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Chevron is accepting online applications for the position Senior Communications Research and Impact Advisor through 11/20/2026 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time .
About the role
Chevron communicators make high-stakes decisions about reputation, advocacy, and employee engagement every day. This role shapes how evidence informs those decisions.
As the senior research and evaluation lead in Global Communications, you will set research priorities, develop the function’s approach to evaluating impact, and establish a regular read on how narratives are shifting. You will start with the work that matters most to the business and extend the practice across earned media, paid media, advocacy, and internal and leadership communications as it matures.
The role is hands-on. You will write instruments, analyze data yourself, and direct specialist partners when a project needs more expertise or fieldwork capacity. This is an individual contributor role.
About the team
Corporate Affairs manages social, political, and reputational risks for Chevron and engages the workforce to advance the business. Within Global Communications, the AI, Data & Insights team brings together research, intelligence, measurement, and insights to help communicators set priorities, sharpen strategy, anticipate issues, and understand how their work contributes to Corporate Affairs objectives.
We ground communications strategy in a deeper understanding of audiences and issues, provide intelligence to help teams anticipate and navigate the broader public affairs environment, and use measurement and insights to assess where communications are making a difference. Working across owned, earned, paid, and internal communications, we help teams make informed decisions, evaluate effectiveness, and focus their efforts where they can have the greatest impact.
What you will do
Shape the research agenda
Establish and run a prioritized research and intelligence portfolio. Recommend scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs based on the decisions leaders need to make.
Lead quantitative and qualitative studies end to end, from research questions through design, fieldwork, analysis, and recommendations.
Set the standards for directing external research, evaluation, and intelligence partners, including clear briefs, methodological standards, confidentiality requirements, timelines, and budgets. Resolve delivery issues and manage scope changes with contract owners.
Establish impact evaluation
Develop a consistent way to measure audience outcomes against communication objectives before priority work launches, including baselines, data sources, comparison groups, and timing.
Build and refine shared methods for assessing the contribution of campaigns, programs, and channels within Chevron’s communications measurement framework. Work with analytics specialists to close gaps in attribution and comparability.
Produce assessments that separate observed change, association, and causal evidence. State the uncertainty, name alternative explanations, and challenge conclusions the evidence does not support.
Extend research support across disciplines
Paid media. Guide prelaunch message and creative testing and in-market effectiveness research with paid media and agency partners.
Advocacy. Guide issue research, public opinion studies, and message testing in priority jurisdictions. Interpret results in the context of policy and stakeholder dynamics.
Internal and leadership communications. Lead research on employee understanding of enterprise priorities, leadership messages, and change. Distinguish awareness, perceived understanding, and demonstrated comprehension.
Earned media and reputation. Direct media and social analysis that connects audience research, competitive intelligence, and business context to spot shifts in narratives and stakeholder perceptions. Advise on responses and escalate significant findings to issue owners.
Grow shared research capability
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