Terms of Reference for Enumerators Pre-qualification – Hargeisa, Somaliland

Terms of Reference for Enumerators Pre-qualification

Assignment	Terms of Reference for Pre-qualification of enumerators
Sector	TVET and Livelihood
Location	Hargeisa, Somaliland
Application Closing date	5th June, 2021
The Prequalified List Will Be Valid Until	30th April 2023

Background

FCA works to enable people to break the circle of poverty and violence. We are a rights-based actor, a Finnish organization with 70 years of experience, with operations in 15 countries. FCA is Finland’s largest NGO in development cooperation and second largest provider of disaster relief. Our action is guided by international human rights standards and principles. FCA realize our mission and vision through development cooperation, humanitarian assistance and advocacy work. FCA considers three thematic areas as central to sustainable change: the right to peace (R2P), livelihood (R2L) and quality education (R2QE). FCA is one of the international non-governmental organizations with a strong expertise and experience in promoting rights to livelihood. FCA’s R2L emphasizes on provision of marketable technical and vocational skills training for youth and women in IDP’s and refugee settlements.

In Somaliland, FCA is implementing a new TVET project in Hargeisa, Somaliland by piloting FCA’s integrated model on Linking Learning to Earning (LL2E) which has been successfully piloted in Eritrea, Uganda, Nepal, and South Sudan. The project aims to contribute to sustainable and profitable employment and self-employment opportunities for youth through market driven TVET and business skills development. The project was designed to address the imminent socio-economic challenges faced by youth, and the existing gaps and bottlenecks in TVET interventions in Somaliland. The project emphasizes on the integrated approach informed by labour market assessment and combined with career guidance and counselling, strong private sector engagement, and business skill development to promote sustainable and long-term impact that can be scaled up to a significantly higher number of beneficiaries and effectively replicated in other parts of Somaliland.

Objective

The primary objective is to get qualified enumerators to support in undertaking assessments, surveys and routing data collection, registration, distribution, community mobilization activities initiated by FCA in select regions of Somalia. The main tasks that enumerators will be responsible are the data collection of all facets of assessments, including rapid needs assessment, PDMs, tracer studies, KAP surveys, baseline surveys, Mid-Term Reviews and Final evaluations. Hence, FCA is looking to recruit 5 experienced local researchers (data collectors) in Hargeisa, Somaliland to undertake both quantitative and qualitative data collection with highest quality measures.

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Through training, develop sufficient comprehension of the programs, research protocol, ethical requirements, the study population and the study tools.
• Work with project teams to mobilize communities for interviews and discussions.
• Collect data by using structured interviews with the sampled respondents and service providers using pre-developed questionnaires.
• Facilitate qualitative interviews – Key informant Interviews (KIIs) and Focus Group Discussion (FGDs).
• Ensure completeness of forms for accuracy and consistency after the data collection.
• Ensure data quality and sampling protocols by accurately and strictly following the guide/survey tools used for the specific data collection.
• Ensure proper and accurate transcription of information gathered through interviews and Focus Group Discussion (FGDs).
• Ensure to collect accurate and the quality data by reviewing and editing the collected data by checking of all intentional and unintentional errors daily.
• Maintain effective teamwork and excellent communication with both the team leader and all other data collectors during fieldwork.
• Maintain effective communication with key staff to provide an update on the progress and challenges in the field and seek guidance on the way forward.
• Participate in data quality check exercises soon after data collection and have a close look at missing and error reported data.
• Ensuring that the on-going daily reporting on data collection progress for the research are kept up-to-date.
• Hand in assignments as instructed by the team leader and any other notes on observations made during the interviews.
• Report all the problems encountered by the team leader and during the debriefing sessions.
• Represent FCA professionally and correctly for the assignments in all the target districts
• Support the program team with registration of project beneficiaries, distributions of support to beneficiaries and community mobilization.

 

Skills and Qualification

• At least a High School certificate or Diploma.
• Prior experience in conducting field research work using participatory approaches in different locations in the country is essential.
• He/she must be a Somali national
• Prior experience in interviewing and facilitating FDGs (Focus Group Discussions) and in-depth interviews
• Must have considerable knowledge of the Somali culture and context
• Excellent knowledge of English and Somali (Essential).
• Displays exemplary positive behaviors for consistency, predictability and reliability at work to complete assignments and meet deadlines.
• Extensive knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet software (Word, Excel).
• Experience and knowledge on mobile data collection (Kobo Collect, ODK, ONA, etc.)

Deliverables:

• Submit clean and completed data collection forms.
• Collect clean and completed data screening during data entry.
• Clearly and well-written notes from KIIs and FGDs.
• Complete translation of English to Somali and Vis Versa.
• Field data collection summary report clearly highlighting challenges, learning and recommendations.

Scope of Work and working conditions:

The selected Enumerators will work in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The engagements will be based on a “need for work” basis and remuneration will be paid based on the tasks carried out. The enumerator may not work or be reimbursed for days beyond the maximum approved work days without prior written approval from MEAL Team Leader/Project Manager.

Time Frame

The selected enumerators will be active until 30^th April 2023 depending on performance and decision of FCA management.

 

Application process:

Please apply by using the recruitment.soco@kua.fi no later than on 5^th June, 2021. Applicants will be short-listed and contacted for an interview on a progressive basis.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply

FCA practices zero tolerance against concerning aid diversion and illegal actions and may screen [contractor/external party name] (i.e., applicants, contracts, suppliers, consultants, etc.) against international lists to ensure due diligence and compliance with Anti-money laundering and Combating the Financing of terrorism requirements). FCA’s Child Safeguarding Policy applies to all FCA staff.

 

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