Study Data Collector – Reach Ethiopia Vacancy Announcement

Brief introduction:

REACH Ethiopia is a registered Ethiopian nonprofit organization dedicated to community development by executing innovative and targeted projects, delivering high-quality health services to underprivileged communities. Since its establishment in 2013, REACH Ethiopia has implemented more than 16 projects and harmoniously worked with over 19 partners worldwide. The organization has proven its capacity in taking up new initiatives and carefully executing them to retain good practice and disseminate the learning to partners. REACH Ethiopia is currently implementing multiple TB related activities at national and regional level.

REACH Ethiopia, in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Health-Disease Prevention and Control Executive Officer, is currently executing the project titled “Reaching Key Affected and Vulnerable Populations Through Advocacy of Community-Led, Rights-Based, and Gender-Transformative TB Services in Three Urban Slum Areas in Ethiopia.” The primary objective of this project is to establish community-led, rights-based, and gender-transformative TB programming in three urban settings. REACH Ethiopia seeks Data collector who had proven experience of data collection. The overall objective of this assignment is to collect data on community knowledge, attitude and practices for the endline survey design to measure the impact of the project.

Duties and Responsibilities: –

Under the consultant data manager, and supervisor study data collector will execute the following activities: –

• Attend the data collectors training.
• Prepare micro plans in order to conduct data collection including logistics for the data collection
• Inform Woredas and kebeles in advance before data collection.
• Communicate supervisors in order to assist the movement in the Kebeles.
• Apply sampling procedure to the selected study cluster.
• Complete household questionnaire using mobile data collection application for all the household holders under the data collector’s responsibility.
• Work with data collection supervisor in order to maintain quality of the data before submitting the data to cloud server.

Employment type: Short term contract

Number of positions: 15 (11 Addis Ababa, 2 Dire Dawa and 2 Harari)

Location: Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa and Harari

Payment rate: As per the scale of the organization

Duration: 10 Days 

Duration of work: – 10 Days (February 19-28, 2024)

Location: Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa and Harari all TB key affected population residence areas.

Required educational Qualification.

• At least BSc in field of health science from recognized College/University or equivalent.

Work Experience required.

• Five and above years of relevant work experience after graduation and with at least six months of experience in research related activities.
• Work experience in TB control program is an asset.

Desirable:

• Relevant Experience as supervisor or data collector for clinical research, Survey and surveillance
• Good Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) skills
• Aware of the existing health system structure particularly on TB prevention and control program
• Good communication and teamwork experience
• Fluency in written and spoken local languages spoken at the project implementation area.