Position: Associate Field Manager - Medicine Access
Project
Deadline
to Apply:5th June, 2016
Start
Date: 13th
June 2016
Duration: 4 Months
Location: Kwale, Samburu, West Pokot and Narok.
Innovations
for Poverty Action (IPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering
and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems.
We
also mobilize and support these decision makers to use these solutions to build
better programs and policies at scale.
About the Project: IPA Kenya seeks qualified applicants for the position of Associate Field Manager for the Medicine Access Project that aims to evaluate the impact of a new 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 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 the baseline data collection, the first of the five phases of
data collection, prior to the program implementation.
Responsibilities
This
job description outlines some of the tasks that are typical to the Associate Field
Manager (AFM) position across IPA-K projects.
The
tasks below are in no way exhaustive of the expectations of the AFM position,
thus flexibility, innovation, adjustment and conscientious efforts are expected
depending on day to day events and the ever changing areas and needs of the
job.
General:
- Data
collection management which includes: refining study design and survey
instruments, overseeing and monitoring data collection and survey field
work, planning field work and field logistics, organizing data collected
from the field, and providing feedback on field operations and survey
instruments that will inform and monitor improvements, conducting back
checks.
- Human
resource management which includes: staff development, assisting in
training, monitoring staff attendance and updating attendance records
including leave forms and to enforce all human resource policies and
procedures in coordination with IPAK’s Human Resource Manager and the
FM/RA
- Operations
management which includes: taking and updating inventory of all project
items, participating in general procurement and logistics for the project
and liaising with the operations department for necessary action
- Financial
management which includes: working with IPAK financial staff to keep
detailed accounts of all project activities and to monitor project field
expenses
- Public
relations which includes: building and maintaining relationships with
civil administrators and community officials and representing IPAK at
stakeholder meetings. The AFM will identify and network with
representatives from all relevant projects operating in the same areas as
the NAP Project, to avoid/inform decisions where contamination of results
is concerned.
- New
Partners and Maintaining Relationship: The project will be working in health
across 8 counties, and the AFM will be key in establishing and maintaining
a relationship with these health facilities as well their regulators at
the county.
- Data
quality and analysis: play a lead role on data quality checks, including
resurveys and audits, and assist in cleaning/analyzing data as needed.
- Communication
and reporting: The Associate Field Manager will be expected to report to
the FM on activities and plans. The AFM will also be communicating
directly with the RA and will be required to participate in weekly calls
with the RA and/or RM.
- Organization
of Field Activities: The AFM will help organize field activities. We
expect the AFM to work on the following specific areas with regard to
field activities together with the FM:
- Work
closely with field staff to develop work schedules before any field
activities begin.
- Discuss
and seek the approval of the FM/RA on the work schedules make
changes/adapt if necessary following the outcomes of these discussions.
- Develop
and discuss a supervision plan with the team leaders and other field
staff.
- Help
organize for recruitment, interviewing and hiring of new staff, if
necessary.
- Help
organize for training for both old and new staff before any activity.
- Ensure
that all the field teams have all necessary material/tools required for
the data collection. This must be made available on time. GPS cells and
stationery must be bought in bulk to benefit from discounts and to ensure
each team has enough at the beginning of the field activities.
- Be
proactive in thinking through the schedule for the next day anticipate
challenges (and more generally for the rest of period). Communicate to the
RM the plan for the day, expectations, number of staff needed, staff
allocation, number of days needed to achieve tasks and challenges foreseen
at the end of each day
- Other
tasks as assigned by the FM/RA/RM.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s
Degree in Public Health Science, Social Science and other related
disciplines
- 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
- Previous
tablet based survey experience (required)
- Experience
with position responsibilities listed above
- Comfortable
managing a large team of enumerators.
Desired
- Experience
using process maker system
- Over
2 years’ of experience managing midline or endline respondent tracking.
To
Apply:
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here -
Position: Senior Field Officer -
Medicine Access Project
Deadline
to Apply:10th June, 2016
Start
Date: 20th
June 2016
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Kakamega / Samburu / West Pokot / Narok /
Nyeri / Embu / Kwale / Makueni.
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 - we design and
evaluate 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: IPA Kenya seeks qualified applicants for the position of Senior Field Officer for the Medicine Access Project that aims to evaluate the impact of a new 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 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 the baseline data collection, the first of the five phases of
data collection, prior to the program implementation.
Responsibilities
This
job description outlines some of the tasks that are typical to the Senior Field
Officer (SFO) position across IPA-K projects.
