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Cause Prioritization Lead

GiveWell· Research
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Hybrid (Remote)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior program lead responsible for building and leading a sub-team within GiveWell's New Areas team to advance cause prioritization, manage investigations across emerging cause areas, and shape high-impact grantmaking through evidence, cost-effectiveness modeling, and strategic judgment.

Responsibilities

  • Improving our cause prioritization process to identify promising emerging areas for grantmaking; ensuring that process combines evidence, cost-effectiveness modelling and our own judgement, and is continuously responsive to new information and external feedback.
  • Overseeing a portfolio of grant investigations and grant management in each of the highest priority emerging cause areas, and starting to build a research agenda including identifying ways to learn about key uncertainties through the initial grants that we make.
  • Communicating externally about our work and building a network of people across implementers, funders, and academia whose expertise span a broad range of cause areas, to help source new ideas.
  • Managing a team to execute these goals, and supporting the professional development of other team members. Creating a culture that is agile and willing to respond to new and unusual opportunities.
  • Directly investigating more complicated grantmaking opportunities yourself, including programs newer to GiveWell or government prioritization and planning.

Qualifications

  • Quantitatively-oriented advanced degree and substantial relevant experience using empirical tools to make rigorous, evidence-based decisions in the real world.
  • Typically 5-10 years of post-grad work experience; commensurate experience considered without advanced degrees.

Skills

Required:Quantitative analysisStrategic leadershipCommunication and networking

Benefits

  • Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% premiums covered within the US for you and dependents)
  • Four weeks of paid time off per year
  • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships
  • Automatic 5% of gross salary into US-based 403(b) retirement plan
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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