ELIGIBILITY: Position open to local Kenyan Candidates only

About Innovations for Poverty Action: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA brings together researchers and decision-makers to design, rigorously evaluate, and refine these solutions and their applications, ensuring that the evidence created is used to improve the lives of the world’s poor.

In recent decades, trillions of dollars have been spent on programs designed to reduce global poverty, but clear evidence on which programs succeed is rare, and when evidence does exist, decision-makers often do not know about it.

IPA exists to bring together leading researchers and these decision-makers to ensure that the evidence we create leads to tangible impact on the world. Since its founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 600 leading academics to conduct over 830 evaluations in 52 countries.

This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals worldwide.

About the Project: This research project is a quasi-experiment evaluation of how Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACCO) membership (under the One Million Farmer Platform) can improve rural women’s economic empowerment in Kenya.

The study aims to assess the impact of SACCO and FPO membership on rural women’s economic empowerment in Kenya. Specifically, the study will help us understand if women in SACCOs and FPOs have improved farm productivity, income, consumption, and empowerment outcomes.

This study will be conducted in Busia, Bungoma, Siaya, Trans Nzoia, Muranga, Embu, Tharaka Nithi, Kitui.

About the Position: The Field Officer under the general supervision of the Senior Field Officer and within the limits of Innovations for Poverty Action-Kenya policies will primarily be responsible for collection of high-quality data. Below is a list of some of the general duties and responsibilities of the Field Officer to be carried out as needed according to the determination of the Field managers and Research Associate.

Duties and Responsibilities

Administer surveys to study participants in their households using survey CTO.

Visiting and tracking survey respondents to administer the survey tools.

Diligent completion of checklists and other means of monitoring data.

Assist in organizing materials in readiness for field work and for data processing and organizing data collected from the field and ensuring safety of these materials.

Providing feedback during debriefs on data collection activities and survey instruments that will inform and monitor improvements in project operations.

Ensure data integrity is always maintained and minimize errors in survey administration.

Other duties related to project implementation and administrative tasks as needed.

Qualifications and Experience

Diploma and above in social sciences or related fields with at least 1 years’ experience in data collection.

Excellent verbal communication skills with fluency in the local languages spoken in the study areas.

Well organized, detail-oriented, excellent listening skills.

Experience in using surveyCTO for data collection.

Proven ability to exercise discretion in dealing with confidential or sensitive matters.

Willing and able to traverse various study regions by public transport.

Ability to work independently under supervision and as part of a team.

Ability to work comfortably in the specific study regions.

Ability to recall detail and apply existing knowledge to new situations.

Proven capacity to be punctual and reliable.

Capability to exercise honesty, trustworthiness, and high integrity.

Ability to stay and work comfortably in the specific study counties during the data collection exercise

(Added advantage to candidates who can work/fit in multiple counties).

Preferred: Candidates who are from the working counties listed above and are conversant with local languages i.e Luo, Luhya, Iteso, Samia, Kamba, Kalenjin, Kikuyu, Embu, Tharaka and Meru are strongly preferred. (No accommodation offered).

• Administer surveys to study participants in their households using survey CTO.
• Visiting and tracking survey respondents to administer the survey tools.
• Diligent completion of checklists and other means of monitoring data.
• Assist in organizing materials in readiness for field work and for data processing and organizing data collected from the field and ensuring safety of these materials.
• Providing feedback during debriefs on data collection activities and survey instruments that will inform and monitor improvements in project operations.
• Ensure data integrity is always maintained and minimize errors in survey administration.
• Other duties related to project implementation and administrative tasks as needed.

• Excellent verbal communication skills with fluency in the local languages spoken in the study areas.
• Well organized, detail-oriented, excellent listening skills.
• Experience in using surveyCTO for data collection.
• Proven ability to exercise discretion in dealing with confidential or sensitive matters.
• Willing and able to traverse various study regions by public transport.
• Ability to work independently under supervision and as part of a team.
• Ability to work comfortably in the specific study regions.
• Ability to recall detail and apply existing knowledge to new situations.
• Proven capacity to be punctual and reliable.
• Capability to exercise honesty, trustworthiness, and high integrity.
• Ability to stay and work comfortably in the specific study counties during the data collection exercise

• Diploma and above in social sciences or related fields with at least 1 years’ experience in data collection.
• Excellent verbal communication skills with fluency in the local languages spoken in the study areas.
• Well organized, detail-oriented, excellent listening skills.
• Experience in using surveyCTO for data collection.
• Proven ability to exercise discretion in dealing with confidential or sensitive matters.
• Willing and able to traverse various study regions by public transport.
• Ability to work independently under supervision and as part of a team.
• Ability to work comfortably in the specific study regions.
• Ability to recall detail and apply existing knowledge to new situations.
• Proven capacity to be punctual and reliable.
• Capability to exercise honesty, trustworthiness, and high integrity.
• Ability to stay and work comfortably in the specific study counties during the data collection exercise
• (Added advantage to candidates who can work/fit in multiple counties).
• Preferred: Candidates who are from the working counties listed above and are conversant with local languages i.e Luo, Luhya, Iteso, Samia, Kamba, Kalenjin, Kikuyu, Embu, Tharaka and Meru are strongly preferred. (No accommodation offered).