Head of Gender, Inclusion, and Protection

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Bodhi Global Analysis

Remote (global)
  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Programme/ Project design & management, Research/ Data analysis
  • Job type: Job
  • Organisation type: Research
  • Remote option: Remote (global)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: GBP 60,000 GBP-GBP 70,000 GBP / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Location: Kenya
GBV / VAWG Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI) PSEA/ Safeguarding
About Bodhi
Bodhi Global Analysis is a woman-led international development research consultancy established in London in 2017, with subsidiaries in Nairobi (2018), Singapore (2023), Dar es Salaam (2025), and The Hague (2026). We specialise in formative and evaluative research through participatory approaches, serving UN agencies, bilateral donors, INGOs, and regional organisations across fragile and conflict-affected contexts.

About the Role
We are recruiting a senior researcher and team leader to head our Gender, Inclusion and Protection team. This expands the remit of our existing Gender and Inclusion team to reflect growing client demand for work on gender-based violence, protection risk analysis and survivor-centred programming. We are looking for a specialist with genuine technical depth in these areas, not a generalist gender adviser.

Qualifications and Experience
Essential
  • A PhD in gender studies, development studies, international relations, public health, social anthropology, law or a closely related discipline, with doctoral or subsequent published work demonstrating substantive engagement with gender, protection or violence
  • A minimum of ten years’ professional experience delivering research, analysis and evaluation in international development or humanitarian contexts, including a substantial proportion in fragile and conflict-affected settings
  • Demonstrable technical specialism in sexual and gender-based violence, evidenced by a track record of leading assignments on GBV prevention and response, harmful practices, protection risk analysis, PSEAH, or violence against women and girls. This is a core requirement and applications that do not evidence it will not be shortlisted
  • Fluency in English to native or near-native standard, written and spoken, with the ability to produce client-ready analytical prose
  • Professional working proficiency in at least one of French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic, sufficient to conduct interviews, engage counterparts and review documentation in that language
  • Extensive fieldwork experience in fragile and conflict-affected settings, including personally leading key informant interviews, focus group discussions and data collection with populations at heightened risk
  • A strong record of authorship of evaluation reports, analytical studies or policy briefs for institutional clients, with the ability to provide writing samples
  • Applied command of the ethical and safety standards governing research on violence, including the WHO ethical and safety recommendations for researching violence against women, survivor-centred principles, informed consent in low-literacy and high-risk settings, and referral pathway design
  • Conceptual and applied command of gender and inclusion frameworks, including gender mainstreaming, socio-ecological models, the gender equity continuum, intersectionality, feminist research approaches, and localisation in development research
  • Experience line managing researchers at varying levels of seniority, ideally across multiple locations and time zones
  • Mixed-methods competence, including the design and analysis of quantitative surveys as well as qualitative work, and proficiency with tools such as SPSS, Stata, R or Python and NVivo or comparable qualitative analysis software
  • Business development experience, including a demonstrable record of contributing to or leading winning proposals for institutional donors
  • Willingness and ability to travel internationally for approximately one to two months per year, including to insecure environments

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