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Role Description GiveWell is seeking a Senior New Areas Researcher to help direct tens of millions of dollars annually to the most cost-effective interventions we can find. You will have an outsized influence on our funding decisions and help us save and improve lives on a global scale. The New Areas team grantmaking is divided into three workstreams: - Core cause areas: Areas for which we devote a significant amount of time developing subject-matter specific expertise and networks, a thorough research agenda, and a large portfolio of grants (e.g., family planning, maternal and newborn health, tuberculosis and HIV). - Emerging cause areas: A broader set of cause areas for which the New Areas team is starting to build its expertise, networks and research agenda, and is making some initial grants (e.g., medical oxygen, applications of AI to global health). - Incubators: Supporting the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Incubator and Evidence Action’s Accelerator to identify potentially cost-effective interventions and create programs that we would be excited to support in the future. As a Senior New Areas 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. The researchers on our team combine rigorous evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, and thoughtful judgment. What you might work on in your first year: - Tackle thorny research questions in our existing portfolios. - Design and oversee learning grants. - Build our evidence base in new programmatic areas. - Provide research support to grantmakers. The Senior New Areas 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. You'll have significant latitude to propose new areas of work. Qualifications - A quantitatively oriented advanced degree (e.g., in epidemiology, public health, economics, or a related field). - Substantial professional experience in global health, or an adjacent field (broadly defined). - Ability to get up to speed quickly on new topics and feel comfortable task-switching. Requirements - GiveWell’s mission and methods are personally energizing. - You’re abnormally curious and willing to interrogate others’ work. - You routinely think about and surface the value judgments that undergird your work. - You dislike it when people express strong confidence in views that don’t seem to rely on commensurate evidence. - You appreciate the value of an excellent reputation and strong relationships. - You love a gnarly problem and constantly assess whether you and the team are working on the most important things. Benefits - Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents). - Four weeks of paid time off per year, plus a one week organization-wide summer break. - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave. - Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships. - Automatic contribution equal to 5% of your gross salary into your 403(b) retirement plan (for U.S. based staff). Company Description GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free. Since 2007, we’ve directed over $2.6 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions. - GiveWell is one of the world’s largest private funders of global development efforts. - We estimate that the funding we’ve directed will save more than 340,000 lives. - GiveWell grants have helped governments implement high-impact health programs. - We never take for granted that GiveWell’s work is good for the world.

Role Description GiveWell is seeking a Senior Nutrition Researcher to help direct tens of millions of dollars annually to the most cost-effective nutrition interventions we can find. You will have an outsized influence on our funding decisions and help us save and improve lives on a global scale. As a 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. The researchers on our team combine rigorous evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, and thoughtful judgment. The role involves: - Joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on nutrition. - Sifting through questions to focus on those that matter most. - Communicating externally about your work and mentoring other researchers. - Shaping a research agenda that combines empirical evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, and critical synthesis. What you might work on in your first year: - Tackling thorny research questions in existing portfolios. - Designing and overseeing learning grants. - Building our evidence base in new programmatic areas. - Providing research support to grantmakers. Qualifications - A quantitatively oriented advanced degree (e.g., in epidemiology, statistics, economics, public health, nutrition or related fields). - Substantial professional experience relevant to nutrition, including roles in research, program design, implementation, or funding. Requirements - Curiosity and willingness to interrogate others’ work. - Ability to surface value judgments and strategic commitments in your work. - Strong communication skills, especially regarding confidence levels in findings. - Ability to assess whether the team is working on the most important questions. Benefits - Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% of premiums covered for you and dependents in the US). - Four weeks of paid time off per year, plus a one-week organization-wide summer break. - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave. - Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships. - Automatic contribution equal to 5% of your gross salary into your 403(b) retirement plan (for U.S. based staff).

