About The Position
ISD is seeking a Digital Methods Consultant to lead the digital research and survey components of two parallel research projects. The consultant will work alongside qualitative analysts to pull and prepare public social media data, run quantitative analyses, and design and oversee representative surveys. Project 1 focuses on information manipulation targeting Germany's economic interests, examining manipulated narratives about Germany in Brazil, India, and South Africa. Project 2 investigates climate disinformation and its impact on public discourse in Austria, mapping the climate-disinformation ecosystem and measuring how exposure shapes attitudes to climate policy. The role involves digital research, data collection, survey design, fielding, analysis, triangulation of findings, reporting, and stakeholder support.
Requirements
- Methodological rigour in digital research methods
- Hands-on experience in survey design, fielding, and analysis
- Strong proficiency in German
Responsibilities
- Collect public social media data via platform research APIs and other tools, and troubleshoot platform-specific access constraints.
- Operationalise the narrative salience and relative traction frameworks, ensuring measurement is consistent and defensible across contexts.
- Run quantitative analyses of spread, engagement, and cross-platform diffusion; contribute to actor and narrative mapping.
- Maintain keyword lists, actor lists, and codebooks, documented for reproducibility and audit.
- Translate qualitative findings into structured survey instruments, retaining a common core for cross-country comparability (Project 1) and supporting German-language instruments (Project 2).
- Specify sampling, weighting, translation, and cognitive pre-testing requirements, and develop quality-assurance protocols for fielding.
- Manage local survey partners, including tendering and contracting support (Project 1).
- Lead analysis of weighted survey data, including subgroup analysis and basic inferential statistics, and ensure data handling complies with applicable data-protection and ethical standards.
- Triangulate survey findings with qualitative evidence to produce policy-relevant insights.
- Contribute methodological and analytical sections to each project's core deliverables.
- Support validation/roundtable sessions with stakeholders, presenting methods and findings accessibly.
- Flag methodological risks to the project lead and contribute to adaptive course-correction.
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