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Job Title: Research Analyst

Location: Mumbai (Hybrid)

Organization: Brain Bristle

Time Commitment: Full Time

Company Description

Brain Bristle is a not-for-profit foundation for autism and inclusion, currently based in Mumbai. The organization works with low-income schools across the city to build high-quality education, exposure, and inclusion for students on the autism spectrum and other high learning needs. Brain Bristle focuses on building inclusive school environments from the ground-up, strengthening advocacy for autism, and conducting workshops and awareness programs to expand the reach and impact of its work.

Role Description

The Research Analyst Role is to support evidence-based program design, monitoring, evaluation, and advocacy. This role will focus on autism-specific research , inclusive education practices, and the documentation of outcomes from school-based interventions.

The Research Analyst will work closely with program teams, Social Workers, and leadership to translate on-ground data into meaningful insights, research outputs, and policy-relevant knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

- Run routine and ad hoc reports on the work we do.
- Use standard tools and computer programs to review student progress data.
- Assist with data cleaning measures to ensure accuracy of data and preparation of tables.
- Support development of autism-specific research questions aligned with program goals.
- Lead basic activities such as data collection and data entry.
- Lead specific tasks and develop processes to ensure study activities occur effectively and efficiently.
- Conduct literature searches to support faculty in research efforts.
- Design and format papers/publications.
- Assist in writing summaries of papers for release as policy briefs or other channels.
- Support development of white papers, case studies, and conference submissions
- Draft research briefs, impact reports, and internal learning documents




- Other research-centric duties as assigned.

In addition to the duties above, you must have:

- Experience with qualitative and/or quantitative research methods
- Solid analytical and writing skills
- Ability to synthesize research into practical, actionable insights
- Work with team members or study participants via Zoom on several different web-based platforms.
- Excellent organizational skills to juggle tasks, document steps, and guide teams, teachers and parents through the protocols, including updating online and paper files, emailing instructions, and visiting schools when needed.
- Some weekend or evening hours are necessary to accommodate participants, particularly families that work during the day/ week.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
- Prior enrolment and participation in a research-based project.

Preferred Qualifications

- Excellent phone, in-person and email communication skills to establish reliability and rapport with Social Workers, teams, teachers, students and families.
- English, Hindi & Preferable Marathi fluency.
- Experience with Monitoring & Evaluation frameworks
- Exposure to low-income or public education systems
- Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines

Technical Skills & Expected Level of Proficiency Required in:

- Analytical Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Data Management and Analysis
- Formatting and Layout Proficiency
- Information Gathering
- Oral and Written Communications
- Organizational Skills

The core technical skills listed are most essential; additional technical skills may be required based on specific division or department needs.

Remuneration & Commitment

This role is a research commitment serving the study of autism in low-income schools and communities of Mumbai. The position offers:

- Extensive global professional development and training via in-house faculty and adjunct trainers.
- A salary of Rs.25, 000/ p.m
- Reimbursement of approved resources used during fieldwork.

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