M&E and Research Field Manager – Morocco

Join STOOS Consulting as an M&E and Research Field Manager in Morocco, leading field research and monitoring activities in a dynamic consultancy environment.

• Planning and coordinating field data collection, including household surveys, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, observations, site visits, market assessments and third-party monitoring activities.
• Securing and following up on required approvals, authorization letters and introductions at the regional, provincial, prefectural and commune levels.
• Coordinating with local authorities, public institutions, civil society organizations, associations, cooperatives, project partners and community leaders.
• Supporting fieldwork across Morocco, including urban, peri-urban, rural, mountainous, coastal, oasis, disaster-affected and hard-to-reach locations.
• Recruiting, onboarding and supervising enumerators, field researchers, supervisors, interpreters, community mobilizers and data quality personnel.
• Training field teams on research tools, sampling procedures, informed consent, safeguarding, confidentiality, referral pathways and digital data collection platforms.
• Translating and culturally adapting research tools into Arabic and French, as well as supporting interpretation into local languages where necessary.
• Managing daily field deployment, transportation, respondent mobilization, sample tracking and progress against agreed targets and timelines.
• Ensuring strong data quality through spot checks, back-checks, accompaniment visits, daily debriefings, form reviews and follow-up on missing or inconsistent information.
• Coordinating field logistics, including transportation, accommodation where required, communication, mobile data, tablets or smartphones, field materials and contingency arrangements.
• Ensuring inclusive and culturally appropriate engagement with women, young people, persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees, rural communities and other potentially vulnerable groups.
• Providing regular updates to STOOS on field progress, completed samples, operational risks, team performance, data quality concerns and corrective measures.
• Documenting field observations, community feedback and contextual factors that may influence data analysis and reporting.