GiveWell’s mission is to help people in need as much as we can by researching the most cost‑effective ways to save and improve lives, sharing our work openly, and directing donations to the programs we believe will do the most good. Our work, which focuses on global health and well-being, is funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We’ve grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025—and we expect to direct more than $500 million in 2026. Through years of deliberate groundwork, we’ve been growing our research capacity and scope in order to direct substantially more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find.

The role

Senior Program Officers are the leaders of GiveWell’s grantmaking. In this role, you’ll take primary responsibility for a significant grantmaking portfolio, setting its strategy and sifting through the many opportunities we could fund to focus on those that matter most. Your decisions will inform the allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars to dozens of grantees. You’ll also communicate externally about our work and mentor and advise other members of the team.

You will build and lead a grantmaking portfolio that brings rigor and creativity to GiveWell’s hardest funding problems. You’ll combine rigorous review of empirical evidence, cost-effectiveness modeling, strong grantee relationships, ground-truthing of how programs are actually delivered, discussions with subject matter experts, understanding of the broader context, and your own judgment to decide what to fund, how to structure it, and when to build something new. In the course of your work, you might approach questions like these:

• How should we balance exploring and seeding new, smaller opportunities with funding cost-effective opportunities at scale today?
• When the best opportunity doesn’t exist yet, how do we create it, whether through co-design, seeding an implementer, or shaping broader incentives?
• What is the best direction for our portfolio, and are we correctly prioritizing the programs and grantees we fund?
• Where are the highest-impact opportunities to expand the portfolio while improving its cost-effectiveness?
• How can we triangulate empirical evidence against expert opinion and other qualitative features, like a grantee’s organizational track record?
• Do a grantee’s reported outputs reflect real coverage, quality, and adherence to evidence-based practices on the ground?
• What research can we fund today that could substantially improve our grantmaking five years from now?
• How much uncertainty are we willing to accept before making a grant, and which questions do we need to answer first?

Senior Program Officers work closely with Senior Researchers, an equivalently-leveled, parallel role on our team. Senior Researchers typically set the research agenda for grantmaking areas and tackle the thorniest, most open-ended questions we face, while Senior Program Officers own the grant and portfolio decisions — deciding what we fund and why, and incorporating Senior Researchers’ analysis into their decisionmaking. Senior Program Officers have a research mindset, too: they’re comfortable digging into a cost-effectiveness model and forming their own view of the evidence.

Team structure

Our research department is currently organized into eight teams:

• Five of the teams (Water, Livelihoods, Nutrition, Malaria, and Vaccines) focus on specific areas of grantmaking.
• The New Areas team focuses on interventions in domains that are new to GiveWell.
• The Cross-Cutting team focuses on methodological issues, research quality, and other big-picture concerns that cut across all of our research work.
• The Commons team provides generalized research support to each of the other teams, including landscaping research, vetting, and publishing.

In some cases, we’ll make offers for specific subteam placements. In others, we’ll offer the opportunity to complete a few rotations on different teams over several months before settling on a final subteam placement. We’ll discuss placement details in the final stages of the hiring process.

Team values

We think our research team has unique qualities:

• We care deeply and centrally about finding and sharing truth. Truth-seeking is one of our core values. We post our mistakes and we prize our team members who keep our culture of free-flowing feedback strong.
• We are independent. We focus 100% on finding the most cost-effective opportunities to save and improve lives. Our researchers assist in communicating our research findings to the public and our donors, and on occasion we provide tailored advice to ultra-high-net-worth donors who want to rely on our expertise to direct their giving—but we never ask our researchers to trade off against honesty, or to hide their real beliefs.
• We don’t waste time. Once it’s clear that a particular research question is unlikely to change our bottom-line funding recommendation, we drop it as quickly as possible. We encourage our research staff to constantly re-evaluate their portfolios and only work on the highest-priority questions.
• Lean research team = huge personal impact. Our research team of just under 70 people directs hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
• We work well together. Our research team is lean because we’re able to attract top-tier people, all of whom complete skills-based assessments before joining our staff. We maintain a high-performing, collegial culture and pay our staff accordingly.

About you

The strongest candidates typically have at least 5-10 years of professional experience, a significant portion of which was in similar or closely-related roles. Many of our senior staff have quantitatively-oriented advanced degrees, but there’s no hard academic requirement — what matters to us is that you’ve used empirical tools to make rigorous, evidence-based decisions under uncertainty, whether you’ve done that in graduate training or hands-on experience. 