Role Description GiveWell is seeking exceptional Senior Researchers to join our Cross-Cutting team—which is responsible for tackling thorny methodological questions, pressure-testing our conclusions, and ensuring research quality as we scale. You'll work on problems that span all of GiveWell's grantmaking areas and shape how we think about cost-effectiveness, uncertainty, and impact. This role is ideal for researchers who thrive on variety and complexity: - Develop frameworks for comparing health interventions to poverty alleviation programs. - Design a "lookback" study to assess whether past grants achieved their intended impact. - Incorporate local field insights into cost-effectiveness models. As part of our research team, you will have an outsized influence on our funding decisions and help us save and improve lives on a global scale. Qualifications - Quantitatively-oriented advanced degrees. - Substantial relevant experience using empirical tools to make rigorous, evidence-based decisions. - 5-10 years of post-grad work experience preferred. Requirements - Ability to tackle hard research questions, such as: - Valuing averting a death versus improving health outcomes versus increasing income. - Estimating burden of disease when data sources contradict each other. - Setting cost-effectiveness bars over time amidst unpredictable funding. - Advising donors on timing for giving. - Accounting for uncertainty in cost-effectiveness estimates. - Modeling spillover effects between health programs and income. - Determining appropriate discount rates. - Assessing unintended consequences of grantmaking. - Verification and learning: - Evaluating whether grants achieve predicted outcomes. - Learning from intensive "lookbacks" on past grants. - Catching potential issues like caseload inflation and data reliability early. - Incorporating field insights and external feedback into research. - Designing M&E systems that accurately assess grant effectiveness. - Improving forecasting skills and accuracy. - Building research infrastructure: - Training new researchers to be productive quickly. - Exploring AI tools to reduce research time without sacrificing quality. - Simplifying cost-effectiveness models for routine grants. - Building field networks for accurate data. - Creating user-friendly databases for M&E data and findings. Benefits - Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% of premiums covered within the US). - Four weeks of paid time off per year. - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave. - Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships. - 403(b) retirement plan. Company Description GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free. Since 2007, we’ve directed over $2.6 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions. - Helped governments implement high-impact health programs. - Funded program delivery alongside strengthened monitoring and evaluation. - Sought to scope and scale promising interventions. - Tested assumptions through further research.

Role Description GiveWell is seeking a Senior Vaccination Researcher to help us direct tens of millions of dollars annually to the most cost-effective vaccination programs that we can find. You will have an outsized influence on our funding decisions and help us save and improve lives on a global scale. Our vaccination grantmaking is focused on increasing coverage of routine immunization in children under the age of two in areas with high burden of vaccine-preventable disease. This has included: - Supporting targeted outreach and mobile vaccination - Demand-side incentives - Support for malaria vaccine rollout In the future, we may expand into new areas such as: - Campaigns - Subsidizing vaccine procurement - Supply chain support - Surveillance and outbreak response - R&D for vaccines or vaccine delivery technology As a Senior Vaccination 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. What you might work on in your first year: - How should GiveWell’s portfolio of investments change in response to new technologies and shifts in government or funder resources and priorities? - What are the most promising opportunities for grant-making in areas such as surveillance and outbreak response and R&D for vaccines or vaccine delivery technology? - How can we improve our methods for evaluating the impact of programs on vaccination coverage? - What are the core differences between GiveWell's cost-effectiveness model and other vaccine cost-effectiveness models? - What is the best design for a study to improve available estimates of the impact of key childhood vaccines on disease-specific mortality or all-cause mortality? The Senior Vaccination Researcher will help shape a major annual grantmaking portfolio, own grant investigations end-to-end, and represent GiveWell to external counterparts. Qualifications - A quantitatively oriented advanced degree (e.g., in epidemiology, statistics, economics or related fields) - Substantial professional experience in the vaccination landscape (broadly defined) Requirements - Curiosity and willingness to interrogate others’ work - Ability to surface value judgments and strategic commitments - Strong communication skills regarding confidence levels - Ability to moderate directness and intensity in communication - Passion for solving complex problems - Constant assessment of team priorities Benefits - Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents) - Four weeks of paid time off per year, plus a one week organization-wide summer break - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave - Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships - 403(b) retirement plan Company Description GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free. Since 2007, we’ve directed over $2.6 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions. - GiveWell grants have helped governments implement high-impact health programs. - Funded program delivery alongside strengthened monitoring and evaluation. - Sought to scope and scale promising interventions. - Tested assumptions through further research.

