Field Officer
- Aspirations Project
Position: Field Officer
Deadline To Apply: 14th March 2016
Start Date: 21st March 2016
Location: Homabay County
Eligibility: Position open to local Kenyan hires only
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: Development assistance tends to focus on the ‘external’ constraints
that poor people face, while largely ignoring ‘internal’ ones. However, social psychology suggests that poor people’s sense of self-efficacy and control may be beaten down by the nature of living in poverty, limiting the options they consider.
The project aims to do a randomized controlled trial to examine the combined effect of lifting external and internal constraints simultaneously, providing a cash transfer and an intervention to boost poor people’s sense of self-efficacy and alter their understanding of their opportunities, encouraging poor people to set and pursue their own goals without directing their choices.
The research will test if a brief, standardized psychological intervention can alter psychological outcomes and future-oriented behaviors in a developing country and examine if such interventions can enhance the already-known benefits of cash transfers.
Work duration: Successful applicants will initially be hired for one month on a casual basis. Those who demonstrate consistent exceptional abilities and performance may be considered for a longer term placement with the same project.
Tasks, Duties, and Responsibilities:
General
- Arrive
at work on time
- Complete
scheduled activities each day in a timely manner
- Demonstrate
integrity and understanding during interaction with community members and
partner organization staff
- On
non-field days, perform office duties with care (for instance translation
work, which will be taught as needed)
- Assist
in daily survey organization and storage
- Ensure
data integrity is maintained at all times and minimize errors in data
collection
- Administer
household surveys
- Provide
the FM with daily feedback regarding surveying activities
Qualifications:
Required
- Excellent
oral and written communication skills in English, Kiswahili and Luo.
- Experience
with data collection through market surveys, household surveys, academic
tests, exit interviews, focus groups or observations
- Ability
to recognize when questions are difficult or unclear to subjects
- Excellent
note taking ability during interviews
- Comfortable
with interviewing individuals within their homes and over the phone.
- Basic
computer knowledge and skills (mandatory)
- Ability
to comfortably work with groups and within groups
Desired
- Bachelors’
degree or college diploma in social sciences, health and /or business
administration
- Past
experience in data collection
- Experience
in data collection using SurveyCTO or Open Data Kit (ODK)
To Apply:
To apply: Please send 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.
Applications must be submitted ONLY by email to jobs-kenya@poverty-action.org , please ensure that the subject line reads: “Field Officer” REF NO. Aspirations: 2016-03-01.
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.
