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IPA Jobs

Location: Africa.

Position: Project Associate / Project Coordinator for Electronic Surveying and Information Technology (IT)

Deadline to Apply: February 29th 2012 (applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis)

Start Date: April 2012

Location: Kakamega / Bungoma; with flexibility to travel within Western Province

Eligibility: Position open to all qualified applicants

IPA’s WASH Benefits Project is a five year study to evaluate the health benefits of sanitation, hygiene, household water treatment and nutrition using a large-scale, randomized evaluation that will take place in Western Province.

Tasks, Duties, and Responsibilities:

Digital Data Collection

  • Serve as primary liaison between WASH Benefits survey management staff and IPA support personnel in New Haven, USA, as well as any IT or programming consultants retained by the project
  • Compile and maintain organized documentation for all programming and electronic surveying activities
  • Contribute to survey programming, testing, and debugging in Blaise software package
  • Liaise with IPA support personnel to format and/or create hard disk image for hardware devices to maximize survey capabilities and efficiency
  • Assist in development of manual and trainings for proper hardware usage and maintenance
  • Train field survey staff in proper use of survey devices and software and provide survey teams with ongoing feedback
  • Assist with organization of data quality checks
  • Organize and streamline the process of retrieving data from collection devices, storing in a secure database, and facilitating upload into STATA analysis software
  • Provide technical support and troubleshoot any hardware or software issues arising in the course of digital data collection

    Database Management

  • Set up and maintain an organized, efficient, and secure database for all pilot and project data
  • Ensure proper encryption and storage procedures are followed with regard to all personal identifying data
  • Help coordinate consistent database design, maintenance, and access issues with project collaborators in the United States and Bangladesh SMS Communication System
  • Work with WASH management staff to oversee an existing system for SMS communication and MPESA payments to community intervention assistants

    General

  • Provide general technical support and troubleshooting assistance for the WASH management team
  • Research and make recommendations on any computer-related project purchases
  • Participate and provide input at regular team meetings
  • Complete all duties in a timely manner with the utmost integrity
  • Coordinate with IPAK Information Technology and Data personnel in the headquarters onIPAK guidelines and procedures that may relate to WASH Benefits IT systems and inform IPAK as needed about new IT activities

    Qualifications:

    Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
  • 1-2 years prior experience in an IT-related position, experience with responsibilities above strongly preferred
  • Must have prior experience with field survey design and implementation, electronic surveying, and data quality oversight, preferably in a research setting
  • Programming experience, especially SQL
  • Wide knowledge of common hardware and software platforms, preferably including mobile platforms (Android, iOS) and open-source platforms (Apache, GNU/Linux)
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Well organized, detail-oriented, able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously with minimal supervision
  • Commitment period of 2 years

    Desired

  • Experience with data management (i.e. MySQL) and quality control strongly preferred
  • Experience working in a health / medical research environment in Africa
  • Fluency in Kiswahili is a strong plus
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science will be an added advantage

    This is a re-advertisement. Previous applicants need not reapply.

    To Apply:

    Please send a cover letter and detailed CV, 3 references, daytime phone number(s), and email address.

    Your CV should include your scores or grades and other measures of academic achievement, and details about any relevant work experience.

    Applications can be submitted in person at our Busia office,

    by email to jobs-kenya [at] poverty- action.org,

    or by mail to PO Box 373, Busia, 50400 Kenya.

    If you submit by email, please ensure that the subject line reads: “WASH Benefits: IT PC/PA” REF NO: WB-2012-02-04.

    Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the Wash B: IT PC/PA.

    The statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all possible duties, tasks, and responsibilities.

    Management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary. Please note that IPA will never request any form of payment from an applicant.

    Applicants are encouraged to confirm the information listed above with IPA prior to releasing any extensive personal information to the organization. Please direct questions to jobs [at] poverty-action.org.


    Position: Process Evaluation Consultant

    Deadline to Apply: May 25th 2012

    Eligibility: Position open to all nationalities; Kenyan nationals strongly encouraged apply

    Activities and Scope of Work

    The consultant will use quantitative and qualitative approaches to critically describe the process of the WASH Benefits interventions, with a focus on intervention delivery and fidelity.

    The consultant is expected to understand thoroughly the WASH Benefits interventions, including both the overall operation, and the particularities of the intervention in Kenya.

