Fieldwork Manager
CurrentThe role of fieldwork managers is to support research officers in the management of projects and researchers. They have extensive contextual knowledge about Somaliland, Puntland and/or Somalia, and are continually looking for ways to use that knowledge to augment the quality of research conducted by Consilient. They have a strong understanding of research methods and design, and demonstrate this understanding through their contributions to project design and implementation. Their input is vital to tool design and fieldwork planning. They regularly liaise with government officials and local communities to negotiate access on behalf of Consilient field teams. Fieldwork managers are responsible for providing quality control of both quantitative and qualitative data on the projects they are working for. This requires a continual increasing of skills in stata, excel, and qualitative analysis. Fieldwork managers regularly identify and manage external hires on behalf of Consilient. They are the main point of contact for the core staff and temporary staff conducting fieldwork for a project. The position of fieldwork manager is largely office based, however, when needed fieldwork managers are also responsible for conducting high quality qualitative and quantitative field research, specifically on Consilient’s high-level, sensitive and complex projects. Fieldwork managers are responsible for the entirety of the research process, they fully understand the aims and purposes of a project, and ensure that all outputs and deliverables are of high quality. They are expected to assume Consilient’s most challenging research tasks and deliver high quality output with minimal need for review or external quality control. Fieldwork managers act with professionalism when asked to do any task that could be asked of all other researchers; they are the ones who set the example of the kind of quality and work ethic all staff should have when completing the simplest to the most complex task.