Field M&E and Research Manager Gaza

STOOS CONSULTING

STOOS Consulting is an international research and evaluation firm operating across Africa, MENA, Europe, Latin America, and Asia . STOOS delivers high-quality consulting services across livelihoods, health, education, protection, climate resilience, governance, and humanitarian response , grounded in evidence-based, participatory, and ethically sound research and evaluation practices.

Position Title
Field M&E and Research Manager (Gaza-based)

Duty Station
Gaza , with travel across target locations as security, access, and operational conditions permit.

Reporting Line
The Field M&E and Research Manager will report to the STOOS central technical team / Project Manager and work closely with assigned Team Leaders, researchers, enumerators, supervisors, and partner focal points .

Position Purpose
The Field M&E and Research Manager will lead the planning, coordination, and oversight of field monitoring, evaluation, and research activities in Gaza . The role is responsible for ensuring that field operations are well-organized, ethically conducted, context-sensitive, and methodologically sound , and that all primary data collection is delivered to a high standard of quality, safety, accuracy, and timeliness . The post requires strong capacity in field management, access coordination, enumerator supervision, digital data collection, stakeholder engagement, and research quality assurance in high-pressure humanitarian settings.

Key Responsibilities
The Field M&E and Research Manager will be responsible for the following:

• Field planning and implementation: Lead the day-to-day planning, coordination, and implementation of fieldwork for assessments, evaluations, monitoring assignments, surveys, KIIs, FGDs, observations, verification visits, and other research activities across Gaza.
• Operational coordination: Develop and manage detailed field plans, movement schedules, team deployment plans, daily trackers, and contingency arrangements to ensure efficient delivery of field activities.
• Access and community entry: Coordinate safe and appropriate access with local stakeholders, community representatives, institutions, and relevant gatekeepers, ensuring respectful engagement and timely field entry.
• Team recruitment and supervision: Support the recruitment, onboarding, deployment, and supervision of enumerators, facilitators, supervisors, note-takers, translators, and field support staff , ensuring the team is context-appropriate and gender-sensitive.
• Training and capacity building: Organize and deliver, or co-facilitate, training on study objectives, tools, interview techniques, informed consent, safeguarding, confidentiality, do-no-harm, data protection, and field protocols , including practical exercises and piloting.
• Tool piloting and refinement: Coordinate piloting of quantitative and qualitative tools, document field feedback, and support the refinement of questionnaires, discussion guides, sampling procedures, translations, and SOPs.
• Data collection oversight and quality assurance: Oversee all field data collection processes to ensure compliance with methodology and ethical standards, including daily data checks, completeness reviews, logic checks, spot checks, accompaniment visits, and corrective action follow-up .
• Digital data management: Support the use of KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, or similar digital platforms , ensuring devices are ready, forms are correctly deployed, and data uploads are monitored on a daily basis.
• Qualitative field management: Ensure high-quality facilitation and documentation of KIIs, FGDs, case studies, and observation exercises , including note review, debriefing, and tracking of emerging themes and information gaps.
• Security and duty of care: Monitor operational and security conditions relevant to fieldwork, maintain regular communication with field teams, support safe movement planning, document incidents, and promptly escalate access or security risks that may affect data collection.
• Adaptation of field modalities: Recommend and operationalize adjustments to data collection modalities where needed, including remote interviews, phone-based follow-up, revised movement plans, or phased deployment , in response to access, security, or community protection considerations.
• Stakeholder communication: Serve as STOOS s primary field focal point in Gaza for day-to-day coordination with project counterparts, local partners, data collectors, and relevant community or institutional contacts.
• Field reporting: Provide regular operational and technical updates to the STOOS team, including progress against targets, response rates, field observations, constraints encountered, mitigation actions, and quality assurance findings.
• Contribution to analysis and reporting: Support data cleaning, field synthesis, contextual interpretation, triangulation, and the preparation of field summaries, annexes, and operational notes that feed into analysis and final reporting.