Job Title: Research Assistant/Note-taker
Employer: Tship Nigeria
Sector: NGO
Location: Sokoto, Nigeria
Type: Contract
Job opening ID: 76
Roles and responsibilities:
Responsibilities
• Responsible for managing all arrangements for an effective conduction of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions (e.g., setting up tape-recorder, labeling the cassette tapes, and taking appropriate security measures to protect the tapes once the session is over, etc.).
• Responsible for taking detailed notes of key informant interviews and focus group discussions, and then to expand those notes into rich descriptions.
• Responsible for tasks related to recording (operating the tape recorder, labeling the cassette tapes, and taking appropriate security measures to protect the tapes once the session is over).
• Conducts a debriefing session with the FGD moderator and IDI interviewer immediately after the group discussion and key informant interview. This should ideally begin shortly after the interview or group discussion session has ended; within 15 minutes to a half-hour.
• Responsible for transcribing all taped-recording of the key informant interviews.
Deliverables:
• Expanded notes of each group discussions and key informant interview conducted.
• Taped recording for each group discussions and key informant interview conducted.
• Transcriptions for each taped group discussion session and key informant interview conducted.
Skill set:
Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree
• Should be fluent in speaking Hausa and English, as well as in writing in English
• Minimum 3 years relevant work experience in the development sector, MNCH/FP/RH program assessment preferred. Also should have direct experience with working with rural communities
• 1-3 years experience with qualitative research with 2 of which as a note taker
• Skills include mastery of an efficient system for taking copious notes and expanding them
• Transcribe notes and tapes using a specific format agreed upon with the consultant
• The ability to quickly identify and take down individual quotes that capture the spirit of a given point.
• Should be careful observers of verbal and non-verbal behaviors and be discreet about note-taking as they operate the recording equipment.
• Should be able to synthesize their observations to serve as the basis for immediate discussion, following each focus group session.
Work experience: 2-3 years
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