Enumerators
Scope of Work
The Enumerators will collaborate closely with the Room to Read (RtR) Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RME) team and will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Training Participation: Attend and actively participate in all training sessions.
- Moderation and Facilitation: Conduct key informant interviews (KIIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs) with study respondents.
- Daily Reporting: Complete scheduled activities each day, clearly communicating the number of interviews scheduled and completed to the RtR RME team lead for progress monitoring.
- Debriefing Sessions: Participate in daily debriefing sessions with RtR’s Global Office RME (GO-RME) and Country Office RME (CO-RME) teams in the afternoon, conducted in English.
- Integrity and Ethics: Interact with respondents with high integrity and understanding, strictly following study and ethical protocols.
- Note-Taking: Take interview notes in Khmer and review & compile them to ensure data integrity, minimizing errors during data collection.
- Tracking: Fill in the interview trackers at the end of each day.
- Transcription: Transcribe recorded FGD and KII data into Microsoft Word files in English by the end of each day.
- Translation: Translate compiled Khmer notes into English after the data collection is over.
- Communication: Maintain regular communication with the Field Team Lead and Room to Read Cambodia staff to report any observations or issues.
- Additional Tasks: Complete other tasks as needed by the RtR RME team.
Enumerators must be available full-time in Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia (~eight hours per day) on a fixed-term contract for August 2024. Final candidates will be required to attend training at the beginning of August.
Compensation:
- Each enumerator will receive accidental insurance during the period of the mission from an insurance firm purchased by the RtR organization.
- Each enumerator will receive a package allowance of a range between 80$ to 100$ per day (including phone calls, in-city travel, meals, and accommodation)
Team Leader
Project name: Life Skills for Equality Project (Cambodia)
Place of study: Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia
Anticipated type of award: Fixed Price Contract
The anticipated term of engagement: around 3 weeks
Location: Fieldwork will be conducted in Mongkol Borey District and Preah Net Preah District in Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia.
Team Leader - 1 team leader is required for around 3 weeks of engagement. The team leader will oversee and manage the qualitative data collection work in Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia.
Compensation
- Both the enumerators and the team leader will receive the insurance from National Social Security Fund (for working hours), and Room to Read will purchase accidental insurance from any company to cover the non-working hours during the whole mission.
- Each enumerator will receive a package allowance of 100$ per day (including phone calls, in-city travel, meals, and accommodation)
- A team leader will receive a package allowance 130$ per day (including phone calls, in-city travel, meals, and accommodation)
Note: The distance travel arrangements (from Phnom Penh to Banteay Meanchey and back, and for the field works), and the tax payment for the above allowance fee will be provided by Room to Read.
Summary
Room to Read (RtR) is seeking excellent Khmer-and English-speaking enumerators and a team leader for a qualitative study under Room to Read’s Life Skills for Equality (LSEP) project. The objective of the LSEP project is to support boys to develop the skills to succeed in school and beyond, and to challenge the harmful gender norms that limit them, and their female peers, from reaching their full potential. This project is being implemented across 4 schools in Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia. Room to Read Cambodia is hiring experienced male and female enumerators and a team leader to conduct focus group discussions and Key Informant Interviews with students, teachers, and facilitators, and Room to Read staff, across all 4 schools.
- Apart from the scope of work mentioned for the enumerators, the team leader’s responsibility also includes:
- Oversee all data collection activities including management of enumerators.
- Act as a liaison between Field Team (enumerators, translators, etc.) and Room to Read/IDinsight staff during enumerator training and data collection.
- Moderate/facilitate key informant interviews and focus group discussions with study respondents.
- Complete scheduled activities each day promptly, clearly communicating how many interviews have been scheduled and completed so the team manager can monitor progress.
- Manage and ensure the quality of transcription of the recorded FGD and KII data at the end of each day.
- Ensure that each recorded FGD and KIIs are transcribed at the end of each day.
- Maintain regular communication with the Room to Read Cambodia staff, IDinsight Associate, and/or any assigned supervisor to report any observations and problems.
- Any other tasks that may be assigned by the Room to Read RME team or IDinsight Associate.
- Must have experience in managing and supervising the data collection process
- Excellent spoken and written English & Khmer language
- Proven experience and skills in qualitative research work. Training in data collection and/or research methods is an added advantage.
- Experience in conducting interviews and focus group discussions with varied audiences (adults, minors).
