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Position Title:Data Collection Supervisors
Duty Station: Western Uganda
Organization:Abt Associates
Employment Type:Full Time Permanent
Application Deadline: Tuesday, February 3, 2015
About Us:
Abt Associates is an international development organization composed of
dedicated
professionals who provide technical assistance, research, analysis, and
practical training
services in more than 128 countries.
Scope of Work
The Consultant will be responsible for the following:
• Participate in workshop on data collection;
• Travel to the study facilities together with the research assistants
• Oversee data collection process and verify data collected by research
assistants;
• Appropriately communicate with SHOPS technical lead throughout the data
collection period to address any challenges or diffi culties faced and ensure
high quality of data collected;
• Respond to all communication with monitoring team and technical leader to
validate data.
Deliverable:
• Verification of data received from research assistants, submitted in a
timely manner, completed at high level of quality, validated by technical
leader.;
• Data collection progress reports as each facility is completed (approximately
every two days)
Required Qualifications
• College degree or specialized training in data collection and research
• Previous experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection
• Excellent attention to details
• Excellent interviewing skills
• Experience with in-the-field supervision of a team of research assistants
• Available to travel to Western Uganda
• Personal laptop computer available for use during research period
• Fluency in English required; local languages preferred Period of Performance/
Level of Effort
The data collection training is planned for March and data collection
scheduled for March-April.
This consultancy will require almost full time engagement over the course
of six weeks up to 30 days.
Mode of application:
Please submit your resume by email at UgandaJobs@abtassoc. com using the
subject “Uganda Costing Study Supervisor” no later than close of business on
Tuesday, February 3, 2015. of six weeksup to 25 days.
Travel to the districts is required.
Please submit your resume by email at UgandaJobs@abtassoc. com using the
subject “Uganda Costing Study RA” no later than close of business on Tuesday,
February 3rd, 2015.
Through the SHOPS project, Abt Associates works to increase the role of the
private sector in the sustainable provision and use of quality health services.
In Uganda it implements a safe
motherhood voucher program called the Healthy Baby Voucher Program (HBVP) &
the Zinc/ORS scale up program.
Abt Associates is recruiting data collectors to work on a costing study
among health care providers in Western Uganda: Kyenjojo, Kabarole, Kamwenge,
and Kibaale.
Data collection will be conducted
for approximately six weeks, starting in March.
