IDinsight Zambia Job Vacancy: Field Officer

• Company: IDinsight Zambia
• Location: Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia
• State: Lusaka
• Job type: Full-Time
• Job category: Administrative Jobs in Zambia

IDinsight is an international development organization that helps policymakers and managers make socially impactful decisions using rigorous evidence.

We carefully tailor a wide range of analytical and quantitative tools to enable our clients to design better policies, rigorously test those ideas, and take informed action at scale to improve lives. Our services include experimental evaluation methodologies – including, but not limited to, randomized controlled trials – tailored to the priorities of international development decision-makers; monitoring and performance management systems to facilitate continuous data-driven improvement; policy design consulting and scale-up support.

Our mission is to partner with clients to generate and use rigorous evidence to improve social impact. Depending on client needs, we help diagnose social sector challenges, design and test potential solutions, and operationalize those solutions found to be most impactful. We believe that client-centred, rigorous, and responsive evaluation is essential to help managers maximize program impact.

Our vision is to improve millions of lives by transforming how the social sector innovates, learns, and improves.

Project Description

The Millennium Challenge Account Zambia (MCA-Zambia) is implementing the Lusaka Water Supply, Sanitation and Drainage (LWSSD) Project to expand access to clean water supply and sanitation, and to improve drainage services in select urban and peri-urban areas of Lusaka. The Sanitation Connection Action Plan (SCAP) is a comprehensive plan designed to enable properties in Mtendere (a peri-urban area of Lusaka) to connect to the water and sewerage network. Mtendere contains over 9,400 properties, and 80% of these must connect to the water and sewer system for the benefits of LWSSD to be realized.

To achieve the connection levels required, SCAP will implement a package of interventions. A contract was issued to ID Insight to conduct formative research for SCAP and the interventions to be implemented. As part of this contract, ID Insight will collect data to support decision-making within the various intervention branches of SCAP.

Job Description

IDinsight seeks a very experienced surveyor to join our team for a period of approximately one month (with possibilities for additional phases of work in the future) in the position of Field Officer. Applicants must be available to start work immediately. The position will extend through the end of surveying, and some flexibility in schedule is required.

The Field Officer will be responsible for conducting surveys of property owners and tenants relating to water and sanitation in Mtendere. In addition, the Field Officer will be expected to locate and identify the correct respondents, administer consent procedures, and schedule and follow through on interview appointments.

Schedule notes: The Field Officer will be expected to work five days per week. The work week for data collection includes one required weekend day (Saturdays or Sundays). For each weekend day worked, the Field Officer will not be required to work one weekday (Monday – Friday) so they are always working five days per week total. Applicants available to work both Saturday and Sunday are preferred, but only one weekend day is required.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will have extensive data collection experience conducting tablet based questionnaires in Zambia.
• The applicant should have a demonstrated ability to work independently and display strong attention to detail. Strong oral and written communication skills are necessary.
• Fluency in Nyanja, Bemba, and English is required.
• Experience working in Mtendere compound is preferred, but not required.

How to Apply

Qualified applicants should send their CV, references from past qualitative research positions, and a 200-word essay outlining their interest and experience with data collection and surveying. Please include a description of challenges you have faced in previous data collection positions and how you overcame them.

All application materials should be sent to [email protected].

The essay is ESSENTIAL to be considered for the position. Do not send a CV without an essay, as you will not be considered.
Please apply by Friday, September 29. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Selected qualified applicants will be contacted for an interview.