Research Fellow (Systems Strengthening)

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: 30^th April 2027

The Opportunity: 

Childlight, a global child safety institute, is looking for a Research Fellow to undertake research to improve what we know globally about child protections systems’ capability to deal with child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). This research will inform the Childlight Into the Light global index, particularly in relation to policing data, with potential expansion to additional sectors such as health, education or justice in subsequent years. This will include contributing to the development of review and verification plans to validate country-based systems data.  

The post holder will identify and analyse systemic gaps and opportunities in data use for improved child protection systems, developing practical, evidence-based toolkits, promising practice briefs and minimum standards documentation. 

You will have strong research and analytical skills, experience of working with different types of data, (such as law enforcement, health, child protection or education data), or nationally and/or sub-nationally representative surveys that measure CSEA.  

Your skills and attributes for success:  

• Strong experience of and interest in working across research methods.  

• Experience of working with prevalence and administrative data 

• Experience of practice / paid / voluntary/research work with children and young people living with disabilities 

• Expertise in the area of child sexual exploitation and abuse research or related field that has had a demonstrable impact 

• Experience of knowledge exchange through effective public engagement. 

• Growing portfolio of high-quality research publications in child protection or public health research 

• A passion for making the world a better place and preventing CSEA, improving services and safeguarding children 

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