GiveDirectly
501 - 1000 employees
Founded 2009
🤲 Charity
🤝 Non-profit
🌍 Social Impact
💰 $1M Grant on 2018-03
Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact
GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing direct cash transfers to individuals in need around the world. With a mission to help people living on less than $2. 15 per day, GiveDirectly empowers recipients to make their own financial decisions by delivering unconditional cash directly to them, leveraging mobile money technology. Their innovative approach has led to broad recognition and has been studied in numerous research projects. By bypassing traditional aid mechanisms, GiveDirectly aims to efficiently and scalably transform lives, offering targeted assistance in regions such as Bangladesh, Kenya, and the United States, among others.
Senior Global Director of Country Operations
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🕒 June 8
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GiveDirectly
501 - 1000 employees
Founded 2009
🤲 Charity
🤝 Non-profit
🌍 Social Impact
💰 $1M Grant on 2018-03
Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact
GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing direct cash transfers to individuals in need around the world. With a mission to help people living on less than $2. 15 per day, GiveDirectly empowers recipients to make their own financial decisions by delivering unconditional cash directly to them, leveraging mobile money technology. Their innovative approach has led to broad recognition and has been studied in numerous research projects. By bypassing traditional aid mechanisms, GiveDirectly aims to efficiently and scalably transform lives, offering targeted assistance in regions such as Bangladesh, Kenya, and the United States, among others.
📋 Description
• Strengthen and standardize country operations • Ensure clear roles, crisp accountability, and strong operating routines. • Define and implement simple, scalable operating models across HR, finance, procurement, compliance, IT, security, and risk. • Embed global standards in context-appropriate ways that reduce friction so dollars reach recipients faster and more reliably. • Coordinate and represent country office realities in global standards setting, priority setting, and resource allocation • Ensure rollout of global standards in ways that are context appropriate, user-friendly, meaningful, and rigorous • Oversee financial management across all country offices ($350M+/year), ensuring budgets enable scale and mitigate risk. • Establish clear KPIs, dashboards, and operating reviews to maintain cost-efficiency. • Oversee new country launches and compliant wind-downs with clear playbooks and risk mitigation. • Coordinate across functions to ensure smooth execution. • Translate operational insights into repeatable systems, tools, and automation that reduce manual work. • Champion continuous improvement and technology adoption to scale efficiently and nimbly. • Maintain a global risk framework and lead or support crisis management when needed. • Serve as the operational bridge between country leadership and global teams, ensuring priorities are well-resourced and executed consistently. • Partner with COO to refresh roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities and how they are split between country directors and global shared services departments • Lead an ops & finance working group to to identify and test step-change efficiency improvement at scale (using budget & process data, then piloting changes) • Launch a new country office in a crisis-prone region in 3 months • Systematize contracting approval processes to cut cycle time by 2x while maintaining compliance & auditability.
🎯 Requirements
• Proactive thinker and systems builder, who can both resolve today’s issues and also prepare us for tomorrow’s opportunities • Track record of delivering results and owning increasing responsibilities • A “doer” - Someone who gets things done in a lean, fast paced, and hands on environment • Excellent ability to influence and manage diverse stakeholders, including change management • Able to juggle a wide range of responsibilities reliably and nimbly • Diverse work background: Has demonstrated adaptability across high-performing contexts and demands e.g. in AI/tech, management consulting, or other private sector • Operations breadth across functions like finance, HR, procurement, compliance, ethics, IT, audit, and/or risk, compliance, ethics, IT, corporate audit, and/or risk management. • Deep experience living and/or working in Sub-Saharan Africa. • Excited about GD values and mission
🏖️ Benefits
• A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement • A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow • A competitive salary, including bonus • A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country) • Flexible paid time off • Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development
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