The Gender x Digital (GxD) hub is a research and evaluation centre at LEAD, IFMR–Krea University, working at the intersection of digital systems, AI, and women’s realities in India. The hub conducts rigorous gender-intentional research and evaluation, provides technical advisory support to governments and implementers, and engages with a range of stakeholders to ensure that evidence shapes how digital and AI systems are designed and governed.

We are seeking a Senior Associate whose focus will be research and evaluation delivery, complemented by writing and communications work that supports GxD’s research and evaluation portfolio and its visibility as a thought leader on gender × digital × AI issues.

The candidate will sit primarily within GxD’s Evidence Generation workstream, contributing directly to research or evaluation studies, while also actively supporting the Ecosystem Engagement & Thought Leadership workstream in shaping how GxD’s findings

are communicated to policy, donor, and public audiences.

This is a research-forward role for someone who is at home in the field or with a dataset, and who can also turn findings into a clear report, blog, or deck. The ideal candidate is a strong researcher, can write and communicate well, and who is energised by variety across projects.

Key Responsibilities

1. Research & Evaluation Design and Delivery

• Contribute to the design and implementation of new studies, including instrument design, sampling strategy, fieldwork coordination, and analysis working with other team members.

• Apply mixed-method approaches, combining quantitative analysis (Stata, R, or Excel) with qualitative enquiry, to generate evidence on women’s digital and AI capability and outcomes.

• Support secondary data analysis for GxD’s internal knowledge products and evidence briefs.

• Lead data cleaning, analysis, and interpretation for assigned studies, with attention to methodological rigour and quality assurance.





• Support literature reviews and evidence synthesis, and contribute to the design of MLE frameworks and indicators for ongoing evaluations.

2. Research Writing & Knowledge Products

• Draft evaluation reports, working papers, policy briefs, and evidence notes to a publishable standard, ensuring findings are both methodologically sound and accessibly written.

• Translate technical research findings into clear, methodologically grounded narratives for policy, donor, and public audiences, maintaining a consistent voice across GxD’s outputs.

3. Communications & Narrative Building

• Support GxD’s website content, social media content, decks, and one-pagers that carry GxD’s research into wider circulation.

• Support preparation for convenings and speaking engagements including briefing materials, decks, and talking points.

• Contribute to GxD’s DOI and publication-visibility infrastructure

4. Cross-Project & Cross-Team Coordination

• Work across GxD’s Evidence Generation & MLE and Ecosystem Engagement & Thought Leadership work streams, coordinating with the relevant team members.

• Support proposal development, particularly the research design, methodology, and framing sections of pitches to funders.

• Proactively flag opportunities to package ongoing research into external-facing content.

Requirements

Essential

• Master’s degree in Development Studies, Public Policy, Economics, Gender Studies, Communications, or a closely related field, with 3+ years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor’s degree with at least 5 years of experience combining applied research and writing/communications roles.





• Demonstrated ability to lead research and evaluation delivery, with strong skills in writing and communications. This is a research-first but hybrid role: the majority of the workload is research and evaluation, complemented by strong writing and communications.

• Strong working knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including instrument design, primary data collection, and statistical analysis (Stata, R, or Excel).

• Excellent written English, with a portfolio of published or publishable writing (reports, briefs, blogs, or articles) that demonstrates the ability to translate technical findings for varied audiences.

• Experience supporting institutional communications such as website content, newsletters, social media, or donor-facing materials.

• Comfortable managing multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, with strong self-organisation and follow-through.

Strongly Desired

• Prior experience in a research, evaluation, or think tank environment, ideally with exposure to gender, digital inclusion, or AI-related themes.

• Experience with content or website platforms and familiarity with visibility/DOI infrastructure.

- Ability to convert evidence into digestible formats, with demonstrated experience of working with a variety of communication formats (decks, website, campaign material, podcosts etc).

Key Attributes

• A strong researcher, with fluent narrative-building skills as a complement.

• Strong sense of ownership with ability to take a partial draft or a rough dataset and shape it into something publishable.

• Comfortable operating in a lean, fast-moving team with a wide-ranging portfolio of projects.

• Collaborative instinct and works well across research, communications, and stakeholder-facing colleagues without needing rigid handoffs.

• Keen interest in gender, digital systems, and AI’s social implications.

📌 Senior Associate - Research & Learning (Delhi)
🏢 LEAD at Krea University
📍 Delhi