The
tasks below are in no way exhaustive of the expectations of the SFO position,
thus flexibility, innovation, adjustment and conscientious efforts are expected
depending on day to day events and the ever changing areas and needs of the
job.
General
- Data
collection management which includes: Assist in survey translations,
overseeing, monitoring conducting data collection and survey field work,
planning field work and field logistics, organizing data collected from
the field, and providing feedback on field operations and survey
instruments that will inform and monitor improvements, conducting back
checks.
- Human
resource management which includes: Assisting in training, monitoring
staff attendance and updating attendance records including leave forms and
to enforce all human resource policies and procedures in coordination with
IPAK’s Human Resource Manager and the FM/RA
- Operations
management which includes: taking and updating inventory of all project
items, participating in general procurement and logistics for the project
and liaising with the operations department for necessary action
- Financial
management which includes: working with IPAK financial staff to keep
detailed accounts of all project activities and to monitor project field
expenses
- Public
relations which includes: building and maintaining relationships with
civil administrators and community officials and representing IPAK at
stakeholder meetings. The SFO will identify and network with
representatives from all relevant projects operating in the same areas as
the NAP Project, to avoid/inform decisions where contamination of results
is concerned.
- Communication
and reporting: The Senior Field Officer will be expected to report to the
FM on activities and plans. The SFO will also be communicating directly
with the RA and will be required to participate in weekly calls with the
RA and/or RM.
- Organization
of Field Activities: The SFO will help organize field activities. We
expect the SFO to work on the following specific areas with regard to
field activities together with the FM:
- Work
closely with field staff to develop work schedules before any field
activities begin.
- Discuss
and seek the approval of the FM/RA on the work schedules make
changes/adapt if necessary following the outcomes of these discussions.
- Develop
and discuss a supervision plan with the team leaders and other field
staff.
- Help
organize for recruitment, interviewing and hiring of new staff, if
necessary
- Help
organize for training for both old and new staff before any activity
- Ensure
that all the field teams have all necessary material/tools required for
the data collection. This must be made available on time. GPS cells and
stationery must be bought in bulk to benefit from discounts and to ensure
each team has enough at the beginning of the field activities.
- Be
proactive in thinking through the schedule for the next day anticipate
challenges (and more generally for the rest of period). Communicate to the
RM the plan for the day, expectations, number of staff needed, staff
allocation, number of days needed to achieve tasks and challenges foreseen
at the end of each day.
- Other
tasks as assigned by the FM/RA/RM.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s
Degree in Public Health Science, Social Science and other related
disciplines.
- 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
- Experience
with position responsibilities listed above
- Comfortable
managing a large team of enumerators
- Previous
tablet based survey experience.
Desired
- Over
2 years’ of experience managing midline or endline respondent tracking
- Experience
using process maker system
- Fluent
in local languages of the areas of operation.
To
Apply:
Click
here -
Position: Field Officer - Medicine
Access Project(Multiple Positions)
Deadline
to Apply:10th June, 2016
Start
Date: 27th
June 2016
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Kakamega / West Pokot / Samburu / Embu /
Nyeri / Narok / Kwale / Makueni
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 policy makers, practitioners,
investors, and donors working with the poor around the world - we design and
evaluate 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: IPA Kenya seeks qualified applicants for the position of Field Officer for the Medicine Access Project that aims to evaluate the impact of a new 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 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 the baseline data collection, the first of the
five phases of data collection, prior to the program implementation.
Responsibilities: This job description
outlines some of the tasks that are typical to the Field Officer (FO) position
across IPA-K projects.
The
tasks below are in no way exhaustive of the expectations of the FO position,
thus flexibility, innovation, adjustment and conscientious efforts are expected
depending on day to day events and the ever changing areas and needs of the
job.
General
- Data
collection on SurveyCTO: 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.
- 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
- Organization
of Field Activities: The FO will Successfully complete all tasks assigned
by the NAP management team
- Other
tasks as assigned by the FM/RA/RM.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s
Degree in Public Health Science, Social Science and other related
disciplines.
- 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
- Experience
with position responsibilities listed above
- Comfortable
managing a large team of enumerators
- Previous
tablet based survey experience.
Desired
- Over
2 years’ of experience managing midline or endline respondent tracking
- Experience
using process maker system
- Fluent
in local languages of the areas of operation.
To
Apply:
Click
here -
Disclaimer: The above
statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work
being performed by the Field Officer-Medicine Access 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 from an applicant. Applicants are
encouraged to confirm the information listed above with IPA
