Innovations for Poverty-Action (IPA)

 Job Description

 Job Title: Field Manager_ Intern

 Division/Department: Any project

 Work Location: Kigali

 Length of contract: 3 months (with the possibility of extension)

 Reports to: TBC per project 

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The Field Managers will lead project field activities and manage teams of field enumerators to collect project related data. The successful candidates will be detail-oriented and enthusiastic about managing field research projects. The Field Managers will work closely with academic researchers, partners, and other field staff to perform a variety of tasks which may include but not be limited to:

• Hiring, training, and managing the field teams that will conduct the data collection,
• Ensuring that all IPA data quality protocols are followed,
• Creating detailed field plans describing team schedules and market to visit,
• Managing field logistics and adapting Field Plan to changing conditions as necessary,
• Assisting in procuring products and getting approvals from local authorities,
• Supporting data collection and monitoring data quality, completing high-quality data checks on a daily basis
• Assisting in piloting and translation of questionnaires,
• Establishing editing and tracking systems
• Making daily updates to a field logbook to track activities and data questions,
• Providing relevant inputs on local context and assist research staff in coordinating relationships with local officials
• Maintaining a database of surveyors and other useful data collection contacts and resources
• Supporting project implementation and training for this as needed

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Social Sciences, Agriculture, Statistics or any other relevant field etc.
• At least one year of field management experience in field-based data collection
• Experience conducting social science or economic field research.
• Background in randomized control trials is preferred
• Strong Excel or Stata skills
• Be physically apt for long travel and out of Kigali based field work
• Experience with electronic data collection platforms. Knowledge of Survey CTO a plus.
• Experience in the conduct of training of enumerators/field staff
• Strong written and oral communication skills and complete fluency in English is required
• Fluency in Kinyarwanda essential

IF YOU MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION,

PLEASE APPLY BY SUBMITTING YOUR CV AND ACADEMIC CERTIFICATES. COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATIONSAT THIS LINK: https://poverty-action.formstack.com/forms/iparw_field_manager_intern_job_application_may_2025

APPLICATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERD ON A ROLLING BASIS, ALL APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED PRIOR TO 5 PM RWANDA TIME on 10^th June 2025 WILL BE CONSIDERED. APPLICATIONS AFTER THIS TIME WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. DUE TO THE VOLUME OF APPLICATIONS ONLY SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE NOTIFIED.