About the Position
We are seeking a Senior Research Manager who will lead the design and implementation of GxD's evaluation and research portfolio, specifically on deepening women’s engagement in the AI and digital economy, and the development of GxD's gender-intentional AI evaluation methodology. This is a senior role with real intellectual ownership: the SRM will not just execute; they will shape how GxD evaluates, what questions it asks, and how findings reach the right audiences.
The SRM will work closely with the Associate Director – Research & MLE and may be expected to manage a team of Research Associates and Research Managers, contribute to proposal development and fundraising, and represent GxD's research identity to external audiences.
Key Responsibilities
1. Evaluation Design & Implementation
• Lead end-to-end design and implementation of impact evaluations and assessments — including theory of change development, evaluation design (quasi-experimental and experimental), sampling frameworks, and data collection instruments.




• Take primary responsibility for multiple evaluation studies, from inception through baseline, monitoring, and end line.
• Design and oversee mixed-method studies that combine quantitative impact evaluation with qualitative process and contextual enquiry, to go beyond gender-disaggregated data to examine structural barriers, intersectional dimensions, and differential pathways of digital and AI system use.
• Ensure methodological rigour: appropriate causal identification strategies (DiD, PSM, RCT), power calculations, sampling validity, and data quality management.
• Lead data analysis, triangulation, and interpretation, with strong command of STATA, R, or equivalent.
• Write comprehensive reports, prepare decks, papers and other knowledge outputs as per project requirements
• Work with Vertical Heads to execute the team’s research agenda and develop recent research projects and ideas.
2. Project Management & Team Leadership
• Manage a te

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