Farmers Skills Project
Position: Field Officers and Team Leaders
Deadline to Apply:December 31st, 2014
Start Date: January 19th, 2015
Eligibility: Position open to local Kenyan hires only
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. IPA disseminates the
results of its evaluations to policymakers, practitioners, investors and donors
around the world.
Project specifics: Presently, we are conducting a follow-up survey to
analyze the impacts of farmer managed research trials currently being
implemented by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
(IITA).
The research trials were first
implemented during the long rain season of 2014 and this follow up survey
should be conducted just after the harvest.
Field officers will gain valuable experience in field data collection. Field officers will work directly with survey respondents.
The field officers will work closely
with team leaders and project managers to improve their own skills.
Field officers will be based in Siaya
town and will travel throughout Yala, Ugunja, Ukwala, Wagai and Boro. The field
officers will be expected to work Monday through Friday.
In addition, team leaders will be
selected from the pool of field officers. The team leaders will report directly
to the project manager and will be responsible for coordinating the activities
of a small team of field officers.
Team leaders will organize transport,
ensure that data is collected from field officers and properly transferred to
project supervisors, ensure that payments are being made to respondents
correctly, and coordinate with village partners to conduct data collection
activities.
Tasks, Duties, and Responsibilities:
- Arrive to work promptly and reliably, always
setting an example for one’s colleagues.
- Interact with community members with the
highest level of integrity and understanding.
- Collaborate with teammates to improve own
skills and those of teammates.
- Collecting data using Netbooks
Team leader
- Supervise field officers conducting data
collection and provide feedback field coordinator
- Coordinating with field officers for
scheduling of respondents for data collection activities
- Assist in the management of data collection
activities: collecting data from field officers on a daily basis, and
turning over data to project manager
Qualifications:
Required
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- History of providing feedback to teammates and
examples of this feedback improving teammates’ work
- Has, at least, basic computer skills
- Fluent in Luo
Desired
- Bachelors’ degree or college
diploma/certificate in Social work/Agriculture
- Experience working on data collection
activities
To Apply:
Please send by email 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.
Please name the documents as follow:
- For the CV: IPAFS.CV.NameCandidate. Example:
IPAFS.CV.JonhSmith
- For the Cover letter: IPAFS.CL.NameCandidate.
Example: IPAFS.CL.JonhSmith
Applications can be submitted by ONLY
email to jobs-kenya@poverty-action.org (and cc: kfriedman@poverty-action.org),
hard copies will not be accepted.
Please ensure that the subject line
reads: “Field Officer / Team Leader” REF NO. Farmers Skills-2014-12-01.
Only short-listed candidates will be
contacted by email for an interview.
Applicants are encouraged to apply
early, as applications will be reviewed on a ROLLING BASIS.
Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the
general nature and level of the work being performed by the Field Officer. 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.