In addition to relevant experience with the responsibilities listed above, we’ll be interested in people with strong track records in any of the following areas:

• Funding, building or scaling new programs, initiatives, or organizations.
• Using rigorous quantitative analysis and cost-effectiveness modeling to support decisionmaking
• Building relationships with diverse stakeholders (you’ll work with other funders, research organizations, NGOs, and more, so it will be important for you to have strong skill in this area)
• Owning large budgets and/or grant portfolios
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with an emphasis on directness and clarity
• Setting and iterating on strategy in complex, fast moving environments 

It’s a plus, but not required, if you have experience:

• Engaging with global health, development, or related fields
• Reviewing randomized controlled trials and impact evaluations
• Working with governments or multilateral organizations
• Gathering first-hand data to inform program design
• Managing a variety of grant types, including advocacy and market-shaping initiatives

You can review our staff bios here for more practical insight on the backgrounds and experience of our current team.

We expect that people with the soft qualities below will be the most successful and happy on our team. This isn’t a full list, but hopefully it conveys the gist of our team’s professional personality:

• GiveWell’s mission and methods are personally energizing—you like our approach to research and you find personal meaning in our story of impact.
• You’re abnormally curious—you ask lots of questions, and you’re willing to interrogate others’ work. Your curiosity also extends to your own work—you aren’t defensive when your research comes under scrutiny.
• You get things done, and you’ll drop what you’re doing when something matters more. You drive work to conclusions efficiently, and when the evidence shifts or a higher-value opportunity appears, you’re eager to pivot.
• You’re entrepreneurial. When you see a gap, you want to fill it, whether that’s designing a new program, finding an implementer, or setting up a new kind of funding mechanism. You make bets under uncertainty.
• You routinely think about and surface the value judgments, background knowledge, and strategic commitments that undergird your work. You understand the potential effects of mistaken mental models, so you strive to improve yours and your team’s.
• You dislike it when people express strong confidence in views that don’t seem to rely on commensurate evidence. You carefully and legibly communicate about your confidence levels.
• You appreciate the value of an excellent reputation and strong relationships. You can moderate your directness and intensity when you’re communicating with external folks.
• You love a gnarly problem. You figure out the most important questions to answer, go deep on the details where they matter (and move on where they don’t), and reassess your mental models based on what you’ve learned.

The details

• Compensation: We set salaries using a location-based tier system. Our pay for this role:
  • NYC or the San Francisco Bay Area: $308,000.
  • All other U.S. locations: $280,000.
  • International: Similar to the “all other U.S. locations” salary, based on historical exchange rates and delivered in locally-denominated currency.
• Benefits: Our benefits include:
  • 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
  • Automatic contribution equal to 5% of your gross salary into your 403(b) retirement plan (for U.S. based staff)
• Location: GiveWell’s staff work primarily remotely within the U.S. and abroad. This position is eligible to work fully remotely.
  • Offices: You are welcome but not required to work from our offices in Oakland, California; Brooklyn, NYC; or London, UK. We’ll cover relocation expenses for candidates who wish to move to any of our physical office locations.
  • International work: We are happy to employ staff internationally on a case-by-case basis. A successful candidate will need to commit to a work schedule that has some overlap with American working hours and the schedules of key coworkers.
• Flexibility: We support and encourage flexible working, including flexible hours, working remotely, and working from the office when you choose. The majority of our staff, including senior management, work flexibly in one way or another.
• Visa Sponsorship: If you want to work in the United States and need a work visa, we’ll do our best to sponsor it (and also cover up to 100% of relocation expenses on a case-by-case basis). Please note that government entities ultimately dictate our ability to sponsor visas.
• Travel: Research team members are sometimes required to attend international site visits and conferences (on average 1-2 per year), with additional travel for those interested in traveling more. Additionally, we strongly encourage staff members to attend annual department retreats and twice-annual whole org visit weeks to bond with other team members and complete in-person work. We’ll discuss travel obligations in more detail during late stages of the hiring process, and we’ll accommodate staff who have conflicting obligations.
• Start date: We’d like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer, but we’ll offer flexibility for candidates whose personal or professional circumstances require them to moderately delay their start date.
• Application deadline: We don’t currently have an application deadline. If that changes, we’ll update the posting. We’re reviewing applications on a rolling basis, so we recommend applying as soon as possible.

Miscellaneous details:

• Please note that our hiring process relies on some (not all) of the same work trials that we use in our Researcher and Senior Researcher roles (including team-specific Senior Researcher postings). If you applied to one of these roles within the last year, you should hold off on applying to others unless our team reaches out directly. If you’re interested in multiple roles, please just apply once and note in your application that you’d like to be considered for the other roles, too.
• After application review, our hiring process consists of a short application exercise and up to 15 hours of compensated work trials. You can see more details about our hiring process on our FAQs page!
• We devote significant staff capacity to initial application review, and we respond to all applications as quickly as possible.
• We have a strong preference for full-time applicants, but we sometimes consider applications for part-time work on a case-by-case basis. We aren’t interested in reviewing applications for contract or project-based work at this time.
• If we settle on an application deadline, we’ll write it in bold here. If you’re on our website job posting and don’t see a deadline, there is no deadline. If you’re reading this on an external job board and don’t see a deadline, you should double-check on our website.
• You don’t need to submit a cover letter—we rely mainly on your resume and answers to the application questions below when we’re making early decisions.

