Moving ICT into the Development Paradigm

Working at mPower

If you are Creative| Curious| Self-Starter| Collaborative| Eager to Tackle Global Complex Social Issues
If you are a Data Geek| Dreamer| Data Visualizer| Code Ninja| Tech Guru| Partnership Builder| Big Picture Thinker
Come join our interdisciplinary team of designers, strategists, researchers, technologists, and makers!

Full-time Opportunities

We design, develop, customize and implement solutions, manage transitions and research on impact through agile, smart and Human Centered Design.

Currently we have Full Time Opportunities available for the roles of Data Enumerator. If you think you are a match for any of the roles please have a look at the job circular below and apply according to the instructions provided.

mPower

mPower is a pioneer and global leader in “Development Intelligence”, business intelligence for the social development in government and non-government sectors. If you are passionate about changing the world and improving the lives of millions of poor and disadvantaged people of the world combining both creativity & cutting-edge technology, apply for our Data Enumerator vacancy.

Data Enumerator

No. of Vacancies - 01
Job Nature: Contractual
Salary Range: 2500 BDT per day
Duty Station: Brahmanbaria District.


Job Description:
The Data Enumerator plays a crucial role in collecting and recording accurate and reliable data as part of a research or data collection project. Enumerators are responsible for conducting interviews, surveys, and data collection activities following established protocols and guidelines. They should maintain high standards of data quality, ensure ethical standards are met, and work collaboratively with the research team. They should maintain the confidentiality of all data collected during the course of their employment and will not disclose any sensitive information to third parties.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Conduct face-to-face interviews, surveys, or data collection activities as per the project's requirements following the provided questionnaires and interview guides.
  • Record responses accurately and legibly.
  • Obtain informed consent and explain the purpose of the study and approach participants or respondents respectfully and professionally.
  • Address any questions or concerns raised by participants.
  • Cross-check data entries for errors and inconsistencies and ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of collected data.
  • Safeguard participant confidentiality and privacy and uphold the highest ethical standards in data collection.
  • Report daily progress, challenges, and any issues encountered in the field and maintain effective communication with the supervisor and the research team.
  • Strictly adhere to data collection protocols and guidelines provided by the research team and seek clarification or guidance from the supervisor when necessary.
  • Ensure the secure storage and transfer of collected data and follow data security procedures outlined by the research project.
  • Care for and maintain data collection equipment, such as tablets, smartphones, or paper forms.
  • Collaborate effectively with other team members, including other enumerators, supervisors, and data analysts.
  • Be adaptable to changing field conditions and schedules and demonstrate flexibility in response to unforeseen challenges.

Educational Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree Social Sciences, anthropology Development Studies, Statistics, or related subject.

Experience Requirements:

  • Minimum 3 years of work experience.

Required Skills:

  • Have experience on data collection in Tablet.
  • Passionate self-learner & love taking on new challenges
  • Able to solve problems & digs for creative solutions
  • Able to effectively communicate in English and Bangla

Benefits:

  • Daily Wage Basis: You will be compensated at a rate of 2500 BDT per day for the number of days you work.
  • Working Days: You are expected to work from Saturday to Thursday. However, you will receive 2500 BDT for each of these working days when you actively participate in data collection.
  • Friday Off:Friday is designated as your day off. On this day, you will not be required to work. However, you will still receive a compensation of 2500 BDT, even if you do not work on Fridays.
  • No Payment for Non-Working Days: It is important to note that you will only receive 2500 BDT if you actively participate in data enumeration on the working days. If you do not work on the designated working days, you will not receive this compensation.
  • Travel Allowance and Dearness Allowance: Please be aware that during the training period, we will not be providing Travel Allowance and Dearness Allowance.
  • Training: During training you will receive conveyance bills at-actual to cover your daily travel costs. Refreshments will be provided as part of the training.

 

Application Instructions - To us your CV will represent yourself even before we meet. Take your time and prepare your CV by highlighting your qualities and achievements which best suits this circular and e-mail to career@mpower-social.com with the subject “Application for Data Enumerator ” by the 30th of October, 2023.

*Candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. We will be conducting several interview sessions before the application deadline and as soon as we find a suitable candidate, we will select that candidate and move on ahead with that individual. mPower aims to attract and select a diverse workforce ensuring equal opportunity to everyone. Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply.


mFellowship

At mPower, we constantly look for fresh talent to fundamentally challenge our worldviews and infuse our organization with fresh perspectives and knowledge. For this reason, we offer a broad-based and highly flexible fellowship that lets you choose from various options, including the length, depth and job role of your fellowship. We tailor the experience to suit your unique skills, experience, knowledge and interests. A good fit motivates our fellows to do their best, and in turn brings out the best in us.

