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Title: Assistant Project Manager
Deadline
to Apply: October 15th, 2013
Start
Date: November 8th, 2013
Location: Kisumu County
Eligibility: Position open to local Kenyan hires only
About
Innovations for Poverty Action: Innovations for Poverty
Action (IPA) is a non-profit research organization that creates and evaluates
approaches to solving development problems.
IPA
disseminates the results of its evaluations to policymakers, practitioners,
investors and donors around the world.
The project
will study various barriers to savings for particularly vulnerable women—sex
workers, widowed and separated women. We will look at the effects of savings
training and highly liquid savings accounts.
The project
will also assess the use and effectiveness of other strategies that deal with
emergency expenses and investment goals. Detailed data will be collected weekly
from a sample of women in Kisumu town and in Kobura ward.
Assistant
Project Managers will play a central role in the study’s success and will gain
valuable experience in leadership in the field, data collection and
representing the study to various partners.
Through
their work, Assistant Project Managers will oversee a team of field officers
and supervise data collection; will work closely with the field coordinator to
improve their own skills and those of their colleagues; will be responsible for
daily logistics; and will represent the project in meetings with local chiefs,
village elders and other partners.
The
Assistant Project Manager will be based in Kisumu town and will manage project
activities in Kisumu town and in Kobura ward.
The
Assistant Project Manager will be expected to work Monday through Saturday.
Tasks,
Duties, and Responsibilities:
General
- Arrive to work promptly and reliably, always setting an example for one’s colleagues.
- Interact with community members with the highest level of integrity and understanding.
- Collaborate with teammates to improve own skills and those of teammates.
- Relay field costs to field coordinator for reimbursement.
Intervention
- Assist in logistics for different arms of the project (i.e. training rooms for the savings intervention)
- Manage different payments for respondents and distribute to field officers as needed
- Coordinate with MPESA agents for registration
Census
and Data Collection
- Assist in training field officers to conduct census of target women
- Supervise field officers conducting census mapping and provide feedback to field officers and field coordinator
- Assist in the development and translation of questionnaires
- Coordinating with field officers for scheduling of respondents for data collection activities
- Assist in the management of data collection activities: collecting data from field officers on a daily basis, and turning over data to field coordinator
- Supervise field officers responsible for survey backchecks, including selection of backcheck respondents and scheduling of backcheck surveys
Qualifications:
Required
- Comfortable with working with sex workers and other vulnerable women
- Supervisory and management experience related to field work and data collection
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Experience in training staff to improve data collection efforts and their accuracy
- History of providing feedback to teammates and examples of this feedback improving teammates’ work
- Has, at least, basic computer skills
- Willingness to work on Saturdays
Desired
- Bachelors’ degree or college diploma/certificate
- Experience supervising data collection activities
- Experience with conducting census mapping and interviews
- Fluent in Luo
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-kenya@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: “Assistant Project
Manager.”REF NO iSAVE-2013-10-01.
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.
