**STOOS Consulting** is an international research and evaluation firm operating across Africa, MENA, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. We deliver high-quality consulting services across **livelihoods, health, education, protection, climate resilience, governance, and humanitarian response**, grounded in **evidence-based, participatory, and ethically sound** research practices. STOOS supports NGOs, UN agencies, and donors with **research, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), capacity building, and technical advisory services**—including in diverse and vulnerable settings across **Cambodia**.
Position
**Field Manager (Cambodia-based)**

**Key Responsibilities**

- **Fieldwork planning & delivery:** Lead the planning, coordination, and implementation of fieldwork activities across selected locations in Cambodia, ensuring compliance with **national regulations**, research ethics, safeguarding/PSEA requirements, and community protocols.
- **Recruitment & team management:** Support the recruitment of the **field team** (enumerators, supervisors, translators where needed), including screening, contracting support, onboarding, and ensuring a **gender-balanced** and context-appropriate team composition.
- **Training & capacity building:** Organize and deliver (or co-facilitate) **training for enumerators and supervisors** on the study objectives, tools, interviewing techniques, informed consent, safeguarding/PSEA, do-no-harm, confidentiality, and data protection—plus practical role plays and field piloting.
- **Tools piloting & refinement:** Coordinate **pilot testing** of tools, document feedback from the field team, and support refinements to questionnaires, KIIs/FGDs guides, sampling procedures, and field protocols to improve clarity and cultural appropriateness.
- **Translation & language quality control:** Coordinate translation of tools and supporting materials (e.g., consent scripts) into **Khmer** (and other relevant languages where needed), ensure back-checking/validation of translated versions, and support **translation of qualitative notes/transcripts** and key data summaries as required.
- **Data collection oversight & quality assurance:** Supervise field teams to ensure **high-quality, ethical, and timely** data collection; implement daily quality checks (completeness, logic checks, skip patterns, GPS/time stamps if applicable), conduct spot checks and accompaniment visits, and enforce corrective actions when issues are detected.
- **Security management & duty of care:** Monitor context dynamics and manage field safety, including daily **security updates**, movement planning, safe travel arrangements, incident reporting, and adherence to security and contingency protocols. Escalate risks promptly and recommend adjustments to routes, timing, or modalities (e.g., remote KIIs) when needed.
- **Stakeholder coordination & community entry:** Coordinate community entry and participant mobilization with local authorities, community leaders, CSOs/CBOs, and relevant stakeholders, ensuring **appropriate permissions**, safe access, and respectful engagement.
- **Logistics & field operations:** Manage field logistics and administration (transport, per diem, accommodation if applicable, scheduling, supplies, devices/tablets, connectivity solutions), ensuring efficient deployment across locations and timely troubleshooting.
- **Reporting & communication:** Provide regular field progress updates to the STOOS central team, including daily/weekly trackers, participation rates, challenges, and mitigation actions; contribute contextual insights to support data interpretation, triangulation, and reporting.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in **Social Sciences, Development Studies, Public Health, Environmental Studies**, or a related field.
- Minimum **3 years** of experience managing fieldwork for research, assessments, or M&E assignments, preferably in **Cambodia** and/or similar contexts.
- Proven experience in **recruiting, training, and supervising** field teams and applying ethical, community-centered research approaches.
- **Fluency in Khmer** is required; strong working knowledge of **English** is an asset.
- Experience using digital data collection tools (e.g., **KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO**).
- Strong organizational skills and ability to adapt to operational constraints across diverse Cambodian settings.