Impact Initiatives Uganda Jobs 2021 – Senior Field Officer

Job Title: Senior Field Officer – Impact Initiatives Uganda Jobs 2021

Organization: Impact Initiatives Uganda

Duty Station: Kampala

Impact Initiatives Uganda Profile:

Job Profile:

Under the supervision of the IMPACT Field Manager, and working closely with the IMPACT assessment, database, and GIS officers, the IMPACT Senior Field Officer is responsible for the supervision of Field Officers and data collection teams, and implementation of IMPACT assessments; with anticipated travel to field locations as required.

Roles and responsibilities:

• *Data collection in the field
• Overseeing Field Officers management of data collection in the field in line with specified tools and methodology
• Ensure completion of accurate survey forms by Field Officers and enumerators, and send to the assessment analysis team
• Provide guidance to Field Officers to organize and facilitate high-quality enumerator training to ensure familiarity with all assessment objectives and tools
• Provide guidance and support to Field Officers on piloting surveys in the field and provide feedback to the assessment team to improve survey tools
• Support Field Officers to ensure the quality of data collected is based on the IMPACT quality standards and that thorough data checking is completed on a daily basis and ensure prompt follow up with the database and GIS officers on all data quality issues.
• Support Field Officers to track enumerator errors and provide timely technical guidance to specific enumerators as required.
• Adhere to specified assessment timelines, communicating any delays and challenges encountered during data collection in a timely manner with the Field Manager and Assessment Officers.
• Ensure Field Officers’ compliance with data collection plans for maximum productivity by the field teams.
• Coordinate and conduct weekly meetings with Field Officers and/or enumerators to develop/review work plans
• Ensure datasets are properly stored onto the Dropbox server

  *Field coordination**

• Support Field Officers to ensure timely deployment of enumerators/data collection team leaders on a daily basis
• Coordinate daily field movement plans, with the support of the Field Manager
• In consultation with the Field Manager and the assessment officers, coordinate the Field Officers in order to liaise with and continuously develop relationships with key stakeholders including Government and other partner agencies on matters relevant to the assessments
• Provide guidance and support to Field Officers to ensure needed approvals and clearances are granted by local officials prior to any fieldwork
• Ensure compliance with Government and IMPACT regulations to enhance safe data collection
• Enforce compliance with the ACTED code of conduct by enumeration teams
• Ensure that field officers and enumeration teams comply with the ACTED safety and security measures
• Supervise that everyone deployed in the field complies with the specific SOP for data collection during Covid-19.
• In consultation with the Field Manager and the ACTED finance focal persons, support Field Officers to make enumerator payments on a timely basis
• Support Field Officers to enforce proper tracking, management and deployment of assets (phones, tablets, other data collection equipment) in field locations

  *Staff Management and Training**

• Facilitate training of Field Officers and the data collection teams as shall be advised by the IMPACT country management.
• Liaise with relevant Field Officers to develop and review the weekly and/or biweekly fieldwork plans
• Raise any issues in a timely manner with the Field Officers, related to deadlines, data quality, or anything influencing the data collection at the field level
• Report any misconduct from Field Officers and data collection teams that affects fieldwork and the safety of the assessment activities to the Field Manager
• Ensure Field Officers attendance at training and any other mandatory engagements
• Ensure Field Officers and data collection teams comply with ACTED code of conduct in-country
• Ensure Field Officers and data collection teams comply with ACTED safety and security measures in-country
• Ensure Field Officers and data collection teams comply with ACTED finance policies and procedures in-country
• Ensure Field Officers and data collection teams comply with ACTED human resources and administration policies and procedures country.

  *Security and safety

• Supervise the adherence of the field teams to the ACTED safety and security protocols.
• Liaise with the Field Manager on all matters pertaining to field security immediately.
• Communicate to the Field Manager all security incidents that may have impact on-field activities in a timely manner.
• Supervise that the privacy and security of information collected in the field adhering to IMPACT’s data protection policies.
• Supervise that assessment respondents are treated with respect and uphold their individual dignity.

  Accountability to Communities and Beneficiaries

• The staff member is responsible for ensuring that all relations with the communities that IMPACT and partners work are conducted in a respectful and consultative manner.
• Due attention must be paid to ensuring that communities are adequately consulted and informed about IMPACT programme objectives, activities, respondent selection criteria, and methodologies. This is the responsibility of every staff member.

  Protection mainstreaming

• Promoting of and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines (for site residents, ACTED staff, partner agencies, casual labours etc.).

  Other

• Any other tasks as assigned by the Line Manager.

Qualifications for Impact Initiatives Uganda Jobs 2021

• Academic qualifications of at least a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian or development organizations, preferably in a field-based position
• At least 2 years of experience with data collection in the field, including mobile data collection platform
• Willingness and ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced field environment for extended periods of time required
• Willingness to travel extensively to lead data collection across region covered by the designated field office
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and report writing skills
• Knowledgeable in community mobilisation and community development
• Familiarity with communities in which data collection will be implemented
• Strong skills with the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel
• Experience using ODK for quantitative data collection, or the ability to rapidly master the process
• Experience conducting focus group discussions
• Experience collecting information using hand-held GPS devices
• Ability to work both independently, and as part of a team
• Strong leadership skills and ability to manage teams remotely
• Written and spoken fluency in English required; Working knowledge of other refugee languages an asset (Juba Arabic, Madi, Kuku, Dinka, Nuer, Bari, Somali, Swahili, French, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, and others)
• Demonstrable ability to take initiative, work as part of a team, and work independently with minimal supervision.

How To Apply for Impact Initiatives Uganda Jobs 2021

• Qualified Uganda Nationals with the required skills are invited to submit their applications (cover letter) accompanied by detailed curriculum vitae and academic qualifications as a single PDF document i.e. with the cover letter being on the first page and the CV starting on the second page, detailing three work-related referees and contacts; and the academic documents to uganda.jobs@acted.org with the subject line as;

  APPLICATION FOR SENIOR FIELD OFFICER POSITION–UGANDA. Note that Applications sent without this exact subject line will not be shortlisted.

  Only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

  ACTED will at no stage of the recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, ACTED has not retained any agent in connection with recruitments.

Closing Date: 26th March 2021

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