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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

• Work closely with the Claudia, Varsha and the research team to help build the evidence base and analysis behind Prevail’s scoping work, forming judgments on what works, what does not, and which interventions have the highest probability of success. • Help frame the comparison. Work with the team to define the impact metric for comparing interventions on a like-for-like basis, and to build the evidence-levels framework for assessing how much weight each finding should carry. • For each of the ~20 organizations, review academic studies, evaluations, public materials, and third-party sources. Capture the headline findings, including cost per unit, impact size, and persistence, and assess how much confidence we should place in each study and why. • For each intervention type, synthesize the evidence to identify how and why the model works, where it breaks down, and what this implies for Prevail’s decision on whether to launch a fund. • Incorporate insights from the research into the cost-effectiveness model. Update the model as new evidence shifts assumptions or conclusions for a given intervention or organization. • Contribute to the memo that will inform Prevail’s decision on whether to launch the fund. Work with the team to translate the evidence, cost-effectiveness analysis, and implementation landscape into a clear recommendation.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years in research, evaluation, philanthropy, or consulting, including evidence reviews or cost-effectiveness analyses that informed real funding or policy decisions. • An experienced researcher who can review and synthesize academic and field evidence in low- and middle-income contexts, judge study quality quickly, and draw out what matters for a decision. • Self-directed, fast, honest about uncertainty, and comfortable with the ambiguity of early-stage scoping. • Familiarity with cost-effectiveness analysis (BOTEC or CEA) or GiveWell-style approaches. The ability to build or pressure-test models is not required, but it is a strong plus. • Familiarity with livelihoods, economic empowerment, or poverty programming is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive day rate, commensurate with experience • Travel: Up to 20% of the time, concentrated around the field-visit period, and negotiable. Any required travel expenses will be covered by Prevail Fund.