SHORT-TERM DATA COLLECTOR AT CHEMONICS SOMA UMENYE LLC

Project Goals

Soma Umenye aims to achieve the following two goals:

• To improve reading outcomes in Kinyarwanda for at least 1 million children (unique direct beneficiaries) in public and government-aided schools in Rwanda by the end of P3; and
• To ensure that at least 70 percent of P1-P3 students are able to read grade-level text with fluency and comprehension.
• To achieve the above goals, it requires close collaboration with all education stakeholders under the technical leadership of MINEDUC, REB, and the National Examination and School Inspection Authority (NESA).

Purpose of Assignment

In collaboration with NESA and REB, USAID Soma Umenye will engage data collectors to support the administration of a survey and student assessment on early grade reading. USAID Soma Umenye is recruiting data collectors to attend a training and take a brief test following the training. Those data collectors that score sufficiently well on the test will be engaged to conduct the assessment.

USAID Soma Umenye requires data collection services in August 2021.

Prospective data collectors will:

• Attend every day of training organized for all prospective data collectors.
• Participate in training exercises, including completing data collection preceding activities.

  Once hired, data collectors will:

• As demonstrated in training, conduct the required number of daily student assessments, interviews, and questionnaires with the sampled target groups (head teachers, teachers, and students) using tablets and other electronic devices.