Helen Keller Intl is an international Non-Profit Organization currently working in 14 countries in Africa, Kenya included. Helen Keller Intl was co-founded by Helen Keller. The organization is guided by her fierce optimism and belief in human potential. Since 1915, the organization has delivered life-changing programs that are proven and science-based targeting vulnerable families in places where the need is great, but access to care is limited. We understand the unique challenges and opportunities each county faces, and we tailor our programs to provide actionable recommendations for improved health outcomes.
Helen Keller through Transforming Lives with Nutrition Actions (TLNA)aims at understanding sociocultural and gender-related barriers and opportunities in accessing nutrition and health services to facilitate the co-design of community-based strategies that (a) enhance women’s and adolescent girls’ decision-making autonomy to access health and nutrition services, and (b) strengthen gender inclusive delivery of nutrition interventions and health systems to improve nutritional outcomes for women and children under five years. The study is funded by Global Affairs Canada and currently implemented in Cambodia, Kenya and Senegal.
As part of the program, Helen Keller is engaged in addressing the feasibility of a co-designed intervention aimed at strengthening health and nutrition counselling approaches and is seeking enumerators to conducted pre-test and post-test surveys with women clients to evaluate their experiences in and perception on using nutrition services In Kaloleni and Ganze sub-counties. Pre-test surveys will take place in late July 2026 with post-test surveys taking place in September 2026. This is a temporary position, and the enumerators will be engaged for three weeks during pre-survey and/or three weeks for post surveys.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Availability during a 3-day enumerator training
- Full availability during the 3-weeks scheduled for pre-test survey data collection and preferably 3-week post-test survey data collection
- Collect data assigned by the supervisor, consent-taking, and review of data collection forms daily to ensure quality checks through electronic data collection methods.
- Secure storage of all data according to outlined procedures
- Ensure all survey tools/materials are in place before start of the survey (Phones, consent forms, tags, etc.)
- Conduct the assigned interviews in an accurate and timely manner in the sampled clusters and report to the supervisor as expected
- Executed any other duties assigned by the supervisor
- Ensure compliance with ethical and safeguarding guidelines and confidentiality agreements
Requirements for Appointment
For appointments as an Enumerator, a candidate MUST:
- Have a minimum academic qualification of a Diploma in Gender and Development Studies, Community Development, Sociology, Public Health, Nutrition, Epidemiology, Statistics or related field. (Degree will be an added advantage)
- Be able to demonstrate previous experience in electronic data collection methodologies such as SurveyCTO
- Experience collection data at the health facility an added advantage
- Be currently a resident of Kilifi County
- Familiar with the local communities
- Be able to work in Kaloleni and Ganze Sub-Counties
- Be able to demonstrate previous experience with collecting quantitative data
- Be able to communicate in Kiswahili as well as the local dialect in their locality
- Ability and willingness to remain personally involved and committed in full
- Ability to work longer hours and sometimes over the weekends
- Be able to adhere to Helen Keller Safeguarding policies
Required Skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work with very minimal supervision
- Ability to effectively work as part of a team
- Strong organizational and time management skills
How to apply
All applicants must commit to a mandatory 3-day training. Interested applicants should submit a brief cover letter describing their experience with administering surveys and data collection and detailed resume as a single document to kenya.recruitment@hki.org . Please indicate the position on the subject line of the email. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The deadline for application is July 13, 2026
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