Position Title: Researcher – Digital Media and Gender
Location: Ideosync office, Faridabad, NCR of Delhi, India
Position term: July 2023 – June 2025
Organization Profile
Ideosync Media Combine is a not-for-profit organisation based in the National Capital Region of Delhi, India. Ideosync works on communication for social change (C4SC) and communication rights. We design communication frameworks and strategies for development interventions; as well as conceptualize and produce social change communication content (audio, visual, print and multimedia) through a rigorous process of community participation and formative research. Ideosync advocates for open, free and publicly owned media and works towards innovating with existing and new technologies to ensure equity of access to (and community ownership of) communication tools, technologies and media.
Ideosync works on media development by supporting community media (including community radio) through training on participatory content creation, knowledge sharing and peer learning practice; as well as innovations around participatory research. Over the last two decades, we have been at the forefront of work in the South Asian region on creating alternate discourses on communication, communication rights, media and media technologies. During this time, our work in communication for social change has engaged with issues that address marginalized concerns including sexual and reproductive health; adolescent sexuality and rights; gender and women’s rights; health; migrant rights; local self governance; right to information and entitlements; environment and climate change; governance; democracy and freedom of expression.
We are looking for innovative, enthusiastic and creative young professionals with competencies in the field of media and communication to work as part of the Ideosync team.
About the Program
Our Free/Dem Media Pathshala initiative (www.freedem.in) works with young people living on the margins of Delhi, in slum colonies in and around the peripheral geographies of South Delhi. Under Free/Dem Digital Media Pathshala, women and young girls are trained in digital competencies, and media making skills including use of social media, creation of audio and video short podcasts and films. The program also includes Chauraha Screenings.
The initiative has a special focus on gender, in particular by adopting a feminist lens to look at media and meaning making through online narratives. The program will explore and analyze narratives that are present and available in public spaces, as well as explore absent narratives.
The intervention includes a strong element of participatory and qualitative research that includes data from our sister project (Ideosync UNESCO fellowship www.iuif.in )
The research will focus on women’s experience of the digital across the access spectrum in urban and peri-urban areas around the National Capital Region. Methodology will include participatory and qualitative methods and critical content analysis.
About the Position
Your role will require you to work closely with community members, Freedem Trainees and fellows, the IUIF Fellows (previous and forthcoming) as well as the media training team and the directors of the program, and lead researcher to achieve the following tasks:
- Undertake a comprehensive literature review
- Contribute to the research design, framework and methodology
- Participate in the design of research tools
- Travel to the field to collect research data (primarily for qualitative and ethnographic)
- Collate and analyse data generated throughout the initiative
- Undertake detailed analysis and research reports to reflect the findings
- Collaborate towards writing two papers based on the research outcome to be published in peer reviewed journals
Qualifications
- Be a trained researcher in the field of gender and/or digital media and/or feminism with excellent academic research and writing skills
- Have at least one years prior experience in designing research, collating and analyzing data
- Have a good style and proficiency in writing research reports and academic papers in English
- Good Hindi speaking and writing skills to conduct community engagement in Hindi
- Have a good understanding of qualitative and participatory ethnographic/anthropological research methodologies
- Be able to develop research tools to suit the aims and objectives of a research project
- Be able to code and analyze data generated from a research process and write papers
- Be able to follow research protocol and collect data from the field by undertaking FGDs and interviews as well as use social media extensively to undertake online research
- Be able to work as part of a team, with problem solving skills and with the capacity to think independently and creatively in order to address the needs of the project
- Excellent ability to undertake academic literature review and generate citations and collate bibliographies
Contract and Remuneration
We are currently contracting for two years with the possibility for an extension. There will be a three-month period of probation. Remuneration will be in accordance with Ideosync's salary and fee scale policy and in keeping with the incumbent’s experience and qualifications; and will be comparable to national averages for not-for-profits working in the development sector.
Application Process
All applications should be sent via email to vacancy@ideosyncmedia.org. Apply with complete curriculum vitae (bio data) and covering letter; and write Position of Researcher: Digital Media and Gender in the subject line.
Women candidates, candidates from minority communities and those from gender non-conforming identities are encouraged to apply.
- Salary : NA
- Exprience : 2.0 To 4.0 Year
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Company Profile
Ideosync Media Combine
- Ideosync works on media development by supporting community media (including community radio) through training on participatory content creation, knowledge sharing and peer learning practice; as well as innovations around participatory research. Over the last two decades, we have been at the forefront of work in the South Asian region on creating alternate discourses on communication, communication rights, media and media technologies. During this time, our work in communication for social change has engaged with issues that address marginalized concerns including sexual and reproductive health; adolescent sexuality and rights; gender and women’s rights; health; migrant rights; local self governance; right to information and entitlements; environment and climate change; governance; democracy and freedom ofexpression
