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Team Leaders, Strengthening Targeted Instruction for Implementation at Scale (STARS) Project

JOB SUMMARY

Company Innovations f...
Industry NGO/IGO/INGO
Category Science
Location Nationwide
Job Status Fixed term (R...
Salary GHS
Education HND
Experience 1 year
Job Expires May 03, 2018
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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

Team Leaders, Strengthening Targeted Instruction for Implementation at Scale (STARS) Project

  • Reports to: Field Supervisor
  • Location:  Nation Wide, Ghana
  • Deadline to apply: 3rd May, 2018
  • Duration: 4 to 5 weeks
  • Desired start date: 24th May, 2018
  • Job Code:  STARS-BL-TL-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

Team Leaders (TLs) will oversee survey fieldwork. 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 maintain 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 him/her supervision
  • The Team Leader shall be responsible in managing finances and logistics; this includes reconciliation and distribution of respondent gifts each morning.
  • 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 any of the language requirement of the chosen district.
  • Experience in similar roles with IPA or similar non-IPA project is an added advantage

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