Vietnam M&E and Research Field Manager

Join STOOS Consulting as a Field Manager in Vietnam, focusing on field research, data collection, and local coordination for monitoring and evaluation projects.

• 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 official permissions, introduction letters and local approvals required for fieldwork.
• Coordinating with provincial and commune-level People’s Committees, relevant sector authorities, local organizations, mass organizations, project partners and community leaders.
• Supporting fieldwork across different provinces and communes, including rural, mountainous, coastal, ethnic-minority and disaster-affected locations.
• Recruiting, onboarding and supervising enumerators, field researchers, supervisors, interpreters, community mobilizers and data quality personnel.
• Supporting the translation and contextual adaptation of research tools into Vietnamese and relevant local languages.
• Training field teams on research tools, sampling procedures, informed consent, safeguarding, confidentiality, cultural sensitivity, referral pathways and digital data collection platforms.
• Managing daily field deployment, team movements, 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 that data collection involving ethnic-minority communities, women, young people, persons with disabilities and other potentially vulnerable groups is inclusive, respectful and culturally appropriate.
• Providing regular updates to STOOS on authorization status, field progress, completed samples, operational risks, team performance, data quality concerns and corrective measures.
• Documenting field observations, community feedback and contextual factors that may affect data interpretation, analysis and reporting.

• experience in monitoring and evaluation