Field Manager at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

Duties and Responsibilities
Survey Preparation
Help in reviewing study materials for local context and general understanding.
Assist in Pre-testing survey tools prior to planned fielding and provide constructive feedback on how to 
improve the survey tools and protocols.
Helping with survey software programming on SurveyCTO.
 

HR and Finance
Arrange for transport, supplies, accommodation, and venues etc. needed by team for fieldwork
Request and manage funds for the team 
Manage staff appraisal and provide feedback as necessary to the RA/SRA and the enumerators 
Report field staff hours any other necessary information to IPA HR for payment
Promptly report any performance or other HR issues to IPA 
Assist with training and capacity building for enumerators and other field staff including leading portions of training.
 

General

• Schedule, prepare and assign work, in consideration to timelines keeping in mind other relevant factors like security, weather and logistics 
• Helping in piloting and pretesting the survey instruments
• Electronic data consolidation at the end of each day, accounting for all households and respondents visited and relaying this to the RA/SRA.
• Ensure proper storage of all paper data in a secure, well-organized, and well-documented repository.
• Supervise enumerators conducting phone and household data collection and provide feedback to enumerators, and the RA/SRA.
• Participate in developing data quality assurance tools including back checks, high frequency checks, and spot checks.
• Review high frequency checks on collected data and provide feedback that will inform training and supervision. 
• Contact respondents by phone confirm a subset of their answers and ensure that data is accurate.
• Interviewing or note-taking as needed.
• Manage compensation for respondents and distribute to enumerators as needed
• Coordinate with RA/SRA to improve skills of data collection staff and the clarity of data collection
• Develop reporting tools with the project team and to daily update the RA/SRA on the progress of data collection 
• Maintain updated project inventory records, assigning to staff and coordinating with the procurement office for necessary action like insurance 
• Help in forming and maintaining relations with relevant administrative and department heads and securing necessary approvals 
• Obtain any introduction and permission letters needed for fieldwork
• Represent and explain the study to facility owners, local chiefs, and village elders and ask for support
• Managing the team day-to-day in the field
• Assist in training teams on electronic survey implementation and ensure that enumerators adhere to training they received on data collection
• Any other duties as assigned by supervisor

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Required

• Bachelors’ degree in social sciences or related discipline or a Diploma with at least 2 years’ experience in field management. 
• Excellent supervisory and management experience (2-4 years) managing data collection teams. 
• Knowledge of quantitative or/and qualitative research methods.
• Ability to train field teams on the survey and data collection processes.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in both English and Kiswahili. 
• Experience in conducting quality control including back checks and High Frequency Checks.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite Especially MS Word and Excel. 
• Experience working with stakeholders especially government officials.
• Excellent team building, interpersonal, negotiating skills (ability to develop networks of useful contacts within and beyond the Unit).
• Proven analytical and problem-solving capability
• Excellent organizational and coordinating skills, including ability to cope under pressure while maintaining a 
• high level of accuracy and level headedness as well as meticulous attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and under supervision, as appropriate, assessing priorities and managing workload effectively.
• Flexible, committed, reliable and enthusiastic approach with ability to work as part of a team with staff at all levels. 
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• The ability to use initiative and creativity to resolve problems and identify and assess practical options.
• Self-motivated with a proactive and flexible approach to work and a willingness to learn and develop Desired
• Knowledge in SurveyCTO is an added advantage 
• Experience working with STATA 
• Some experience designing survey forms.