LEAD s Gender x Digital (GxD) hub is seeking a Senior Research Manager to lead the design, implementation, and dissemination of the hub s research and evaluation portfolio on gender, AI, and the digital economy. The role offers significant intellectual ownership in shaping gender-intentional evaluation approaches, managing multidisciplinary research teams, and producing rigorous evidence that informs policy and practice.

Salary : Commensurate with qualifications and experience

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Research Manager (SRM) 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 identi

📌 Senior Research Manager, GxD hub (New Delhi)
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