Temporary Research Assistant/Enumerator

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 
Reporting to the Research Manager, the temporary enumerator will be responsible for administering questionnaires and leading the qualitative discussions for MOMENTUM’s assessments. S/he will be responsible for transcribing and cleaning all data collected during the assessments.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Participate in all trainings and orientations regarding the data collection tools.
• Read enumeration area maps to identify sampled EAs.
• Conduct household listing and site sampling.
• Administer paper based or electronic based tools to study participants.
• Translate data collection tools into different languages as appropriate.
• Participate in pre-testing exercise of the data collection tools.
• Explaining study procedures to respondents to ensure that they understand the process.
• Conducting interviews and FGDs with respondents to collect information about their experiences with various services.
• Maintaining confidentiality when collecting sensitive information such as health status.
• Recording data from surveys or questionnaires on paper forms and computer or tablets for statistical analysis.
• Enter all paper-based data into relevant data entry templates.
• Conduct verbatim transcription for all qualitative information.
• Support MEL team with data analysis as may be required.
• Other duties as may be assigned.
   

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, community development, public health or any related field.
• Experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative surveys in health fields such as maternal, neonatal, child health and family planning strongly preferred.
• Experience in moderating focus group discussions.
• Knowledge and experience in using mobile data collections applications such kobo collect, ODK, survey CTO etc
• Experience in conducting verbatim qualitative data transcription using Express Scribe Transcription Software.
• Proficiency in using computer packages such as Ms word, excel and PowerPoint.

Other Skills

• Being organized to ensure completion of duties on time.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.