
Those who demonstrate consistent exceptional abilities and work performance may be considered for a more long term placement, with the same project.
Academic Qualifications:
Candidates must have obtained a college diploma or university degree, preferably in sociology, statistics, economics, education, development studies, social sciences, health, or related fields.
Professional/Technical Skills:
- Skills
in data collection and survey administration;
- ability
to work with local administrators are required.
- Training
in taking anthropometric measurements is preferred.
- Computer
knowledge and typing skills required.
- Experience
in electronic data collection preferred.
Other Qualities and Attributes:
- Most
importantly a positive attitude towards the position;
- able
to work in rural settings;
- comfortable
interviewing people in their homes;
- comfortable
taking measurements of children and adults;
- comfortable
traveling for extended periods of time;
- well-organized;
ability to work independently and in a team in the field;
- promptness;
attention to detail;
- initiative.
To apply:
Please send a cover letter and detailed CV, 3 references, daytime phone number(s), and email address.
Your CV should include your scores or grades and other measures of academic achievement, and details about any relevant work experience.
Applications can be submitted to any of our branch offices,
or by email to jobs-kenya@poverty-action.org,
or by post office using P.O Box 373, Busia area code 50400 Kenya.
If you submit by email, please ensure that the subject line reads: “FIELD ASSISTANT”REF NO: KPLS-2011-11-01
Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the Field Assistant.
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 prior to releasing any extensive personal information to the organization.
Please direct questions to jobs-kenya@poverty-action.org.
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