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Field Manager_ Intern at IPA Rwanda

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Job Description

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:

Job Industry

Research & Assessment

Job Salary Currency

Job Salary Fixed

No

Key Deliverables

  • 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

Essential Qualities

Essential Qualities
  • 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

Application Process

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

Close Date

10/06/2025

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