Crown Agents USA, Inc. (CA-USA) is seeking a Regional Field
Coordinator for the MCA Indonesia funded Data Collection for the
Baseline Survey of the Community-Based Health and Nutrition to Reduce
Stunting Project in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Our Business
Crown Agents is an international development company employing over 600 personnel worldwide with a presence in more than 40 countries, subsidiaries in 12 countries, and permanent staff working on the ground in 22 corporate offices in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Crown Agents provides direct assistance, management consulting, and human and institutional development for public and private sector clients in customs and trade facilitation, public financial management, procurement, logistics, and health systems strengthening.
Crown Agents USA (CA-USA), the U.S. incorporated subsidiary of Crown Agents, provides direct technical assistance, capacity development, and procurement services to stimulate economic growth, establish good governance, and improve health outcomes across the developing world. Since its incorporation in the United States in 1998, CA-USA has provided technical assistance services and support to U.S. Government agencies and international organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Department of State (DOS), and the Gates Foundation.
Project Description
The project will implement a baseline survey for an impact evaluation of the Community-Based Health and Nutrition to Reduce Stunting Project. It will cover 4,560 households, along with puskesmas (health center) and desa (village)-level surveys across Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan and South Sumatra. The project will collect data that will be analyzed by the Evaluation Team of the Community-Based Health and Nutrition to Reduce Stunting Project to make statements about the Nutrition Project’s impact.
Role & Responsibilities
The Regional Field Coordinator will act as a survey manager in his/her region (Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan or South Sumatra) and will be responsible for the day to day management of the survey. He/she should spend 100% of his/her time in the survey locations when fieldwork is underway. The Regional Coordinator reports to the Technical Team Leader.
Specific Responsibilities
Our Business
Crown Agents is an international development company employing over 600 personnel worldwide with a presence in more than 40 countries, subsidiaries in 12 countries, and permanent staff working on the ground in 22 corporate offices in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Crown Agents provides direct assistance, management consulting, and human and institutional development for public and private sector clients in customs and trade facilitation, public financial management, procurement, logistics, and health systems strengthening.
Crown Agents USA (CA-USA), the U.S. incorporated subsidiary of Crown Agents, provides direct technical assistance, capacity development, and procurement services to stimulate economic growth, establish good governance, and improve health outcomes across the developing world. Since its incorporation in the United States in 1998, CA-USA has provided technical assistance services and support to U.S. Government agencies and international organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Department of State (DOS), and the Gates Foundation.
Project Description
The project will implement a baseline survey for an impact evaluation of the Community-Based Health and Nutrition to Reduce Stunting Project. It will cover 4,560 households, along with puskesmas (health center) and desa (village)-level surveys across Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan and South Sumatra. The project will collect data that will be analyzed by the Evaluation Team of the Community-Based Health and Nutrition to Reduce Stunting Project to make statements about the Nutrition Project’s impact.
Role & Responsibilities
The Regional Field Coordinator will act as a survey manager in his/her region (Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan or South Sumatra) and will be responsible for the day to day management of the survey. He/she should spend 100% of his/her time in the survey locations when fieldwork is underway. The Regional Coordinator reports to the Technical Team Leader.
Specific Responsibilities
- Ensure that the necessary permits for his/her region are obtained, including if necessary, calling local kabupaten, kecamatan and desa heads and regional offices
- Help Technical Team Leader in managing the recruitment of the field teams
- Together with Technical Team Leader and Data Manager, manage, implement and conduct training
- Manage and supervise the field teams in his/her region during fieldwork
- Ensure quality control procedures are in place during data collection
- Make all efforts to overcome problems that disturb progress of the survey
- Ensure that the field teams have the resources needed to implement the survey
- Manage the data archiving process
- Record and report on substantive/non substantive problems shown in the field, and solve them
- Assist in the data cleaning process and report preparation once the fieldwork is completed
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a multi-disciplinary team, to achieve specific and measurable results
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Economics, Sociology, Demography, Statistics, Geography, Public Health, Nutrition, Public Policy, Business, or Math
- Experience implementing at least four household surveys of similar size (at least 2000+ households)
- At least five years of experience managing household surveys
- Experience working in any of the assigned study provinces (South Sumatra, Central Kalimantan, or West Kalimantan) preferred
- Experience with database management, including expanding, correcting and entering new records in databases, running consistency checks, and running queries from the database to generate error reports
- Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia required
- Good knowledge of English highly desirable
- Experience working with MCC highly desirable
How to apply:
To apply to this position, please email your CV to careers@crownagents.com. Include your name, along with the “14-30B Regional Field Coordinator”, in the subject line. Visit our website at www.crownagentsusa.com
for more information about our company. No phone calls, faxes or
walk-ins please. Crown Agents USA, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity
Employer M/F/D/V.Closing date: 5 May 2014
Crown Agents USA will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with qualified disabilities in accordance with the ADA and local labor law as applicable. If you require a reasonable accommodation for our application process, please contact our Recruiting department directly. Requests will be kept confidential and shared strictly on a need-to-know basis only.
