Lead Research Consultant
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Centre for Health Education and Vulnerable Support (CHEVS)
Remote (global)- Career category: Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL, Research/ Data analysis
- Job type: Consultancy
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (global)
- Right to work requirements: Not specified
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 19/07/2026
- Location: Remote (global)
Background
Across Africa, women and girls navigate intersecting systems of oppression, including patriarchy, colonialism, religious fundamentalism, and capitalism that produce multi-dimensional violence including physical, sexual, psychological, economic, and technology-facilitated harm. Feminist movements and women's rights organizations (WROs) have responded by building critical support infrastructure such as safe houses, legal aid, psychosocial services, and crisis hotlines. As these response infrastructures rise up to the tasks, rates of gender-based violence continue surging, and significantly in the years during and following the COVID-19 pandemic, placing additional strain on these already overstretched infrastructures.
LBQTI-GNC persons experience disproportionately high rates of SGBV; however, the representation & inclusion of LBQTI-GNC persons and their experiences within these feminist and WRO response infrastructure remains profoundly under-documented. In the places where these SGBV response infrastructures exist, they are largely designed around a heterosexual, cisgender subject, and for lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming (LBQTI-GNC) women and people, this infrastructure frequently fails to account for the specific and compounding risks they face, including state criminalization, family rejection, corrective violence, and exclusion from the very services intended to support them.
Purpose of the Evaluation
The purpose of this consultancy is to retain a qualified Lead research consultant (or research team) to design, execute, and deliver a rigorous, multi-country, mixed-methods study analyzing the structural dynamics influencing how African LBQTIGNC women and feminists are recognized and served within existing feminist and WRO responses to TF/SGBV in Africa
Scope of Work
The consultant will be responsible for executing the study across nine (9) African countries spanning three distinct regions: Eastern, Southern, Northern (2 countries each), and West Africa (3 countries). Country selection will be finalized during inception based on civic space, legal frameworks, and security contexts
Required Qualifications
CHEVS is seeking an experienced individual researcher or a multi-regional consortium of feminist researchers matching the following criteria:
● Subject Matter Expertise: Minimum of 7+ years of demonstrable experience conducting human rights research, policy analysis, or social assessments in Africa, with a distinct focus on SGBV, feminist resource architecture, or intersectional rights
● Methodological Excellence: Exceptional qualitative and analytical skills, with a track record of handling sensitive funding flow analyses or ecosystem mappings
● Community Grounding: Strong, established relationships with African LBQTIGNC and feminist movements and deep familiarity with the structural political economy of African civil society.
● Communication: Exceptional storytelling, report-writing, and brief-drafting capabilities tailored to both high-level donors and grassroots organizers
Across Africa, women and girls navigate intersecting systems of oppression, including patriarchy, colonialism, religious fundamentalism, and capitalism that produce multi-dimensional violence including physical, sexual, psychological, economic, and technology-facilitated harm. Feminist movements and women's rights organizations (WROs) have responded by building critical support infrastructure such as safe houses, legal aid, psychosocial services, and crisis hotlines. As these response infrastructures rise up to the tasks, rates of gender-based violence continue surging, and significantly in the years during and following the COVID-19 pandemic, placing additional strain on these already overstretched infrastructures.
LBQTI-GNC persons experience disproportionately high rates of SGBV; however, the representation & inclusion of LBQTI-GNC persons and their experiences within these feminist and WRO response infrastructure remains profoundly under-documented. In the places where these SGBV response infrastructures exist, they are largely designed around a heterosexual, cisgender subject, and for lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming (LBQTI-GNC) women and people, this infrastructure frequently fails to account for the specific and compounding risks they face, including state criminalization, family rejection, corrective violence, and exclusion from the very services intended to support them.
Purpose of the Evaluation
The purpose of this consultancy is to retain a qualified Lead research consultant (or research team) to design, execute, and deliver a rigorous, multi-country, mixed-methods study analyzing the structural dynamics influencing how African LBQTIGNC women and feminists are recognized and served within existing feminist and WRO responses to TF/SGBV in Africa
Scope of Work
The consultant will be responsible for executing the study across nine (9) African countries spanning three distinct regions: Eastern, Southern, Northern (2 countries each), and West Africa (3 countries). Country selection will be finalized during inception based on civic space, legal frameworks, and security contexts
Required Qualifications
CHEVS is seeking an experienced individual researcher or a multi-regional consortium of feminist researchers matching the following criteria:
● Subject Matter Expertise: Minimum of 7+ years of demonstrable experience conducting human rights research, policy analysis, or social assessments in Africa, with a distinct focus on SGBV, feminist resource architecture, or intersectional rights
● Methodological Excellence: Exceptional qualitative and analytical skills, with a track record of handling sensitive funding flow analyses or ecosystem mappings
● Community Grounding: Strong, established relationships with African LBQTIGNC and feminist movements and deep familiarity with the structural political economy of African civil society.
● Communication: Exceptional storytelling, report-writing, and brief-drafting capabilities tailored to both high-level donors and grassroots organizers
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