GiveDirectly

Director

• Own GiveDirectly’s strategic learning and measurement agenda
• Define and drive org-wide prioritization of impact learning questions
• Provide oversight for GiveDirectly’s research portfolio
• Support product design decisions with evidence and analysis
• Build and lead a small, highly leveraged team

Research Director – District Transformation, Cash, Coaching

Chief of Staff

• Own EC goal performance monitoring systems, dashboards, and review processes to ensure visibility into key metrics, priorities, and outcomes.
• Drive strategic planning and goal-setting processes, helping the team align around clear objectives and measurable results.
• Improve operating rhythms, meeting structures, and decision-making processes to maximize team effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain evergreen systems, playbooks, and operating resources that increase institutional knowledge and execution quality.
• Develop and advance an EC ‘Brand as Access strategy,’ positioning GD’s Emergency Cash public profile to ensure recipient trust and unlock relationships with mobile network operators, financial service providers, governments and other stakeholders.
• Partner across GiveDirectly to ensure EC messaging for access is consistent, compelling, aligned across external-facing channels and integrated and aligned with our fundraising and systems change messaging.
• Own the creation and maintenance of core EC collateral, including pitch decks, webpages, FAQs, briefing materials, one-pagers, and strategic narratives.
• Support the management of GiveDirectly’s strategic Mobile Network Operator (MNO) partnerships by coordinating engagement plans, tracking commitments, and ensuring timely follow-up on key actions across partners and internal teams.
• Lead high-priority strategic initiatives that advance Emergency Cash objectives and team effectiveness.

Chief of Staff – Emergency Cash, Senior Manager

Recruitment

• Manage and coach the team (currently two managers, five ICs) to develop as true business partners
• Build a team culture of accountability, proactive ownership, and continuous improvement
• Create clarity on roles, workload, and capacity across the team
• Manage the transition of external contractor support as internal team capacity grows
• Personally advise, as needed, on the most complex, senior, and high-stakes searches (Director+, technical, or time-sensitive roles)
• Own Greenhouse: configuration, data quality, reporting, and AI tooling — and lead the team's thoughtful integration of AI tools to improve speed and quality without compromising candidate experience
• Establish recruiting metrics that matter [time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, source effectiveness, hiring manager satisfaction] and use them to drive decisions
• Standardize and simplify processes across the full hiring lifecycle, from JD creation through offer
• Develop and embed structured interview frameworks and calibration practices that reduce bias and improve hiring quality
• Build hiring manager capability: role kick-off rigor, interview training, feedback calibration, and shared accountability for outcomes
• Build GiveDirectly's outbound sourcing capability from the ground up [this largely does not exist today]
• Develop sourcing strategies for the talent markets that matter most: global development, tech for good, field operations, and senior functional roles across Africa, Europe, and North America
• Build and maintain relationships with Africa-based recruiting networks for senior and hard-to-fill roles where standard channels fall short
• Create and maintain warm pipelines for critical role families, including passive candidates for Senior Manager+ positions
• Update and sharpen GiveDirectly's careers page and employer brand presence to attract the right talent across global markets
• Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to shift TA's role from reactive fulfillment to proactive planning
• Lead role criticality assessments, helping the business distinguish between backfills, growth hires, and strategic bets, and sequence recruiting resources accordingly
• Build and own headcount planning and management processes in partnership with Finance and People Ops, including scenario planning for significant potential growth
• Translate growth scenarios into staffing models, sourcing lead times, and capacity plans
• Advise on workforce planning, including succession gaps, role design, and organizational readiness for scale
• Contribute to building the data infrastructure that connects recruiting activity to org-level talent strategy

Director, Global Talent Acquisition

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Own and drive global budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes, in partnership with finance business partners and programmatic staff.
• Improve the tools and processes behind budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Conduct financial analyses across Programs, Growth, Product, and Shared Services to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Support initiatives such as cost-efficiency efforts, resource allocation analyses, and scenario planning.
• Help leaders in the organization identify and answer high-impact financial questions.

Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

Software Engineer

• Own the engineering organization for cash delivery platform
• Own multi-year technical strategy for the platform
• Protect and scale the culture as we grow
• Own engineering delivery
• Drive operational excellence
• Represent engineering at the leadership level
• Coach and develop engineers through 1:1s
• Set the technical quality bar

Director of Engineering

Analyst

• Lead geospatial analysis design: Work with the GiveDirectly research team to translate research hypotheses about market effects into testable geospatial proxies (e.g., agricultural intensification, road quality, population clustering, infrastructure development).
• Source and evaluate imagery options: Identify, assess, and procure satellite imagery or telecom data from various sources for study areas; evaluate data quality, temporal resolution, and suitability for hypothesis testing.
• Conduct exploratory analysis, and interpret findings: Execute spatial analysis on smaller samples of pilot data to detect changes in agricultural composition, cultivation intensity, infrastructure, and spatial patterns of economic activity.
• Develop repeatable analysis scripts: Build reproducible, well-documented code (Python/R/GIS tools) for automated detection and quantification of landscape and infrastructure changes over time.
• Document and communicate: Create clear technical documentation, methodology notes, and findings summaries suitable for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Research Director – District Transformation, Cash, Coaching

Chief of Staff – Emergency Cash, Senior Manager

Director, Global Talent Acquisition

Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

Director of Engineering

Remote Sensing Analyst