Senior Researcher Political & Strategic Research

Core Function: In-depth Research, Research Writing & Editorial Development

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Researcher with a strong background in political, government, historical, public affairs, media, or strategic research.

This position is suited for a researcher who has worked on high-quality, research-intensive projects requiring extensive information gathering, source verification, historical and contextual understanding, analytical thinking, and strong writing capabilities.

The ideal candidate should be capable of taking ownership of a research subject from beginning to end discovering and evaluating sources, tracing information across different periods, establishing context, cross-verifying facts, identifying connections and patterns, and transforming the research into authoritative and well-structured written material.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and independently execute complex, in-depth research assignments across political, governmental, historical, social, and public-affairs subjects.
- Conduct extensive research using books, reports, government documents, parliamentary and legislative records, historical material, publications, databases, newspapers, journals, media reports, digital resources, and other credible primary and secondary sources.
- Trace subjects, events, personalities, organisations, policies, statements, and developments across different periods to build a complete and accurate research narrative.
- Identify and retrieve relevant information from large volumes of documents and source material.
- Establish chronologies, timelines, relationships, patterns, background, and context around complex subjects.
- Cross-reference multiple sources to verify facts, dates, events, quotations, statistics, claims, and historical information.




- Identify gaps or inconsistencies in available information and undertake additional research to establish a reliable account.
- Develop comprehensive research dossiers, background papers, profiles, timelines, analytical reports, briefing documents, research notes, and long-form research outputs.
- Maintain organised research documentation, references, source records, and supporting material for future use.

Research Writing & Editorial Development The candidate must possess exceptional research-based writing abilities and should be comfortable converting large volumes of information into structured and compelling content.

Responsibilities will include

- Writing detailed research papers, long-form articles, reports, chapters, profiles, backgrounders, analytical notes, narratives, and publication-quality material.
- Developing content where depth, accuracy, context, chronology, and factual credibility are critical.
- Converting fragmented information from multiple sources into a coherent and comprehensive narrative.
- Presenting complex political, governmental, historical, or public-affairs subjects in clear and engaging language.
- Developing long-form and book-length research material, including chapter-level research and content development.
- Editing and restructuring existing research to improve its clarity, depth, flow, and overall quality.
- Reviewing and strengthening research produced by other team members.
- Ensuring that every major factual assertion can be supported by a credible and traceable source.
- Maintaining consistency of facts, names, dates, events, terminology,



and references across large research projects.

What We Are Looking For

- 6–10 years of strong professional research experience.
- Demonstrated experience handling high-quality, complex, and research-intensive projects.
- Robust exposure to political research, government and governance, history, public affairs, policy, media research, publishing, or related areas.
- Exceptional ability to dig deeper than readily available online information.
- Strong ability to discover, evaluate, organise, and cross-reference information from diverse sources.
- Excellent long-form writing, research writing, editing, and fact-checking skills.
- Ability to understand the larger context behind individual events and connect developments across different periods.
- Strong command over chronology-based and evidence-driven research.
- Ability to work independently on a broad subject and develop it into a comprehensive research output.
- Excellent analytical ability and attention to detail.
- High standards of accuracy, credibility, confidentiality, and research integrity.
- Ability to manage large volumes of information without losing important details or context.

Preferred Experience

Candidates who have previously worked on major publications, books, documentaries, political or public-affairs projects, government-related assignments, research publications, historical projects, long-form journalism, media projects, or other large-scale knowledge-intensive projects will be strongly preferred.

Experience with research organisations, think tanks, publishing houses, media organisations, political/public-affairs consulting, government-related projects, or multidisciplinary research teams would be an advantage.

A media or multimedia background combined with serious research and writing experience will also be preferred.

📌 Senior Researcher (Political & Strategic Research) (New Delhi)
🏢 Integrate M-Power
📍 New Delhi