IPA Job Vacancy For Team Leaders - Conservation Agriculture Evaluation Project
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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: Field Supervisor
- Location: Tamale, Ghana
- Deadline to apply: 15th March, 2019
- Duration: 3 to 4 weeks
- Desired start date: 15th April, 2019
- Job Code: CAGE-BL-TL-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 team leaders 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 Descriptions
Team Leaders (TLs) will oversee survey field activities. This will involve managing a team of Surveyors, overseeing field finances, supervising daily survey activities, survey monitoring and writing daily field reports to field supervisor. Team Leaders will also keep records; including survey tracking, surveyor attendance and project expenses. Team Leaders are responsible for maintaining high quality data collection and will report to field supervisor.
Responsibilities:
- Supervise all the Surveyors at a field station, manage their work, and ensure that they are all following IPA survey protocols;
- The Team Leader shall ensure that the data collected are of high quality
- The Team Leader shall have the responsibility of evaluating the performance of all field staff under his/her supervision
- The Team Leader shall be responsible in managing finances and logistics; this includes reconciliation and distribution of respondent gifts each morning to enumerators.
- Verify that Surveyors have interviewed the right respondents;
- Do frequent and random spot checks in the field to monitor surveyors;
- Report all problems immediately to the Field Supervisor and Field Managers.
- Receive timely instructions from IPA Field Supervisor, Field Manager and other IPA staff.
- Submit timely feedback to the Field Supervisor
- Be responsible for maintaining good relations with IPA, its employees, partner organizations and project participants.
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.
- Must have leadership skills experience in similar roles with IPA or similar non-IPA project is an added advantage
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