Organisation: Health Access Connect (HAC), https://healthaccessconnect.org/ 
Location: Mpigi and Lwengo, Uganda
Contract Type: Temporary/ Part Time

Background

The mission of HAC is to link remote communities to health care. HAC currently pursues this mission through two programs:

1. Medicycles: We help remote communities to bring Ugandan government health workers to set up one-day integrated mobile outreach clinics every 1-2 months. In those outreach clinics health workers give HIV testing, anti-retroviral treatment, immunizations, perinatal services, family planning, and many other services available in rural health centres.

2. Treat & Teach: We improve access to family planning in the communities of Masaka, Lwengo, Mpigi and Kalangala districts by a) providing low density high frequency certificate training to health workers, b) setting up outreach clinics in remote communities, c) reducing commodity stock outs by improving commodity tracking at partner health facilities.

In light of the above, Health Access Connect regularly conducts surveys to inform the programming aimed at achieving the above programmes. The data collection exercises are achieved with the support of Research Assistants/Enumerators whose services are sought on a needs basis. It is on the above background that Health Access Connect seeks to recruit enumerators who will be contacted from time to time.

Job Purpose

Data collection of qualitative and quantitative data by use of Focus Group Discussions, Key informant interviews, and household and school surveys in Lwengo and Mpigi District for assessments.

Job Summary

The main purpose of the role is to provide temporary baseline data collection support to HAC’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Team. The duty stations will be in Mpigi and Lwengo districts.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Attend training and orientation organized for data collection assignments.
• Correctly obtain informed consent from targeted study participants.
• Utilize electronic data capture tools provided e.g. KOBOcollect etc. to capture qualitative and quantitative data.
• Conduct interviews with study participants i.e. household surveys, Focus Group Discussions, Key Informant Interviews, Document desk reviews, beneficiary selection surveys, etc.
• On a daily basis, complete, edit, review and submit all completed assignments to the supervisor electronically or manually.
• Attend daily briefs and debriefs for proper team coordination during data collection assignments.
• Strictly follow ethical guidelines
• Any other tasks delegated by the supervisor

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree/diploma in Statistics, Economics, Business or Commerce, Social Sciences or any other related field
• At least 1 year prior experience conducting interviews, and collecting data.
• Excellent probing skills in the execution of duties of data collection
• Work under minimum supervision to deliver results in the stipulated time of the assignment.
• Excellent knowledge and use of Excel and digital data collection tools, especially Kobo
• Ability to understand and apply specified field data collection procedures and protocols
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to maintain data ethics
• Able to work and travel in remote and hard-to-reach areas for long hours
• Ability to demonstrate moral values that are acceptable within the rural setting across communities
• Ability to uphold the reputation and credibility of the organization within partner communities during the period of the survey
• Excellent command of English, Luganda for Mpigi and Luganda/Runyankole for Lwengo district languages is a MUST.

• Attend training and orientation organized for data collection assignments.
• Correctly obtain informed consent from targeted study participants.
• Utilize electronic data capture tools provided e.g. KOBOcollect etc. to capture qualitative and quantitative data.
• Conduct interviews with study participants i.e. household surveys, Focus Group Discussions, Key Informant Interviews, Document desk reviews, beneficiary selection surveys, etc.
• On a daily basis, complete, edit, review and submit all completed assignments to the supervisor electronically or manually.
• Attend daily briefs and debriefs for proper team coordination during data collection assignments.
• Strictly follow ethical guidelines
• Any other tasks delegated by the supervisor

• Excellent probing skills in the execution of duties of data collection
• Work under minimum supervision to deliver results in the stipulated time of the assignment.
• Excellent knowledge and use of Excel and digital data collection tools, especially Kobo
• Ability to understand and apply specified field data collection procedures and protocols
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to maintain data ethics
• Able to work and travel in remote and hard-to-reach areas for long hours
• Ability to demonstrate moral values that are acceptable within the rural setting across communities
• Ability to uphold the reputation and credibility of the organization within partner communities during the period of the survey
• Excellent command of English, Luganda for Mpigi and Luganda/Runyankole for Lwengo district languages is a MUST.

• Bachelor’s degree/diploma in Statistics, Economics, Business or Commerce, Social Sciences or any other related field
• At least 1 year prior experience conducting interviews, and collecting data.