Job Vacancy: Job title: Field Enumerator for the BR Cowpea Project in Nigeria
Job description: About IFDC
IFDC is a public international organization active in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, and America. IFDC uniquely approaches the global issues of food security and poverty by bridging the gap between research and impact, combining science-based innovations, holistic market systems development, an enabling policy environment, and strategic partnerships to assist farmers and countries to identify and scale sustainable agricultural solutions, including improved nutrient use efficiency. These approaches are needed to boost soil health and crop productivity while reducing the environmental impact of fertilizer use. IFDC translates research into action by using locally driven, environmentally sound, and impact-oriented solutions. With our partners, we seek to close the yield gap, eradicate global hunger, safeguard the soil on which our lives depend, and generate economic resilience for farming households and the countries in which they live.
IFDC is currently seeking passionate individuals to join its team as field enumerators, as the organization continues to expand its impact and work towards creating positive changes in agriculture and sustainable soil management across the world.
Responsibilities
1. Get familiar with the data collection tools and study manual
2. Attend a one-week training on data collection and provide feedback
3. Conduct interviews with pre-selected households and communities only.
4. Make re-visits to respondents who could not be located during previous visits.
5. Inform the Field Supervisor and/or project core team of progress and challenges encountered during the field activities and identify appropriate solutions.
6. Ensure confidentiality and quality of data collected by adhering to IFPRI’s data collection policies.
7. Ensure safe storage and handling of all IFPRI’s devices and equipment.
Reporting and Work Relationships
The enumerators will report to IFPRI-Nigeria research team lead
Location
This is a national recruitment with a duty station in Adamawa and Kwara States, Nigeria.
Benefits
This is a short-term role, and the enumerator will be paid a determined daily rate. Enumerators will make provision for their insurance.
Salary Clause
Negotiable daily rate
Diversity Clause
IFDC is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, and offers equal employment opportunities based on ability, performance, and potential. Equal opportunity is integral to the recruitment and selection practices at IFDC. IFDC recognizes the value in recruiting employees with different backgrounds, knowledge, experiences, perspectives, and beliefs. IFDC recognizes and values the contribution of people with a diverse background in capabilities, experience, and perspectives. Diversity encompasses gender, age, experience, education, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural backgrounds as well as other dimensions such as lifestyle and family responsibilities.
About Program/Project
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) through funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is leading a five-year (2021-2026) impact evaluation (IE) project to generate causal evidence of the use of the PBR cowpea variety and its consequential household and farm impacts. The impact evaluation will evaluate key outcomes related to changes in cowpea yield, productivity, fertilizer, and pesticide applications. Over the last three years, IFPRI has worked with smallholder cowpea farmers in Adamawa and Kwara states, conducting baseline study in 240 randomly selected communities in a total of 8 local government areas in 2023. The enumerators will have the primary responsibility of interviewing and collecting high quality endline data from already identified cowpea farmers for the evaluation of project impacts. The enumerator will work closely with the IFPRI research team, personnel from the Agricultural Development Program (ADP) in Adamawa and Kwara States, and stakeholders within the project communities.
Location: Abuja, FCT
Job date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:59:22 GMT
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