Part time Enumerator -Bonga

Employer: Village Enterprise

Industry: Nonprofit/International Development/Social Entrepreneurship

Function: Support field-level data collection

Job Title: Enumerator—HARVEST

Contract: Part-time

Reports to: MEL Coordinator

Job Location: Bonga, Kaffa Zone.

Organization overview:  

Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship, innovation, and collective action by empowering women, refugees, and youth to launch small businesses and savings groups, our cost-effective model provides dignified and sustainable pathways for people to lift themselves and their families out of extreme poverty—for good.

To date, Village Enterprise has trained 287,000 first-time entrepreneurs, launched 87,000 businesses, and impacted more than 1.8 million lives across Africa. Village Enterprise has operations in four countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda—and works with partners in other sub-Saharan countries. As Village Enterprise continues to scale, our aim is to lift 20 million people out of extreme poverty by 2030. 

  

Project Overview:   

Village Enterprise and HereWeGrow are partnering to address the interwoven challenges of poverty, gender inequity, and climate vulnerability facing smallholder coffee farmers in Ethiopia’s Keffa Zone.

HARVEST - Households Advancing Resilience, Value chains, and Sustainable Transformation is a three-year, integrated project to address the poverty cycle in coffee producing small holder farmers in Gimbo and Shisho Ende districts of Keffa Zone.  

The proposed project combines Village Enterprise’s proven 12-month poverty graduation model– including seed capital grants, business and financial literacy training, mentoring, and savings groups with tailored climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and market linkage interventions.

This integrated model will be delivered to households living in extreme poverty in the coffee-growing Keffa Zone.

The project will train 8,100 entrepreneurs to launch 2,700 small businesses, enabling households to improve coffee quality and yields and increase and diversify incomes, ultimately lifting 52,000 individuals from poverty.  

  

Job Description

Core Roles (What you will do)

• Find Respondents: Walk through the community to find and map the specific people or households we need to interview.
• Conduct Interviews: Talk to people and ask survey questions exactly as written.
• Record all answers accurately on a tablet or phone. Experience with Taro Works or similar apps is a big advantage.
• Use the device to mark the exact location (GPS) of every interview and note down important things you see.
• Introduce yourself and the team to the community. Explain why we are doing the survey in a way that is easy to understand.
• Make sure every person understands the survey and agrees to take part (informed consent) before you start.
• Correctly translate questions from English into the local language so the meaning stays the same.
• Review all your data at the end of the day to fix mistakes and sync (upload) it to the system.
• Help with other data collection tasks when the supervisor asks.

Safeguarding - "Safeguarding at Village Enterprise is everyone’s responsibility and it begins with me"

• Continuously sensitize program participants on safeguarding.        
• Ensure compliance with Village Enterprise safeguarding policies.  
• Report any incident of safeguarding in program operations for appropriate action/follow up.   

Other tasks and responsibilities

• Promoting teamwork relating to roles and responsibilities in the organization.
• Maintaining privacy and confidentiality.
• Provide verbal and written progress activity reports on processes and challenges.
• Responding to any clarifications relating to surveys.
• Ensure the safety of all data collection equipment and machinery. 

Living Our Values:   

•  Ubuntu: We serve people living in extreme poverty with respect, empathy, and dignity regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, or education level, and value our common humanity.   
• Passion: We believe passionately in our mission and the ability of people living in extreme poverty to improve their lives.   
•  Integrity: We operate with the highest levels of integrity and trustworthiness.   
•   Innovation: We value innovation to reduce poverty and treat new ideas, new technologies, and new partners as opportunities to grow our impact.   
•  Sustainability: We are committed to ensuring that our businesses and our organization are sustainable in the long term.   

Skills and competencies

• Flexible Schedule: You are willing to work different hours, including early mornings or late evenings, to find respondents when they are home.
• Adaptable: You can handle changes in the work plan or environment without getting frustrated.
• You can quickly learn and accurately use mobile phones or tablets for data collection (like Taro Works).
• You enjoy working with people from different backgrounds, including low-income families and those who cannot read or write.
• You are able and willing to walk long distances in rural, outdoor areas every day to reach sampled You are able and willing to walk long distances in rural, outdoor areas every day to reach sampled households.
• You must be able to speak the local languages used in Kaffagna  fluently.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a diploma in any discipline with prior experience/exposure in research disciplines is an asset.
• Understanding of the elements of data quality. Prior experience in data collection using mobile technology would be an added advantage.
• Preference will be given to candidates staying within Shisho Inde and Gimbo Woredas.
• You must attach an introductory letter from your Kebele Chairperson.
• This letter must be stamped and include a working telephone number.