Enumerator

JOB PURPOSE AND BACKGROUND

The enumerator will have to interview a given daily target of Syrian refugees’ households (HHs) or individuals to collect correct and reliable information according to their specific role in the survey. The success of the data collection and the whole data reliability depends on the skills of every enumerator, his/her ability to conduct the related tasks, their resilience to long working days and their ability to coordinate with the Basic assistance/Reporting officer.

The enumerators report to the Basic Assistance/Reporting officer on any issue that might arise, already arouse, and lessons learned both at team and interview/survey management level. After each working day, a briefing session will be conducted for all enumerators to review the work done and plan for the next day. The enumerators and Basic Assistance/Reporting officer will manage the list, number and location of HHs and individuals to be interviewed in any given day, and will liaise accordingly with the HH members to arrange the time of the interview in person in their settlement or by phone call, making sure that no time is wasted and the daily target of HHs/individuals interviewed is consistently reached.

The enumerators will be monitored and assessed on a daily basis by the Basic Assistance/Reporting officer, who will also conduct random household/individual interviews on a daily basis and on randomly selected to double-check the quality and possible bias of the data collected by the enumerators. The enumerators will be proficient in the use of any Android device (phones and tablets) that will be used to send, to a central server, the data collected in digital formats (on paper only in case of emergency or no signal available). Additionally, a basic Excel knowledge is required at data cleaning stage.

In brief, the enumerator is responsible for conducting a given daily target of interviews and assessments of Syrian refugees’ households/individuals and collect correct and reliable information in digital formats on Android devices.

SPECIFIC DUTIES:

• Ensure coordination with Basic Assistance/Reporting officer, colleagues and all the actors involved in the survey/verification;
• In case of interview conducted in person, support the Basic Assistance/Reporting officer to guarantee that host municipalities and security authorities are aware of our activities in their area, ensuring that the relevant municipalities/ security authorities are constantly informed of date and location of interviews in due time;
• Support the Basic Assistance/Reporting officer to receive the lists, prepare them, identify locations, inform HHs members, etc…;
• Confirm HHs/individuals’ location;
• Data Collection: conduct a number of HH/individual visits/phone call per day;
• Make sure that all questions have been asked and that the recorded answers are clear and correct;
• Respect the time required for data collection, breaks and meals;
• Maintain constant contact with team members and beneficiaries (receive their requests, provide available information, etc.);
• Participate in the data cleaning process, following the instructions and guidelines provided by the Basic ssistance/Reporting officer.
• Perform all other necessary actions for the functioning and success of the project in order to deliver assistance to the designated beneficiaries;
• Respect the total confidentiality of the data collected;
• Ensure to never speak about data out of the survey project and security of the records and files;
• Follow security measures;
• Be committed to participate to any other task in order to achieve the project overall objective;
• Preparing and sorting documents for data entry;
• Entering data into KOBO database system, and checking to ensure the accuracy of the data that has been inputted;
• Support field staff in preparing data processed;