Daily Worker-Youth for Tomorrow Community Baseline Survey

Background and Purpose of Work

Mercy Corps is a humanitarian organization and have been implementing the Youth for Tomorrow (YFT) Programme - funded by the Government of Canada - in Mount Lebanon, Saida, and Tripoli since January 2017. As part of the protection, psychosocial support, and skills improvement intervention in these areas, Mercy Corps is in need of enumerators to assist in data collection for a Community Baseline Survey (referred to as ‘survey’ from now on) in order to further understand about the communities’ perceptions of i) the levels of access to safe places for adolescents and youths where they can learn, play, grow and develop; and ii) the role of adolescents and youth in their communities.

The survey will be conducted in a digital format on tablets. Enumerators will receive 2-day training from Mercy Corps on the survey tool, good practices for conducting surveys, and how to generally fulfill the scope of work prior to carrying out the surveys over the course of 7 days.

Enumerators will be supported by a supervisor who will plan daily movements, provide assistance as needed and monitor daily activities.

Responsibilities

Enumerators are responsible for the following tasks:

Daily digital survey data collection.

Ensure all information on each digital survey is accurate and complete prior to the next interview.

Keep a record of the number of surveys conducted and areas visited.

Ensure transfer of such information to Supervisor (i.e. total households visited, areas visited, including vacant dwellings and interview refusals).

Report immediately to Supervisor any problem arising in the service, especially the loss, robbery, damage to equipment or any staff safety issues.

Conduct an average of 7 interviews per day/person

Coordinate movements with the direct supervisor and report on daily activities.

Discuss with Supervisor challenges faced during data collection.

Submit completed tasks on time and share with Supervisor highlights and notes.

Qualifications

Qualifications Required

Education

-  Minimum Secondary Diploma. Higher  study/ degree preferable, but not necessary if candidate has additional relevant working experience

    Experience     

-          Prior community outreach and/or volunteer work experience preferred

Languages

-          Excellent command of written and spoken Arabic, knowledge of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian dialects

-          (Fluent) and working knowledge of English

Competencies          

-          Ability to conduct social perception-related interviews

-          Attention to detail

-          Capacity to establish good relations with diverse population (including both host and refugee communities)

-          Very good knowledge of Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian culture

-          Ability to listen carefully and identify points of interest to be elaborated

-          Good communication skills and able to respect confidentiality

-          Comfortable with technology (use of tablets for data collection)

Personal qualities

-          Reliable

-          Ability to work within multicultural team

-          Flexibility to adapt to changing conditions and requirements

-          Self-motivated

-          Open-minded

-          Good communication skills

-          Willingness to travel throughout Mount Lebanon, Saida and Tripoli, and if required, to Beirut as well

-          Flexible with scheduling; work may include Saturdays or Sundays

-          Committed to humanitarian principles

-          Smart approach to asking questions and extracting relevant info from answers