Position Overview

Job Location: Chikkaballapur/ Raichur

Duration: 1 Month (Can be extended to 2 months)

Language fluency: Kannada/ Telugu

About the Role: The Field Research Intern will support a short-term field study assessing the feasibility of initiating collective farming interventions in Chikkaballapur and Raichur districts. The study focuses on agrarian household conditions, landholding and land-use patterns, informal land access arrangements, and local institutional perspectives on group-based land use.

The intern’s primary responsibility will be administering a pre-designed questionnaire and interview guides, and systematically documenting responses. The role is focused on data collection and field documentation, not on tool design, analysis, or programme implementation.

Responsibilities

1. Household Survey Administration

   • Administer a structured household questionnaire to approximately 20–25 agrarian households across selected villages.
   • Ensure accurate and complete recording of responses as per survey instructions.
   • Follow sampling guidance provided by the project team.
     

2. Qualitative Interviews and Field Documentation

   • Administer pre-designed interview guides with:
   • Farmers and cultivators,
   • Members or leaders of SHGs and farmer groups (where applicable),
   • Local institutional representatives, including Panchayat members and other local actors (as feasible).
   • Adapt and refine interview questions in the field, where necessary, to improve clarity, relevance, or flow, while retaining the core intent of the research tools.
   • Maintain clear field notes and interview summaries.

3.  Institutional and Administrative Interactions

   • Support the project team in conducting interviews with local administrative actors (e.g., Panchayat representatives, revenue staff), using structured guides.

   • Document how group-based land use and collective cultivation are understood and discussed in practice.

4. Coordination and Reporting

   • Share regular updates with the project team on field progress, challenges, and observations.
   • Flag any recurring issues or suggested refinements to questionnaires or interview guides based on field experience.
   • Submit completed questionnaires, interview notes, and field documentation in the prescribed format.
     

5.  Extension to Second Month

   • Support preliminary review and sense-making of field data in coordination with the project team, including identification of gaps, inconsistencies, or areas requiring clarification.
   • Undertake targeted follow-up field interactions with a limited subset of households or institutional respondents to validate findings and clarify ambiguities emerging from the first month of data collection.
   • Assist the project team in consolidating field insights and refining the understanding of feasibility conditions for collective farming within the project geography.
     

Expected Outputs

1. Completed household questionnaires (20–25 households).
2. Completed interview notes based on provided guides.
3. Basic field documentation summarising observations and challenges encountered during data collection.
   

What We Offer

We review applications on a rolling basis. The position will remain open till a suitable candidate is found.

Our recruitment and employment policies are inclusive. We respect both the spirit and letter of the laws of equal employment opportunity.