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Young Researchers Volunteers
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International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
- Career category: Research/ Data analysis
- Job type: Volunteering
- Experience level: 0-5 years
- Organisation type: Think Tank
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: Volunteer position
- Work schedule: Part-time/ Pro-rata
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 18/04/2025
- Location: Kenya
About ICRW: The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) has been the premier applied research institute focused on women and girls for the last four decades. ICRW works with partners to conduct empirical research, build capacity, and advocate for evidence-based practical solutions to change policies and programs. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., and with regional offices in South Asia and Africa, ICRW conducts research to inform policies and programs seeking to alleviate poverty, promote gender equality and protect the rights of women and girls. Corporations, foundations, governments and civil society organizations partner with ICRW to discover through rigorous research how to dismantle barriers and help women and girls achieve their full potential. ICRW’s focal areas include gender-based violence, healthy transitions to adulthood, economic empowerment, HIV/AIDS, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
About the Project: ICRW is implementing a research project funded by the Mastercard Foundation to implement a multi-method, multidisciplinary, and participatory research and policy engagement project to generate evidence, strengthen research capacity, and advance policy and workplace action to help end the marginalization of young female creatives in Kenya’s creative sector. The project, named Behind the Scenes: Young women and gender-based inequities in Africa’s creative sector, is to be implemented in six other African countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, and Uganda. Research under the project will prioritize actively engaging young creatives and researchers as partners, while uniting multiple disciplines, including gender studies, the creative arts, economics, demography, sociology, and social work, to generate in-depth contextual understanding and yield constructive and practical findings. The project team will gather data from a range of key industry players, particularly young female creatives, using a co-generative gender perspective. We seek to engage young researchers as volunteers to join the project team as co-designers, co-producers, co-creators, and co-owners of the research and the entire project. These young researchers will volunteer for one year and will serve as co-interpreters of research data. They will share responsibility with other team members for ensuring effective dissemination of project evidence. Young researchers will be attached to research mentors and leaders in the project to sharpen the research questions, hone their research skills, and co-lead the implementation of the study and the production and dissemination of emerging findings. In addition, the young researchers will receive specialized training in data management, data analysis and interpretation, and public engagement.
Qualifications Interested applicants should meet the following criteria;
Age: 18 – 29 years (applicants under 35 years may be considered).
Education: On-going Bachelor’s degree in any of the humanities (arts and social sciences) or sciences.
A higher degree or evidence of an ongoing graduate program is an added advantage.
Interest: Passion for research and advancing women’s cause, capacity to learn new skills and ability to learn fast.
About the Project: ICRW is implementing a research project funded by the Mastercard Foundation to implement a multi-method, multidisciplinary, and participatory research and policy engagement project to generate evidence, strengthen research capacity, and advance policy and workplace action to help end the marginalization of young female creatives in Kenya’s creative sector. The project, named Behind the Scenes: Young women and gender-based inequities in Africa’s creative sector, is to be implemented in six other African countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, and Uganda. Research under the project will prioritize actively engaging young creatives and researchers as partners, while uniting multiple disciplines, including gender studies, the creative arts, economics, demography, sociology, and social work, to generate in-depth contextual understanding and yield constructive and practical findings. The project team will gather data from a range of key industry players, particularly young female creatives, using a co-generative gender perspective. We seek to engage young researchers as volunteers to join the project team as co-designers, co-producers, co-creators, and co-owners of the research and the entire project. These young researchers will volunteer for one year and will serve as co-interpreters of research data. They will share responsibility with other team members for ensuring effective dissemination of project evidence. Young researchers will be attached to research mentors and leaders in the project to sharpen the research questions, hone their research skills, and co-lead the implementation of the study and the production and dissemination of emerging findings. In addition, the young researchers will receive specialized training in data management, data analysis and interpretation, and public engagement.
Qualifications Interested applicants should meet the following criteria;
Age: 18 – 29 years (applicants under 35 years may be considered).
Education: On-going Bachelor’s degree in any of the humanities (arts and social sciences) or sciences.
A higher degree or evidence of an ongoing graduate program is an added advantage.
Interest: Passion for research and advancing women’s cause, capacity to learn new skills and ability to learn fast.
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