GiveWell
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2007
🤲 Charity
🤝 Non-profit
🌍 Social Impact
Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact
GiveWell is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to maximizing the impact of charitable donations by rigorously researching and recommending a small number of highly effective charities. Founded in 2007, GiveWell conducts extensive analyses to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and potential impact of various programs, ensuring that donors can make informed decisions about where their contributions will do the most good. Their research is openly available to the public and aims to enhance transparency in philanthropy, helping donors direct millions to life-saving initiatives.
Senior Researcher
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🕒 March 18
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $205.6k - $226.8k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
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GiveWell
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2007
🤲 Charity
🤝 Non-profit
🌍 Social Impact
Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact
GiveWell is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to maximizing the impact of charitable donations by rigorously researching and recommending a small number of highly effective charities. Founded in 2007, GiveWell conducts extensive analyses to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and potential impact of various programs, ensuring that donors can make informed decisions about where their contributions will do the most good. Their research is openly available to the public and aims to enhance transparency in philanthropy, helping donors direct millions to life-saving initiatives.
📋 Description
• Senior Researchers are the intellectual leaders of GiveWell’s work. You’ll create and lead ambitious research agendas, answer complex questions, and inform high-impact grantmaking decisions by combining rigorous evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, and thoughtful judgment. • Your decisions will inform the allocation of funds to dozens of grantees. • Communicate externally about our work and mentor and advise other members of the team. • Shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions GiveWell faces.
🎯 Requirements
• Quantitatively-oriented advanced degrees and substantial relevant experience using empirical tools to make rigorous, evidence-based decisions in the real world • Typically has 5-10 years of post-grad work experience prior to joining GiveWell • Will consider applicants who do not have advanced degrees, but will look for a commensurate amount of relevant experience.
🏖️ Benefits
• Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents) • Four weeks of paid time off per year • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave • Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships • 403(b) retirement plan
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