Company Profile

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 evaluate 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

Surveyors/Enumerators, Strengthening Targeted Instruction for Implementation at Scale (STARS) Project

• Reports to: Team Leader
• Location:  Nation Wide, Ghana
• Deadline to apply: 3rd May, 2018
• Duration: 4 to 5 weeks
• Desired start date: 24^th May, 2018
• Job Code:  STARS-BL_Enum-18

Project Summary
The Strengthening Targeted Instruction for Implementation at Scale (STARS) Project is an educational project to be carried out in 21 districts in 7 regions; Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Volta, Eastern, Greater Accra and Central regions. STARS is looking to recruit field staff (enumerators or surveyors, auditors, team leaders, and field supervisors) on a short-term contract of 4 – 5 weeks to carry out baseline survey in its schools/communities.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the following field positions to work on the STARS Project.

General Language Requirement for all Positions: Below are the language requirement for the various districts.

Job description

The Surveyors/Enumerators shall administer interviews to respondents from project schools/communities in assigned district(s). The surveyor/Enumerator shall report to the Team Leader.

Responsibilities

• Conduct baseline surveys in assigned schools/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 any of the language requirement of the chosen district.