About GiveWell

GiveWell is dedicated to finding and evaluating highly cost-effective global health and development opportunities, and we publish all the work, reasoning, and uncertainties behind our funding decisions. Our giving funds enable donors to contribute to the most impactful and cost-effective programs our researchers identify. 

GiveWell is one of the world’s largest private funders of global development efforts. Trusted annually by tens of thousands of donors, GiveWell searches for highly cost-effective programs that save or improve lives the most. Since 2007, more than 150,000 donors have given over $2.6 billion through GiveWell to the most promising programs its research has identified, which we estimate will save more than 340,000 lives.

GiveWell is most well-known for recommending a small number of Top Charities, which currently support seasonal malaria chemoprevention, insecticide-treated nets, vaccine incentivization, and vitamin A supplementation. However, most of our research capacity and grantmaking is devoted to cost-effective opportunities outside of those programs.

GiveWell grants have:

• Helped governments navigate changes to the funding landscape and implement high-impact health programs, like HIV/syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant people in Zambia and Cameroon.
• Sought to scope and scale promising interventions that don’t have clear existing implementers. We are supporting the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Incubator to identify potentially cost-effective interventions and create programs that we would be excited to support in the future. For example, we funded a program to prevent tuberculosis among young children in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India, that we co-designed with CHAI through the Incubator program.
• Provided funding to ensure that programs that recently faced foreign aid funding cuts could continue, like healthcare support and malnutrition treatment in northern Cameroon.
• Funded program delivery alongside strengthened monitoring and evaluation, as in our grants to support treatment of clubfoot and to evaluate the program.  
• Tested our assumptions and refined our understanding through further research and data collection, including improved estimates of disease burden and studies on the effect of water chlorination on mortalityand the impact of a tree-planting program on farmers’ income.

We make our reasoning public and transparent so others can challenge it (sometimes we even pay people to point out our errors). We go to unusual lengths to check our assumptions and assess our impact, including funding research to address our uncertainties and gathering independent monitoring and evaluation data about the programs we support. We change our minds when the evidence demands it. For more about GiveWell, listen to Ezra Klein’s recent interview with GiveWell’s co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld.

Additional information

We don’t want to miss candidates that could do great things at GiveWell. Practically, that means a GiveWell staff member reviews every application carefully, considering the whole picture of your background and potential. If you’re on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications (some studies suggest this hesitation is especially common for women and people of color), we encourage you to apply anyway.

GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. At minimum, this means that we comply with all federal, state, and local EEO and employment laws. Beyond the requirements of those laws, we value our team’s diversity in all respects, and we desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination—we want our team members to thrive at GiveWell. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org. We will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

By submitting an application, you acknowledge that you have read and consent to GiveWell’s Privacy Statement for Applicants. By completing an application exercise, you acknowledge and assent to GiveWell’s Work Trial Policy.

GiveWell’s mission is to help people in need as much as we can by researching the most cost‑effective ways to save and improve lives, sharing our work openly, and directing donations to the programs we believe will do the most good. Our work, which focuses on global health and well-being, is funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We’ve grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025—and we expect to direct more than $500 million in 2026. Through years of deliberate groundwork, we’ve been growing our research capacity and scope in order to direct substantially more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find.

Summary

GiveWell is seeking exceptional Program Officers to help us direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the most cost-effective global health and poverty alleviation programs. As part of our lean research team, you will have an outsized influence on our funding decisions and help us save and improve lives on a global scale.

You’ll own grant investigations and help manage a portfolio of grants, evaluating the best funding opportunities and helping shape new ones. You will answer hard questions and make funding recommendations by combining rigorous evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, grantee relationships, and thoughtful judgment.

The role

You’ll join a small grantmaking team to own grant investigations and help manage a portfolio of grants, sifting through the many opportunities we could fund and honing in on those that matter most—and, when the best opportunity doesn’t yet exist, helping bring a better one into being. Your decisions will inform the allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars to dozens of grantees.

Your practical work will combine empirical evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, grantee engagement, ground-truthing of how programs are delivered, discussions with subject matter experts, and developing your own judgment. In the course of your work, you might approach questions like these:

• Should we make this grant, and how should we structure it (e.g., conditions, milestones, or gates)?
• When a promising intervention has no clear implementer, what would it take to help one get off the ground?
• Is this grant on track, and if not, why?
• Do a grantee’s reported outputs reflect real coverage, quality, and adherence to evidence-based practices on the ground?
• What should we believe about the cost-effectiveness of an intervention in our portfolio, and what would change our minds?
• How should we monitor a grant’s progress, and what would tell us to course-correct?
• How should we account for high levels of uncertainty in our cost-effectiveness estimates?
• How should we weigh empirical evidence against qualitative factors, like a grantee’s organizational track record?

