Job Overview/Summary
The International Rescue Committee is seeking
Qualitative Research Facilitators to work in Nairobi on the second wave of the
Re:BUiLD Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). The facilitators will support the
qualitative evaluation of the Wave 2 RCT intervention that will commence in
July 2024. Re:BUiLD, is a five-year, multi-stakeholder urban livelihoods
program implemented in Kampala and Nairobi providing livelihood interventions
to urban refugees and vulnerable host community members to enhance their economic
self-reliance. The facilitators will be part of the Re:BUiLD project team under
the IRC for a fixed period of time.
Qualified urban refugees from all nationalities possessing a refugee ID are strongly encouraged to apply.
Statement Of Work
The qualitative facilitators will be expected to perform the following roles (not limited to):
Conduct key informant interviews with clients to
learn about their experience in the program, their business, and their business
habits
Translation and transcription as required by the
research team.
To carry out other duties as assigned and agreed upon
with the supervisor.
Additional Information
Research Objectives and Questions
The qualitative research component for Wave 2 of
Re:Build will serve two objectives. The first is a descriptive research objective
to provide information on network structure, development, and economic and
social dynamics. We will pair this with our quantitative survey data to
identify differences between, and characteristics of, business networks in
different areas of Kampala and Nairobi and among different population groups.
While our survey data collects information about egocentric network size,
numbers and types of ties, and centrality of connections, the qualitative
component will gather information about the meaning of these ties, along with
process-related aspects of network develop-ment and maintenance.
Second, this research will serve an impact evaluation
objective by helping us interpret the quantitative findings from the RCT,
unpack the mechanisms driving our results, and interrogate the underlying
theory and assumptions of the Re:Build program. This will also help us to
understand the quality of program implementation, particularly the networking
component.
Our Primary Research Questions Are
What do business networks look like in mixed and
homogeneous refugee and host communities in urban developing cities?
How do refugees, compared to urban hosts, develop
their business networks? How does this differ across characteristics such as
gender, nationality, industry, and business experience?
How do refugee and host participants in Re:Build
perceive the quality and utility of the program, particularly the networking
interventions?
How and why did Re:Build interventions contribute to
improvements, or lack thereof, in economic and social outcomes for
participants?
What were the intended and unintended consequences of
the interventions, according to participants?
Approach
In-depth Interviews with Re:Build Participants
To Answer Research Questions 2-4 Above, We Will Interview 50-60 Participants In
Each City. We Will Include People In All Four Treatment Groups, Men And Women,
And Refugees And Hosts. This Will Be Split Into Two Groups
30-40 participants in each city interviewed at both
baseline and endline (1 year apart).
Participants will be selected to ensure a diverse
sample based on key characteristics, e.g. gender, nationality, location,
business experience.
Participants will initially be interviewed after the
baseline survey and before the program begins.
The focus of these interviews will be on providing
descriptive data about business networks which will complement our quantitative
analysis. We aim to understand how refugees and host communities with different
characteristics (gender, age, nationality) build their business networks, and
how and why an intervention like Re:Build might have shifted their networking
behavior over time, in ways that may not be captured in our survey data.
At baseline, participants will be asked questions
about how they developed their professional networks (including through social
interactions and pre-existing networks) since they arrived in the city, what
strategies they used to build ties, and how these networks have developed over
time and contributed to their work (business or otherwise). At endline,
participants will be asked about how their networks and approaches to
networking have changed during the course of the intervention and in the year
since.
20 participants in each city interviewed only at
endline. Participants will be selected based on their response to the
intervention, including 10 “high performers” (people whose economic and social
outcomes and/or business networks saw marked improvements at the end of the
intervention compared to the beginning, according to our survey data) and 10
“low performers” (people who didn’t see improvements in their economic and
social outcomes). This is essentially a “most-similar” case selection design,
if we can compare pairs with similar characteristics.
The focus of these interviews will be on the
participants’ experience of the intervention. We will aim to understand why
some participants fared better than others and to diagnose reasons why some
participants benefited less.
Estimated LOE
The team of local qualitative researchers (outside of
IRC) are to complete the in-depth inter-views/qualitative survey. We will
consider getting in touch with local universities and outreach to teams of
sociology/anthropology graduate students with help from Annet and Alex.
The In-depth Interviews Will Entail
Repeated 30 interviews: two teams of researchers for
two weeks after baseline & end-line.
Minimum Qualifications:
Pull clients from first two weeks of baseline survey
to start.
Incentives for interviewees.
Training, piloting, and oversight of researchers.
Certificate or Diploma in Social Sciences or
Humanities or any other related field.
Experience in leading key informant interviews and
qualitative research. Data collection experience is an added advantage
Experience working with vulnerable communities.
Strong communication and report-writing skills.
Flexible approach to the changing nature of work.
Ability to work effectively both independently and
within a multicultural team.
Computer skills, especially Ms. Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint.
Applicants able to communicate in Swahili, French,
Oromo, Somali, Amharic, Arabic, Congolese, Rwandese are encouraged to apply.
All applicants should have Kenya Revenue Authority
(KRA) PIN.
Availability: – (1st – 30th August 2024)
Policies
Ensure compliance with organizational performance
standards, code of conduct, and safeguarding policy.
Adhere to confidentiality procedures and policies
when collecting, storing, and sharing data.
Deliverables
Qualitative transcripts.
How To Apply
A cover letter containing:
Prior experience with leading qualitative research
including key informant interviews
Languages spoken
CV
Copy of identification document
Copy of KRA pin
Interested and qualified? Go to International Rescue Committee on
careers.rescue.org to
apply
