Latest Recruitment at Jhpiego

Responsibilities

• Work with MCGL to identify Key Informant Interview participants at both subnational and facility level (i.e. in four selected districts)
• Coordinate study activity implementation, as per the direction of the Principal Investigator (PI)
• Assist in Training two data collectors in qualitative data collection methods and the study protocol to support data collection and transcription of interviews
• Oversee data collection, including coordinating data collection activities with the two recruited data collectors, traveling to data collection sites, and possibly conducting key informant interviews at the national, subnational and facility level
• Ensure correct and proper implementation of study protocols, including organizing debriefs with data collectors during data collection, verifying notes and interview transcriptions
• Upload voice data, consents and transcripts into study database
• Draft summary report of key takeaways and findings from interviewer notes and transcriptions reviewed (maximum of 5 pages)
• Participate during biweekly FP QOC study meeting with the study team
• Participate in the data analysis
• Participate during study validation meeting with stakeholders

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in leading and conducting qualitative studies in the social sciences or health sector, including training and supervision of data collectors
• Experience conducting and transcribing key informant interviews s
• A Bachelor’s degree in Public health , anthropology/sociology or any related Public health related field.
• Sound knowledge and experience working in Sexual and Reproductive Health and or Family Planning research or QOC programming in Kenya.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a policy environment
• Familiar with government stakeholders involved in SRH/FP
• Proficiency in English and Kiswahili is a plus

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Responsibilities

Reporting to the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Research Manager of the MCGL Project, the Qualitative RAs will be responsible for data collection note taking during the Key Informant Interviews (KIIS) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) sessions, and transcription of audio files in readiness for analysis. They will be engaged for approximately 30 days.

The key responsibilities will include:

• Participate in a data collectors training and complete a mandatory online course on the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects
• Assist in Administering a questionnaire to study subjects and audio record the interview
• Maintain a clean enrollment register for the survey
• Record and take comprehensive hand-written notes during the interviews ( KIIs and FGDs)
• Conduct transcription and translation of audio recorded interviews
• Enter collected data on paper form into a pre-determined data management software
• Perform other relevant duties that will be assigned by the supervisors while on an existing contract

Required Qualifications

• Diploma in social sciences or community health, plus 5 years of relevant work experience in undertaking qualitative research assignments, or Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or community health plus 3 years of relevant work
  experience in undertaking qualitative research assignments
• Experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative data collection
• Experience in transcribing media (audio or video) files will be an added advantage
• Knowledge and experience in use of electronic data collection software and devices is an added advantage
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to follow study-specific procedures and guidelines reliably
• Good verbal, interpersonal, written communication skills and fluency in English, Swahili and a vernacular language
• Should be people-oriented, non-judgmental and non-moralizing
• Must be fully available for the training and during the entire data collection period
• Residing within the study counties and willingness to work in the county