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Job Title: Field Manager – Research Firm
Industry: Research
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Salary: 100- 120k
Our client is one of the largest research agencies worldwide that provide actionable insights that help make impactful decisions that drive growth. They seek to hire a field manager to be based in Kampala, Uganda.
Purpose
- To manage the service with efficiency, flexibility and quality of work, taking into account the budget requirements
- To manage the team
- To supervise the data collection for all quantitative studies
Key Responsibilities
- Regular extensive contact within department and with other departments such as research, project logistics and field
- Regular and extensive contact with subcontractors
- Calculates and/or supervises the field costs of quantitative studies
- Plans and coordinates the various stages of quantitative studies (Production, Field, Editing, Data processing)
- Prepares and/or supervises the preparation of projects for the various operations services
- Ensures timing and quotas are respected
- Makes summarized reports of fieldwork feedback for every project
- Prepares, sends and/or supervises the fieldwork updates that are analysed by client services
- Takes part in or supervises the general briefing of the interviewers and supervisors about the research
- Proposes specific controls
- Checks the administrative management of the interviewers and supervisors (contracts, elements of pay)
- Carries out the evaluation interviews of team members
- Suggests improvements to standard processes
- Supports strategies for building team effectiveness
- Supports an environment of work excellence by ensuring own performance is consistently optimal
- Advisor for team and other internal services
- Constructively brings attention to issues of poor performance within team and suggests possible solutions
- Requests technical support / back up / by team members
- Seeks to build inter-departmental relationships productively
- Interacts effectively with varying levels with different backgrounds and perspectives
Skills and professional Qualifications
- Relevant Degree
- Field Interviewing experience across methodology type
- Team Leader experience, at least 8 years field experience
- Quantitative Research Process with specific questionnaire and research design knowledge
- Conversant with budgets, timings and quotas [commercial]
- Team leadership: Orient/train others;
- Communication skills
- Technical – as per job
- Analysis, troubleshooting, decision-making: Varied: establish general objectives
- relative to project; independent judgment required
- Planning and organising
- Ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously
- Sense of customer service
- Project related complex decision making: Ability to make propositions
- Detail focus
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