Field Team Leader

Research Analytics International seeks Field Team Leaders for various regions in Sudan to oversee research projects and manage local enumerators.

• Rapid Recruitment Acceleration: Leverage extensive displaced academic and professional networks in River Nile State to screen and select highly qualified female enumerators within a compressed 1–2-week timeframe.
• Standardized Digital Onboarding: Conduct formal, 4-day classroom-style technical training on KoboToolbox data entry, skip-logic, and rigorous data protection protocols.
• High-Volume Quality Assurance: Manage a fast-paced, standard field deployment. Oversee daily digital submissions to ensure maximum data quality, validation checking, and immediate cloud sync.
• Administrative Compliance: Execute formal contracting and process direct mobile bank app payments (*Bankak* / *Fauwri*) immediately upon automated milestone completion.
• Under-the-Radar Screening: Coordinate quietly through local Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) and mutual aid networks to identify and screen female enumerators who are *strictly native* to the exact targeted neighborhoods.
• Decentralized Training Batches: Structure and execute small, localized neighborhood training hubs to eliminate large group footprints that might draw suspicion from armed factions.
• Digital & Checkpoint Security Enforcement: Train and strictly enforce absolute phone hygiene protocols (zero local data remnants, automated delete-on-upload Kobo loops) and navigate active checkpoint interactions securely.
• Micro-Transit Management: Coordinate zero-travel deployments, ensuring female enumerators step directly out of their homes into their immediate neighborhood zones to collect data without cross-locality travel risks.
• Traditional Native Negotiations: Manage extensive, patient face-to-face entry negotiations through the *Idara Ahliya* (Native Administration), camp elders, and traditional women's leaders to gain deep community trust and safely source female team members.
• Icon & Audio-Assisted Training: Execute an extended 10–12 day practical training track utilizing icon-based and local-dialect audio-embedded Kobo forms, adapting to low-literacy baselines through spatial memory simulations. Ability to hire female field enumerators.
• Hybrid Team Pairing Logistics: Implement and oversee the *Hybrid Pairing Model*—pairing a trusted local community insider (for entry and trust) with a literate displaced partner (for precise device input).
• Off-Grid Payment & Data Protocols: Coordinate physical, pre-funded cash payouts through vetted local networks. Manage completely offline, encrypted data collection workflows, safeguarding information locally on devices until safe sync zones are reached.
• Protection & Companion Logistics: Manage the tracking and budgeting for cultural *Mahram* travel companions and secure "window-of-opportunity" deployments based on daily localized security briefs.

• Minimum 3–5 years of experience leading field research or census-style projects in stable contexts.
• Advanced proficiency in data-entry supervision, remote MEAL dashboard management, and formal institutional compliance.
• Extensive connection to local civil society or displaced academic networks in River Nile State.
• Minimum 4+ years of field experience in conflict-affected or active frontline settings in Sudan.
• Proven expertise in humanitarian negotiation, conflict-sensitive programming (Do No Harm), and local security tracking.
• High fluency in local neighborhood dynamics and strong, trusted connections with localized ERRs in Sennar State.
• Minimum 5+ years of operational field leadership in Darfur or the Kordofan regions during acute crises.
• Deep experience working in low-literacy environments, using visual/audio tools, or executing community-health-volunteer programs.
• Native command of regional oral dialects and a flawless reputation with traditional tribal elders (*Idara Ahliya*) in the target states.