Duties and responsibilities
- The enumerators’ main responsibility is to tag trees using tablets. Specific activities will include:
- Attend enumerator training to gain a thorough and clear overview of the context, objectives, relevance, and tools to be used for the tagging exercise.
- Conduct tree tagging pretest and actual tagging on farmers’ fields.
- Participate in team review meetings at the beginning/end of each day’s assignment.
- Ensure the data collected from the farmer’s field adheres to and complies with the required instructions to ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, and quality.
- Ensure that all project farmers within your enumeration area have their trees fully tagged, without leaving any assigned farmer uncovered.
- Understand, take responsibility for your tasks, and remain committed throughout the tagging exercise’s period and process.
- Report and relay feedback as instructed and communicate any challenges to your supervisors.
Education, knowledge and experience
- Degree in forestry, natural resource management or related field.
- Knowledge of the names of diverse tree species native in Kitui and Baringo County
- Prior experience in conducting field tagging/surveys using Tablets and taking GPS coordinates/polygons.
- Good understanding of research ethics, confidentiality, and privacy.
- Good understanding of the local language is an added advantage.
- Available for the entire period (10th March – 1st April)
- Must have a KRA pin and National ID card.
- Must be keen, observant and pay attention to detail especially in recording the responses.
- High integrity and punctuality.
- Teamwork and collaborative skills
