Job Description: Responsibilities & Requirements
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a United States-based non-profit organization dedicated to discovering, and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates, and refines these solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world’s poor.
Job Description
- Reports to: Team Leader
- Location: Tamale, Ghana
- Deadline to apply: 15th March, 2019
- Duration: 3 to 4 weeks
- Desired start date: 15th April, 2019
- Job Code: CAGE-BL-ENUM-19
Project Summary:
Conservation Agriculture Evaluation (CAgE) Project is an Agricultural project being carried out in 60 communities in 10 districts; Yendi, Kumbungu, West-Mamprusi, Saboba, Kpandai in the Northern Region, Bongo, Bolgatanga Municipal and Builsa South in the Upper East Region and Wa-west, Jirapa in the Upper West Region.
Conservation Agriculture Evaluation Project (CAgE) aims to understand if and to what extend the provision of incentives increase knowledge about and adoption of Conservation Agriculture practices in semi-arid Savannah zone in Northern Ghana. The project will use a framed field experiment and a baseline survey to assess this in the selected districts.
CAgE is looking to recruit enumerators on a short-term contract of 3 – 4 weeks to carry out the baseline survey and field experiment.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the above field position to work on the “Conservation Agriculture Evaluation” (CAgE) Project.
Job description:
The Surveyors/Enumerators shall administer interviews to respondents in the Project districts.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct baseline surveys in assigned communities
- Live within assigned districts during the period of the survey;
- Adhere to all IPA survey and data protocols;
- Promptly respond to contact from the IPA Field Manager, Field Supervisor, Team Leaders, or other IPA staff;
- Perform other duties related to the project that may be assigned to him/her;
Required Skills or Experience
- Must have Higher National Diploma (HND), first degree or its equivalent from a reputable institution with at least one-year field/data collection experience
- Should be familiar with Computer Assisted Interview (CAI) or keen to learn
- Familiarity with administering interviews using SurveyCTO is an added advantage.
- Should be fluent in English
- Should be fluent and able to translate questionnaire in Dagbani, Mampruli, Grune, Buli, Dagare, Wala and Likpakpa
- Should be willing to travel and work in remote communities within the above mentioned districts
- Should be able to ride a motor cycle
- Must own a GENUINE REGISTERED motor cycle with road worthy. IPA will provide enumerators with driver’s license, motor bike insurance and safety helmets when they are successfully selected after training.
Note: Trainees who perform best at the surveyor training will be considered for auditor position.
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Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a United States-based non-profit organization dedicated to discovering, and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates, and refines these solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world’s poor.
Job Description
- Reports to: Team Leader
- Location: Tamale, Ghana
- Deadline to apply: 15th March, 2019
- Duration: 3 to 4 weeks
- Desired start date: 15th April, 2019
- Job Code: CAGE-BL-ENUM-19
Project Summary:
Conservation Agriculture Evaluation (CAgE) Project is an Agricultural project being carried out in 60 communities in 10 districts; Yendi, Kumbungu, West-Mamprusi, Saboba, Kpandai in the Northern Region, Bongo, Bolgatanga Municipal and Builsa South in the Upper East Region and Wa-west, Jirapa in the Upper West Region.
Conservation Agriculture Evaluation Project (CAgE) aims to understand if and to what extend the provision of incentives increase knowledge about and adoption of Conservation Agriculture practices in semi-arid Savannah zone in Northern Ghana. The project will use a framed field experiment and a baseline survey to assess this in the selected districts.
CAgE is looking to recruit enumerators on a short-term contract of 3 – 4 weeks to carry out the baseline survey and field experiment.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the above field position to work on the “Conservation Agriculture Evaluation” (CAgE) Project.
Job description:
The Surveyors/Enumerators shall administer interviews to respondents in the Project districts.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct baseline surveys in assigned communities
- Live within assigned districts during the period of the survey;
- Adhere to all IPA survey and data protocols;
- Promptly respond to contact from the IPA Field Manager, Field Supervisor, Team Leaders, or other IPA staff;
- Perform other duties related to the project that may be assigned to him/her;
Required Skills or Experience
- Must have Higher National Diploma (HND), first degree or its equivalent from a reputable institution with at least one-year field/data collection experience
- Should be familiar with Computer Assisted Interview (CAI) or keen to learn
- Familiarity with administering interviews using SurveyCTO is an added advantage.
- Should be fluent in English
- Should be fluent and able to translate questionnaire in Dagbani, Mampruli, Grune, Buli, Dagare, Wala and Likpakpa
- Should be willing to travel and work in remote communities within the above mentioned districts
- Should be able to ride a motor cycle
- Must own a GENUINE REGISTERED motor cycle with road worthy. IPA will provide enumerators with driver’s license, motor bike insurance and safety helmets when they are successfully selected after training.
Note: Trainees who perform best at the surveyor training will be considered for auditor position.