Role Description GiveWell is seeking a Senior Water Researcher to help direct tens of millions of dollars annually to the most cost-effective water interventions we can find. You will have an outsized influence on our funding decisions and help us save and improve lives on a global scale. As a Senior Water 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. The researchers on our team combine rigorous evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, and thoughtful judgment. The role involves: - Joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on water. - Sifting through numerous questions and honing in on those that matter most. - Communicating externally about your work and mentoring other researchers on the team. - Shaping a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the water team's questions. What you might work on in your first year: - Calibrating cost-effectiveness estimates to real-world program performance. - Comparing chlorination with alternative water quality methods across different settings. - Unlocking cost-effective funding by partnering with multilaterals to layer water treatment onto large-scale projects. - Shifting portfolio focus between water quality and water access. - Improving estimates of the all-cause mortality effect of chlorination on children under-5. - Using new funding mechanisms to identify and scale promising interventions. The Senior Water Researcher will help shape a major annual grantmaking portfolio, own grant investigations end-to-end, and represent GiveWell to external counterparts. Qualifications - A quantitatively oriented advanced degree (e.g., in epidemiology, environmental engineering, environmental health, public health, economics, or related fields). - Substantial professional experience in the water sector or an adjacent field. - Hands-on familiarity with water systems, epidemiology, or both is preferred. - Strong researchers whose expertise sits in any subset of the areas explored are welcome to apply. Requirements - Curiosity and willingness to interrogate others’ work. - Ability to surface value judgments and strategic commitments in your work. - Strong communication skills regarding confidence levels in findings. - Ability to moderate directness and intensity when communicating externally. - Passion for solving complex problems and reassessing mental models. Benefits - Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and any dependents. - Four weeks of paid time off per year, plus a one-week organization-wide summer break. - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave. - Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships. - 403(b) retirement plan. Company Description GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free. Since 2007, we’ve directed over $2.6 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions. - Helped governments implement high-impact health programs. - Funded program delivery alongside strengthened monitoring and evaluation. - Sought to scope and scale promising interventions. - Tested assumptions through further research.

Role Description GiveWell is seeking a Senior Livelihoods Researcher to help us identify and fund the most cost-effective ways to improve living standards among the global poor. You will have an outsized influence on our funding decisions and help us improve lives on a global scale. Our livelihoods team is organized around thematic verticals, which includes: - Cash transfers - Broader social protection programs - Education programs - Support for small and medium sized businesses in low-income countries As a Senior Livelihoods 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. Your work will combine: - Empirical evidence review - Critical synthesis - Cost-effectiveness modeling - Discussions with subject matter experts - Understanding of the broader context - Your own judgment In the course of your work, you might approach questions like these: - What effect do rural trailbridges have on the consumption of nearby communities? - What are long-run effects of unconditional cash transfers and ultra poor graduation programs on recipients? - What would happen to prices and markets if we took cash transfer and ultra poor graduation programs to scale? - How should GiveWell value interventions which try to reduce the variance of consumption (as opposed to increasing the average)? - Why have several countries in sub-Saharan Africa seen large scale-ups in donor-funded livelihoods programs over the last 30 years but very little movement in poverty headcount rates and median consumption per capita? Qualifications - A quantitatively oriented advanced degree (e.g., in economics, statistics, public policy or related fields) - Substantial professional experience in the livelihoods landscape (broadly defined), which could include experience in academic research and/or in program implementation or funding. - Soft qualities that contribute to success on our team, such as curiosity, ability to communicate confidence levels, and appreciation for strong relationships. Requirements - GiveWell’s mission and methods are personally energizing. - You’re abnormally curious and willing to interrogate others’ work. - You routinely think about and surface value judgments and strategic commitments. - You dislike strong confidence in views that lack evidence. - You love tackling complex problems and reassessing your mental models. - You constantly assess whether you and the team are working on the most important things. Benefits - Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% of premiums covered within the US for you and any dependents) - Four weeks of paid time off per year - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave - Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships - 403(b) retirement plan Company Description GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free. Since 2007, we’ve directed over $2.6 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions.

