POSITION SUMMARY
Under the direction of the Country Director, the Survey Coordinator will be responsible for overseeing a mixed-methods assessment to understand the effect of COVID-19 on routine childhood immunization uptake in Uganda. They will conduct all steps of survey screening, enrollment, and data collection in accordance with survey procedures. Responsibilities include: Supervising staff (qualitative and quantitative survey field teams); ensuring all IRB approvals are in place; coordinating activities to ensure project deliverables are met on time; and providing routine progress updates to ICAP staff in New York, CDC Uganda and Atlanta, MOH and other key stakeholders.

Responsibilities
• Provide leadership and support to finalize assessment protocol and related survey tools
• Coordinate submission of protocol to local IRB for ethical review
• Lead development of assessment Standard Operating Procedures for field teams and survey staff
• Support training and capacity building of qualitative and quantitative survey field teams
• Manage and provide oversight to qualitative and quantitative survey field teams
• Coordinate routine communication with ICAP staff in New York, CDC and MOH to provide progress updates, identify challenges and address barriers to survey implementation as they arise
• Develop routine progress reports summarizing activities implemented to date
• Ensure compliance with survey protocols and SOPs and identify issues arising during data collection
• Investigate data discrepancies and data quality issues with survey staff, as needed

Required Qualifications
• Bachelors’ degree in health sciences such as Medicine, Nursing or Lab science
• Master’s in public health, epidemiology, pediatrics, statistics or related field
• Minimum four (4) years’ experience in qualitative and quantitative survey data collection involving human subjects
• Demonstrated experience organizing, leading and participating in field-level data collection as part of a survey, assessment or program monitoring
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated experience leading and working with a team
• Experience working with diverse, medically underserved populations
• Strong understanding of the Ugandan health context and National immunization program strongly preferred
• Written and oral fluency in English