Position: Field Worker

Organization: PHFI

Location: Bangalore

Apply: Email an updated CV and fill out the application link

https://forms.office.com/r/M16bTNzyez 

Deliverables:

Participant recruitment, consenting and field data collection

• Visit households of the project participants to recruit them for the COINCIDE project. Explain the details of the study to the participants using recruitment aids provided and get their signed consent or verbal assent for participation in the study.
• Answer questions that participants have about the study at the time of consenting or connect them to senior study staff as required
• Work with families to plan and schedule appointments for data collection
• Assist in recording GPS coordinates of participant households for ease of participant tracking
• Collect and upload data from parents and children using tablet computers as per standard operating procedures
• Provide referrals and travel support to families meeting referral criteria as per standard operating procedures
• Provide travel support to families to visit other data collection sites
• Assist the phlebotomist to collect blood samples from children
• Assist parents to collect urine samples from children
• Follow and ensure confidentiality of data and ensure secure and timely transfer of the collected data to secure servers
• Support iterative pilot testing of the study tools during the tool adaptation phase. Support in documentation of feedback and insights from the formative phase on participant engagement and understanding of study tools

Participation in training and supervision

• Attend all training sessions and get trained in all study tools to be administered as part of the study.
• Practice administering the study tools on parents and children who volunteer for this purpose
• Attend all supervisory sessions to get feedback on their performance
• Attend all refresher trainings to ensure fidelity to tool administration throughout the duration of the study
• Visit St. John’s Research Institute to get certification on using anthropometry equipment and 24-hour food recall questionnaires

Support project documentation

• Participate in project meetings to provide updates on data collection
• Ensure proper maintenance and storage of all equipments, documents and participatory tokens provided for data collection
• Ensure timely updates and submission of all project related documents and registers

Support communication with stakeholders

• Provide counselling support to families when required as per training provided
• Accompany senior project staff to field sites and introduce them to the participants for supervisory visits and qualitative data collection
• Maintain a good rapport with health staff (ASHA workers, ANMs, Anganwadi workers) in study sites
• Establish and maintain clear communication and effective working relationships with key stakeholders, including government and non-government agencies, local service providers, and health professionals

Support organisational activities

• Participate in and support activities and meetings related to the project
• Liaise with faculty members and research staff of PHFI and its allied institutes.
• Analysis and documentation of all project related activities.
• Submission of Reports as per timeline of the project.
• Any other tasks assigned by Supervisor/PI.

Qualification:

Desirable:

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, social work, healthcare management or any social sciences
• Master’s degree in public health, social work, healthcare management or any social sciences
• Fluent in Kannada, Hindi and English

Experience:

Desirable:

• Demonstrated experience of having worked in a research project involving human subjects.
• Demonstrated experience in field data collection from community samples (at least 2 years)
• Willingness to work and reside in the study location (Bengaluru, Karnataka) for the entire duration of the study
• Demonstrated experience of working with young children (2-10 years old) and their families
• Demonstrated experience of working with the Karnataka health system and with established relationships with health workers (ASHAs, ANMs, Anganwadi workers)