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.
