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Key requirements: Fieldworkers

• Minimum of a relevant undergraduate qualification.
• Preferably a minimum of an Honours degree.
• At least three years’ experience in qualitative and quantitative fieldwork (undertaking surveys, focus groups and key informant interviews).
• Fluency in English, as well as one other national language.
• Flexibility and willingness to take on additional tasks as per project requirements.
• Experience with digital data collection methods.
• High personal motivation and self-management.
• Articulate and tactful communication skills.
• Prior fieldwork experience with HSRC is an added advantage.
• Only applications with a South African identity document/card can apply.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational, administrative and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Intellectual and personal integrity, a well-developed work ethic, and drive.
• In addition, at least 2 years of prior fieldwork supervision experience in managing fieldwork teams is an advantage.

​​​​​​​Duties & Responsibilities    

Key responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for supervising fieldwork team.
• Participate in and support training of fieldworkers.
• Assign work to fieldwork team members.
• Ensure full understanding of the HSRC and project processes.
• Ensure that data collectors secure informed consent from participants where applicable.
• Report on fieldwork progress directly to the Fieldwork Manager.
• Ensure quality work by following processes, procedures and steps outlined in the training material and as instructed.
• Management of fieldwork assets as provided by the HSRC.
• Ability to work in a multicultural and interdisciplinary team.
• High personal motivation, self-management, and attention to detail.
• Complete any other relevant tasks essential to the successful completion of the data collection as part of the project.
• Communicate on a continuous basis as necessary with the Fieldwork Manager on aspects of the project in need of clarification.
• Perform/execute any other tasks/responsibilities which are essential for the successful completion of the fieldwork.

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Minimum Requirements    

• The candidate are expected to have a Bachelor’s degree and extensive qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis experience. Experience working for the HSRC and on previous projects, will be advantageous in to addition:
• Bachelors’ Degree or equivalent degree in social sciences, humanities or a related field. A Master’s Degree is advantageous.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, w ith the ability to make sense of complex and diverse information and to identify patterns, trends, and insights
• Demonstrated experience in qualitative research methods
• Strong w riting skills, with the ability to produce high-quality reports, articles, and other outputs that are clear, concise, and engaging
• A passion for and commitment to advancing Women’s Empow erment and Gender Equality , and a w illingness to work on complex and challenging issues in a rigorous and thoughtful manner
• Strong values and research ethics.
• High personal motivation, self-management, and detail-orientation;
• Temperament to cope with a pressurised, deadline driven work environment.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• The scope of work and expectations of the Research Assistants will include the following, but is not limited to:
• Conduct Key Informant Interviews
• Coordinate Focus Group Discussions and Regional Workshops
• Update stakeholder databases- provincial, national, and state-owned enterprises.
• Complete provincial fieldwork and workshop reports.
• Complete transcriptions, data cleaning and consolidation
• Complete data analysis
• Contribute to the drafting of project reports
• Contribute to the policy draft & Implementation framew ork