**Type:** Consultancy (daily-rate based)
**Application Deadline:** Rolling basis

## About Ektimisi

Ektimisi is a research and development consulting firm supporting humanitarian, development, and governance programming across the MENA, Eastern Europe regions and expanding to Africa. Ektimisi delivers third-party monitoring (TPM), research, evaluations, and capacity building in complex and fragile environments.

## Position Summary

Ektimisi is seeking **Country Team Leads** based in **Libya, Somalia, Kenya, and OPT (Gaza)** who possess:

- **Valid legal registration** allowing them to operate and collect data in-country
- **An established local field team** capable of conducting data collection activities

The Country Team Lead will coordinate field enumerators, manage data-collection operations, ensure quality assurance, and serve as the primary operational focal point for assignments implemented in their country of registration.

**Applicants who do not hold legal registration or cannot legally conduct data collection in the target country will not be considered.**

## Key Responsibilities

- Recruit, train, and supervise field enumerators.
- Maintain an active roster of trained enumerators for rapid deployment.
- Coordinate and oversee all in-country data-collection activities.
- Ensure compliance with national legal requirements for research and data collection.
- Plan field logistics, transportation, permissions, and access arrangements.
- Ensure adherence to ethical standards, informed consent, and data-protection protocols.
- Monitor daily data-collection quality, completeness, and timeliness.
- Review datasets and provide technical feedback to enumerators.
- Produce concise field updates and incident reports.
- Serve as the primary coordination focal point between Ektimisi and in-country teams.
- Participate in technical and operational coordination meetings.
- Support contextual analysis and contribute to reporting when required.

## Mandatory Eligibility Criteria

Applicants **must** demonstrate:

- **Legal registration** (organization or company) permitting research and data-collection activities in **Libya, Somalia, Kenya, or Gaza**.
- **Operational field team** with proven capacity to conduct surveys, KIIs, FGDs, or similar data-collection methodologies.
- **Minimum 4 years** of field coordination or research implementation experience in humanitarian or development contexts.
- Proven experience managing enumerators and supervising field data collection.
- Fluency in **relevant local language(s)** and **working English**.
- Strong experience with **digital data-collection platforms** (e.g., KoboToolbox) and **Excel-based data review**.
- Demonstrated engagement with **local authorities, communities, and stakeholders**.
- University degree in social sciences, development, or related discipline (preferred).

**Applications that do not meet the legal registration and in-country operational capacity requirements will not be reviewed.**

## Remuneration

This is a consultancy role with a **daily rate determined by experience and assignment scope**.
Approved fieldwork and operational costs will be covered in line with Ektimisi procedures.