RTI International is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina that provides research and technical services.

Scope of Work

• The Research assistant(s) will work with the investigators undertaking the “Complicated plastics: addressing taboo waste streams to promote user dignity and sustainable waste management” study to digitize and transcribe all the data collected from quantitative and qualitative interviews.
• The study aims to analyze the nexus of complicated plastic products (e.g. disposable menstrual pads), and sustainable sanitation, including how taboo waste creates barriers for sustainable and dignified MHHM for women and girls, and what specific occupational health risks sanitation workers that manage such taboo waste are exposed to and experience. The study area will be Kisumu County, Kisumu Central Subcounty.

Responsibilities

The Research Assistant(s) should aim to achieve the following.

• Maintain quality standards to preserve the integrity of data and findings.
• Schedule and conduct interviews
• Select a place to conduct interviews and obtain consent from all participants.
• Transcribe all interview recordings in the prescribed format.
• Write summarized reports on additional observation and the implications of the results.
• Support in the analysis and collation of the qualitative data collected from the interviews.

Deliverables

• Audio recordings captured from the qualitative interviews conducted.
• Interview transcriptions in the prescribed formats
• Consent forms signed by all the respondents and participants lists.
• Quality photographs
• Summary report from the interviews conducted.

Estimated Level of Effort

• 5 days each for six Research Assistants hired to collect and consolidate quantitative data.
• 10 days each for two Research Assistants hired to conduct, translate, and transcribe qualitative data

Period of Performance
February 2024

Qualifications

• Proven work experience as a Research Assistant or similar role
• Experience of facilitating or translating Focus Group Discussions
• Experience of doing oral and written translations from Local languages to Swahili to English and vice versa
• Knowledge of research ethics.
• Master’s degree or ongoing in public health, social sciences like sociology, psychology, or any other relevant field.
• Excellently proven English writing skills.
• Excellent knowledge of word processing tools and spreadsheets (MS Office Word, Excel etc.).
• Great attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a collaborative and team
• Commitment to timely and punctual execution of tasks.