Job Title: Senior Associate, Field Survey Manager
Organisation: Educate!
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Educate! prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. We tackle youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it, so that students in Africa have the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs and drive development in their communities. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!’s goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of national education systems.
Job Summary: Educate! is seeking a driven, organized, and collaborative Senior Associate, Field Survey Manager to execute and manage evaluation projects. In ten years of operating in East Africa, one of Educate!’s differentiating factors has been our commitment to impact evaluation and learning, and we believe that continuing to invest in research & development is a key component of continued growth and innovation. As Field Survey Manager, you’ll work closely with our Senior Associate, as well as with our programs, design, and innovation teams, to implement our ambitious evaluation strategy in Uganda.
The right person for this role has experience in coordinating data collection and large teams of enumerators. He/she has knowledge on programming: google forms, survey CTO, and has the ability to use statistical software: Stata and excel. You’ll be an ultra-organized and self-motivated planner and project manager, capable of keeping multiple balls in the air with limited supervision, and a collaborative team player who can build relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders and engage team members over whom you won’t have direct authority. You’ll also have knowledge in large-scale data collection, and quantitative analysis.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Data collection coordination
- Data collection preparation and planning- create data collection project plans and ensure data is collected, cleaned and ready for analysis according to agreed up on timelines
- Coordinate and oversee primary data collection for evaluations
- Regularly update the evaluation team on the progress of product evaluation and data collection activities
Survey programming and testing
- Collaborate with TEL, Evaluation Associates and Senior Associates in designing forms for electronic data collection (using Survey CTO)
- Develop and execute survey piloting plans, packing learnings from tests and presenting them to the wider team with recommendations for updates
Enumerator management
- Coordinate enumerator hiring processes and maintain a database of enumerator performance across data collection exercises
- Develop training protocols and materials to train enumerator to collect data
- Train enumerators on various quantitative and qualitative instruments
- Supervise teams of enumerators during primary data collection
Data management and quality assurance
- Manage and organize incoming survey data, ensuring data is clean and analyzable
- Ensure all data quality protocols are followed including auditing staff and performing regular data checks on collected data
- Manage all data security aspects, including protection of PII from unauthorized access and use
- Maintain and constantly update evaluation function filing system and other evaluation documentation
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in education, economics, statistics, public policy, or other quantitative social science disciplines
- Strong technical understanding of data management, experience in statistics, econometrics or data science preferred
- Experience with qualitative data collection and management preferred.
- Demonstrated proficiency in the use of statistical software such as Stata or R for data management and data cleaning
- One year of work experience is required.
- Experience managing field staff and/or large data sets strongly preferred
- Excellent management and organizational skills; ability to successfully complete assigned tasks and meet deadlines required
- Communication skills: strong oral and written communication skills in English required
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.