Position: Enumerators

Type of contract: Temporary

Working location: Anywhere in the country

Supervisor: Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

Deadline:  13th July 2022

Introduction

SOS Children’s Villages RWANDA is encouraging young graduates who are interested in data collection to submit their Curriculum Vitae and daily rates as enumerators for various studies or evaluations planned in the coming days.

SOS Children’s Villages RWANDA is a non-governmental social development organisation that has been active since 1979 in the field of children’s rights, supporting children at risk of losing parental care and others who have lost it.

At the beginning of every project, a baseline evaluation is conducted to inform the initial context and after some years of project implementation, SOS children’s Villages in Rwanda wishes to conduct mid-term and final evaluations to assess the progress made towards achievements of the specific objectives of the project, its outcomes and impact. Evaluations help to gauge the level of stakeholder’s participation and ownership of the implementation by the participants. They also identify the intended and unintended outcomes, best practices, lessons learnt as well as challenges arising from programme implementation over a certain period. The data collected and analysed contribute to valuable findings, sound conclusions and recommendations that help SOS Children’s Villages in Rwanda to improve the quality of its interventions for the wellbeing of children in families and communities.

Purpose

SOS Children’s Villages in Rwanda is planning to hire enumerators who fulfil the required profile for data collection tasks. as a request for Curriculum Vitae and daily rates of enumerators who are interested in collecting data for various studies or evaluations conducted by SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda.

Selected enumerators will be contacted and trained before data collection in electronic or hard formats.

Profile of the enumerators

Graduates wishing to collaborate with SOS Children’s Villages as enumerators must have the following with competences and experience:

1. A university degree in statistics, social sciences, development studies, economics, project planning and management or any related field,
2. Proven competency in monitoring and evaluation,
3. Proven experience in data collection and analysis and the usage of digital tools involved,
4. A good understanding of development work, child rights and issues affecting vulnerable children,
5. Good facilitation and interpersonal skills,
6. Strong analytical and conceptual skills,
7. Excellent written communication skills,
8. Ability to transfer complex concepts and ideas into practical and simple language,
9. Experience in conducting focus group discussions and key informant interviews is a plus.

NB: The selected enumerators will sign SOS Children’s Villages Code of Conduct committing them to avoid any harm to participating communities and project participants. They shall also commit to maintain appropriate relationships with people who participate in the evaluations.

Submission procedures