Field Researcher’s key roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
Visit data collection location, including remote areas, to collect data as per study protocol
Attend training on protocols, ethical guidelines, and safety procedures, ensuring equipment readiness and reporting any field challenges.
Coordinate with local government officials and local stakeholders to verify households in the selected enumeration area.
List out the households from the selected enumeration area.
Conduct systematic sampling to select households for interview.
Identify households with persons above 18 years and who have completed 8th grade.
Select household members through randomization.
Identify service managers in the enumeration area for key information interview.
Conduct study in line with established protocols, using digital data through KoboCollect, ensuring accurate and complete data collection during interactions.
Maintain professionalism, empathy, and sensitivity during study interactions, ensuring participants feel comfortable and respected.
Address respondents queries with tact and diplomacy, ensuring confidentiality and ethical standards are upheld.
Document study responses accurately while safeguarding respondent’s privacy and complying with data protection protocols.
Work with other field team, including interviewers, and supervisors, to conduct study and collect data.
Build rapport with household heads or knowledgeable persons to identify eligible respondents for interviews.
Ensure the information accuracy by checking the all response before leaving the interviewed household
Provide regular progress updates to the supervisor, report challenges or deviations, and ensure compliance with safety, ethical guidelines, and informed consent.
Participate in daily update meeting with Supervisor(s)
Revisit households for data correction if discrepancies are identified by the data monitoring team, including supervisor.
The above list of responsibilities is not comprehensive, and the Researcher may be required to take on additional responsibilities, as determined by the reporting Manager or other senior team members, to meet PPTs needs and requirements.
Job Specification
MINUMUM REQUIREMENTS
A bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Nursing, Medicine, Demography, Population Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, or Development Studies or any other relevant discipline.
Preference will be given to candidates who have knowledge of routine health information systems and/or disease surveillance systems of Nepal.
At least one year of relevant professional experience.
Physically capable of traveling and walking to remote areas while carrying study materials as required.
Proficient in Nepali and other local languages (preferable).
Ability to develop innovative solutions and approaches to overcome challenges.
Awareness of gender and cultural considerations, ensuring their integration into the study process.
If you possess the necessary qualifications and competencies to excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and be part of our dedicated team. We encourage applications from women and people from diverse groups across ethnicity and geography
HERD INTERNATIONAL is a research and development agency, promoting evidence informed policies and practices for sustainable development and contributing to improve quality of life of people. It is legally registered as a service company under the Office of the Company Registrar, Ministry of Industry, Nepal. HERD INTERNATIONAL functions with the principles of Youth-Centric Empowerment, High Regard to Human Subjects, Partnership and Collaboration, Integrated Development, Innovation for Impact, Translating Evidence into Policy and Practice and Zero Tolerance on Corruption and Misappropriation. All members of this organization embody in principle and practice these principles.
We function with 3E approaches of EFFICIENCY, EXECUTION and EMPOWERMENT.
