Global Health & Development Researcher

Job Description

• Investigate high-impact funding opportunities, especially organizations and programs that can cost-effectively save and improve lives in the world's poorest countries
• Conduct rigorous evaluations and make multimillion-dollar grant recommendations monthly
• Expand the range of interventions considered, including novel interventions requiring active grantmaking
• Evaluate direct interventions, research opportunities, rigorously backed micro-interventions, and high-risk, high-reward big bets
• Undertake research investigations to answer key questions
• Conduct literature reviews
• Investigate promising funding opportunities to determine whether they meet the recommendation threshold
• Contribute to internal and external reports and other materials
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to get funding opportunities funded
• Interact with ultra-high-net-worth donors as the subject-matter expert and answer detailed questions about research
• Report to the Global Health & Development Lead

Requirements

• Domain expertise relevant to the role, including development economics, public health, or cost-effectiveness analysis
• Transferable research skills from fields such as medicine, finance, or the hard sciences also considered
• Excellent analytical skills
• Comfort expressing views numerically and working with systematic quantitative frameworks
• Understanding of, and ability to build, quantitative models
• Ability to express nuanced evidence and complex concepts clearly in writing
• Ability to identify potential high-impact funding opportunities in new cause areas
• Ability to find and assess relevant academic research, reports, and experts
• Good calibration and awareness of the limits of one's knowledge
• Intellectual curiosity and openness to alternative viewpoints
• Conscientiousness and prioritisation skills
• Good judgement
• Ability to work well with others, communicate honestly and directly, and accept feedback
• Willingness to work in a high-growth, dynamic start-up environment and tolerate ambiguity
• Confidence and experience to lead research independently
• Candidates based in the UK, USA (ideally East Coast), or Germany
• Great home Wi-Fi connection

Benefits

• Fully remote work with no regular office attendance expected
• Option to arrange a desk in a co-working space close to home
• Global team offsite once per year
• Each team has the opportunity to meet together at least once per year
• Necessary work equipment provided
• Flat organizational structure
• Opportunity to help shape the future of philanthropy
• Inclusive and diverse workplace
• Equal opportunity employer