GiveWell

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

Role Description GiveWell is seeking exceptional Program Officers to help us direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the most cost-effective global health and poverty alleviation programs. As part of our lean research team, you will have an outsized influence on our funding decisions and help us save and improve lives on a global scale. You'll own grant investigations and help manage a portfolio of grants, evaluating the best funding opportunities and helping shape new ones. You will answer hard questions and make funding recommendations by combining rigorous evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, grantee relationships, and thoughtful judgment. Your decisions will inform the allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars to dozens of grantees. Your practical work will combine: - Empirical evidence review - Cost-effectiveness modeling - Grantee engagement - Ground-truthing of how programs are delivered - Discussions with subject matter experts - Developing your own judgment In the course of your work, you might approach questions like these: - Should we make this grant, and how should we structure it (e.g., conditions, milestones, or gates)? - When a promising intervention has no clear implementer, what would it take to help one get off the ground? - Is this grant on track, and if not, why? - Do a grantee's reported outputs reflect real coverage, quality, and adherence to evidence-based practices on the ground? - What should we believe about the cost-effectiveness of an intervention in our portfolio, and what would change our minds? - How should we monitor a grant's progress, and what would tell us to course-correct? - How should we account for high levels of uncertainty in our cost-effectiveness estimates? - How should we weigh empirical evidence against qualitative factors, like a grantee's organizational track record? Responsibilities include: - Investigating and recommending grants. - Managing a portfolio of grants. - Analyzing interventions (e.g., vaccine demand generation, vitamin A supplementation, seasonal malaria chemoprevention). - Building cost-effectiveness models to estimate the costs and benefits of a particular intervention. - Building relationships relevant to our work. - Publishing reports and blog posts on our website. Qualifications - 3-5 years of professional experience in similar or closely-related roles. - Quantitatively-oriented advanced degrees preferred, but not required. - Demonstrated ability to use empirical tools to make rigorous, evidence-based decisions. Requirements - Passionate about improving global health and alleviating global poverty. - Highly skilled at critically analyzing and synthesizing empirical research. - Ability to drive work to conclusions and pivot when necessary. - Comfortable taking bets under uncertainty. - Effective at building and managing relationships with external parties. - Respectful and efficient in interactions with colleagues and external parties. 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. - Automatic contribution equal to 5% of your gross salary into your 403(b) retirement plan (for U.S. based staff). - Travel opportunities for international site visits and conferences. - Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.