GiveWell is a research organization that identifies and funds cost-effective giving opportunities, focusing on global health and well-being. Our work is funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We’ve grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025. Summary GiveWell's senior research staff are the key decision makers for hundreds of millions of dollars in grantmaking, and we think growing that team is one of the most important things we can do to increase our impact. We're seeking one or more Senior Recruiters to help us do that. Finding senior research staff is a hard problem for a couple reasons: - The talent pool for GiveWell researchers basically doesn’t exist as a defined group. You can’t go to one type of program, industry, or a few obvious competitors to build a reliable pipeline. The people who succeed here come from a wide range of backgrounds — economics PhDs, policy analysts, management consultants, medical doctors, neuroscientists, primate biologists, etc. — and the roles don't have clean analogs elsewhere. What they share is a set of hard-to-measure cognitive skills and quantitative fluency that doesn’t show up reliably on resumes. - Our process is very competitive. The offer rate for senior research roles is less than one in a thousand. We want you to figure out where to find strong candidates, improve our assessment process, and do the hands-on work of sourcing, screening, and closing offers. You'll work very closely with our research leadership team. We're most excited about finding someone who helps us make better decisions about finding great talent — and hire them faster. The role You'd work closely with our research team leaders to own recruiting for our Researcher, Program Officer, Senior Researcher, and Senior Program Officer roles. A few problems we’ll want you to think about: After candidates apply, is our assessment process effective? Our offer rate for senior roles is below 0.1%. That might mean we’re extremely selective. It might also mean we’re losing good candidates somewhere in the funnel. You’ll dig into our data and find answers (How well do early screening scores predict work trial performance? What are the most common rejection reasons, and are they signal or noise? How did past hires actually turn out?). You’ll help us develop good heuristics about what to do in situations when candidates’ signals are mixed. Where do we even find good candidates? The ideal GiveWell researcher doesn’t come from one degree program, industry, or competitor. You’ll think about where to look and go after them. And you’ll continually develop new pipelines with creative methods (running structured referral conversations with our researchers, scouring conference guest lists, using sourcing tools creatively, or maybe vibe-coding your own). How can we use data to make better decisions? Right now, we don’t have great visibility into which sourcing channels, process changes, or pipeline stages are driving results. You’ll track data, run analyses, and help us make evidence-based decisions about where to put effort. In some cases, you might find out that we don’t have the right data architecture to answer important questions, so you’ll build it. What are ways our hiring process could be much better? This is harder to describe because it covers ~every strategic and tactical question we face. We want you to be thinking about all of it. Things like: Are we overweighting particular qualities and losing promising candidates without noticing? How could we run experiments on our hiring processes (randomization, A/B testing, sourcing campaigns) that actually give us useful information? You’ll also do a fair amount of bread-and-butter recruiting work: screening applications, writing outreach emails, and interviewing candidates. We think that sort of work will keep you close to the data and help you develop strong pattern recognition. About you You’re excited about GiveWell's mission and methods. You think GiveWell is doing something special, not just generically “doing good.” You can explain what makes GiveWell different. You’re careful and truth-seeking with your beliefs. For example, if a hiring manager says we need to find “scrappy” people, you’re likely to ask “Why do you believe that?” or “What does scrappy mean?” instead of uncritically agreeing. You’re quick to update your beliefs by picking up new information and asking sharper questions. You can probably tell us about times when you’ve changed your mind about important things. You're unusually curious and analytical. When you get invested in a question, you keep trying to find the right answer after many other people would have stopped. You ground your beliefs in data when possible and hedge appropriately when you’re not confident. You have very high standards. We have a high competence bar for our research team, and you’ll need to uphold that and own your decisions about applications that do and don’t meet our bar. You’re entrepreneurial and high agency. You figure things out. You have a history of solving problems. You’re very resourceful. You’re more likely to make the mistake of moving too fast than moving too slow. You'd rather try something imperfect and learn from it than wait for a perfect plan. You're direct. You say what you actually think even when it's uncomfortable. You’re good at communicating in writing. You're concise, clear, and you don't hide behind jargon. You probably enjoy an effective memo. If you think people who know you well would agree that many of the qualities above describe you, we’d like you to apply. Qualifications We care much more about the qualities described above than any specific background. That said, some things that might help: - Experience in recruiting, talent operations, research operations, or a generalist role at a mission-driven organization - Comfort with data — spreadsheets and basic quantitative analysis - Strong written communication - Experience working closely with executive-level leadership - Familiarity with global health, development economics, effective altruism, or adjacent fields is a plus but not required Recruiting experience is welcome but not required. Some of the best people in comparable roles at peer organizations came in without it. And we’ll support you if you want to move on to other things at GiveWell after making progress on our research recruiting. There's always