Research Associate

Job Description

Communiqué Advisory is the research and advisory arm of Communiqué, a media and intelligence company with readers in over 100 countries. We help brands understand and shape the conversations that matter in African markets. Our work covers reputation management, media relations, creator strategy, and research-led reporting. We bring the same rigour behind our journalism and research to every client account, and we operate in Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, and beyond.

Contract: 6-Month
Salary: ₦250,000 monthly

• Benchmarks: Run our five intake forms and give-to-get surveys. Collect rate cards, media kits, sponsorship decks and job ads. Interview media buyers, talent managers, recruiters and producers about what things really cost.
• Funding and money flow: Maintain the funder directory. Run the weekly sweep of every funder for new opportunities. Log past awards and deals so we can see each funder’s real cycle.
• Verification and provenance: Review every new record within a week. Record its source, confidence level and USD equivalent. Enforce the rule that no figure is published without at least five data points. If a number is modelled rather than verified, say so before anyone has to ask.
• Drafting: Write the member briefs on major funding calls, the monthly members’ Data Note and our quarterly benchmark reports, to a standard that needs editing rather than rewriting.
• Volunteer supervision: Brief, train, and review the work of three to five volunteers, who handle public desk research.
• Wider research support: Occasional figures and background for advisory, editorial and the Intelligence database, when the Founder asks.

Key Requirements

• 2 to 4 years of experience in research, data, journalism, policy, consulting, or a related field
• Genuine competence with desk research, including the stubbornness to keep going when the obvious sources come up empty
• Comfortable with spreadsheets and structured data; experience with Airtable or a similar tool is a plus; familiarity with survey tools and basic statistics such as medians, ranges and outliers
• Confident asking people about money (rates, salaries, budgets) and trusted to keep what they tell you confidential
• Able to brief junior volunteers and review their work without redoing it
• Clear, clean written English, with the discipline to cite properly
• Accuracy under deadline, and the confidence to say “I could not verify this” rather than filling the gap
• Interest in Africa’s media, culture, technology, or creative economy
• Able to manage your own priorities on a three-day week in a remote team