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Prevail Fund

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11 - 50 employees

🤲 Charity

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Education • Social Impact

Prevail Fund is an organization that mobilizes philanthropic capital and field implementation capacity to pursue ambitious, measurable global goals—beginning with improving foundational literacy and numeracy in low- and middle-income countries. Prevail makes targeted grants to field implementers, works directly on the ground to build their capacity to scale over 10+ years, and coordinates donor teams to leverage government and private-sector spending. Its founding board is composed of experienced social entrepreneurs and implementers, and its first program aims to raise and deploy $1B in philanthropy to improve instruction for at least 27. 5 million children across 11 countries in Africa and South Asia.

📋 Description

• Set the vision and strategy for Prevail's Research function: define priorities across research workstreams, refine assessment frameworks, derive comparable metrics across sectors. • Lead and develop the Research team: Owning how the research function is structured and operates across Prevail - directly managing some researchers, thinking ahead about the skillsets and profiles the team needs to scale. • Drive Prevail's strategy for assessing new philanthropic opportunities: set priorities, refine our assessment frameworks, derive comparable metrics across sectors. • Build and own complex quantitative and qualitative models: dive into complex opportunity analysis, creating various effective research outputs. • Identify, diligence, and evaluate high-impact interventions. • Synthesize and translate evidence into crisp outputs that can speak to diverse audiences. • Answer operational and programmatic questions when evaluating new opportunities, proposing evidence-based, creative solutions.

🎯 Requirements

• 9+ years experience in conducting research to drive decision-making. • 4+ years leading, mentoring, and managing other researchers. • Goal-oriented research. • Clear, kind, specific feedback. • Create clear frameworks, models, and recommendations. • Transparent thinking. You clearly track and outline how you came to key conclusions throughout the research process. • Synthesis skills. You integrate quantitative and qualitative data from diverse fields, like econometrics and political science.

🏖️ Benefits

• Full time, permanent contract. • Drive real impact. Your work will directly mobilize philanthropic capital that will impact millions of lives. • Flexibility: Work remotely from anywhere in a timezone between -6 UTC (US Central Time) and +3 UTC (EAT), with opportunities to travel and connect in person with the team 3-4 times per year. • Competitive salary based on experience, skills and location. We share salary ranges with candidates before the first interview. Final offers are based on interview performance. • Meaningful benefits. Health insurance and wellness benefits, home workspace or co-working stipend, plus a generous learning and development budget. • Growth opportunities. We deeply care about investing in our team’s professional development. You’ll receive strong manager support, targeted feedback, clear pay progression, upwards or lateral mobility. • Flexible leave policy. Including 25 days PTO, plus public holidays.