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 We are looking for an experienced Mid Level User Researcher with strong GDS experience to join the multidisciplinary team on one of our most visible programmes. This is a 3 Month Contract role, with a chance of extension, designed for someone who enjoys working in complex, high social impact delivery environments. The role can is remote. We are ideally looking for someone who can start at the end of May. You’ll be delivering user research across a substantial GDS project, working closely with multidisciplinary teams on problems that are often complex, sensitive and fast‑moving. While the environment brings challenge and pressure, it also offers the opportunity to contribute to services with meaningful societal impact, where good user research genuinely shapes outcomes for the public. Qualifications - Significant experience working as a user researcher within GDS projects - Experience working within multidisciplinary delivery teams - Demonstrable experience working with complex stakeholder groups, navigating ambiguity and competing priorities - Desirable: Experience working within Health Contexts Requirements - Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required. - All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks. - Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required. Benefits - NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. - If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process, please feel free to share these with us. - We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates. Company Description We’re NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies. Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services. We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference. We’d love your help. And we’ll support you all the way.

Role Description American Farmland Trust (AFT) is seeking a strategic and collaborative Prospect Management Strategist & Researcher to join the Individual Giving team within the Office of Development. This fully remote role serves as the organizational lead for prospect management, ensuring best in class portfolio strategy, disciplined movement of prospects through the pipeline, and consistent application of prospect management best practices across the regional philanthropy program. Reporting to the Director of Development for Individual Giving, the Prospect Management Strategist & Researcher partners closely with regional relationship managers (RMs), meeting with each officer monthly to review portfolios, assess progress, and strengthen engagement, discovery, and solicitation strategies. In addition to supporting frontline fundraising strategy, this role leads the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of prospect management policies, processes, and procedures that support AFT’s revenue goals and long-term donor pipeline. With a focus on strategic insight, data-driven decision-making, and strong partnership with frontline fundraisers, this position will play a key role in unlocking donor potential and driving meaningful impact. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience. - 6-8 years of experience in prospect management, prospect research, fundraising operations, development strategy or a related advancement function. - Demonstrated experience supporting frontline fundraisers and managing or advising on donor portfolios. - Strong understanding of prospect management principles, moves management, and donor pipeline development. - Exceptional organizational, analytical, and project management skills. - Ability to confidently partner with and influence fundraisers through collaborative coaching and strategic guidance in a remote environment. - High level of discretion and professionalism in handling confidential donor information. Requirements - Experience working within a regional or distributed fundraising model. - Familiarity with nonprofit CRM systems and reporting tools, specifically Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge. - Experience developing prospect management policies, procedures, and training materials. - Commitment to and interest in American Farmland Trust’s mission to protect farmland, promote sound farming practices, and keep farmers on the land. - Analytical skills with proven ability to perform complex analyses using data mining techniques to identify philanthropic patterns and tendencies in the constituent database. - Ability to analyze and interpret complex financial disclosure documents for the purposes of wealth assessment (SEC filings, real property files, financial and legal disclosures, etc.). - Scrupulous accuracy and attention to detail. - Exercise sound independent judgment, following established protocols and procedures. - Ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization, including executive level staff. - Commitment to adopting best practices and operational efficiency. - Mastery of the development cycle, with advanced knowledge of the role of prospect management research within the cycle. - Excellent planning skills and experience with the ability to identify, clarify and articulate project purpose, goals, and outcomes. - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex information in a clear, succinct output. - Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders with discretion and professionalism. Benefits - Insurance coverage begins the 1st of the month following the date of hire. - Medical & Prescription Coverage - Dental Coverage - Vision Coverage - Company Paid Life Insurance & Long-Term Disability (LTD) - Voluntary Life Insurance - Flexible Spending Account (FSA) – Healthcare & Dependent Care - Health Savings Account (HSA) - 401k Plan - Sick Leave: Regular full-time employees accrue 13 “sick days” per year. - Vacation Leave: Accrue 15 days during the first year increasing by one day per year to 20 days per year maximum. - Holidays: AFT observes twelve fixed holidays and a week between Christmas and New Years off during the year (all offices closed) plus a choice of up to three (depending on hiring month) floating holidays.