IPA Job Vacancy For Team Leaders, SME Investment And Gender Project

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: Field Supervisor
• Location:  Nation Wide, Ghana
• Deadline to apply: 11^th January 2019
• Duration: 4 to 5 weeks
• Desired start date: 21^st January 2019
• Job Code: SMEG-ML-19

Background

IPA in partnership with the World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab and the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice are conducting a study known as the SME Investment and Gender. The SME Investment and Gender study builds upon a previous experiment conducted among Ghanaian micro and small firms. Local partners have implemented its different components – providing access to financial services, training beneficiaries and disbursing grants. The experiment is designed to further our understanding of what works to help women develop their businesses. Notably, the research team seeks to better understand whether and under what conditions cash grants can increase the profits of the female-owned firm.

IPA will be conducting the first round of follow up surveys in January 2019 across enumeration areas in the Accra Metropolis and seeks to hire Field Supervisors, Team Leaders, Auditors, and Interviewers.

Responsibilities

Team Leaders are responsible for overseeing survey fieldwork at the survey team level and maintaining high-quality data collection. This will involve managing a team of surveyors, supervising daily survey activities, survey monitoring and writing weekly field reports. Team Leaders will also maintain records such as survey tracking and surveyor attendance. The Team Leader will;

• Manage a survey team comprising of 6 members.
• Ensure efficient use of team’s logistics.
• Assign and monitor the performance of survey team members.
• Conduct spontaneous interviews identified by the organizer.
• Maintains fieldwork control sheets and makes sure that assignments are carried out.
• Solve and communicate all problems with team members to field supervisors and field manager;
• Perform other duties that may be assigned to him/her.

Required Skills or Experience

Specific requirement

• At least one (1) year experience in household data collection;
• Experience in the use of Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing.
• Experience in supervising data collection activities involving a team of interviewers.

General Qualifications (All positions)

• Minimum of a diploma qualification in any field;
• Prior experience with Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) is preferable;
• Fluency in English and any of these local languages – Ga, Twi and Ewe
• Working knowledge of Accra Metropolis.