Field Manager at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) :Deadline: 22-05-2021

The Field Managers will lead project field activities and manage a teams of field enumerators to collect project related data. The successful candidates will be detail-oriented and enthusiastic about managing field research projects. The Field Managers will work closely with academic researchers, partners, and other field staff to perform a variety of tasks which may include but not be limited to:

• Hiring, training, and managing the field teams that will conduct the data collection,
• Ensuring that all IPA data quality protocols are followed,
• Creating detailed field plans describing team schedules and market to visit,
• Managing field logistics and adapting Field Plan to changing conditions as necessary,
• Assisting in procuring products and getting approvals from local authorities,
• Supporting data collection and monitoring data quality, completing high-quality data checks on a daily basis
• Assisting in piloting and translation of questionnaires,
• Establishing editing and tracking systems
• Making daily updates to a field logbook to track activities and data questions,
• Providing relevant inputs on local context and assist research staff in coordinating relationships with local officials
• Maintaining a database of surveyors and other useful data collection contacts and resources
• Supporting project implementation and training for this as needed

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Social Sciences, Agriculture, Statistics or any other relevant field etc.
• At least one year of field management experience in field-based data collection
• Experience conducting social science or economic field research. Background in randomized control trials is preferred
• Strong Excel or Stata skills
• Be physically apt for long travel and out of Kigali based field work
• Experience with electronic data collection platforms. Knowledge of Survey CTO a plus.
• Experience in the conduct of training of enumerators/field staff
• Strong written and oral communication skills and complete fluency in English is required
• Fluency in Kinyarwanda essential