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Senior Cross-Cutting Researcher
Location
United States
Posted
12 days ago
Salary
$241K / year
Seniority
Senior
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Senior Cross-Cutting Researcher
GiveWell
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.
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