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

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Job Title: Field Manager (multiple positions available)
Division/Department: Field Management
Work Location: Kigali
Length of contract: 3 months (with the possibility of extension)
Reports to: TBC per project
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

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
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

  • 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

IF YOU MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION,

PLEASE APPLY BY SENDING YOUR CV AND MOTIVATION STATEMENT TO ALL APPLICATIONS

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APPLICATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERD ON A ROLLING BASIS, ALL APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED PRIOR TO 5 PM RWANDA TIME ON SATURDAY 22nd May 2021 WILL BE CONSIDERED. APPLICATIONS AFTER THIS TIME WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. DUE TO THE VOLUME OF APPLICATIONS ONLY SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE NOTIFIED.










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