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Senior New Areas Researcher

GiveWell· Research
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Hybrid (Remote (US + international))$308kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior researcher responsible for directing and shaping research agendas across GiveWell’s New Areas, emerging cause areas, and incubators to inform grantmaking decisions and maximize cost-effectiveness of global health interventions.

Responsibilities

  • Create and lead ambitious research agendas related to GiveWell portfolios of work.
  • Answer complex questions that inform grantmaking decisions.
  • Combine empirical evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, and judgment.
  • Shape a research agenda bringing rigor and creativity to thorny questions.
  • Own grant investigations end-to-end from research question to grant recommendation.
  • Represent GiveWell to external counterparts.
  • Communicate externally about work and mentor other researchers on the team.
  • Tackle thorny questions in existing portfolios; design and oversee learning grants; build evidence base in new programmatic areas; provide research support to grantmakers.

Qualifications

  • A quantitatively oriented advanced degree (e.g., epidemiology, public health, economics, or related field).
  • Substantial professional experience in global health or adjacent fields (program design, monitoring/evaluation, epidemiology, cost-effectiveness modeling, program implementation or funding at bilateral/multilateral/NGO).
  • Ability to quickly learn new topics, flexibility with task-switching, and comfort with a generalist role.

Skills

Required:Evidence reviewCost-effectiveness modelingSubject matter expert discussions

Benefits

  • Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (US, for dependents eligible).
  • 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 5% employer contribution to 403(b) retirement plan (US based staff).
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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