Research Assistants Needed
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Food Security Research Assistants
We are looking for volunteers to assist our organization to collect data by distributing self-administered surveys to our food bank clients. These surveys will be administered between June 1 and July 7. Volunteers will be working with our Evaluation Coordinator.
Duties:
- Recruit food bank clients for a customer satisfaction survey at 15 neighbourhood food banks across North York
- Assist with data collection by distributing self-administered surveys to food bank clients during
Food bank opening hours (vary by location)
- Assist clients with survey completion where necessary
- Ensure the completeness of the survey where possible
- Ensure client confidentiality at all times
- Assist with data coding, data entry, and data verification using Excel
Qualifications
- Have experience in survey research or have strong interest in learning about survey research
- Have an understanding of food security or have strong interest in learning about food security
- Have the ability to travel to and from Food Banks that are part of North York Harvest’s Agency
Network
- Understand the importance of client confidentiality and data integrity
- Understand anti-oppression and anti-oppression practices
- Possess good interpersonal skills
- Possess data entry skills (accuracy and speed) would be an asset
- Have the ability to speak other languages besides English (e.g. Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) would be an asset
For more information please contact:
Irene Cheung, Evaluation Coordinator at irene@northyorkharvest.com
116 Industry St. Toronto ON M6M 4L8, Telephone: 416-635-7771 Fax: 416-635-5599