Position: Field Assistant, Kenya Life Panel Survey – Tracking
Project Deadline
To Apply: 29th May 2013
Start Date: 10th June 2013
Location: Nairobi, with flexibility to travel to Eastern, Coast and Rift Valley regions
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.
