Kenya
Water Services Trust Fund (KWSTF)
Position: Field Officer
(10
Positions)
Deadline
to Apply:9th September 2016
Start
Date: 3rd
October 2016
Location: Based in Nairobi, Embu, Nakuru
Reporting
To: Associate
Field Manager
Eligibility: Position open to local Kenyan hires only
About
Innovations for Poverty Action: Innovations
for Poverty Action (IPA) is an international non-profit research organization
dedicated to discovering and promoting effective solutions to global poverty
problems.
IPA
works in partnership with development partners and academic researchers to
create and evaluate approaches potential solutions to poverty problems using
randomized evaluations in the fields of health, education, microfinance,
governance and agriculture.
We
also mobilize and support these decision makers to use these solutions to build
better programs and policies at scale.
About
the project: As
part of the Kenya Water Services Trust Fund’s mission to provide water and
sanitation services to the poor, the WSTF partnered with the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation to scale-up their services for the urban informal settlement
populations across Kenya.
Under
this partnership, the WSTF with funding from the Gates Foundation, provided
subsidies to landlords living in urban areas across the country to construct
toilets.
IPA
has since been contracted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to
independently verify specific indicators related to the WSTF project.
A
representative sample of all households that have received a toilet will be
visited to verify these indicators.
Duties and Responsibilities
General:
- Prompt
arrival to work.
- Completion
of scheduled activities each day in a timely manner.
- Interact
with community members with the highest level of respect and understanding
- On
non-field days, conscientious performance of office work.
- Ensure
proper storage and handling of field equipment such as tablets etc.
- Maintaining
high standard of professional integrity in all activities.
- Successfully
complete all tasks assigned by the KWSTF management team.
Data
Collection:
- Identifying
and confirming eligible study respondents.
- Get
informed consent from study participants.
- Ensure
data integrity is maintained at all times and minimize errors in data
collection.
- Administer
household questionnaires and observations.
- Responsible
for ensuring that all updated documents are carried to the field along
with everything on the Survey Checklist.
- Filling
data forms and uploading data onto the server.
Qualifications:
- A
Bachelor’s degree or college diploma with 3 years’ experience.
- Excellent
oral and written communication in both English and Swahili.
- Good
interpersonal skills specifically able to create good rapport with
respondents.
- Past
experience in data collection through survey CTO desirable but not a must.
- Ability
to work as a team.
To
Apply: Click
here: https://poverty-action.formstack.com/forms/fo_kwstf
Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the Field Officer – Kenya Water Services Trust Fund - KWSTF. 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.