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.
Required Qualifications

Candidates should meet the following minimum requirements:

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Social Sciences, Statistics, Development Studies, Public Health, Economics, Education, Protection, or a related field.
At least 4 years of progressively relevant experience in managing fieldwork for research, assessments, monitoring, evaluations, third-party monitoring, or accountability-related assignments, preferably in Gaza or similar humanitarian contexts.
Demonstrated experience in supervising mixed-methods data collection, including household surveys, KIIs, FGDs, and field verification activities.
Proven experience in recruiting, training, and managing field teams and maintaining strong data quality and ethical standards under operational constraints.
Strong experience with digital data collection platforms such as KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, or CommCare.
Strong understanding of research ethics, informed consent, safeguarding/PSEA, confidentiality, and do-no-harm approaches.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in Arabic; good working knowledge of English is strongly preferred.
Ability to work under pressure, manage competing priorities, and adapt field plans in a highly dynamic environment.
Preferred Experience

The following will be considered strong advantages:

Previous experience supporting humanitarian assessments, protection research, market assessments, post-distribution monitoring, TPM, baseline/endline studies, or donor-funded evaluations.
Experience coordinating fieldwork involving women, children, persons with disabilities, displaced populations, or other vulnerable groups.
Familiarity with sampling implementation, call-back systems, respondent tracking, field verification, and quality control dashboards.
Experience working with international NGOs, UN agencies, donors, or consultancy firms.
Strong understanding of Gaza’s operational environment, including access constraints, community sensitivities, and practical field risk mitigation.
Core Competencies

The successful candidate should demonstrate:

Strong field leadership and coordination skills
High attention to data quality and operational detail
Sound judgment in security-sensitive and ethically complex settings
Excellent organization, communication, and problem-solving ability
Strong commitment to professional integrity, confidentiality, and accountability
Ability to balance technical rigor with practical field realities

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