Innovations for Poverty
Action (IPA)
Position: Field Officer - WED Project (Multiple positions)
Deadline to Apply:7th
June, 2017
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Kakamega, Kitui, Kisii and Embu
Duration: 1 month
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 Women Entrepreneurship Development
(WED) Project is an evaluation of International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s)
Gender and Enterprise Together (GET Ahead) package of the Women’s
Entrepreneurship Development and Economic Empowerment(WEDEE) Program.
The GET Ahead element is a
business management training suite with a strong gender component offered in
over a dozen countries.
IPA is coordinating an impact
evaluation of this programme in Kenya, which aims to measure the causal impact
of the training programme on profitability, growth and survival of female-owned
businesses, to measure whether this impact is greater when coupled with
complementary business support services; and to evaluate whether any gains in
profitability come at the expense of other business owners.
The evaluation is using a
randomized control trial (RCT) methodology and endline data collection has been
completed.
The project would now like to
do follow-up surveys in about 157 markets spread across 4 counties (Kisii,
Kitui, Embu and Kakamega).
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conducting
surveys in WED evaluation sites in four Counties
- Visiting and
tracking of survey respondents to administer questionnaires
- Data
collection prep work, including translations, pretesting, and piloting
- Assisting with
community engagement, including meeting local leaders (e.g. chiefs), and
presenting and answering questions on the WED project at barazas
- Assisting with
intervention training delivery, including prep and practice
- Diligent
completion of checklists and other means of monitoring data
- Data entry
tasks as assigned by the Project Management
- Helping to
have materials organized in readiness for field work and for data
processing and organizing data collected from the field
- Ensuring high
data quality (low error rates)
- Proper use and
maintenance of project equipment (phones, GPS machines, headphones, etc.)
- Prompt arrival
at work and completion of scheduled activities each day
- Successfully
working in a team and avoiding/minimizing conflicts with the rest of the
team members
- Participating
in staff trainings and making efforts to improve one’s capacity
- On non-field
days, conscientious performance of office work (respondent phone calls,
translations, data entry, photocopying, organizing data, etc.)
- Other tasks as
assigned by Project Management
- Positive,
hard-work attitude, with the aim of individually and helping the team
complete the work.
Qualifications and
Experience:
- Excellent oral
and written communication skills in both English and Kiswahili
- Certificate/diploma/degree
preferably in the social sciences, development studies, business studies,
or any applicable course
- Ability to
work independently and as part of a team
- Well
organized, detail-oriented, able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
simultaneously with minimal supervision
- Computer
literacy
- Fluent in
local languages of the areas of operation desired
- Previous
experience in data collection and survey administration using surveyCTO,
ODK, or any other CAIs will be a plus.
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to
apply online
Position: Field Officer – UBI
Project (Multiple
Positions)
Reporting To: Field Manager
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Bomet
Duration: 2 Months
Deadline to Apply: 11th June, 2017
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: A universal basic income (UBI) is a
recurring, unconditional cash transfer sized to meet basic needs and paid to
all members of a society.
Proponents argue that a UBI
has the potential to eliminate extreme poverty and to counteract the harmful
effects of rising inequality in wealthier countries.
The objective of the project
is to test the hypothesis that a universal basic income is an effective way to
eliminate extreme global poverty.
This is a central policy question
currently being debated in a number of emerging markets, both in developed and
developing countries, and is also highly relevant for foreign aid policy.
In addition to informing
policy debates over the adoption of a UBI, our study design will also let us
address two deeper conceptual questions about the design of social protection
in the emerging markets.
IPA is partnering with
GiveDirectly which is already involved in delivering cash transfers as part of
two large-scale randomized controlled trials – one on the general equilibrium
effects of cash transfers, and one on the role of aspirations.
About the Position: Reporting to the Field Manager, the Field
Officer will primarily be responsible for collection of high quality
data.
He/she will spend
approximately 95% of his/her time in the field.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Timely
collection of quality data by conducting surveys, interviews and other
scheduled activities and by rigorously following the study protocol with
minimal supervision
- Interacting
with community members, respondents and project partners with the highest
level of integrity and understanding
- Ensure that
data integrity is maintained at all times and minimize errors in data
collection and transmission
- Creating and
sustaining a positive relationship with the study respondents.
- Providing
study management team with regular feedback on field activities.
- On non-field
day, performing office duties such as translation work, filing, phone
interviews, making of phone calls to identified respondents to schedule
visits, and other duties as assigned and directed by the supervisor.
Qualifications and Experience
Required:
- College
diploma or university degree in Social Sciences, Education, Economics,
Statistics, Business or equivalent qualifications
- Excellent Oral
and written communication in English and Swahili.
- Ability to
handle and speak with people from diverse cultural back grounds
- Ability to
work independently and as a part of the team
- Willingness to
use any means of travel including walking, riding on bikes (Boda boda) and
willing to travel to rural parts of Western Kenya.
- Experience
with data collection using both paper surveys and CAI.
- Ability to be
flexible and comfortable interviewing both illiterate and high cadre
individuals while maintaining professionalism.
- Basic
computing knowledge and skills – Mandatory.
Desired
- Past
Experience in electronic data collection using Survey CTO, ODK or any
other CAIs.
- Knowledge and
ability to communicate in local languages spoken in Bomet County.
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to apply online