a place here for generalists who are good at solving hard problems, and we have a history of developing high performers into different roles across our org. Key Questions What are some of the reasons I might not like this role? - GiveWell has a unique approach to hiring, and it’s possible that you’ll dislike it. For example, we tend to lean heavily into work trials and finding empirical evidence about the candidates we hire. We are rigorous in how we evaluate candidates, and hold really high standards, which can lead to longer hiring rounds with more steps than what is typical elsewhere. We’re extremely quality focused and would rather hold out for the right candidate than settle on someone who’s “mostly right.” - You’ll need to deeply understand our work and culture to succeed. We want you to be able to speak with candidates about our work and what makes GiveWell special, and provide useful input to hiring managers when we’re developing assessments and evaluating candidates. - You will be expected to hunt, not just farm. While we receive a high volume of inbound applicants, we are looking for recruiters who effectively source and attract candidates, not just wait for them to trickle in. - You’ll be collaborating with leaders with high expectations. We’re a founder-led, performance-driven culture and you’ll be collaborating with our executive team regularly in this role. Strong partnerships will depend on you building trust, leading with curiosity, and reliably delivering results. - You’ll be running hiring rounds from start to finish. We consider this a full-lifecycle role, which means you should be comfortable with things like scheduling, building out roles in Greenhouse, and day-to-day coordination with candidates. While you might have support from more junior colleagues, you’ll be expected to capably manage your own pipelines. What does growth look like in this role? GiveWell’s growing, and you’re going to help shape that. Your growth will be tied directly to the impact created by the people you help hire. Beyond day-to-day recruiting, you’ll have the opportunity to work on more strategic projects, including shaping our overall hiring approach and improving our employer brand. In this role you’ll also have significant exposure to executive leadership and many corners of our business. The talent acquisition team is doubling in 2026, which means there are clear opportunities for mentorship and potentially growing into a team leader. What does this interview process entail? We'll use a combination of interviews, written exercises, and work trials to assess the qualities described above. Past versions have looked like: - Simulating a hiring manager intake conversation - Walking through a sourcing strategy for a hard-to-fill role - Reviewing a job description or process and offering a critique - Writing a candidate outreach email or internal communication We'll share more specific details if we invite you to move forward, but our current plan is: - Screen with a member of the Talent Acquisition team - Career history interview with the Manager, Talent Acquisition - Work trial, which will include live conversations and written work - Values interview with VP, People - Final conversation with Manager, Talent Acquisition - References Team structure This role sits on GiveWell's People team and reports to our Manager of Talent Acquisition. Day-to-day, you'd work in close partnership with our Research Program Director, who owns senior research hiring decisions and is part of our Research Leadership Team. You'd collaborate regularly with other members of the People and Research teams on sourcing and candidate evaluation. We'll likely also want you to attend research team meetings, develop 1:1 relationships with research team members, and potentially join research team-building retreats. We’ll be interested in ~any kind of team embedding that helps you build useful context. The details - Compensation: - NYC or the San Francisco Bay Area: $149,600 - All other U.S. locations: $136,000 - Benefits: Our benefits include: - Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents) - Four weeks of paid time off per year - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave - Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships - 403(b) retirement plan - Location: You must be based in the United States and can choose to work remotely, hybrid or in person at one of our offices located in Brooklyn, NY or Oakland, CA. - Flexibility: We support and encourage flexible working, including flexible hours, working remotely, and working from the office when you choose. The majority of our staff, including senior management, work flexibly in one way or another. - Travel: GiveWell hosts “Visit Weeks” twice a year in our Oakland, California, office and up to two annual departmental retreats. Attending these in-person opportunities will be important to fulfilling the goals of this role. Occasional additional travel may be helpful for conferences or recruiting events. - Visa sponsorship: We are not currently able to sponsor visas for this role. - Start date: We’d like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer, but we’ll offer flexibility for candidates whose personal or professional circumstances require them to moderately delay their start date. We don't want to miss candidates who could do great things at GiveWell. If you're on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications, we encourage you to apply anyway. GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. We value our team's diversity in all respects and desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org. About GiveWell GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free. Our giving funds enable donors to contribute to the most impactful and cost-effective programs our researchers identify. Since 2007, we’ve directed over $2.6 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions. In the last two years, we’ve made more than $500 million in grants. GiveWell is one of the world’s largest private funders of global development efforts, and we estimate that the funding we’ve directed will save more than 340,000 lives. GiveWell is most well-known for recommending a small number of Top Charities, which currently support seasonal malaria chemoprevention, antimalarial nets, vaccine incentivization, and vitamin A supplementation. However, most