📢 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – DISTRICT SURVEY CONSULTANT

Position: District Survey Consultant
Duration: 1 Month

Key Responsibilities

The District Survey Consultant will be responsible for:

• Preparing the district implementation plan, field schedule, and supporting the Inception Report and survey tools.
• Recruiting, training, and supervising the district field team for household and non-household surveys.
• Managing the seven-day waste collection, segregation, characterization, and weighing process in accordance with the UN-Habitat Waste Wise Cities Tool (WaCT) methodology.
• Ensuring accurate digital data collection through SurveyCTO, including GPS records and supporting documentation.
• Conducting and coordinating Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with municipal authorities and relevant stakeholders.
• Liaising with local government departments, municipal authorities, communities, and other stakeholders.
• Ensuring quality assurance through daily supervision, spot checks, back-checks, scale calibration, coded waste bags, and data verification.
• Preparing GIS data, maps, photographs, waste tracking sheets, attendance records, consent forms, and other Means of Verification (MoVs).
• Submitting daily and weekly progress reports and resolving field implementation issues.
• Preparing the district completion package, including cleaned datasets, KII records, GIS outputs, MoVs, and the District Final Survey Report.

Required Skills & Experience

• Relevant academic qualification in Environmental Sciences, Waste Management, Social Sciences, Statistics, GIS, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in field surveys, household/non-household surveys, waste characterization, or similar research assignments.
• Experience in managing and supervising field teams.
• Familiarity with SurveyCTO or other digital data collection platforms.
• Knowledge of GIS/GPS-based data collection will be an advantage.
• Strong coordination, reporting, communication, and data quality assurance skills.
• Experience working with municipal authorities and local stakeholders will be preferred.

📌 How to Apply:
Interested candidates are requested to submit their CV and relevant experience details through the designated application channel.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The consultancy will be subject to Organization policies and procedures regarding integrity, confidentiality, safeguarding, and professional conduct.