Job Title: Field Officer (2 Positions)
Organisation: GiveDirectly
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
GiveDirectly is driving a re-evaluation of the assumptions underlying international philanthropy with a provocative model: we deliver donations directly to the extreme poor and let them decide what to do with them. This approach builds on two converging trends: the rapid spread of electronic last-mile payments solutions in the emerging markets, and the large body of experimental evidence showing that direct transfers are as or more cost-effective at reducing poverty than more traditional, top-down approaches. GiveDirectly’s field operations utilize state-of-the-art technology and business processes to deliver transfers securely, efficiently, and transparently. Our unorthodox approach – allowing the poor, and not the donor, to choose where they invest – has prompted debate in the popular press and among policy makers.
Job Summary: The Field Officer will play a critical day-to-day role in delivering GiveDirectly’s gold-standard cash transfer product to donors and recipients. The Field Officer will carry out and support a variety of field activities, depending on his / her team assignment and GiveDirectly’s needs on any given day. In short, the Field Officer will be responsible for executing the recipient surveys and associated processes that facilitate GiveDirectly’s unique cash transfer model. The role will reward high-quality judgment on operational questions and challenges, work ethic, communication skills, and a strong commitment to GiveDirectly’s mission and model.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Census team
- Barazas: explain GiveDirectly’s program to entire villages prior to the census surveys; answer any questions.
- Explain GiveDirectly’s program to eligible households
- Meet with the village elders and guides to understand village boundaries
- Coordinating with team members, visit every household in the village, excluding none
- Complete census surveys with accurate data using digital tools
- Registration team
- Provide cell phones as necessary
- Ensure someone in the household is ready to operate the phone to access transfers
- Identify and eliminate ineligible households
- Complete surveys with accurate data using digital tools accurate data
- Reinforce information about GiveDirectly’s program to eligible households
- Explain safety and readiness information to recipients
- Ensure someone in the household is ready to operate the phone to access transfers
- Identify and eliminate ineligible households
- Follow-up team
- Follow up surveys: call or visit recipients to administer a survey to confirm transfer receipt and collect data used to improve the program and uncover any recipient problems
- Hotline calls: answer the phone as recipients call in with questions or concerns, answering their questions and escalating any problems as necessary
- Registration problem resolution: for people who have not registered with mobile money or who have registered with the wrong name, call or visit the recipients and advise them on how to register
- Adverse events case management: identify, report, and escalate adverse events to team leader; examples include: intra-household conflict, rumors about GiveDirectly, reports of a bribe, etc.
- A Field Officer will be a member of one of these teams as assigned depending on the organisation’s needs.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Language requirement: Lumasaba (Bulambuli) and Ateso (Amuria)
- Possess at minimum a bachelors degree in relevant fields
- Previous working experience in Humanitarian sector ( at least 1 year)
- Computer and mobile device data entry ability or experience (Commcare, Salesforce, Google suit package )
- Empathy, honesty, and the highest standards of integrity
- Strong interest in advancing the distinctive values and mission of GiveDirectly
- Patience and good judgment in resolving recipient problems
- Previous working experience in the field with vulnerable communities (1-2 years minimum)
- Physical fitness and ability to cope with difficult weather conditions or terrain
- This is a field based, short term contract (5 months) role and applications will be processed on a rolling basis.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36