Position: Field Assistant, Kenya Life Panel Survey – Tracking
Project
Deadline
To
Apply: 29th
May 2013
Start
Date:
10th June 2013
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:
Activities of a Field
Assistant on the Kenya Life Panel Survey (KLPS) team include meeting with
teachers, local administrators, and relatives to locate respondents, and first
and foremost, administering surveys to individuals and households.
Interviews are
conducted both at the IPA offices and at other locations such as the
respondents’ homes.
On days when no
interviews are scheduled, activities include conscientious performance of
office work, for instance organizing paperwork and making phone calls to invite
respondents to interviews.
The original study
location is in Western Kenya; however some of the respondents have since
migrated, so most of the work in this project will be Nairobi-based, but some
interviews will take place in other locations in Eastern, Coast and Rift Valley
provinces.
Visiting 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 a few 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 paperwork and compilation of survey information,
data entry, 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 period of one month on a casual basis.
Those who demonstrate
consistent exceptional abilities and work performance may be considered for a
longer term placement on the same project.
Qualifications:
Academic
Qualifications:
It is preferred that
candidates have obtained a college diploma or university degree, preferably in
sociology, statistics, economics, education, development studies, social
sciences, health, or related fields.
Candidates must have
completed secondary schooling.
Professional/Technical
Skills:
- Skills in data
collection and survey administration;
- ability to work
with local administrators;
- Computer
knowledge and typing skills required.
Other
Qualities and Attributes:
- Most
importantly, a positive attitude towards the position;
- comfortable
taking HB Levels (which involves collecting a small blood sample from
interviewees);
- ability to work
in informal/slum settings;
- comfortable
interviewing people in their homes;
- comfortable
traveling for extended periods of time;
- well-organized;
- ability to work
independently and in a team;
- promptness;
- attention to
detail;
- initiative.
- Candidates must
be fluent in Kiswahili and English.
- Ability to speak
and understand Luhya and/or Luo is a plus.
To
apply:
Please send a cover
letter and detailed CV, 3 references, daytime phone number(s), and email
address to one of the addresses below.
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:
KLPS-2013-05-01.
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 Kenya Life Panel Survey 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.
