Research Associate, Data Scientist, Research Scientist

Communication for Change (C4C) is a social enterprise that applies a Research-to-Messaging approach in public-interest communication.

We never hire people to be our little assistants. We nurture them to replace their bosses and eventually become equity partners.

We don’t care about which schools you graduated from or the degrees you hold. We care about your skills and how you can enrich our work culture.

Minorities founded Communication for Change, and it is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, religion, disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation.

To support the work of the Consultant, Principal Consultant, and Research Manager in providing consulting services, especially in research-to-messaging projects.

• Lead research project management and planning so that C4C’s research best practices and quality standards are fulfilled, including managing research vendors and partners
• Contribute to the development of research design, instruments, analysis plan, and publications
• Write programming code to clean, process, and analyze data according to C4C’s best coding practices
• Contribute to the development of internal research resources
• Manage the paperwork and documentation of the project
• Contribute to the development and management of our open data platform, Lab Narasi
• Collaborate with other teams within C4C, especially the messaging team

Since communication in C4C always combines research with creativity, we expect the same qualities from our Research Associate. We know that it’s rare to expect someone equally strong in both, but to thrive in C4C, everyone must possess strong analytical and writing skills.

The expected qualities and requirements are:

• Fresh graduates are welcome to apply if you possess sufficient experience in research projects
  , particularly in quantitative research, preferably with a background in economics or any other quantitative major, and have some proficiency in any data programming languages:
  Stata, R, or Python.
• Demonstrates exceptional project management skills
  , including planning, executing, and monitoring multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring timely delivery and meeting organizational objectives. Skilled in stakeholder coordination, resource allocation, and risk management, with a track record of delivering high‑impact results in dynamic and fast‑paced environments.
• Highly skilled in written communication in both English and Indonesian
• Read in advanced English (for example, articles in scientific journals, or The Economist, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic) and comprehend the content accurately
• Write well in both English and Indonesian: synthesize theses or main points, draft outlines, construct paragraphs, and write strong sentences (C4C has specific styles for reports, presentations, proposals, and even emails).
• Highly skilled in analytical thinking
  , in other words, applying the fundamentals of the scientific method in day‑to‑day situations: ask good questions, observe, identify patterns, generate hypotheses and their counterfactuals, use methods to test the hypotheses, and draw interim conclusions.
• Sufficient numeric reasoning skills to decipher the meaning behind numbers
  , weigh probability, and make decisions or predictions; those who understand statistics for social science will have an advantage.
• Self‑disciplined
  : 100% accountable remote workers who are worthy of having 100% autonomy in how they deliver their job: break down their work into progressive milestones or checkpoints, resolve loose ends and lack of clarity, meet deadlines, anticipate obstructions to plans.
• Appreciation toward social and behavioral science
  : valuing the study of how people think, feel, and act in different situations.
• Calm and confident communicators
• Speak clearly and intelligently about complex ideas and strategies
• Persuade clients and colleagues to see the situation as they see it
• Adapt their approach in real‑time to ensure a winning outcome, regardless of the…