Field Researcher’s/Supervisor’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 survey protocol
Attend training on protocols, ethical guidelines, and safety procedures, ensuring equipment readiness and reporting any field challenges.
Conduct surveys in line with established protocols, ensuring accurate and complete data collection during interactions.
Maintain professionalism, empathy, and sensitivity during survey interactions, ensuring participants feel comfortable and respected.
Address respondents queries with tact and diplomacy, ensuring confidentiality and ethical standards are upheld.
Document survey responses accurately while safeguarding respondent’s privacy and complying with data protection protocols.
Conduct health-related data collection, including surveys and assessments, using tablets or notes as necessary.
Coordinate with local government officials, health facility staffs and local stakeholders to verify household data and ensure accurate segmentation of enumeration areas through social mapping.
List out the households from the selected clusters.
Conduct systematic sampling to select households for interview.
Identify households with children under five and mark them for interview selection.
Work with the field team, including interviewers, and supervisors, to conduct surveys.
Build rapport with household heads or knowledgeable persons to identify eligible respondents for interviews.
Ensure all eligible household members are interviewed, and anthropometric measurement (e.g., height, weight, MUAC) are accurately recorded.
Collect digital data using Kobo Collect for real-time data collection and ensure the information accuracy by checking 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 supervisors, schedule meetings with quality controller
Revisit households for data correction if discrepancies are identified by the data monitoring team, including supervisor.
In addition to this, Field Supervisors have more responsibility for supervising field researchers. Only a few selected individuals will take on this role, and their suitability will be assessed during the training period. 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 USAID Health Learning needs and requirements.
Job Specification
A bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Nursing, Medicine, Nutrition, Demography, Population Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, or Development Studies or any other relevant discipline.
At least one year of relevant professional experience.
Physically capable of traveling and walking to remote areas while carrying survey 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 survey process
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.
