The Role
Support community engagement and field research by coordinating data collection, facilitating meetings and trainings, operating and maintaining air quality monitoring equipment (CO, CO2, PM2.5, black carbon), ensuring data quality and ethical protocols, and contributing to data cleaning, basic analysis, reports, and monitoring of intervention activities in Kiambu County.
Summary Generated by Built In
Stakeholder & Community Engagement
- Build and
maintain trust-based relationships with community members, local leaders, and
project participants.
- Support
community mobilisation and sensitisation around project objectives and
activities.
- Facilitate
community meetings, focus group discussions, and participatory workshops,
ensuring inclusive participation of women, youth, and marginalised groups.
- Liaise with local government, extension
services, and NGOs to coordinate field activities and build local partnerships.
- Act as a key
point of contact between the project team and field communities, ensuring
feedback is captured and reported
Research Support & Data
Collection:
- Coordinate data collection in field sites, including household
surveys, interviews, and observational assessments on cooking energy use,
dietary practices, and agroforestry.
- Ensure data quality and adherence to ethical protocols throughout
all data collection.
- Support data entry, cleaning, and basic analysis, and contribute
to field reports and research outputs.
- Maintain accurate and organized field records and documentation.
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Intervention activities (Implementation & Monitoring)
- Support the planning and coordination
of field activities, including training sessions, demonstration plots, and
cooking energy trials.
- Conduct regular monitoring and
recording of indoor air pollutants in selected kitchens across participating
households in Kiambu County, specifically measuring Carbon monoxide (CO) and
carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, Particulate matter (PM 2.5) levels, Black
carbon.
- Operate,
calibrate, maintain and ensure safety of the air quality
monitoring equipment and computers as per project
protocol.
- Monitor field activities against
workplans and report on progress, challenges, and lessons learned.
Skills Required
- Experience building and maintaining trust-based relationships with community members and local leaders
- Experience facilitating community meetings, focus group discussions, and participatory workshops with inclusive participation
- Experience coordinating household surveys, interviews, and field data collection
- Ability to ensure data quality, adhere to ethical protocols, and maintain organized field records
- Experience with data entry, data cleaning, and basic data analysis
- Experience operating, calibrating, maintaining, and ensuring safety of air quality monitoring equipment and related computers
- Experience monitoring indoor air pollutants (CO, CO2, PM2.5, black carbon) or similar environmental measurements
- Experience liaising with local government, extension services, or NGOs to coordinate field activities
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The Company
What We Do
CIFOR-ICRAF is a collaborative research organization and a global leader in using trees, forests, and agroforestry to tackle global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, and inequality, by enhancing landscape resilience.
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