Research & field-building consultant(s)
|
Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific (UAF A&P)
Remote (local)- Location: Caucasus and Central Asia, West Asia/ Southwest Asia, Pacific
- Career category: Research/ Data analysis
- Job type: Consultancy
- Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
- Organisation type: Funds
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Not specified
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Deadline: 15/05/2025
- Location: Caucasus and Central Asia, West Asia/ Southwest Asia, Pacific
Context
UAF A&P is a feminist fund that supports women, trans, and non-binary activists and movements in Asia and the Pacific by co-creating a safe environment for them to sustain their work and thrive. Guided by feminist values, we provide individuals, organisations, and their communities with urgent grants and strategic support to strengthen their safety and well-being. Since our establishment in 2018, we have given over USD 10 million in grants across 34 countries in our region.
Scope of work
This project will centre UAF A&P’s values and work with methodologies that speak to collective care. This means exploring decolonial feminist methodologies and working with grounded theory, and staying accountable to grantee partners. Beginning with desk research to understand what knowledge already exists about collective care, we will build out a qualitative research methodology that speaks to our research questions (please refer to the concept note for further context).
It is critical for this project to find the methodologies that can work towards our tensions and questions. The methodology will centre the knowledge held by UAF A&P’s WSC grantee partners by looking at both existing data and knowledge that UAF A&P holds, such as grantee reports, learning documentation, and staff experiences, as well as conduct additional data collection with grantee partners through creative and participatory methods. Where possible, the research should draw from multiple ways of knowing and engage with multi-lingual modalities, drawing from the diversity of our region as a strength rather than a limitation.
On the basis of our WSC grantmaking, the consultant(s) will work closely with UAF A&P’s staff, advisors, and grantee partners throughout all phases of the project. Rather than being limited to ‘participation’, we hope that the project will engage feminist knowledge systems in its collectivity, engaging in processes such as collective sensemaking, validation, and completing the feedback loop to our partners.
Qualifications
● Familiarity with knowledge production using grounded theory and utilising decolonial feminist methodologies
● Ability to think critically, write clearly, and distill abstract ideas into accessible language and formats
● Understands the risks and security concerns of activists, and is able to uphold confidentiality and data security requirements
● Familiarity with the geographical, linguistic, cultural, historical, religious, ecosocial diversity of our region
● Is willing to expand and challenge their own understandings of the concepts we work with, and challenge us
● Must be inclusive towards trans, intersex, and non-binary defenders
● Experience with activism in our region a plus
● Knowledge of a language/languages other than English a plus
UAF A&P is a feminist fund that supports women, trans, and non-binary activists and movements in Asia and the Pacific by co-creating a safe environment for them to sustain their work and thrive. Guided by feminist values, we provide individuals, organisations, and their communities with urgent grants and strategic support to strengthen their safety and well-being. Since our establishment in 2018, we have given over USD 10 million in grants across 34 countries in our region.
Scope of work
This project will centre UAF A&P’s values and work with methodologies that speak to collective care. This means exploring decolonial feminist methodologies and working with grounded theory, and staying accountable to grantee partners. Beginning with desk research to understand what knowledge already exists about collective care, we will build out a qualitative research methodology that speaks to our research questions (please refer to the concept note for further context).
It is critical for this project to find the methodologies that can work towards our tensions and questions. The methodology will centre the knowledge held by UAF A&P’s WSC grantee partners by looking at both existing data and knowledge that UAF A&P holds, such as grantee reports, learning documentation, and staff experiences, as well as conduct additional data collection with grantee partners through creative and participatory methods. Where possible, the research should draw from multiple ways of knowing and engage with multi-lingual modalities, drawing from the diversity of our region as a strength rather than a limitation.
On the basis of our WSC grantmaking, the consultant(s) will work closely with UAF A&P’s staff, advisors, and grantee partners throughout all phases of the project. Rather than being limited to ‘participation’, we hope that the project will engage feminist knowledge systems in its collectivity, engaging in processes such as collective sensemaking, validation, and completing the feedback loop to our partners.
Qualifications
● Familiarity with knowledge production using grounded theory and utilising decolonial feminist methodologies
● Ability to think critically, write clearly, and distill abstract ideas into accessible language and formats
● Understands the risks and security concerns of activists, and is able to uphold confidentiality and data security requirements
● Familiarity with the geographical, linguistic, cultural, historical, religious, ecosocial diversity of our region
● Is willing to expand and challenge their own understandings of the concepts we work with, and challenge us
● Must be inclusive towards trans, intersex, and non-binary defenders
● Experience with activism in our region a plus
● Knowledge of a language/languages other than English a plus
*When clicking on “Apply”, you will be redirected to the original job announcement and details
*There are individuals who may use GenderJobs.org name and trademark in emails and on websites in an attempt to solicit fees from interested job-seekers. Some examples of these fees are placement fees or immigration processing fees. GenderJobs.org does not use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an up-front fee of any kind. If you suspect that you have been a victim of fraud from someone pretending to be GenderJobs.org, please contact us at [email protected]