LEAD is seeking a Research Manager/Senior Research Manager to lead the design, execution, and dissemination of research across the Small Growing Businesses and Employment portfolio, working closely with senior leadership and research teams to manage field-based studies and deliver rigorous, high-quality outputs.

Salary : Commensurate with qualifications and experience

About the Role

We are seeking a strategic, organised, and collaborative Research Manager/Senior Research Manager to lead the design, execution, and dissemination of research across LEAD s Small Growing Businesses and Employment portfolio. The successful candidate will have robust research and analytical skills, be an excellent writer, and be uncompromising in research quality and rigour. They will work closely with senior leadership, a multidisciplinary research team, and external stakeholders to oversee field-based research, ensure the quality of research outputs, and manage projects from inception to completion.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead quantitative research design for evaluations, diagnostics, baselines, endlines, longitudinal studies, and impact assessments.
- Develop sampling strategies, power calculations, indicator frameworks, analysis plans, and econometric approaches.
- Design and review survey tools, codebooks, data dictionaries, and quality assurance protocols.
- Clean, merge, structure, and manage large-scale primary and secondary datasets.
- Conduct advanced statistical and econometric analysis, including regression modelling, difference-in-differences, propensity score matching, panel data analysis, heterogeneity analysis, and robustness checks.
- Build analytical models for segmentation, scoring, prediction, targeting, or decision-support frameworks, where relevant.
- Use secondary datasets such as NSS, PLFS, NFHS, SECC, enterprise datasets, administrative MIS,



or other public datasets for research and proposal development.
- Prepare analytical tables, visualisations, dashboards, and technical notes. Translate complex quantitative findings into clear research narratives for reports, decks, policy briefs, and donor-facing documents.
- Support proposal development by designing credible methodologies, sample plans, analytical frameworks, and costing assumptions.
- Guide junior researchers, Research Associates, interns, and field/data teams on quantitative methods and data quality.
- Ensure reproducibility through clean syntax, documented workflows, version control of datasets, and proper data documentation.
- Maintain ethical standards in data handling, anonymisation, confidentiality, and respondent protection.

Essential Qualifications

- Master s degree in Economics, Statistics, Public Policy, Data Science, Development Studies, Population Studies, or a related field.
- For Research Manager: 5 7 years of relevant experience in quantitative research, evaluation, analytics, or econometric analysis.
- For Senior Research Manager: 7 10 years of relevant experience, including demonstrated technical leadership across multiple research studies.
- Strong understanding of quantitative research methods, survey design, sampling techniques, and causal inference.
- Strong econometric skills, including regression analysis and quasi-experimental methods.
- Proficiency in Stata, R, or Python, with Stata and/or R strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to work with large datasets and produce clean, replicable analyses.
- Excellent analytical writing skills, with the ability to communicate technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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📌 Research Manager, Small Growing Businesses and Employment, LEAD (New Delhi)
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