CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: Oxfam GB
Country: Kenya
Closing date: 19 Sep 2014

Somalia experienced a major drought in 2011, prior to that population in South Central had experienced decades of conflict compounded with unpredictable poorly distributed rains leading to displacements and influx of IDPs in search of resources. In 2010, Oxfam initiated an EC funded project to address humanitarian needs, which FSNAU had indicated that 31,000 of the host community of the almost 400,000 people in Lower Juba were in acute food and livelihood crisis (AFLC) with a risk of deteriorating again if support was not provided. The nutrition levels were also very critical with GAM rates were above the emergency threshold of 15%. Generally two thirds of the population do not have access to safe water and among agro-pastoralists more than 80 % do not have access to safe water. Access to health facilities is very limited, with the rural areas of Juba almost lacking health facilities altogether. In general the transport infrastructure is poorly developed with poor road networks. The project primarily was aimed at providing support within the livelihood (food insecurity, low economic activity, and farm inputs), health and water, sanitation and hygiene sectors. Due to conflict and intensified insecurity, access to the anticipated project site was limited and therefore we Oxfam adopted an innovative approach dubbed “Alternative ways of working in hard to reach areas” .This is entirely a community driven approach that empowers community to identify their priority needs and projects through participatory community focussed action planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. This project targeted beneficiaries in 30 rural villages (46,667 households) in Lower and Middle Juba

Overview

As part of Oxfam GB’s Global Performance Framework, the Project Effectiveness Review will rigorously assess the impact of this project on the people it supported. Impact will be evaluated particularly against Oxfam GB’s global indicator for livelihoods. Data will be captured through the administration of questionnaires, both to project beneficiaries and to comparable non-beneficiaries (about 600-1000 in total). The consultant will manage the field work and data entry for the Project Effectiveness Review by training and supervising teams of enumerators and data-entry personnel to ensure that data collected and entered is of high quality.

Essential skills and qualifications

• Relevant university degree (postgraduate degree preferred).
• Knowledge and experience of working in rural areas of Somalia, particularly in Lower and Middle Juba regions, with strong understanding of agricultural activities in the area.
• Experience in administering household surveys, preferably as a field supervisor or coordinator responsible for checking the quality of work of enumerators.
• Exceptionally high level of attention to detail in carrying out surveys and data entry.
• Strong management skills – able to organize the work of teams of enumerators so as to complete the work on schedule and to the required standard.
• Basic information technology skills.
• Command of relevant local languages
• (Desirable) Good working level in spoken English.

Key tasks

• Design a feasible sampling strategy in collaboration with Oxfam and project partners (determine sampling frame)
• Identify valid comparison population
• Prepare a list of sampled intervention and comparison households + list of replacement households in collaboration with Oxfam and project partners
• Design the household questionnaire in English, in collaboration with Oxfam and project partners
• Have the household questionnaire translated into the local language by a professional translator
• Recruit field supervisors and enumerators (number to be determined after consultation with the Oxfam team)
• Lead and organise a thorough in-house training workshop for enumerator candidates and supervisors (including arranging all logistics, such as finding venue, printing, stationary, etc.)
• Lead and organise at least one-day piloting exercise with enumerators and supervisors (including arranging all logistics, such as car rentals)
• Finalize the field work planning together with the field supervisors
• Prepare a detailed budget + time schedule for the actual data collection and data entry process, to be approved by Oxfam
• In collaboration with the supervisors, carefully prepare the field work by visiting all beneficiary and comparison cells prior to the field work, to 1) introduce the survey to region/district/village officials as appropriate, 2) to make all required appointments for interviews.
• Prepare all required field work logistics as appropriate (printing out sufficient number of questionnaires, rent cars, arrange accommodation if necessary, etc.). Each respective survey team must stay together in the same accommodation for security reasons + to enable evening discussions + review of the questionnaires.
• Manage the survey work in the field, ensuring that the enumerators interview the correct respondents, surveys are carried out to a high standard, and that targets for numbers of respondents to be interviewed are met. The consultant is expected to be present in the field throughout the data collection process, to supervise the field work and to assure data quality.
• Supervisors should review the completed questionnaires in detail at the end of each day of work, provide details feedback to the enumerators, and send them back to the respondents to make corrections if necessary.
• Consult the Oxfam head office advisor about any problems which affect the selection of respondents for the survey or the number of respondents to be interviewed.
• Manage the data-entry process. In order to minimize data-entry errors, each questionnaire is to be entered twice by different personnel, and both copies submitted to Oxfam. Oxfam staff will compare the two entries for each questionnaire and will produce a list of discrepancies, which must be checked against the original surveys. (A data-entry interface can be provided by Oxfam if required.)
• Ensure that the data files are submitted online (e.g. through DropBox) and burnt onto a CD and submitted to the Nairobi Oxfam office on completion of the data-entry work.
• Write a brief report on the conduct of the field work, including details any problems which were encountered and how they were resolved, and any feedback which may be useful for future surveys.

Please note that the consultant is not expected to conduct data analysis.

How to apply:

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