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, Project Name: Accra Sanitation

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

Project Overview
IPA is seeking to hire surveyors 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 Surveyor is responsible for collecting high quality data during our Endline survey.

Responsibilities 
As part of the responsibilities, the Surveyor will: 

• Administer interviews to research participants chosen by the IPA Project Managers, or as directed by them;
• Ensure that surveys are administered in an ethical, honest, and rigorous manner;
• Adhere to all other IPA survey protocols;
• Debrief with the IPA Team Leader at any time with questions or concerns; 
• Promptly respond to contact from the IPA Field Managers, Field Supervisors, Team Leaders, or other IPA staff;
• Perform other duties related to the project that may be assigned to him/her.

Required Skills or Experience

The Surveyor 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 (at least one year) in a similar role will be an added advantage;
• Experience in using technology to collect data on the field is a plus