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Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a United States-based non-profit organization dedicated to discovering, and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates, and refines these solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world’s poor.

Job Description

Team Leaders, Guidance and Information for Improved Decisions in Education (GUIIDE) Project Parental/Guardian Phone Survey

• Reports to: Field Manager
• Work Location: Ashanti Region
• Expected start date: 4th April, 2016
• Application deadline: 31st March, 2016
• Job Code: TL-PAR-GUIIDE-1632016

Project Overview
IPA Ghana seeks Team Leaders to work on the “Guidance and Information for Improved Decisions in Education” (GUIIDE)project. GUIIDE is a project that examines the impact of information on the demand for education. Specifically, the project will examine whether the provision of information about SHS and the strategic way of making SHS choices affect how final year JHS students select schools for secondary education. Additionally, the project will assess the long term effect of the information intervention on educational attainment and future job selection.  The GUIIDE project is undertaken by IPA in collaboration with Ghana Education Service (GES) and other affiliate bodies in the education sector.

Job Description
Team Leaders report directly to the Field Manager and are responsible for overseeing the parent/guardian survey at a centralized location at the survey team level and maintaining high quality data collection. This will involve managing a team of interviewers, supervising daily survey activities, survey monitoring and writing weekly reports. Team Leaders will also maintain records such as survey tracking and surveyor attendance.

In particular, the Team Leader will;

• Supervise all the surveyors, manage their work, and ensure that they are all following IPA survey protocols;
• Ensure respondents gifts are delivered to them promptly
• Ensure sufficient surveys, supplies, and forms for all surveyors;
• Solve and communicate all problems with team members to field supervisors and field manager;
• Perform other duties related to the project that may be assigned to him/her

Required Skills or Experience

• Minimum of a Higher National Diploma (HND) in any social science discipline, e.g. Statistics or any related field;
• Prior experience in working with Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) is preferable;
• Demonstrate professional maturity, excellent organizational and good interpersonal skills for teamwork, and good written and verbal communication skills;
• Ability to work to meet deadlines in multiple tasking environments;
• Be willing to work in a centralized location out of home location;
• Fluency in English and the Twi language is preferred;
• Residency in Ashanti Region is a plus;
• Should be available for training and work by 4^th April, 2016.