Senior Communications Research and Impact Advisor

Responsibilities

• Shape the research agenda
• Establish impact evaluation
• Extend research support across disciplines
• Grow shared research capability

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, market research, social or behavioral sciences, statistics, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 8 or more years in communications research, public opinion research, measurement and evaluation, or strategic intelligence, including leading complex programs from design to recommendation and directing external research partners.
• Experience supporting corporate communications or public affairs, in-house or at an agency or research firm, with a clear understanding of how communications strategies are developed and executed.
• Strong research skills across methods, including survey design, sampling, weighting, bias, and statistical uncertainty, and the design or critical review of interviews, focus groups, and open-ended responses.
• Hands-on experience with research platforms and providers such as Qualtrics, Morning Consult, and RepTrak, and the ability to analyze data directly.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate communications contribution: defining audience outcomes, choosing feasible evaluation designs, and judging what the evidence supports.
• Experience using media and social intelligence to interpret narratives and emerging issues, including judging query relevance, source coverage, automated classification, and the limits of audience inference. Sound news and public affairs judgment.
• Experience using AI tools in research and analysis, such as coding open-ended responses, synthesizing findings, or analyzing media coverage, with appropriate validation and human review.
• Experience building or significantly improving a research, insights, or evaluation practice, with evidence that other teams adopted it.
• Executive-ready writing and presentation skills, with a track record of research that changed senior leaders’ decisions.

Preferred

• In-house Corporate Affairs or Corporate Communications experience at a large company, including responsibility for developing or executing communications strategies or programs.
• Graduate degree in a research-intensive discipline.
• Research experience across several disciplines, such as earned media, paid media, advocacy, internal communications, or corporate reputation.
• Experience in energy or another industry with complex public policy and reputational issues.
• Experience working with legal, compliance, and privacy teams on research and intelligence activities.
• Established relationships with third-party research and media intelligence providers.

Benefits

• Chevron offers competitive compensation and benefits programs which includes, but is not limited to, variable pay, health care coverage, retirement plan, protection coverage, time off and leave programs, training and development opportunities and a range of allowances connected to specific work situations. Details are available at http://hr2.chevron.com/.