Assignment
Under the supervision of the Area AME Manager/officer and DAC/area coordinators, the Surveyors is responsible for quality data collection on prescribed forms from VERT members, as well responsible for conducting Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) to obtain information at village level and has reporting tasks in line with the quality criteria and strategy, and for developing open, mutually respectful, and accountable relationships with the target communities.
The ideal candidate shall have strong skills in conducting interviews, household and individual level surveys, FGDs. The candidate needs to be willing and able to travel regularly to various districts and villages for collection of data.
Important: Due to urgency, the vacancies may be filled before the closing date of this advertisement.
Chain of Command
Under the authority of:
· Area AME Manager/officer
Warning Relations Internal Relations:
· Reporting to AME Manager/officer
· MIS/Data base department
External Relations:
· Local communities
Village Authorities in intervention area
Functions
Responsibilities:
Objective 1 - Data collection activities
- To ensure the data collection from HH/Individual/villages on the daily basis as per the designed tools.
- To ensure all the interviews planned for a day on the daily basis.
- Inquire about a variety of specific information given in the survey form.
- Gather information, record and encode correctly information from a survey
- To ensure the necessary items to carry out before starting the field work i.e. forms, pens, pencils, erasers, etc.
- Ensure quality of data in terms of neat and clean entries in the forms with no missing information.
- Recognize the problems in obtaining data and share with AME Manager/Officer and also proposed solution for them.
- Submit completed forms to the supervisor to discuss the daily progress.
- Review data gathered from survey to check its accuracy on daily basis.
- Keep the record and addresses of the HH for future consultation if needed.
- Ensure informed consent and respect confidentiality of information received.
Ensure that respondents understand uniformly questions the way intended, as explained in training given to
- enumerators before carrying out the data-collection
- Support and cooperate with the supervisor in team building and better coordination.
- Male enumerators will have the additional responsibility to facilitate the female enumerators when they need their help during interview and the field movement/deployment.
- All the team members (surveyors) will cross check the filled forms of each other at the end of a day on daily basis.
Objective 2 – Beneficiary accountability
· Ensure that all relations with the communities we work with are conducted in a respectful and consultative manner.
· Ensure that communities are adequately consulted and informed about purpose of the data-collection and ensure no false responses are given/recorded
· Orient community members about accountability mechanism and disseminate the telephone number
Objective 3 - General objectives
- Carry out all activities according to the objectives of the program and the beneficiary involvement strategy.
- Ensure on time completion of the tasks in line with the work plan.
Essential
· At least Bachelors or higher qualification is required.
· Recent university graduate with strong data collection skills OR min. 2 years experience in working on large scale household/individual survey’s data collection.
· Excellent in reading and understanding questionnaire in English and Urdu
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish good working relations with target communities