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Strengthening of Kinshasa and Lubumbashi Working team

Pompon MULUMBA has been recruited as Data Processing Consultant and shall support the Data Processing Specialist (Blaise PEZO) for the supervision and monitoring of keyboarding of questionnaires; cleaning up of database as well as data processing for quantitative researches. Pompon has a Master Degree in Economics of Human Resources from University Cheik AntaDiop of Dakar (2010) and has been working since 2006 in market research and consulting fields in DR Congo successively with MRA, BEM and JNC Consulting. TARGET is now making the recruitment of new surveyors and supervisors for quantitative researches in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. At the beginning of this new year, it is advisable to bring a fresh breath into field teams considering the challenge of this 2012.
For Kinshasa, most of new TARGET surveyors will come from UCC (Catholic University of Congo) following the public invitation of the Managing Director (Serge MUMBU) on 15 December 2011 during the Conference-Debate on market research and product communication. It was followed with numbers of applications from students of Social Communication Faculty willing to match theory with practice. Tests and interviews are to be carried out from 25 to 27 January 2012 at the Registered Office of Kinshasa located at Immeuble Maki (ex Massamba) in the municipality of Gombe.
And for Lubumbashi, applicants willing to integrate TARGET surveyors’ team will have to send their CV and a motivation letter to the Project Manager Hortense MBUMBA (hmbumba@target-sprl.cd) together with service certificate for applicants having already worked in other research agencies, by 29 February 2012. Barring accidents, tests and interviews will be carried out during the week of 5 to 10 March 2012 by a delegation of TARGET coming from Kinshasa.
This is the job-profile expected from a TARGET surveyor:

I. Competences Expected from a Surveyor :

Having a good knowledge, better understanding and a control of issues relating to survey techniques;
Having a high sense of organization and planning of performance;
Being committed and efficient in the execution of duties;
Working with a sense of responsibility (even if the line manager is absent);
Assuring good human and interpersonal relationship.

II. Qualifications:

Having a degree or at least having a under-graduate degree in social science or an equivalent fields;
Having a good control/knowledge of Kinshasa / Lubumbashi, partially of totally;
Having a good control of French (written and spoken), of English and local languages (Kikongo and Swahili) may be an asset that can make all the difference;
Having a control of computing science (software such as Work, Excel, and Power-Point…);
Having a sense of personal organization and special attention regarding details;
Being motivated, both warm-hearted and enthusiastic as well as having a good judgment in order to help us build our intern capacities.

Given that field work requires a direct contact between the surveyor and surveyed person, we would like to insist on the surveyor good looking and well-dressing aspects which are decisive factors regarding the image of the surveyor and the agency. It is also important to note the ease of establishing a human contact which is a very important quality; we would like finally to put forward the fact that a surveyor is to have a clear and flowing diction.

Friday, November 9, 2012 - 13:04