Data Auditor at Research Support Services Ltd

Job Ref: RSS/03/18/KENYA/CFC/003

Qualifications

We are seeking qualified and self-motivated individuals who MUST be based in Nairobi with the following key qualifications;

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Agricultural Economics, Development Studies or any relevant discipline from a recognized institution.
• Undergraduates still studying but are in their advanced stages of study shall also be considered;
• Experience in conducting interviews on sensitive topics for research purposes preferably in the key sub-sectors of agriculture: agribusiness management, rural finance, rural markets, gender and economic empowerment;
• Past experience in conducting agribusiness studies and household surveys especially within poor and rural communities; agribusiness project evaluations and agribusiness value chains; and among youth and women;
• Experience in farm household income estimation and assessing working and living conditions in rural areas;
• Experience in conducting data quality checks using online/web based platforms especially ODK backbones including SurveyCTO, Formhub, KoBo, Ona, Survey Monkey, Magpi etc;
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English a MUST; as well as a respective local language;
• Experience in qualitative & quantitative data collection and a demonstration of good interviewing & data entry; Strong ability to translate research documents in English;
• Good working knowledge of office computer applications preferably Word and Excel;
• Excellent skills in using online/ web based platforms for data collection, data entry and data quality checks. Additional knowledge of any quantitative and qualitative statistical package will be an added advantage (e.g. SPSS and Nvivo);
• Experience in use of mobile phones for data collection; familiarity with the use of digital voice recorders and GPS equipment and PDAs/Android Tablets for data collection, photography and recording.

The data collection work shall be conducted within the Republic of Kenya and is expected to be around May/June 2018.

We shall select researchers who emanate from and have knowledge of the local communities in Kenya.