Feasibility Studies Coordinator

at BURN
Location Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of
Date Posted January 11, 2023
Category Management
Job Type Full-time
Currency TZS

Description

JOB DETAILS:
About the role
BURN is looking for a field feasibility studies coordinator, who will be responsible for coordinating people and processes to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results. You will be the go-to person for everything involving a project’s organization and timeline.
Job responsibilities will include setting up surveys on data collection platforms like Kobo/Enketo, developing training materials, recruiting, training, and managing teams of field enumerators, managing and taking ownership of data flows, quality control and assurance of the processes and data from the field and coordinating with other functions within the organizations to deliver timely reports and dashboard that will be used by the commercial teams on the best locations to set up distribution.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Work with the feasibility studies project manager and country managers to set up surveys that reflect the unique fuel and stove culture in the specific country.
• Develop country-customized training materials for feasibility studies enumerators borrowing from the master training document under the supervision of the FS project manager.
• Recruit, train and supervise an in-country, location-efficient team of contractor field team leaders and/or enumerators that can execute household-level feasibility studies.
• Initiate and follow through in the mobilization of budgets and other resources for efficient and timely execution of feasibility studies.
• Working closely with the FS project manager, develop SOPs and checklists for maintaining the highest quality processes for efficient output from data and related units.
• Continuously review and audit the processes and surveys necessary to complete feasibility studies projects in time both quantitatively and qualitatively.
• Ensure data and documentation are compliant with laid down SOPs and methodologies
• Collaborate and liaise closely and regularly with the relevant team members across the critical departments including but not limited to data and analytics, call centers, and commercial.
• Manage routine corrections of erroneous output and work to continuously improve this environment by harvesting and documenting lessons towards continuous improvement.
• Creating comprehensive monthly reports on the Pareto of issues, including root causes, examples, trends, and options for solutions.

Skills and Experience:
• Individuals will need excellent technical abilities to carry out audit-like work in a data-heavy environment.
• Relevant technical data handling skills in areas of collection using tools like Kobo and basic analysis using Ms. Excel.
• Team leadership and management of field teams in multiple locations.
• Required soft skills include people and teamwork skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
• The role-holder is expected to have strong field monitoring and evaluation skills including effective communication skills to constantly liaise with the team members to ensure all enumerators or team leaders are achieving both their qualitative and quantitative targets.
• This specialist should also have effective communication skills to interact with team members or customers, as well as provide training as needed to colleagues.
• Possess 3 to 5 years of experience in field team leadership and management in areas like data collection or sales.
• Swahili-Anglo phone speaker for Tanzania
• Anglo-phone speaker for Nigeria
• Strong experience in field teams’ leadership and management
• Data collection using platforms and mobile apps like Kobo
• Team coordination
• Project coordination
• Process audit experience

Qualified Female Candidates encouraged to Apply

BURN does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).