Research, Quality and Impact Lead

You safeguard the rigour of what YouthShare publishes and claims: method and sources, the external review you will set up, a sound reading of impact indicators.

Read the full role description on our website: full role description

HOW TO APPLY: PLEASE READ

You can apply here on Idealist, but you must also apply on our website, even if you have already sent your application on Idealist. On the website you present your background, attach your CV and receive your application reference by email.

Apply on our website: apply for this role on youthshareinitiatives.org

THE ROLE AT A GLANCE

• Level: Lead

• Time: 6 to 10 hours a week

• Commitment: at least one year, fully voluntary role

• Location: fully remote, from any country

• Languages: English or French, ideally both

• Applications open until 31 January 2027. This listing may close earlier, as soon as the right person is found.

• Role page: youthshareinitiatives.org

TWO MONTHLY MEETINGS

As a Lead, you take part in two meetings every month. You must be able to align your team around shared goals and to organise and run its meetings.

ABOUT THE TEAM

YouthShare’s analyses draw on data: climate, employment, education, demography. The team turns it into clear charts, maps and infographics, and measures the association’s impact.

YOUR ASSIGNMENTS

• Set the method and sourcing standards for publications, with the editorial team and within the editorial charter

• Build a pool of external reviewers, specialists in the labs’ themes, and organise their reviews of research notes and reports, two formats in preparation

• Advise authors of research notes on their method, from the initial question to publication

• Interpret the impact indicators tracked in Salesforce (Outcome Management) with the Impact Evaluation Officer, and turn them into recommendations for the Board and the labs

• Check that every public claim YouthShare makes rests on evidence: the association’s records, the published site, cited sources

• Lead the data, impact and visualisation team: priorities, requests from the labs, review of charts and data processing

• Review the annual impact report before it goes out

• Represent your team on YouthShare’s coordination team

PROFILE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Research training in the social sciences, economics, statistics or a related field

• A firm grasp of method: sources, data, limitations, reproducibility

• A taste for evidence and a feel for nuance

• Experience leading a team or a research project

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience of peer review, academic publishing or monitoring and evaluation

• Hands-on use of Salesforce or another indicator-tracking tool

• Good English and French

WHAT THIS ROLE GIVES YOU

• Leading research quality at an international think-action tank

• Connections with specialists in each of the labs’ themes

• A seat on YouthShare’s coordination team

A VOLUNTEER ROLE, OPEN TO YOUNG PEOPLE

Every role we offer is fully voluntary. The experience we ask for can come from a course, a student project, an internship, volunteering or a personal project: every skill counts, wherever you gained it. We weigh your motivation and potential as carefully as your track record.

HOW SELECTION WORKS

• Online application on our website: apply online

• Profile review: the Talent team reads every application and sends a first reply by email within three days on average.

• Video interview: a conversation to get to know each other and shape the assignment together.

• Decision and arrival: our answer by email, then a welcome to the team and access to its tools.

If you need an adjustment to apply or to take part in an interview, write to hr@youthshareinitiatives.org

ABOUT YOUTHSHARE INITIATIVES

YouthShare Initiatives is an international think-action tank and a French non-profit (Act of 1 July 1901). It brings young people from around the world together in five labs to think together, then act: research, debate, mentoring and foresight. Discover us: youthshareinitiatives.org

APPLY ON OUR WEBSITE (REQUIRED, EVEN IF YOU APPLIED ON IDEALIST)

• Apply for this role

• Read the full role description

• See all our open roles

RÉSUMÉ EN FRANÇAIS

Responsable de la recherche, de la qualité et de l’impact : Vous veillez à la rigueur de ce que YouthShare publie et affirme : méthode et sources, avis externes à mettre en place, lecture des indicateurs d’impact.

Poste bénévole, à distance, pour au moins un an · 6 à 10 h par semaine. Candidatures jusqu'au 31 janvier 2027.

En tant que lead, vous participez à deux réunions par mois : vous devez savoir fédérer votre équipe et organiser ses réunions.

Même si vous postulez sur Idealist, vous devez aussi postuler sur notre site : postuler sur youthshareinitiatives.org

Fiche de poste en français : lire la fiche