Careers
IPGA was incorporated in 2026. That means fewer certainties than an established organisation, and more room to shape what it becomes.
Being straight with you
We are a small, newly incorporated institute with a ten-member Board, a defined research programme and a peer-reviewed journal in its first volume. We are not a large organisation with settled processes and guaranteed budgets.
That cuts both ways. Early colleagues will have unusual influence over how the Institute works: what we research first, how we brief a ministry, how a training room is run. They will also work with fewer resources than they would elsewhere, and some roles depend on funding we are still securing.
If you want a defined job in a settled structure, this is not that yet. If you want to build one, we would like to hear from you.
What we look for
We hire against these, and we expect to be held to them in return.
In research, reporting, and the stewardship of every resource entrusted to us.
Centring the voices of men, women, boys, girls, and marginalised communities in everything we do.
Grounding every recommendation in sound data and analysis, not assumption.
Holding our own work to the same rigorous standard we ask of others.
Recognising that lasting change is built together, not alone.
Open now
We have no funded salaried vacancies advertised at present. These four routes are open, and we answer every one of them.
We are forming a Technical Advisory Committee of experts from academia, government and civil society, who review research and training outputs and lend their judgement to our work.
What we are looking for
We welcome corps members and university interns into research, communications and programme support. You will work on live outputs, not filing.
NYSC placements depend on the Institute completing registration as a recognised placement organisation. Write to us and we will tell you exactly where that stands.
We engage facilitators for training on gender-responsive budgeting, institutional gender mainstreaming, policy analysis and brief-writing.
What we are looking for
Postgraduate researchers and early-career analysts who want to contribute to a policy brief or literature review, with proper authorship credit for the work you do.
Building toward
These roles are in our start-up plan but are not yet funded vacancies. We list them so you can see where the Institute is going, and so you can register interest before they are advertised.
Leading research design, fieldwork and drafting across the policy areas.
Not yet openBookkeeping, procurement, and the record-keeping discipline that survives an audit.
Not yet openPublishing our work, running our channels, and keeping this website current.
Not yet openSupporting fieldwork, data collection and literature review.
Not yet openKeeping the Keffi office running.
Not yet openHow we hire
A short note on why this work, and a CV. No cover letter of three pages; tell us what you would want to work on.
A proper conversation about the work, what you would bring, and what we can and cannot offer at this stage.
A short, paid-for-if-substantial task close to the actual job: a brief summary, a session outline. We do not set unpaid multi-day exercises.
References, and safeguarding checks proportionate to the role. Everyone hears back, including if the answer is no.
Our commitment to you
An institute working on gender equity has to be judged by its own practice. We welcome applications regardless of sex, disability, ethnicity, religion, state of origin or age, and we particularly encourage women and people from groups under-represented in policy research to apply.
Apply
We would rather hear from a good person early than advertise into silence later. Tell us what you do and what you would want to work on, and we will keep it on file and come back to you when something opens.
