Director, Strategic Initiatives

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🕒 5 days ago

🌐 United States, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

💵 $131.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧐 Strategy

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GiveDirectly

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Build and prioritize a portfolio of external options to increase delivery capacity, ranking them by scale, speed, feasibility, and cost • Conduct primary diligence through engagement with potential partners, regulators, and counsel, reaching defensible recommendations to advance or stop opportunities • Advance one or two priorities from evaluation through implementation and live pilot • Hold counterparty relationships and coordinate cross-functional internal work • Define and run competitive solicitations, including RFPs, selection criteria, and response evaluation • Lead engagement and negotiations with UN agencies, INGOs, mobile network operators, and government bodies through signed agreements • Produce analysis and written recommendations to support Executive team decisions on money and capacity allocation • Report to the Chief of Staff and work directly with the Executive team, Country Directors, and external partners

🎯 Requirements

• Director or Team Lead-level experience in consulting, strategy, or operations, in business or social impact contexts • Experience personally turning broad mandates into prioritized, pressure-tested options and recommendations • Experience translating ambiguous ideas into clear strategies with milestones and success metrics • Experience working without a playbook or assigned team • Experience influencing high-stakes strategic decisions • Strong analytical instincts and ability to use data to generate insights and drive decision-making • Ability to build comparable estimates for structurally different options and identify required conditions for success • Negotiation skills, including assessing institutional incentives and compliance requirements • Ability to communicate clearly and directly with senior stakeholders using concise, well-structured thinking • Ability to embody and set an example for GiveDirectly values • Additional experience areas are interested in but not required: humanitarian or institutional donors, UN agencies and INGO consortia, mobile money, telco or payments partnerships, grantmaking, organizational due diligence, cost-effectiveness assessments, challenge funds, competitive solicitations, data-sharing and data-protection agreements, and low-income or infrastructure-constrained markets • Successful safeguarding and pre-hire screening may include previous-employer misconduct checks, reference checks, criminal background checks, and sanctions screens

🏖️ Benefits

• United States benefits stipend: $21,393 per year • United Kingdom benefits stipend: £2,760.00 • Kenya benefits stipend: $8,454 • Bonus target: 15% • Referral reward of $3,000 for a Senior Manager or above role, and $500 for a Manager role, paid if the referral is hired • Professional growth opportunities • Reasonable accommodations during the application/interview process and to perform essential role functions