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Job Title:   Data Quality Assurance Officer (USAID Project Jobs)

Organisation: Education Development Center (EDC)

Duty Station:  Jinja, Uganda

 

About US:

Education Development Center (EDC) is a global non-profit that advances lasting solutions to improve education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity, with a focus on vulnerable and under-served populations.  Since 1958, we have been a leader in designing, implementing, and evaluating powerful and innovative programs in more than 80 countries around the world.

 

Job Summary:  ICYD will recruit one (1) Data Quality Assurance Officer who will be responsible for planning and facilitating training of supervisors and assessors, guiding field teams during data collection to adhere to the set procedures, daily upload of data collected, ensuring security of the equipment assigned to the team, and preparation and submission of a fieldwork report.

 

The Data Quality Assurance Officer will be contracted for a maximum period of 25 working days (February – March 2022). All honoraria and expenses will be paid by ICYD.

 

** Please note that this is a local temporary position. Eligibility is limited to Ugandan nationals**

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Participate in planning meeting to review EGRA data collection tools;
  • Provide active leadership and participation in assessor training, including preparation and recording of gold standards to be used during IRRs and uploading of tools on to the tablets for all teams;
  • Ensure that with the help of supervisors, all teams have necessary supplies and equipment needed to undertake both electronic and paper data collection;
  • Ensure that all the tablets are in good working order and fully charged every evening,
  • Organize transport for each team to get to the school by 7:30 AM. Program hired vehicles will be available for this purpose;
  • Ensure that data is collected in a standard fashion by making routine spot checks/team audits to ensure that the teams are in their assigned areas and that the sampled respondents are actually the people who are being interviewed;
  • Complete “assessor observation checklist” for each assessor once during the first week of field work, then sporadically after that. Each assessor should at least be observed twice during fieldwork;
  • Quickly communicate any problems arising to the research supervisors (ICYD);
  • Routinely check assessments for completeness and errors. The M&E team will compile regular data reports from the quality checks and these will be sent back to you to provide guidance to teams;
  • Meet with your teams every evening to collect the tablets and charge them for the next day’s field work, count and review the material used during the day and see what needs to be replenished, review progress made on the routes assigned and if necessary, restructure according to needs, collect all completed consent forms and UPLOAD all data onto the cloud;
  • Participate in debrief sessions.




Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree. Required.
  • Previous experience facilitating EGRA or other data collection trainings.
  • Previous experience as an EGRA Supervisor preferred.
  • Other experience with public and/or private education preferred.
  • Experience managing diverse teams of data collectors/assessors.
  • Previous experience using electronic data collection software.
  • Fluency in English and Lusoga required.

 

How to Apply:

All Interested candidates should apply online at the link below

 

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Deadline: 16th February 2022

 

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