of our research capacity is devoted to finding cost-effective opportunities outside of those programs. GiveWell grants have: - Helped governments to implement high-impact health programs, like in-line chlorination of drinking water in India and HIV/syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant people in Zambia and Cameroon. - Funded program delivery alongside strengthened monitoring and evaluation, as in our grants to support treatment of clubfoot and to evaluate the program. - Sought to scope and scale promising interventions that don’t have clear existing implementers. We are supporting the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Incubator and Evidence Action’s Accelerator to identify potentially cost-effective interventions and create programs that we would be excited to support in the future. For example, we funded a program to provide diarrhea treatment to children in Nigeria that we co-designed with CHAI through the Incubator program. - Tested our assumptions through further research, including studies on the effect of water chlorination on mortality, the impact of a tree-planting program on farmers’ income, and the effects of combining the RTS,S malaria vaccine and perennial malaria chemoprevention. We never take for granted that GiveWell’s work is good for the world. We make our reasoning public and transparent so others can challenge it (sometimes we even pay people to point out our errors). We go to unusual lengths to check our assumptions and assess our impact, including funding research and external analysis to address our uncertainties and insisting that our grantees conduct rigorous monitoring and evaluation. We change our minds when the evidence demands it. Additional information We don’t want to miss candidates that could do great things at GiveWell. Practically, that means a GiveWell staff member reviews every application carefully, considering the whole picture of your background and potential. If you’re on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications (some studies suggest this hesitation is especially common for women and people of color), we encourage you to apply anyway. GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. At minimum, this means that we comply with all federal, state, and local EEO and employment laws. Beyond the requirements of those laws, we value our team’s diversity in all respects, and we desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination—we want our team members to thrive at GiveWell. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org. We will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 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GiveWell is a research organization that identifies and funds cost-effective giving opportunities, focusing on global health and well-being. Our work is funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We’ve grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025. Summary GiveWell is growing fast to move more donations to where we think they will do exceptional good for people in need. But it takes unique talent to thrive here, and finding those candidates requires much more than posting jobs and screening resumes. We're hiring a Senior Recruiter who will actively search for exceptional people, uphold an extremely high bar, and serve as a true thought partner to leaders across the organization — because the quality of our hires is key to how many lives we can save and improve. Why we're hiring for this role right now: GiveWell surpassed 100 employees in early 2026, and we’re continuing to grow. We have increased hiring goals in Operations and Outreach, and we’re building capacity to tackle that. As our hiring scales, we’re also investing in improving our approach with smarter sourcing, a stronger employer brand, and creating hiring infrastructure. This is a real opportunity to help shape what great recruiting looks like at a mission-driven organization that takes hiring seriously. The role As a Senior Recruiter, you’ll be a hunter for rare talent and the right organizational fit — one week building a sourcing strategy for a niche finance role, the next networking to find a senior communications candidate or learning a new function well enough to advise a hiring manager on what “great” looks like. You’ll own full-cycle recruiting for roles across GiveWell's Operations and Outreach functions — think Finance, Legal, Tech, Philanthropy, and Communications — and pitch in on research recruiting when needed. Day to day, you’ll work across multiple job openings on the following: - Partnering with hiring managers. You’ll collaborate closely with GiveWell leaders to define what they’re looking for in their new hires, guide them through our processes, monitor and surface trends in our talent pools, and make better hiring decisions. - Building our top of the funnel. You’re a hunter. You seek out passive talent through targeted sourcing, referrals, networking, and events and utilize all the tools at your disposal to prospect. You’ll get in front of high-quality candidates and creatively attract them to GiveWell, not just wait for them to trickle in. - Creating hiring infrastructure. Everything from crafting compelling job descriptions to designing interview plans that lead to stronger signals and less noise. You’ll help sharpen the tools we use to evaluate candidates, train hiring teams on how to use them, and measure their effectiveness. - Candidate management. You’ll be the point of contact for candidates at every point in our hiring process. You’re responsible for creating a candidate experience that is frictionless, speedy, and showcases GiveWell’s values and culture. - Assessing talent. You’ll use your strong judgement, curiosity, and critical thinking to assess talent. You’ll regularly lead screening interviews and be trusted to jump in at later stages as part of the hiring team that upholds GiveWell’s standards. - Project and timeline management. You keep hiring teams on track, loop in the right people along the way, and effectively manage competing priorities within the diverse teams you support. You’ll also plan substantial time thinking about our recruiting challenges, and contributing to our overall hiring strategy. Some of the questions you’ll focus on: - What makes our top performers unique, and where can we find more of them? You are obsessed with