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• Establishment and management of port
  monitoring
• Communication with partner organizations
• Identifying and reporting emergent
  displacement trends
• Facilitation of participatory mapping
  sessions
• Data cleaning, entry and analysis
• Hiring, training and leading enumeration
  teams
• Focus group discussion facilitation
• Logistics support
• Supervision of and capacity building in
  junior national staff

• Manage Port Monitoring: The
  REACH Field officer will work in collaboration with REACH assessment staff
  to identify port monitoring locations (market days), secure permission from
  local authorities, and execute weekly recurring and systematic data
  collection. While the focus of the FC’s work will be on establishing
  migration profiles of South Sudanese market users, (s)he will remain
  flexible and opportunistically collect information related to humanitarian
  conditions and IDP/refugee/alien movements within and without South Sudan.
• Communication with partner
  organizations and government authorities: 
  The REACH Field officer will work in collaboration with
  REACH assessment staff to communicate findings and coordinate activities
  with partner organizations and government officials operating in the area
  of focus.
• Facilitation of participatory mapping
  sessions: The REACH Field officer will facilitate or co-facilitate
  participatory mapping sessions to help understand, identify and visualize
  common displacement routes of IDPs, refugees and self-settled aliens.
• Data cleaning, entry and analysis: The
  REACH Field officer will clean, manage and analyze qualitative,
  quantitative and spatial data collected by the REACH team and enumerators.
• Hiring, training and leading
  enumeration teams: The REACH Field officer will be responsible for
  hiring enumeration teams, training them on the use of data collection
  tools (ODK) and methodology, and leading the teams in the field.
• Focus group discussion facilitation: The
  REACH Field officer will be responsible for identifying and organizing
  respondents for focus group discussion, facilitating or co-facilitating
  the discussion, and recording results.
• Logistic Support: The REACH
  Field officer  will have custodial
  responsibility for all REACH assets (computers, GPS devices, smart phones,
  etc) at their operational base, and will need to work with the REACH team
  and ACTED Logistics to ensure serviceability of assets and availability of
  consumables (printer ink, paper, pens, etc…)
• Supervision of and capacity building in
  junior national staff: The REACH Field officer  will be responsible for supervision
  junior national staff participating in their assigned duties as well as
  building technical capacity related to data collection, FGD facilitation
  and computer use
• The REACH Field officer may be called upon
  to work on other REACH programmes in various locations in Uganda
  including, but not limited to, Kampala, Northern Region, and Western
  Region, as programming requires.
• Any other tasks need to ensure the success
  of the REACH mission in Uganda
• Accountability to Communities and
  Beneficiaries:  The staff
  member is responsible for ensuring that all relations with the communities
  we work are conducted in a respectful and consultative manner.  Due attention must be paid to ensuring
  that communities are adequately consulted and informed about ACTED programme
  objectives, activities, beneficiary selection criteria, and
  methodologies.  This is the
  responsibility of every ACTED staff member.

• Previous exposure and experience
  collecting information using hand-held GPS devices
• Experience using ODK for quantitative data
  collection, or the ability to rapidly master the process
• The applicant should have considerable
  experience hiring and managing casual laborers
• Previous experience conducting focus group
  discussions, or the ability to learn rapidly
• Positive attitude and a willingness to
  learn
• Proven skills with the Microsoft Office
  Suite
• Strong technical writing skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to operate in a cross-cultural
  environment requiring flexibility
• Prior experience working in IDP/refugee
  displacement locations
• Fluency in English, professional working
  proficiency in Bari and Kuku
• Ability to work independently

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