Job purpose

Lead daily qualitative and quantitative fieldwork on child labour in construction and brick-making. Supervise the field team and deliver accurate, timely data while protecting children, families and staff.

Key responsibilities

- Lead a team of four enumerators, supporting gender-balanced deployment and safe access to different participant groups. Allocate daily assignments, routes and workloads against the approved fieldwork plan.

- Coordinate site access and visits with communities, local authorities, employers and the Project Coordinator. Organize transport, attendance and field schedules; assess safety before visits to kilns, construction sites and households.

- Support training and piloting. Ensure staff use approved questionnaires, household listing and screening procedures, sampling instructions and KoboToolbox/ODK forms; escalate proposed changes for technical approval.

- Oversee child, household and employer surveys. Conduct or facilitate focus group discussions, key informant interviews, case studies and structured observations when assigned and trained.

- Review submissions daily for completeness, consistency, skip errors and duplicates. Conduct approved spot-checks and back-checks, coach enumerators and track corrections without altering respondents' answers.

- Verify guardian consent and child assent, private interviews and voluntary participation. Stop activities that cause distress or create risk; immediately escalate protection concerns and activate the approved referral pathway through designated staff.

- Enforce confidentiality, anonymization and secure data transfer. Prevent unauthorized disclosure; external data sharing requires prior ILO consent through project management.

Expected outputs

Daily deployment and progress logs; reviewed survey submissions and correction tracking; completed qualitative records; prompt safety and safeguarding escalation; consolidated field updates for project progress reporting and a final field handover.

Qualifications and experience

- Bachelor's degree preferred, especially in social sciences, sociology, statistics or a related discipline; 3-5 years of practical qualitative and quantitative field research experience.

- Demonstrated team leadership, field logistics and digital data collection skills, including KoboToolbox/ODK and quality assurance. Child protection, child rights or labour research experience in Iraq is highly desirable.

- Practical knowledge of informed consent, child assent, safeguarding and ethical research; strong communication, attention to detail and ability to manage challenging field conditions.

- Full proficiency in Kurdish Sorani and Arabic, with good English reading and writing skills; availability for training and regular district and sub-district visits.

Interested and qualified candidates are kindly invited to submit their updated CV in PDF format to:

To: hr@kohrw.org 
CC: info@kohrw.org 

Please use “Field Supervisor- Suly” as the subject line of your email.

Please note that, in order for an application to be considered, candidates must follow the application requirements below:

● The CV must be submitted as a PDF attachment. CVs submitted in any other format will not be accepted.
● Please attach the CV directly to the email. Links to CVs or online documents will not be accepted.
● The email subject line must clearly state “Field Supervisor- Suly” Applications without the required subject line will not be considered.
● Applications that do not meet the above requirements may not be considered as part of the recruitment process.
● The application deadline is 06 November 2026. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
● Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the next stage of the recruitment process.

We appreciate your interest in joining KOHRW and look forward to receiving your application