understanding the qualities, skills, and experiences needed to drive impact at GiveWell and it’s your mission to find more candidates who possess them and get them into our funnel. - How do we make better decisions, faster? You’ll track data, spot patterns, and help us understand which parts of our process are adding value and which aren’t. If we don’t have the right information to answer an important question, you’ll build the infrastructure to get it. - How can we set new hires up for success? Your job doesn’t ‘stop’ when an offer is signed. You’re focused on developing smooth handoffs, understanding new-hire sentiment and performance, and ensuring a warm welcome to GiveWell. - What could we be doing much better? This is harder to describe because it covers ~every strategic and tactical question we face. We want you to be thinking about all of it. Things like: Are we overweighting particular qualities and losing promising candidates without noticing? How could we run experiments on our hiring processes (randomization, A/B testing, sourcing campaigns) that actually give us useful information? About You The strongest candidates will have 3+ years of professional experience recruiting for hard-to-fill positions in a performance-driven environment. Beyond that, here’s what we’re really looking for: You’re excited about GiveWell’s mission and methods. You think GiveWell is doing something special, not just generically “doing good” and that matters to you, personally. You can explain what makes GiveWell different, and are fascinated by what makes a candidate successful here. You are intent on finding more top performers and won’t settle for less. You’re entrepreneurial and high agency. You are great at identifying opportunities to drive progress forward, faster. You notice gaps, ask good questions, and find solutions. If you’ve ever redesigned a broken process, built a sourcing strategy from scratch, or pushed back on a hiring manager because you had a better idea, that's the kind of energy we're looking for. Adaptability and curiosity. You adjust your approach to recruiting based on what each role and hiring manager actually needs — not a formula you apply to everything. You’re genuinely curious about the work happening across GiveWell, and that curiosity shows up in how you engage with candidates and hiring teams alike. Strong communication. You write and speak with accuracy and the right tone. Internally, that means being concise and specific. Externally, it means writing outreach that actually gets responses and navigating discussions with sophisticated candidates. Solid judgment. You’re an expert at assessing candidates’ behaviors and patterns and making excellent judgment calls, even in ambiguous situations. You personally hold high standards and seek to elevate the teams you support, and should have a point of view (that you can back up!) on what makes a strong candidate. Highly organized. You’re meticulous in how you prepare, document, and track your work. You love a well-run meeting and a clean spreadsheet. While not required, we’re particularly interested in candidates who possess: - Experience recruiting for a range of functions — operations, fundraising, finance, communications, tech, etc. in a high performing organization - Project/program management experience - Strong analytical skills: ATS reporting, spreadsheets, and translating numbers and patterns into decisions and insights - Experience working closely with executive-level leadership and cross functional stakeholders - Experience designing, conducting, and improving interview and assessment processes - An interest in HR Business Partner or Talent Development work - Familiarity with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, or similar tools is a plus - Prior mentorship experience (or an interest in it!) Key Questions What are some of the reasons I might not like this role? GiveWell has a unique approach to hiring, and it’s possible that you’ll dislike it. For example, we tend to lean heavily into work trials and finding empirical evidence about the candidates we hire. We are rigorous in how we evaluate candidates, and hold really high standards, which can lead to longer hiring rounds with more steps than what is typical elsewhere. We’re extremely quality focused and would rather hold out for the right candidate than settle on someone who’s “mostly right.” - You’ll need to deeply understand our work and culture to succeed. We want you to be able to speak with candidates about our work and what makes GiveWell special, and provide useful input to hiring managers when we’re developing assessments and evaluating candidates. - You will be expected to hunt, not just farm. While we receive a high volume of inbound applicants, we are looking for recruiters who effectively source and attract candidates, not just wait for them to trickle in. - You’ll be collaborating with leaders with high expectations. We’re a founder-led, performance-driven culture and you’ll be collaborating with our executive team regularly in this role. Strong partnerships will depend on you building trust, leading with curiosity, and reliably delivering results. - You’ll be running hiring rounds from start to finish. We consider this a full-lifecycle role, which means you should be comfortable with things like scheduling, building out roles in Greenhouse, and day-to-day coordination with candidates. While you might have support from more junior colleagues, you’ll be expected to capably manage your own pipelines. What does growth look like in this role? GiveWell’s growing, and you’re going to help shape that. Your growth will be tied directly to the impact created by the people you help hire. Beyond day-to-day recruiting, you’ll have the opportunity to work on more strategic projects, including shaping our overall hiring approach and improving our employer brand. In this role you’ll also have significant exposure to executive leadership and many corners of our business. The talent acquisition team is doubling in 2026, which means there are clear opportunities for mentorship and potentially growing into a team leader. What does this interview process entail? We'll use a combination of interviews, written exercises, and work trials to assess the qualities described above. Past versions have looked like: - Simulating a hiring manager intake conversation - Walking through a sourcing