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Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA),Field Supervisors Jobs in Rwanda(a day to go)

Othuke Andrew Akpeli9 years ago6 years ago07 mins

Field
Supervisors, Financial Education through Savings and Credit Cooperatives
(SACCOs), Rwanda

Location: Kigali
and nationwide field sites, Rwanda
Desired
Start Date: August 22, 2016
Reports
to: Field
Manager, IPA Rwanda
Length
of Commitment: 35
working days
Application
deadline:
August 3, 2016

Organizational
information:

Innovations
for Poverty Action (IPA), is an international non-profit research organization.
Based in New Haven, CT, with offices in Washington, D.C. and worldwide, IPA
works with development partners and academic researchers to create and evaluate
approaches to solving development problems, to communicate “what works” in
development and to scale up successful projects in a variety of fields,
including health, education, microfinance, governance and agriculture.

Project
Description:

IPA
will carry out field data collection for the Financial Education through
Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) project in Rwanda, which is led by the
Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. The Field Supervisor will play a
critical role in planning and carrying out this data collection. The project
will be working within all districts and will be collecting data from SACCO
clients. Administrative data will also be collected.

Position
Summaries:

The
Field Supervisor position provides an excellent opportunity to gain hands‐on experience in a
field setting with a vibrant organization undertaking cutting‐edge development
research. In this, the Field Supervisor will report to the Research Associate
and will help to manage Enumerators on the project. The Field Supervisor will
work closely with the research staff and field staff to perform a variety of
tasks including, but not limited to:

Coordinate and
supervise all enumeration activities during the data collection process
with survey households;
Monitor,
check, and assess the quality of the work of the enumerators, and review
the questionnaires for completeness, consistency, and accuracy;
Monitor the
condition of survey equipment assigned to the enumerators;
Double
check the completeness of the list of households required by the
team;
Report all
errors, discrepancies and changes of the questionnaire if any, and oversee
the upload of the new version of the questionnaire for all team members;
Ensure that
there are no problems with lodging and transportation for enumerators, and
monitor time management;
Carry
out field preparations including contacting cell and village leaders to
locate the respondents, make appointments with respondents;
Ensure
that all technical and logistic issues are reported to the Field Manager.

Qualifications:

A
successful Field Supervisor is detail-oriented and has excellent organizational
skills and who will be committed to our high standards of data quality. The
position requires strong leadership and communication skills. In
addition, the following qualifications and experience are desired.

· At
least 1 year of experience working on qualitative and quantitative data
collection, with management experience is necessary;

· Extensive
knowledge of quantitative data collection; a passion for learning best
practices and innovations is desired;

· In
addition to English, written and spoken fluency in Kinyarwanda is essential;

· Prior
experience managing teams and strong leadership skills are necessary;

· Proficiency
with Microsoft Office tools (including Excel) is necessary;

· Ability
to travel is required;

· Prior
experience with Computer Assisted Interviewing (specifically Open Data Kit/
SurveyCTO) is preferred;

· Prior
experience in creating and implementing Field Plans for team logistics is
preferred;