Research Associate, Health and Climate Change – Global & Remote

Position Title: Research Associate

Location: Remote, with potential travel to project sites

Duration: 12 months (with possibility of extension)

Reports to: Research Lead 

Are you an early career researcher who thrives at the intersection of health, climate, and innovation? Do you enjoy working on initiatives that bridge research, design, and systems thinking? If you’re a motivated and self-driven professional looking for an opportunity to grow while contributing to impactful work, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Initiatives

Halla Health is a digital climate-resilient self-care companion. This platform seeks to equip individuals, starting with pilot sites in India, and select locations in Africa and Europe, with support to manage their physical and mental health amid the growing impacts of climate change.

CHART (Climate x Health Adaptation and Resilience Tool) is a collaborative initiative to develop a data to action platform supporting local actors to generate and translate evidence on the connections between climate and health into action.

The Joint Learning Network’s Climate-Smart Health Systems Collaborative, supported by the World Bank Climate and Health Program, promotes peer-to-peer learning among JLN member countries and selected non-JLN countries to address the challenge of accessing practical, implementation-related knowledge on climate change in the health sector.

All initiatives bridge research, design, and systems thinking, grounding insights in lived experience to make health and climate systems more equitable, adaptive, and people-centered.

Purpose of the Role

The Research Associate will play a key role in advancing evidence generation and learning across the above initiatives. This position is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of research and design – someone who can move fluidly from literature review to field survey to analysis and interpretation, bringing rigor and creativity to every step.

You’ll help shape mixed methods research, ensure data quality, synthesize emerging insights, and strengthen our shared learning across teams and partners.

Key Responsibilities

1. Literature Review and Evidence Synthesis

• Conduct targeted and systematic literature reviews on topics such as self-care practices, climate and health linkages, health systems adaptation, etc.
• Synthesize and communicate insights to inform ongoing research design and strategy.
• Track emerging trends and innovations in the climate and health field.
• Update existing literature databases and libraries accordingly.

2. Research Design and Implementation

• Contribute to the design of mixed methods studies, including development of research questions, sampling strategies, and tools.
• Support survey design, field implementation, and data collection and monitoring activities, including with partner teams.
• Ensure ethical, inclusive, and contextually grounded research practices.

3. Data Management and Analysis

• Support setup and management of research databases and data systems.
• Conduct data analyses (quantitative, qualitative skills are a plus).
• Contribute to data synthesis, visualization, and interpretation for internal and external learning.

4. Research Support

• Support research activities across Scope teams, collaborators, and field partners.
• Support organized documentation of protocols, instruments, datasets, and outputs.
• Contribute to ethics applications, progress reports, and other documentation as needed.

5. Knowledge Translation and Learning

• Contribute to internal and external knowledge products—summaries, briefs, and presentations that make research findings accessible and actionable.
• Participate in reflection and learning sessions that inform adaptive research and design approaches.
• Support integration of research insights into program and product development.

Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s degree or doctorate in public health, environmental health, or related field; .
• 3-5 years of experience in applied research in public health, preference for direct experience with climate and health, digital health
• Proven experience with:
  • conducting literature reviews and acquaintance with Mendeley, reference management software
  • designing and implementing surveys and other forms of quantitative data collection, and
  • engaging in mixed methods research.
• Proficiency with quantitative data analysis and relevant software (e.g., Stata, R), experience with qualitative analysis is a plus
• Strong analytical and writing skills, with the ability to translate data into clear, compelling insights.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience working collaboratively across disciplines and cultures.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication as well as strong presentation skills, other languages a plus
• Knowledge of user-centred design is desirable

If you’re a motivated and self-driven professional looking for an opportunity to grow while contributing to impactful work, we’d love to hear from you.

Why join us?

You’ll be part of a purpose-driven, global team working at the intersection of health, climate, and equity. This is a chance to work with a growing impact-focused organization that values collaborative, inclusive innovation and creative solutions.

To apply, send a CV and an introductory letter to [email protected] latest by the 15th of November 2025. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.