About this role
Job Title: Data Collector
Location: Kaura Namoda, Zamfara
Category: Public Health Research Humanitarian
Job Type: Contract
Job Description
- We invite applications from suitably qualified and experienced individuals for the position of Data Collector to support the assessment across selected Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the five states listed above.
- The assessment will use a mixed-methods approach involving household interviews, health facility and GBV service assessments, focus group discussions (FGDs), key informant interviews (KIIs), market and cash and voucher assistance (CVA) assessments, and environmental risk screening.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate fully in mandatory assessment training, tool reviews, role plays and field pretesting.
- Follow approved cluster, household and respondent selection procedures.
- Administer electronic questionnaires to selected adult women and adolescent girls.
- Support or conduct FGDs with adult women, adolescent girls, adult men and adolescent boys, as assigned.
- Administer assigned health facility, service-provider, CVA/market and environmental assessment tools.
- Obtain and document informed consent and follow approved consent and assent procedures for adolescent participants.
- Ensure privacy, confidentiality, safeguarding and respectful engagement with all respondents.
- Enter data accurately using KoboToolbox, ODK or other approved electronic data collection platforms.
- Conduct basic observation and verification where required by facility and service-readiness tools.
- Participate in daily team debriefings and respond promptly to data-quality queries.
- Ensure secure handling of assessment devices, forms and other field materials.
- Comply fully with safeguarding, protection, GBV-sensitive interviewing and data-protection procedures.
Minimum Requirements
- Possess at least an HND, bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Public Health, Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Nursing, Midwifery, Demography, Sociology, Psychology, Statistics, Development Studies or another relevant field.
- Have previous experience in quantitative and/or qualitative field data collection.
- Have experience using smartphones or tablets for electronic data collection.
- Demonstrate good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Be able to work effectively in communities affected by humanitarian crises, displacement or insecurity.
- Be available throughout the mandatory training and fieldwork period.
- Be willing and able to travel within the selected LGAs of the preferred state.
Desirable Experience:
- Previous experience using KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO or similar platforms.
- Experience in SRH, maternal health, GBV, protection, humanitarian response or related assessments.
- Experience conducting FGDs or KIIs.
- Previous work with internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, host communities or other crisis-affected populations.
- Understanding of informed consent, confidentiality, safeguarding and ethical research practices.
- Knowledge of the geography and humanitarian context of the preferred state.
- Proficiency in relevant local languages spoken in the selected state or LGAs.
Application Closing Date
20th October, 2026.