FIELD ENUMERATORS NEEDED - SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA

Are you smart, curious, digitally confident and connected to your local community?

We are recruiting one field enumerator in each of five locations in Southwestern Nigeria for an ongoing research project documenting agricultural knowledge, skills, stories and practices within local agrifood communities

Study locations:

  1. Ondo Town, Ondo State
  2. Iwo Town, Osun State
  3. Oyo Town, Oyo State
  4. Epe, Lagos State
  5. Ilugun, Odeda LGA, Ogun State

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for people who:

  • Live in, come from, or have strong familiarity with the study location
  •  Communicate in English and Yoruba (importantly, local dialect of the selected location) confidently
  • Are comfortable interacting with farmers, processors, traders and other community members
  • Have excellent listening and observation skills
  • Can conduct respectful interviews and ask useful follow-up questions
  • Are comfortable using an Android smartphone and digital data-collection tools
  • Can take clear photographs and audio recordings when authorized
  • Are reliable, organised and attentive to detail
  • Respect confidentiality, informed consent and local knowledge
  • Are willing to work in farms, processing locations, markets and other rural community settings

Experience that will be an advantage

Experience in combinations of the following will be useful: Agriculture/Agricultural Extension/ History/Indigenous Knowledge Studies/Demography/Qualitative data collection/ Digital Data Collection/ Ethics in research/ Community Development/NGO Fieldwork/ Rural Development/Agrifood value chain especially Cassava Production, Processing and marketing

What matters most is your ability to listen, observe, communicate in local dialect, document accurately and work respectfully with people

 What will you do?

Selected enumerators will receive training before deployment and will support the research team to:

  • conduct interviews;
  • document agricultural practices and local knowledge;
  • observe farming and processing activities;
  • record narratives and local terminology;
  • document knowledge-transfer and apprenticeship practices;
  • identify participants with particularly rich or specialised knowledge for possible follow-up interviews;
  • collect and submit research data using digital platforms.

The research team will coordinate the fieldwork remotely, with periodic researcher visits and follow up Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) conducted with selected participants.

Please note: We are recruiting only one strong enumerator per study location. This is therefore not simply a "form-filling" role. We are looking for people who can become a trusted local research link between the community and the research team.

If you are interested and meet the requirements, please send to fooddelivered.agrifood@gmail.com, your 2-page CV and other relevant information like:

  • Location you are applying for (Please, indicate only one preferred study location with reason)
  • Phone number
  • Relevant field/research/community experience (if not on your CV)
  • A brief explanation of why you would be suitable for this role (A paragraph of 5 sentences)

Application deadline: 11th of September, 2026

Interview Day: 15th of September, 2026 Virtually.

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