Senior Communications Research and Impact Advisor

About the role

Chevron is hiring a Senior Communications Research and Impact Advisor in Houston, Texas, as the research and evaluation lead in Global Communications. The role sets research priorities, develops the function's approach to measuring impact and keeps a regular read on how narratives are shifting. It is an individual contributor role: you write instruments, analyze data yourself and direct specialist partners when a project needs more expertise or fieldwork capacity.

The team sits in Corporate Affairs' AI, Data & Insights group, which helps communicators set priorities, anticipate issues and measure the contribution of their work across owned, earned, paid and internal communications.

Key responsibilities

• Shape the research agenda: run a prioritized research and intelligence portfolio and lead quantitative and qualitative studies end to end.
• Set standards for external research, evaluation and intelligence partners, including briefs, methodology, confidentiality, timelines and budgets.
• Establish impact evaluation: define audience outcomes, baselines and comparison groups, and produce assessments that separate observed change, association and causal evidence.
• Support paid media, advocacy, internal and leadership communications, and earned media and reputation research.
• Create reusable survey instruments, media monitoring queries and measures, and apply AI tools with validation and human review.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in communications, market research, social or behavioral sciences, statistics, business or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in communications research, public opinion research, measurement and evaluation or strategic intelligence, including leading complex programs and directing external partners.
• Experience supporting corporate communications or public affairs, in-house or at an agency or research firm.
• Experience building or improving a research, insights or evaluation practice that other teams adopted.
• Executive-ready writing and presentation skills, with a track record of research that changed senior leaders' decisions.

Required skills

• Survey design, sampling, weighting, bias and statistical uncertainty; interviews, focus groups and open-ended responses.
• Hands-on experience with Qualtrics, Morning Consult and RepTrak, and direct data analysis.
• Media and social intelligence, and experience using AI tools in research and analysis.

What we offer

• Anticipated salary range of $158,600 - $237,800 for U.S. payroll offers.
• Benefits including variable pay, health care, retirement plan, protection coverage, time off, training and development, and allowances.
• Relocation will be considered; expatriate assignments and visa sponsorship are not considered.