Job Title: Third Party Monitoring (TPM) Enumerators
Hiring Organization: SoCha
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: NGO
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 07/30/2024
Background
SoCha is
contracted to deliver the USAID/Kenya and East Africa (KEA) Localization,
Inclusion, and Sustainability Activity (LISA) with the aim of assisting USAID
staff and stakeholders to be more efficient, effective, transparent, inclusive,
and skilled in achieving development outcomes. To achieve this, LISA seeks to
enhance USAID/KEA’s organizational project design, programming, Monitoring,
Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) practices, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and
Accessibility (DEIA) objectives, and mission-wide localization efforts by
elevating local voices and co-developing and co-creating USAID/KEA programs
with local partners including marginalized populations, girls and women, and
youth.
Scope of Work
LISA
seeks short-term consultants to serve as enumerators for Third-Party Monitoring
(TPM) tasks in the following technical areas:
Democracy
and Governance
- Nutrition
- WASH
- Livelihoods
- Education
- Youth
- Environment
- Health
- Resilience
- Agriculture
The
enumerator MUST indicate at most three counties they can comfortably work in
and should be conversant with the local language.
Responsibilities:
The
enumerators responsibilities will include:
- Support data
collection planning, coordination, and logistics.
- Review, test,
translate, and pilot data collection instruments, identify and correct
issues before full-scale deployment.
- Gather and
accurately record responses on qualitative and quantitative
questionnaires.
- Support
electronic designing/scripting of data collection tools using SurveyCTO,
Kobo, or ODK.
- Submit complete
and accurate questionnaires in the format determined by the Technical
Lead.
- Follow all
ethics requirements for collecting data on human subjects.
- Recognize and
give account of problems in obtaining data and provide useful feedback.
- Provide daily
briefings to the Technical Lead and other relevant staff, and support
development of weekly reports.
- Collect data on
a tablet and upload it to the secure LISA server daily.
- Participate in
regular check-in calls and debriefs with the LISA staff.
- Minimum
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum
undergraduate degree in Statistics, Health, Environment, Education,
Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Monitoring and Evaluation, Public
Health, Development studies, Social work, Communication, or related fields
from a recognized university.
- At least three
(3) years of experience in undertaking qualitative and quantitative data
collection in the selected region of Kenya.
- Experience
working/ supporting or implementing third party monitoring activities.
- Advanced
knowledge of designing/scripting electronic data collection tools using
SurveyCTO, Kobo, or ODK.
- Experience
working with USAID projects preferred.
- Strong
communication skills (both written and verbal) in English and Kiswahili
- Professional,
reliable, deadline-oriented, team player.
- Ability to
travel or support tasks with short notice to indeterminate locations in
the assigned cluster or other counties as needed.