GiveWell

Advisor

• Build long-term, trust-based relationships with major donors that deepen donors’ understanding of GiveWell’s work.
• Proactively identify the insights, data points, and narratives from GiveWell’s research that are most relevant to major donor decision-making.
• Drive and lead team-wide initiatives and significant projects to make our work accessible, from learning journey design, playbooks, and systems to donor events and donor communications.
• Translate GiveWell’s research into original donor-facing content that makes our work accessible to analytically sophisticated, time-poor major donors.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to GiveWell’s leadership.
• Drive improvements to our philanthropy culture, systems, and processes to improve how our philanthropy function operates and scales.

Senior Philanthropy Advisor

Research Scientist

• Create and lead ambitious research agendas related to our portfolios of work and answer complex questions that will inform GiveWell's grantmaking decisions.
• Join a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on water.
• Sift through the countless questions we could try to answer, and hone in on those that matter most.
• Communicate externally about your work and mentor and advise other researchers on the team.
• Shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions the GiveWell water team faces.
• Own grant investigations end-to-end (from research question through grant recommendation) and represent GiveWell to external counterparts.

Senior Water Researcher

• You will be joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on vaccination.
• You’ll sift through the countless questions we could try to answer, and home in on those that matter most.
• You’ll also communicate externally about your work and mentor and advise other researchers on the team.
• You will shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions the GiveWell vaccination team faces.
• Your work will combine empirical evidence review and critical synthesis, cost-effectiveness modeling, discussions with subject matter experts, understanding of the broader context, and your own judgment.
• The Senior Vaccination Researcher will help shape a major annual grantmaking portfolio, own grant investigations end-to-end (from research question through grant recommendation), and represent GiveWell to external counterparts.

Senior Vaccination Researcher

General

• Take primary responsibility for a significant grantmaking portfolio, setting its strategy
• Sift through funding opportunities to focus on those that matter most
• Communicate externally about work and mentor other team members
• Build and lead a grantmaking portfolio that brings rigor and creativity to funding problems
• Combine rigorous review of empirical evidence with your own judgment to decide what to fund

Senior Program Officer

• You will be joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on nutrition. You'll sift through the countless questions we could try to answer, and hone in on those that matter most.
• You'll also communicate externally about your work and mentor and advise other researchers on the team.
• You will shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions the GiveWell nutrition team faces. Your work will combine empirical evidence review and critical synthesis, cost-effectiveness modeling, discussions with subject matter experts, understanding of the broader context, and your own judgment.
• Tackle thorny research questions in our existing portfolios. For example: how should we calibrate our cost-effectiveness estimates to real-world program performance?
• Design and oversee learning grants. You'll help design impact evaluations for new and existing programs, and supervise researchers executing that work — from scoping the research question through to interpreting results and integrating them into our models.
• Build our evidence base in new programmatic areas. This includes synthesising existing research, commissioning new research, and in some cases funding primary data collection — with the goal of determining whether a new intervention meets GiveWell's cost-effectiveness bar and is ready for major grantmaking.
• Provide research support to grantmakers. You'll ensure our cost-effectiveness models reflect our best current understanding of the programs we fund, by stress-testing assumptions, incorporating new data, and flagging where uncertainty is high enough to warrant further investigation.

Senior Nutrition Researcher

• You'll create and lead ambitious research agendas related to our portfolios of work and answer complex questions that will inform GiveWell's grantmaking decisions.
• You'll sift through the countless questions we could try to answer, and hone in on those that matter most.
• You'll communicate externally about your work and mentor and advise other researchers on the team.
• You will shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions the GiveWell new areas team faces.

Senior Researcher, New Areas

• You will be joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on malaria.
• You’ll sift through the countless questions we could try to answer, and honing in on those that matter most.
• You’ll also communicate externally about your work and mentor and advise other researchers on the team.
• You will shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions the GiveWell malaria team faces.
• Your work will combine empirical evidence review and critical synthesis, cost-effectiveness modeling, discussions with subject matter experts, understanding of the broader context, and your own judgment.

Senior Malaria Researcher

• You will be joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on livelihoods.
• You’ll sift through the countless questions we could try to answer, honing in on those that matter most.
• You’ll also communicate externally about your work and advise other researchers on the team.
• You will shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions the GiveWell livelihoods team faces.
• Your work will combine empirical evidence review and critical synthesis, cost-effectiveness modeling, discussions with subject matter experts, and your own judgment.

Senior Livelihoods Researcher

• Shape ambitious research agendas that inform grantmaking decisions across the organization
• Partner with grantmaking teams to pressure-test and extend their work
• Conduct empirical evidence reviews and model cost-effectiveness
• Mentor and advise junior researchers

Senior Cross-Cutting Researcher

• Join a small grantmaking team and execute ambitious research agendas
• Analyze interventions and provide recommendations for cost-effectiveness
• Build cost-effectiveness models to estimate costs and benefits of interventions
• Review specific grantmaking opportunities and assess their potential
• Tackle complex research questions and develop creative approaches
• Build relationships with experts and publish findings on research

Researcher

Accountant

• Owning accounts payable and employee expense processes.
• Supporting month-end and quarterly close.
• Performing and improving our monthly bank reconciliation process.
• Triaging and responding to finance-related staff questions.
• Supporting annual compliance processes.

Staff Accountant

• Owning revenue reconciliation. You’ll reconcile donations from several payment platforms including bank deposits, securities, and cryptocurrency to a CRM system for the purpose of general ledger uploads and ultimately regranting to charities.
• Preparing the quarterly grants reconciliation. You’ll perform our quarterly reconciliation from the general ledger to our grants database, which ensures liabilities are accurately recorded, grants are correctly attributed by grantee, funds are allocated properly from our Top Charities and All Grants Funds, and that our net asset rollforward reconciles.
• Assisting with higher-complexity close processes. You’ll participate in close processes beyond revenue and grants by reconciling investments and recording entries for more complex areas such as lease amortization, intercompany grants, and accrued vacation.
• Supporting audit and tax compliance. You’ll draft portions of the financial statements and related footnotes, prepare Form 990 support documents, and work closely with our auditors and 990 preparers alongside the Controller.
• Driving process improvement. You’ll help update our workflows, particularly around the grants reconciliation process, serving as a thought partner to the Controller on how we build a more efficient and scalable finance function.
• Mentoring the Staff Accountant. You’ll serve as a go-to resource and sounding board as they grow in their role.