Senior Research Manager, Digital & Social Behaviour Change (SBC) at BBC Media Action

The BBC is an international multimedia broadcaster on radio, TV, online and social networks with a weekly global audience of 320 million. As part of an historic multi-million pound expansion of BBC Africa, the BBC World Service is introducing a wide range of new and exciting language and regional content to serve African and global audiences.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Research Manager, Digital & Social Behaviour Change (SBC)

Location: Abuja
Reports to: Deputy Project Director and Research Lead
Duration: Until end August 2025 (fixed term, with potential for extension)

Job purpose

• The Senior Research Manager will work on research across the three projects and provide strategic support to the country and global team to deliver these projects ensuring that research is to a high quality and is also utilised effectively by internal and external stakeholders.
• The Senior Research Manager will also support BBC Media Action’s Research and Learning team broadly on digital and SBC.
• Reporting to the Deputy Director and Research Lead, s/he will also work closely with BBC Media Action’s Head of Research to ensure that the research delivered meets project/s organisational needs.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead on design and delivery of the research under the GF portfolio, including producing research deliverables for all three projects.
• Provide research support to GF and other projects within BBC Media Action with a digital and SBC lens
• Work with country teams and others e.g. advisors to ensure that research is innovative, of quality and delivered in a timely way
• Ensure that insights generated from research are communicated effectively and taken up by internal and external stakeholders.
• Play a leadership role in supporting researchers across the countries (as needed) to develop, share, learn, innovate and support each other.

Ideal Candidate

• Able to make informed decisions to support teams to design and deliver high quality research efficiently
• Strong quantitative and qualitative research experience, designing and delivering actionable insights
• Experience in digital research, including leveraging social media analytics and developing and evaluating actionable ‘use’ cases to drive project outcomes
• Experience in conducting research to understand media and/or SBC, ideally in challenging contexts.
• Knowledge of research techniques that tackle social and gender norms among audiences
• Experienee developing monitoring and evaluating plans for digital and other interventions with country research teams
• Ability to synthesise research findings and writing for publications
• Strong communication skills and ability to present research in a compelling wayto multiple stakeholders
• Knowledge of Africa and South Asia (especially countries in which BBC Media Action is working) would be an advantage.

Salary
Competitive, on relevant local scale.

Appplication Closing Date
7th April, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Applications are welcome from anyone with the existing right to work in any of these countries.
• BBC Media Action will not sponsor work visas for this engagement under any circumstances (business visas for short-term travel, if required, will be arranged).
• The successful applicant will be employed and based in their home country, with salary set according to BBC Media Action’s local pay scales in that country.