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, Project Name: Accra Sanitation

• Position: Team Leaders
• Reports to: Field Supervisor
• Work Location: Greater Accra region
• Duration: 6 weeks
• Application deadline: 3rd October, 2016
• Job Code:  TL-SAN-19092016

Project Overview
IPA is seeking to hire Team Leaders (TLs) for a six week period from October to December 2016 to work on “The Accra Sanitation” project. The survey seeks to connect household to desludgers in order to increase household accessibility to desludgers and reduce the search cost for households and also provide more jobs for the desludgers. Survey teams will collect data within the Greater Accra region of Ghana. 

IPA would like to recruit surveyors to form part of the Accra Sanitation project team.

Job Description
The Accra Sanitation Team Leader is responsible for managing a team of 4 to 5 field staff and maintaining high quality data collection during our Endline survey.

Responsibilities 
As part of the responsibilities, the Team Leader will: 

• Supervise all the Surveyors at a field station, manage their work, and ensure that they are all following IPA survey protocols;
• Distribute respondent gifts to Surveyors each morning;
• Verify that Surveyors have interviewed the right respondents;
• Edit surveys of each member, check that each team member is using tracking forms accurately and consistently, and give daily updates to the field supervisor;
• Monitor field staff on the field 
• Report all problems immediately to the field supervisors. 
• Promptly respond to contact from the IPA Project Field Manager or other IPA staff.
• Be responsible for maintaining good relations with IPA, its employees, partner organizations and project participants.
• Perform other duties related to the project that may be assigned to him/her.

Required Skills or Experience

The Team Leader must satisfy the following requirements: 

• A diploma or University degree in any field;
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English;
• Strong oral proficiency and basic grammatical knowledge in any of the following local languages –Twi, Ga, and Ewe
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with little or no supervision;
• Previous experience as a team leader in IPA will be an added advantage;
• Experience in using technology to collect data on the field is a plus