Job Title: Data Collectors (2 Job
Opportunities)
Organization:
International Potato Center (CIP)
Duty Station:
Uganda
About US:
The International
Potato Center (CIP) was founded in 1971 as a research-for-development
organization with a focus on potato, sweetpotato and andean roots and tubers.
It delivers innovative science-based solutions to enhance access to affordable
nutritious food, foster inclusive sustainable business and employment growth,
and drive the climate resilience of root and tuber agri-food systems.
Headquartered in Lima, Peru, CIP has a research presence in more than 20
countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. CIP is a CGIAR research center, a
global research partnership for a food-secure future. CGIAR science is
dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and
improving natural resources and ecosystem services.
Job Summary: The International Potato Center (CIP) is
looking for 2 (two) Data Collectors in Uganda (1 for Kabale and Kanungu
districts, 1 for Rubanda and Kisoro districts) to monitor and collect economic
data recorded by seed multipliers on the field multiplication of rooted apical
cuttings, implement a small socio-economic survey as well as to put the
obtained data in data sets.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
·
Participation
to a training session on the data collection tools available.
·
Organization
of 1-day visits to specific seed multipliers within the districts to verify
good economic data collection on the field multiplication of rooted apical
cuttings and collect the data recorded by them.
·
Implementation
of a small socio-economic survey of specific seed multipliers within the
districts.
·
Submit
the quantitative data collected, the data sets should be in Excel.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
·
The
applicant must hold a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics,
Agribusiness or other relevant qualification but with
agricultural/socio-economics background.
·
First
professional experience in data collection by using templates and/or structured
questionnaires.
·
Good
knowledge of Excel.
·
Good
communication skills.
·
Fluent
in Rukiga and Rufumbira.
·
Advanced
level in written and spoken English.
·
Being
resident of one of the 4 districts (Kabale, Rubanda, Kanungu, Kisoro).
How to Apply:
All candidates
should send their applications online at the link below
Deadline: 13th November 2020
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