Global Health and Development Researcher, Grantmaker

🕒 September 9

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

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

💵 $80k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Founders Pledge

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤲 Charity

💰 $2.6M Grant - Founders Pledge on 2019-12

Consulting • Marketing • Charity

Founders Pledge is an international non-profit organization that mobilizes entrepreneurs to commit a meaningful percentage of their current or future wealth to high-impact charities. The organization researches the world's most pressing problems, identifies effective philanthropic solutions, manages donor-advised funds and funding opportunities, and provides personalized advisory services and a community for founders to give effectively. Founders Pledge operates as registered charities/non-profits in the US, UK, and Germany and supports members through events, funds, and grants to maximize the impact of donations.

📋 Description

• Research and evaluate high-impact funding opportunities in global health and development • Investigate specific funding margins, organizations, and programs that can cost-effectively save and improve lives • Conduct rigorous evaluations and make multimillion-dollar grant recommendations monthly • Expand the range of interventions considered, including novel interventions requiring active grantmaking • Evaluate direct interventions, research opportunities, micro-interventions, and high-risk/high-reward big bets • Undertake research investigations and literature reviews • Conduct individual investigations into promising funding opportunities • Contribute to internal and external reports and materials • Work with internal and external stakeholders to secure funding for opportunities • Answer detailed research questions from ultra-high-net-worth donors • Report to the Global Health & Development Lead

🎯 Requirements

• Relevant domain expertise in development economics, public health, cost-effectiveness analysis, medicine, finance, or hard sciences • Excellent analytical skills • Comfort expressing views numerically and using systematic quantitative frameworks • Ability to understand and build quantitative models • Ability to express nuanced evidence and complex concepts clearly in writing • Open-ended research skills, including identifying potential HIFOs and relevant academic research, reports, and experts • Good calibration and awareness of the limits of personal knowledge • Intellectual curiosity and openness to alternative viewpoints • Conscientiousness and prioritization skills • Good judgment in research and reporting decisions • Ability to work well with others and communicate honestly and directly • Openness to feedback • Willingness to work in a high-growth, dynamic startup environment and comfort with ambiguity • Confidence and experience leading independent research • Great home Wi-Fi connection • Must be based in the UK, USA (ideally East Coast), or Germany

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement with no expectation to attend an office regularly • Flexible remote or hybrid coworking-space arrangement • Home office equipment provided • Global team offsite once per year • Team meetings at least once per year • Flat organizational structure • Opportunity to help shape the future of philanthropy • Inclusive and diverse workplace • Equal opportunity employer