    For this, the consultant should engage in active communication with all relevant actors and review all available documentation of the study.

    WASH Benefits is an efficacy study and achieving high levels of intervention uptake is a central goal of the field activities.

    The process evaluation will complement data the investigators collect during regular field surveys by collecting similar – but independent – quantitative indicators of intervention implementation and by supplementing quantitative measures with qualitative interviews with key actors and stakeholders.

    The process evaluation will also document major barriers encountered during the research project implementation.

    Consultant Qualifications

  • Expertise in rural sanitation, water and hygiene or community-based behavior change;
  • Extensive low-income country field experience, ideally in Kenya;
  • Analytic skills sufficient for organizing and summarizing qualitative and quantitative information collected in the evaluation;
  • Sufficient fluency in Kiswahili / Luhya to communicate with local stakeholders is preferable but not required for applications.

    To Apply:

    Please send a cover letter and detailed CV, 3 references, daytime phone number(s), and email address.

    Your CV should include details about any relevant work experience.

    Applications should be submitted by email to jobs-kenya [at] poverty-action.org. Please ensure that the subject line reads: "Process Evaluation Consultant".REF NO: WB-2012-05-01.

    Only short-listed candidates will be contacted by email for an interview.

    All applications should be received by May 25th 2012.

    Disclaimer:

    The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the consultancy. The statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all possible duties, tasks, and responsibilities.

    Management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

    Please note that IPA will never request any form of payment from an applicant.

    Applicants are encouraged to confirm the information listed above with IPA prior to releasing any extensive personal information to the organization.

    Please direct questions to jobs [at] poverty-action.org.


    Field Officer

    Deadline to Apply: June 3, 2012

    Start Date: Mid-June 2012

    Location: Nairobi and Central Province

    Eligibility: Position open to local Kenyan hires only

    Tasks, Duties, and Responsibilities:

    General

  • Arrive to work promptly and reliably
  • Interact with community members with the highest level of integrity and understanding
  • Distribute flyers and posters with information on the Huduma platform in study areas
  • Invite local residents to community meetings about the Huduma platform
  • Lead community meetings about the Huduma platform and its use
  • Collect data through household surveys, academic tests, exit interviews, focus groups and observations
  • Collaborate with colleagues to improve one another’s data collection skills and the project’s data collection tools
  • Take careful notes in order to improve data collection tools and methods
  • Work with the Project Associate to implement improvements to data collection tools and methods.

    Data Collection

  • Acquire lists of staff members from head teachers and hospital administrators
  • Compare staff who are present at the local facilities with those who are expected to be present
  • Visit households and conduct academic tests on English, Kiswahili and math with primary students
  • Collect economic data through questionnaires and observations
  • Conduct questionnaires outside healthcare facilities
  • Acquire administrative records from healthcare facilities regarding drug and immunization availability.

    Qualifications:

    Required

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in both English and Kiswahili
  • Experience with data collection through household surveys, academic tests, exit interviews, focus groups or observations
  • Ability to recognize when questions are difficult or unclear to subjects
  • Excellent note taking ability during interviews and focus groups
  • Willingness to travel within Nairobi and Central Provence
  • Comfortable with interviewing individuals within their homes and outside healthcare facilities.

    Desired

  • Bachelors’ degree or college diploma/certificate
  • Experience analyzing hospital records on drug and immunization availability
  • Experience with all data collection methods mentioned above
  • Experience with pilot studies, especially related to improving data collection tools.

    To apply:

    Please send a cover letter and detailed CV, 3 references, daytime phone number(s), and email address. Your CV should include your scores or grades and other measures of academic achievement, and details about any relevant work experience.

    Applications can be submitted to any of our branch offices, or by email to jobs-keny [at] @poverty-action.org ,or by post office using P.O Box 373, Busia area code 50400 Kenya.

    If you submit by email, please ensure that the subject line reads: "Field Officer"REF NO: HP-2012-05-01.

    Only short-listed candidates will be contacted by email for an interview. Applicants are encouraged to apply early, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

    Disclaimer:

    The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the Field Officer.

    The statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all possible duties, tasks, and responsibilities.

    Management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

    Please note that IPA will never request any form of payment from an applicant.

    Applicants are encouraged to confirm the information listed above with IPA prior to releasing any extensive personal information to the organization.

    Please direct questions to jobs-kenya [at] poverty-action.org.

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