strategy for a hard-to-fill role - Reviewing a job description or process and offering a critique - Writing a candidate outreach email or internal communication We'll share more specific details if we invite you to move forward, but our current plan is: - Screen with a member of the Talent Acquisition team - Career history interview with the Manager, Talent Acquisition - Work trial, which will include live conversations and written work - Values interview with VP, People - Final conversation with Manager, Talent Acquisition - References The details - Compensation: - NYC or the San Francisco Bay Area: $149,600 - All other U.S. locations: $136,000 - Benefits: Our benefits include: - Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents) - Four weeks of paid time off per year - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave - Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships - 403(b) retirement plan - Location: You must be based in the United States and can choose to work remotely, hybrid or in person at one of our offices located in Brooklyn, NY or Oakland, CA. - Flexibility: We support and encourage flexible working, including flexible hours, working remotely, and working from the office when you choose. The majority of our staff, including senior management, work flexibly in one way or another. - Travel: GiveWell hosts “Visit Weeks” twice a year in our Oakland, California, office and up to two annual departmental retreats. Attending these in-person opportunities will be important to fulfilling the goals of this role. Occasional additional travel may be helpful for conferences or recruiting events. - Visa sponsorship: We are not currently able to sponsor visas for this role. - Start date: We’d like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer, but we’ll offer flexibility for candidates whose personal or professional circumstances require them to moderately delay their start date. We don't want to miss candidates who could do great things at GiveWell. If you're on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications, we encourage you to apply anyway. GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. We value our team's diversity in all respects and desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org. About GiveWell GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free. Our giving funds enable donors to contribute to the most impactful and cost-effective programs our researchers identify. Since 2007, we’ve directed over $2.6 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions. In the last two years, we’ve made more than $500 million in grants. GiveWell is one of the world’s largest private funders of global development efforts, and we estimate that the funding we’ve directed will save more than 340,000 lives. GiveWell is most well-known for recommending a small number of Top Charities, which currently support seasonal malaria chemoprevention, antimalarial nets, vaccine incentivization, and vitamin A supplementation. However, most of our research capacity is devoted to finding cost-effective opportunities outside of those programs. GiveWell grants have: - Helped governments to implement high-impact health programs, like in-line chlorination of drinking water in India and HIV/syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant people in Zambia and Cameroon. - Funded program delivery alongside strengthened monitoring and evaluation, as in our grants to support treatment of clubfoot and to evaluate the program. - Sought to scope and scale promising interventions that don’t have clear existing implementers. We are supporting the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Incubator and Evidence Action’s Accelerator to identify potentially cost-effective interventions and create programs that we would be excited to support in the future. For example, we funded a program to provide diarrhea treatment to children in Nigeria that we co-designed with CHAI through the Incubator program. - Tested our assumptions through further research, including studies on the effect of water chlorination on mortality, the impact of a tree-planting program on farmers’ income, and the effects of combining the RTS,S malaria vaccine and perennial malaria chemoprevention. We never take for granted that GiveWell’s work is good for the world. We make our reasoning public and transparent so others can challenge it (sometimes we even pay people to point out our errors). We go to unusual lengths to check our assumptions and assess our impact, including funding research and external analysis to address our uncertainties and insisting that our grantees conduct rigorous monitoring and evaluation. We change our minds when the evidence demands it. Additional information We don’t want to miss candidates that could do great things at GiveWell. Practically, that means a GiveWell staff member reviews every application carefully, considering the whole picture of your background and potential. If you’re on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications (some studies suggest this hesitation is especially common for women and people of color), we encourage you to apply anyway. GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. At minimum, this means that we comply with all federal, state, and local EEO and employment laws. Beyond the requirements of those laws, we value our team’s diversity in all respects, and we desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination—we want our team members to thrive at GiveWell. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org. We will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. By submitting an application, you acknowledge that you have read and consent to GiveWell’s Privacy Statement for Applicants. By completing an application exercise, you acknowledge and assent to GiveWell’s Work Trial Policy.

• Work closely with research team leaders to own recruiting for Researcher, Program Officer, Senior Researcher, and Senior Program Officer roles • Improve assessment process and candidate sourcing • Analyze data to enhance hiring decision-making • Conduct screening applications and interviews

• Project management of research and grantmaking plans. • Effective communication and coordination with internal and external contacts. • Maintaining high attention to detail and accuracy. • Proactive problem-solving.