Module 8. Survey supervision and personnel
Survey oversight: Steering committee, technical expertise and subcommittees
Personnel needs, organizational structure and main responsibilities
Field team numbers, composition and roles
Survey field team recruitment
Introduction
A high-quality, timely micronutrient survey requires strong supervision and appropriately skilled personnel to plan, implement, analyse, report on and manage the entire process.
Large-scale population-based surveys are generally initiated by the primary users of the information that will be collected. This is frequently the ministry of health, the national nutrition division/department, some other government body, an academic institution, or a nongovernmental organization (NGO). The initiating organization takes primary responsibility for implementation and assigns a senior-level person to chair the Steering committee and provide overall policy guidance and leadership.
Operational management and responsibility for survey coordination, implementation, reporting, and quality assurance are usually assigned to an experienced, full-time survey coordinator. The coordinator works closely with the Management team, and reports to the Steering committee at its meetings and at additional times as needed.
Job description - anthropometrist
Document provides generic outline of the key responsibilities of the anthropometrist
DownloadJob description - lab technician
Document provides generic outline of the key responsibilities of the Laboratory Technician
DownloadJob description - phlebotomist/field nurse
Document provides generic outline of the key responsibilities of the phlebotomist/field nurse
DownloadJob description - supervisors
Document provides generic outline of the key responsibilities for team supervisors
DownloadJob description for Laboratory Coordinator
Document provides generic outline of the key responsibilities of the Laboratory Coordinator
DownloadJob description for data enterer
Document provides generic outline of the key responsibilities for a data enterer
DownloadJob description for data entry manager
Document provides generic outline of the key responsibilities for a data entry manager
DownloadJob description for driver
Document provides generic outline of the key responsibilities for a driver
DownloadJob description for interviewer
Document provides generic outline of the key responsabilities of the survey interviewer
DownloadJob description for survey coordinator
Document provides generic outline of the key responsibilities for a survey coordinator
DownloadTOR for survey contracting company
Terms of reference for a company that will be used to coordinate the survey
DownloadTerms of Reference for local focal points
Document provides generic outline of the key responsibilities for a local focal point
DownloadMalawi - TORs for survey teams
Document provides specific responsibilities of team members for the Malawi 2015 nutrition survey
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