Chayn Is Hiring: £40–45K Role for Experienced Researcher to Lead Global Study on Intimacy and Image-Based Abuse
Location: Remote (Global)
Contract Type: Freelance
Duration: Until November 2025, with potential extension
Working Hours: 30 hours per week (4 days), with core collaborative hours from 2–6 PM UK time
Salary: £40,000–£45,000 per annum (pro-rata)
Application Deadline: 9 June 2025
About Chayn
Chayn is an award-winning, open-source feminist collective using technology to support survivors of gender-based violence globally. Founded in 2013, Chayn provides trauma-informed, multilingual resources that are survivor-led and openly accessible. With a strong commitment to intersectionality, the organisation designs digital tools and services that help women and marginalised communities reclaim safety and healing.
Over 500,000 people have accessed Chayn’s resources, which include practical guides, research, and Bloom a remote trauma support service delivered through partnerships with platforms like Bumble and Badoo. Uniquely, up to 70% of Chayn’s volunteers are survivors themselves, ensuring authentic, lived-experience leadership across its work.
Operating as a fully remote team across time zones, Chayn combines grassroots insight with digital innovation to address tech-facilitated abuse and challenge systems of oppression. It is one of the few feminist organisations producing open-licensed content and tools focused on ending online and offline violence against women and gender minorities.
Project Overview
Chayn is initiating a long-term, open research project to build a cultural map of what “intimate” means around the world. The first segment of this project will focus on Pakistan and its diaspora, aiming to understand how cultural contexts influence perceptions of intimacy and image-based abuse (IBA). The findings will inform advocacy, policy, and digital platform guidelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct Interviews: Carry out at least 10 interviews with IBA experts and 20 interviews with women and gender minorities in Pakistan or the Pakistani diaspora.
- Organize Workshops: Facilitate three online workshops with survivors of IBA to gather qualitative data.
- Data Analysis: Analyze and synthesize interview and workshop data to identify themes and insights.
- Reporting: Prepare a comprehensive report reflecting the findings, to be shared with the internal team and potentially published.
- Collaboration: Work closely with the Head of Movement Building and Policy, who will provide support in identifying interviewees and questions.
Required Qualifications
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years in qualitative research, with a focus on gender-based violence and trauma-informed methodologies.
- Cultural Competence: Experience working in the Global South and across diverse cultural contexts, with a deep understanding of intersectionality and systems of oppression.
- Research Skills: Proven ability to design and conduct research projects, including data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Language Proficiency: Fluency in English; proficiency in Urdu or other languages spoken in Pakistan is advantageous.
Desirable Attributes
- Technical Skills: Experience with multimedia research outputs, such as film, photography, and storytelling.
- Facilitation Experience: Ability to facilitate online workshops and create inclusive research environments.
- Digital Literacy: Familiarity with digital tools and platforms for remote research and communication.
Application Process
- Submit Application: Click the ‘Apply’ button on the Chayn website.
- Provide Documents: Submit your CV and a video (max 2 minutes) outlining your interest in the role, relevant experience, and approach to the work.
- Shortlisting: Candidates will be shortlisted based on their application materials.
- Task Assignment: Selected candidates will receive a task to prepare ahead of the interview.
- Interview: Discuss the task and your qualifications in an interview.
- References: Provide two references upon request.
Inclusion Statement
Chayn is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible work environment. We encourage applications from individuals who have experienced exclusion, disadvantage, or discrimination, or who have particular accessibility needs. We are particularly interested in candidates from the Global South, people of colour, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, and survivors of abuse.
For more information and to apply, visit the Chayn Careers page.
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