Enumerators - Short Term Data Collection Assignment
Who We Are
🌍 Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined.
At Educate!, we're obsessed with impact. We leverage iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent. Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn and thrive in today’s economy by:
Introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary and
Delivering livelihood boot camps for out-of-school youth, with a focus on marginalized rural girls and young women.
To date, more than 600,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania, and along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa.
Educate! is a team of over 300 largely African staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. We prioritize building an engaging, fulfilling and growth oriented work environment. 50% of our top 30 leaders have been with us for over 5 years, 10+ alumni have started their own organizations, and 6 current or former team members were Acumen Fund East Africa fellows.
We have been backed by top foundations such as Imaginable Futures, Livelihood Impact Fund, Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall, CIFF, and Echidna Giving. Educate! won a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and a 2015 WISE Award, and has been highlighted by the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, BBC, The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies on scaling education, and the Gates Foundation as a Goalkeepers Accelerator. In 2022, we received a catalytic investment from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott to scale our systems change work.
Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.
Good to note: To Our Awesome Applicants! 🚀💫
We know that incredible candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply! We’re looking for passionate individuals who believe in our mission and can bring unique perspectives to our team—not just those who check every box. We value diversity and strongly encourage women and individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
Position Overview
We are on the lookout for 120 passionate and driven individuals to join our pool of Enumerators for a paid data collection assignment in Tanzania!
This is more than just a short-term engagement — it's your chance to be part of a meaningful, long-term initiative that will impact thousands of students and teachers across the country. If selected, you'll receive in-depth training and, based on your performance, will be assigned to exciting fieldwork opportunities at schools and training sites.
We’re seeking individuals with a proven eye for detail and experience in administering quantitative and/or qualitative surveys using mobile-based tools like SurveyCTO, ODK or Kobo Toolbox. Your role? Collect vital data from business studies teachers and students to help shape a better education system.
️The first round of surveys kicks off in August 2026 with follow-up opportunities running until 2030!
Ready to be part of something bigger? Apply now and be a force for education and impact.🎯
What You’ll Do 🌟
The enumerators will support school-based quantitative and/or qualitative data collection in selected schools within the assigned districts. Data will be collected from Students, Business Studies Teachers, and Academic Masters. The students’ questionnaires will be administered using paper-based tools and later entered into SurveyCTO at a central data entry location, while data from Business Studies teachers and Academic Masters will be collected directly using SurveyCTO. Enumerators will be assigned to quantitative or qualitative data collection depending on the needs of the study.
Key duties and responsibilities will include:
Participate in all training sessions, practical exercises, and tool piloting activities to understand the study objectives, data collection tools, consent procedures, safeguarding requirements, and fieldwork protocols.
Work with supervisors and school authorities to plan and conduct data collection activities in selected schools while minimizing disruption to normal school routines.
Identify and engage selected students, Business Studies teachers, Academic Masters, and other respondents according to the approved sampling criteria and field instructions.
Obtain informed consent from adult respondents and follow approved consent and assent procedures when engaging students.
Maintain privacy, confidentiality, neutrality, professionalism, and respect throughout the data collection process.
Administer paper-based questionnaires to selected students and ensure that responses are complete, clear, and accurately recorded.
Conduct direct electronic data collection with Business Studies teachers and Academic Masters using SurveyCTO or any other approved mobile data collection platform.
Conduct or support qualitative interviews, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions using approved guides and appropriate probing techniques, where assigned.
Support centralized data entry of completed student paper-based questionnaires into SurveyCTO, ensuring that entries accurately match the original forms.
Verify entered student data against the original paper questionnaires to minimize errors and ensure completeness, consistency, and accuracy.
Review completed questionnaires, digital submissions, notes, and recordings daily to ensure data quality before submission.
Take clear notes during qualitative interviews or discussions and ensure recordings, where applicable, are properly labeled, stored, and submitted according to the study protocol.
Upload or submit completed digital forms, entered data, paper questionnaires, field notes, recordings, and daily progress updates within agreed timelines.
Report refusals, incomplete interviews, safeguarding concerns, technical problems, data quality issues, or other field challenges to supervisors promptly.
Participate in daily briefings and debriefings, share field experiences, and provide feedback to improve tools, procedures, and overall data quality.
Safeguard all study materials and equipment, including paper questionnaires, consent forms, tablets, phones, audio recorders, notebooks, and any other materials provided for the assignment.
Demonstrate punctuality, integrity, teamwork, flexibility, and confidentiality throughout the assignment.
Perform any other related duties assigned by the supervisor to support the successful completion of the fieldwork.
Who You Are 🦸♀️🦸♂️
You're not just looking for a job — you’re looking to make a difference. You’re curious, detail-oriented, and passionate about gathering insights that fuel meaningful change. Here's what we’re looking for in our ideal candidate:
Hold a Diploma or Degree in Social Sciences, Economics, Statistics, Business Studies, Education, or a related field. Candidates without these academic qualifications may be considered if they have at least 2 years of proven data collection experience.
Have at least 1 year of hands-on experience in data collection, including in-person surveys, phone surveys, key informant interviews, and/or focus group discussions.
Have experience in quantitative and/or qualitative data collection. Experience in both methods will be an added advantage.
Be available for in-person training and fieldwork during the scheduled data collection period and willing to visit selected schools for in-person baseline surveys.
Be comfortable collecting data from school-level respondents, including students, Business Studies teachers, Academic Masters, and other relevant school staff.
Be able to administer paper-based questionnaires to students and support accurate centralized data entry into SurveyCTO.
Be comfortable using digital data collection platforms such as SurveyCTO; experience with ODK or Kobo Collect will also be considered.
Demonstrate strong interviewing skills, including the ability to build rapport, ask questions clearly, probe appropriately, and record responses accurately.
Be able to follow research ethics, consent and assent procedures, safeguarding requirements, and confidentiality protocols, especially when engaging students.
Be self-motivated, reliable, and able to work independently with minimal supervision while also contributing effectively as part of a team.
Be tech-savvy and able to use smartphones, tablets, and other digital tools for data collection and communication.
Have experience transcribing qualitative interviews and translating content from Kiswahili to English, where applicable.
Be fluent in both English and Kiswahili, written and spoken.
Have access to a smartphone and be willing to use it for communication and assigned data collection-related tasks.
Reside in one of the following regions and be willing to work in any assigned district within the region: Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Manyara, Geita, Simiyu, Tabora, and Kagera.
Please Note: This is a short-term, field-based role where enumerators will report directly to their assigned line supervisors and work from their districts of residence.
Successful candidates will be offered contracts lasting between 1 to 2 weeks, depending on the needs of the project.
Future opportunities for participation in subsequent surveys will be based on an individual’s performance during previous engagements with Educate! and availability for the full duration of the fieldwork.
Shortlisting will be on a rolling basis.
Application Deadline - June 30, 2026.