Evidence Action
Job Purpose
Our flagship Dispensers for Safe Water (DSW) provides over 4 million people across rural Uganda, Malawi, and Kenya. Recent evidence highlights that clean water may be among the most effective interventions available to save young children’s lives, averting more than 30% of all-cause child mortality. The dispensers’ program – based on research for Nobel-winning economists – utilizes an innovative and human-centric design to deliver clean water at the source in rural settings, achieving usage rates which are 5x that of comparable interventions.
Given the tremendous benefits of safe water, Evidence Action is rapidly innovating to build the next generation of clean water interventions. We are currently incubating a next generation technology, in-line chlorination (ILC) that targets peri-urban communities. We are seeking to pilot and scale up this program in early 2023.
The Monitoring Learning and Evaluations department is seeking to recruit services of short term casuals to support an upcoming baseline survey. The casual(s) will be responsible for collecting monitoring data for the Safe Water program in Malawi. This is an exciting assignment that enables you to interact with local community members as you collect data that informs the program to make justifiable decisions
Duties and responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- 1. Data collection and quality
- Accurately and timely collect Dispensers for Safe Water evaluation data, through the administration of questionnaire, collection of samples, and making observations, in the areas of operation, using electronic and/or paper instruments.
- Participate in bench-testing of electronic instruments as part of training and instrument improvement process
- Timely and meaningfully support flow of information from the field to the Program Leadership by utilizing “soft feedback” tools.
- Participate in the data collection training of operation/program field staff.
- Support data flow process from the field to the office, by adhering to the data flow protocol that indicates when and how submit data
- 2. Stakeholder relationship
- Maintain cordial public relation with local stakeholders, including government officials and community members, through observing meaningful and respectful engagement in the course of field work.
- 3. Financial management
- Contribute towards the cost-efficiency of the organization and programs through accurate management of financial payments and expenditures in the field and at the office
- 4. Communication
- On a daily basis share insightful feedback with program leads based on field observations.
- Timely development and dissemination of adoption monitoring reports with program teams at office level.
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- Support data collection needs from other programs, and other duties as may be assigned by the MLE leadership.
Requirements
Competencies and Attributes;
- High level of integrity and stewardship
- Team work. Embraces team work and aspires and supports the ideals of working in a team work environment as a team champion
- Passion to work in a rural community setting and willingness to use a motorcycle in the field.
- Flexible mindset and willingness to relocate on a short notice to other field based assignments in other regions.
- Self-driven and highly motivated to deliver results within tight deadlines.
- Good communication skills. Ability to communicate well within the organization and with the rural communities and local leaders
- Basic leadership skills in managing people ,working with communities and teams
- Good computer skills and comfort to advance the skills in a dynamic IT field.
- Proactive and ambitious to support innovation and change in a dynamic working environment
- Attitude. Positive attitude to work and to develop in a fast paced work environment
Qualifications
- Minimum Diploma in a social science discipline with a bias on statistics or research applications, community work, project management or equivalent. Candidates with a minimum of a certificate course in Teaching and nursing are also encouraged to apply. Candidates with an M&E background have a definite advantage.
- Good language skills in English and Chichewa both speaking and writing. Ability to speak other native languages including Yao is an added advantage.
- 1-2 years’ experience working in a research environment administering surveys, working with communities or social enterprises/NGOs.
- Experience using electronic data collection platforms, specifically open data kit (ODK) and survey CTO.
All applications should be online (no hand delivered applications will be acceptable)
Closing date for receiving applications will be no later than 24th June, 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Evidence Action does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.