The mPower Fellowship has three length options:

  • 3 Month Fellowship (e.g. A Summer Engagement/Internship)
  • 6 Month Fellowship (e.g. A Sabbatical or Exploratory Engagement)
  • 1 Year Fellowship (e.g. A Break Year before or after Graduate School)

At the end of the fellowship, you may apply for full time positions (such as our talent fast track – the mPower Young Professionals Program), and will have an advantage over other applicants. We believe in meritocracy, and successful fellows in the past have even become shareholder partners of the company. Learn more about the mFellowship Programme and your different options here. *download brochures option will be added here)

XFellowship

If you are a maverick who does not want to be boxed in a role or constrained from exploring uncharted territory, this option is for you. We will even incubate exceptional X-Fellows to create new ventures at the edges of our core operations, as resident intrapreneurs. We would rather disrupt ourselves than be disrupted by others! This is a full-time position, but location can be quite flexible

  • if you own a garage in Silicon Valley, you might have an unfair advantage!

Program Design Fellowship

If you are passionate about excellence in program design, and have a creative bone, this is for you. We will train you in ‘Human Centered Design’, which we extensively use to design and iterate on our solutions, and leverage our partnership with IDEO.org for the fellowship. You will travel extensively to our rural project sites, interact with beneficiaries, explore the challenges and opportunities, and design new ICT-based solutions and services. You must have appetite for lots of late night brainstorms and insightful ‘deep dives’ in remote parts of Bangladesh. This is a full-time position, and requires you to be on-site in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with extensive travel throughout Bangladesh (or other countries for international projects).

Communications & Media Fellowship

If you are a photographer, blogger, writer, videographer, animator or journalist interested in learning and spreading the word about cutting-edge applications of ICT in the development sector, this fellowship is for you. We will give you full freedom to explore and understand our various projects, including field immersions, and to decide which stories you would like to share with the world. You will write for our own blog or newsletters, publish stories in renowned blogs or magazines, create short videos or photo stories (sample video | sample photo-story), or if you are ambitious, even help us shape our brand positioning or social media strategy. This can be a full-time or a part-time position, but you should plan to spend significant time on-the-ground in Bangladesh for maximum impact.

Research Fellowship

As a social enterprise, we are all about the impact of our work. If you are too, and have a curious academic within you, you might enjoy this role. You will work with our Research team to explore the impact of our projects – designing evaluations, validating hypotheses, collecting data and stories, and writing anything between impact briefs and teaching cases to academic papers for journals for publication. You could also choose general interest topics that you want to explore – given the wide diversity of our projects, there is no dearth of interesting topics to explore and write about. This may be a part time or full time position (20 to 60 hours a week – pick your style!), and we will be flexible about your physical location.

Technology Fellowship

If you are a coding buff, and love the divine feeling of creating software that improves people’s lives profoundly, this is for you. mPower works on a wide range of solutions for the base of the pyramid ensuring immunization for rural children, assessing risk of pregnant women, helping farmers improve crop harvests, and alleviating extreme poverty. We can promise you plenty of worthy causes to code for, but no promises on work hours! This could be part-time or full-time, and you could work on this from your private dungeon or the International Space Station. However, if you would like to also see first-hand the impact of your code, you might want to plan for a visit.

Data Science Fellowship

If data whispers secrets to you while everybody else blankly stares at it, we need you in this position. We have vast troves of unparalleled data (example here) about people at the base of the pyramid, and are keen to model these data for new insights and predictions, but often don’t have the necessary resources or skills. We will open up our treasures to you – just tell us those whispered secrets! Work station and hours are flexible. In fact, you could do it while maintaining your day job at Google!

We expect fellows with:

  • Some work or voluntary experience that demonstrates commitment to international development.
  • A Bachelors or Masters degree. Current students are also welcome to apply.
  • Ability to work and collaborate in English.
  • Pro-activeness and discipline – i.e. the ability to produce outputs independently in a highly fluid environment without being micro-managed.
  • Creativity to offer new and out-of-the-box solutions to problems
  • Comfort with ambiguity

At the end of the fellowship, you may apply for full time positions (such as our talent fast track – the mPower Young Professionals Program), and will have an advantage over other applicants. We believe in meritocracy, and successful fellows in the past have even become shareholder partners of the company. Learn more about the mFellowship Programme and your different options here. *download brochures option will be added here)

Life at mPower