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Senior Program Officer

GiveWell· Research
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Hybrid (Remote)$280k - $308kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Program Officers lead GiveWell's grantmaking portfolios, setting strategy, evaluating opportunities, and deciding what to fund. They work closely with Senior Researchers, manage significant grant portfolios, build external relationships, and mentor team members. The role emphasizes empirical review, cost-effectiveness modeling, grantee engagement, and strategic portfolio management within a remote-friendly, globally distributed organization.

Responsibilities

  • Take primary responsibility for a significant grantmaking portfolio, setting its strategy and selecting opportunities to fund.
  • Inform allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars to dozens of grantees.
  • Communicate externally about GiveWell’s work and mentor/advice to team members.
  • Build and lead a grantmaking portfolio with rigorous review of empirical evidence, cost-effectiveness modeling, and grantee relationships.
  • Ground-truth how programs are delivered, discuss with subject matter experts, understand broader context, and decide funding structure and timing.
  • Address questions such as balancing exploration with scaling, creating opportunities via co-design or seeding, portfolio prioritization, and evaluating evidence against expert opinion.

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of relevant professional experience.
  • Experience using empirical tools to make rigorous, evidence-based decisions under uncertainty.
  • Strong track record in funding, building, or scaling programs; quantitative analysis and cost-effectiveness modeling; stakeholder relationship building.
  • Experience owning large budgets or grant portfolios.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication with directness and clarity.
  • Ability to set and iterate on strategy in complex, fast-moving environments.
  • Preferred: experience in global health, RCTs and impact evaluations, government or multilateral work, gathering firsthand data, managing diverse grant types.

Skills

Required:Cost-effectiveness analysisEvidence reviewPortfolio managementStakeholder relationship managementResearch collaboration

Benefits

  • Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (US)
  • Four weeks of paid time off per year
  • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • Ergonomic home workstation or coworking memberships
  • Automatic 5% employer retirement contribution to US 403(b)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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