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JOB SUMMARY
Company	Innovations f...
Industry	NGO/IGO/INGO
Category	Science
Location	Northern Regi...
Job Status	Short-term
Salary	GH¢
Education	HND / Degree
Experience	1 year
Job Expires	May 03, 2019
Contact	...

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, Marketing, Tractor Coordination and Technology Adoption Project (TRACTa)

Reports to: Field Supervisor
Location: Northern Region, Ghana
Deadline to apply: 3rd. May, 2019
Duration: 1 week of training, and 3 – 4 weeks of field work
Desired start date: 13th May, 2019
Language requirement: Dagbani and / or Likpakpa
Job Code: TRACTa-BL-TL-05042019

Project Summary

The “Marketing, Tractor Coordination and Technology Adoption” (“TRACTa”) project seeks to address constraints for smallholder farmers, as many make the shift from subsistence farming to greater involvement with the agricultural value chain. This pattern is evident in northern Ghana, where small-scale agriculturalists rely on subsistence farming and face low productivity, difficulty in technology adoption, and exclusion from markets that are growing rapidly in the rest of the country.

The project aims to better understand constraints faced by smallholder farmers in Northern Ghana that may hinder greater productivity, profitability and improved welfare. The study will examine barriers such as: thin output markets, accessibility of tractor services, and lack of information on best farming practices.

The study will be carried out in 200 communities, reaching over 4,000 project participants including maize and soya farmers. The geographic focus will be in the Northern Region of Ghana, across 6 districts, including: Yendi, Gusheigu, Karaga, Mion, Savelugu and Saboba.

TRACTa is looking to recruit Team leaders on a short-term contract of 3 – 4 weeks to carry out the baseline survey. Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the above field position to work on the “TRACTa” Project.

Job description

Team Leaders (TLs) will oversee survey field activities including managing a team of Surveyors, tracking field finances, supervising daily survey activities, survey monitoring and writing daily field reports to the 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.

Responsibilities

Supervise approximately 5 Surveyors and ensure adherence to IPA survey protocols;
Ensure that data collected is of high quality
Evaluate the performance of field staff under his/her supervision
Managing field finances and logistics, including reconciliation and distribution of respondent gifts to survey teams
Verify that Surveyors have interviewed the right respondents;
Conduct frequent and random spot checks in the field
Report all problems immediately to the Field Supervisor and Field Managers
Submit timely feedback to the Field Supervisor and Field Manager
Maintain good relations with IPA, 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 and / or Likpakpa
Should be willing to travel and work in remote communities within the above mentioned districts
Must have leadership skills experience in similar roles with IPA or similar non-IPA project

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