Research Consultant

Research Consultant

Application Deadline: 9 October 2026

Department: Research

Employment Type: Contract / Temp

Location: Global - Remote

Description

Application Deadline: Rolling applications, until a suitable candidate is found

Duration: An initial contract of three months, extendable depending on Research team need and performance

Start date: As soon as possible, within the next two months

Hours: Part time or full time, at least 10-12 hours per week

Location: Remote, open to candidates based anywhere in the world

Time Zone: A couple of working hours a day of overlap with Central European time zone is required

Language Requirements: Full professional proficiency in English

Salary: Based on experience and location

How to apply: Fill out this application form

Contact: [email protected]

LEEP is seeking a Research Consultant to refine and update our cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), the public model we maintain to make transparent, evidence-based decisions about where to focus our resources. The work is a focused refinement of the existing model, alongside a small number of high-priority research questions on the burden and prevalence of lead exposure in low- and middle-income countries.This role offers the opportunity to shape the evidence base behind LEEP’s resource allocation decisions, with the reasoning published in our public CEA explainers.You will be updating LEEP’s existing model rather than building a new one, and final assumption choices rest with LEEP.

Key Responsibilities

Model Updating

• Update the model with current internal program and cost data
• Strengthen economic and demographic inputs, including population growth, urbanisation, beneficiary cohorts, and currency and cost-of-living adjustments
• Produce updated CEA model components using the best available assumptions and the latest cost data

Research & Analysis

• Run short, prioritised deep dives into a small number of high-uncertainty, high-stakes assumptions (e.g., industry compliance costs, updated burden-of-disease data, counterfactual attribution, paint’s contribution to blood lead levels)
• Prioritise these deep dives only where uncertainty is high, material to the result, and plausibly resolvable through further research
• Address high-priority research questions on estimating the burden and prevalence of lead exposure in low- and middle-income countries

Reporting & Communications

• Write a rationale for each material change, suitable for LEEP’s public CEA explainers
• Draft content for a blog post announcing the update

What We’re Looking For

A successful applicant will possess most of the following:

• Experience with cost-effectiveness analysis or similar quantitative public health or economic research
• A quantitative degree (economics, public health, statistics, or a related field)
• High attention to detail, and the judgement to distinguish what matters more from what matters less
• Comfortable working independently with limited day-to-day oversight
• Good judgement on prioritisation, with an ability to make sensible calls on where to spend limited time across competing research threads

Benefits of Working with LEEP

LEEP offers:

• A chance to have a large positive impact on the world, and improve hundreds of thousands of lives
• Experience working with an early-stage, fast growing, high-impact and evidence-based nonprofit
• Flexible work arrangements
• Supportive, collaborative team environment