Responsibilities include:

• Investigating and recommending grants. We receive and solicit requests for funding on an ongoing basis, and you’ll own investigations into these opportunities from scoping through recommendation. You’ll discuss each opportunity with the potential grantee, consider its plans and assess the likelihood of achieving them, estimate the cost-effectiveness of the grant and forecast its likelihood of success, and recommend how to structure it (e.g., whether to include conditions, milestones, or gates). When necessary, you’ll solicit feedback from outside experts (e.g., academics, government officials) about the opportunity.
• Managing a portfolio of grants. Once a grant is made, you’ll maintain a current view of whether it’s on track and why. This includes collaborating with grantees to assess whether reported outputs reflect real coverage, quality, and adherence to evidence-based practices, and ground-truthing how programs are delivered—through monitoring data, site visits, and conversations with field staff—so we can learn and course-correct over the life of the grant.
• Analyzing interventions (e.g., vaccine demand generation, vitamin A supplementation, seasonal malaria chemoprevention) at various levels of depth to refine our view about the cost-effectiveness of interventions in your portfolio and recommend either deprioritization or further work. You’ll review existing empirical evidence about intervention impacts, build models, speak with subject matter experts about particular interventions, and use your judgment to come up with a bottom line. Examples of this work are available on our intervention reports page.
• Building cost-effectiveness models to estimate the costs and benefits of a particular intervention. These models take into account a wide variety of considerations, including: one’s prior estimate for an intervention’s impact, the strength of the evidence, the size of the effects, the similarity between the context in which an intervention was studied and will be implemented, negative and/or offsetting effects, and how funding this intervention would affect decisions by other actors (e.g., local government, donor governments). See more on our page about our cost-effectiveness models.
• Building relationships relevant to our work, for example with grantees and program staff at organizations we are funding or considering for funding, academics who specialize in interventions we are reviewing (e.g., malaria, malnutrition treatment, in-line water chlorination), and program staff at other funders who are also evaluating where to allocate funds.
• Publishing reports and blog posts on our website. Transparency is a core value of ours and we aim to publish as much supporting information regarding our conclusions as we can. Program Officers write up findings and reasoning for publication on our website or summarize key points from their work in blog posts.

What is career development like?

After gaining experience on the team, Program Officers have the opportunity to develop into Senior Program Officers, who own high-impact, cost-effective grantmaking portfolios by deepening their expertise, growing their networks, and understanding the broader context within a specific grantmaking area. Senior Program Officers may then pursue a few pathways for career development based on their preferences and GiveWell’s needs. Some choose to deepen and expand their portfolios as individual contributors, while others take on people management responsibilities. Another potential pathway is to move into the research track as a Researcher, focusing on leading research agendas rather than owning a grantmaking portfolio. 

Team structure

Our research department is currently organized into eight teams:

• Five of the teams (Water, Livelihoods, Nutrition, Malaria, and Vaccines) focus on specific areas of grantmaking.
• The New Areas team focuses on interventions in domains that are new to GiveWell.
• The Cross-Cutting team focuses on methodological issues, research quality, and other big-picture concerns that cut across all of our research work.
• The Commons team provides generalized research support to each of the other teams, including landscaping research, vetting, and publishing.

In some cases, we’ll make offers for specific subteam placements. In others, we’ll offer the opportunity to complete a few rotations on different teams over several months before settling on a final subteam placement. We’ll discuss placement details in the final stages of the hiring process.

Team values

We think our research team has unique qualities:

• We care deeply and centrally about finding and sharing truth. Truth-seeking is one of our core values. We post our mistakes and we prize our team members who keep our culture of free-flowing feedback strong.
• We are independent. We focus 100% on finding the most cost-effective opportunities to save and improve lives. Our researchers assist in communicating our research findings to the public and our donors, and on occasion we provide tailored advice to ultra-high-net-worth donors who want to rely on our expertise to direct their giving—but we never ask our researchers to trade off against honesty, or to hide their real beliefs.
• We don’t waste time. Once it’s clear that a particular research question is unlikely to change our bottom-line funding recommendation, we drop it as quickly as possible. We encourage our research staff to constantly re-evaluate their portfolios and only work on the highest-priority questions.
• Lean research team = huge personal impact. Our ~70-person research team directs hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
• We work well together. Our research team is lean because we’re able to attract top-tier people, all of whom complete skills-based assessments before joining our staff. We maintain a high-performing, collegial culture and pay our staff accordingly.

The details

• Team: You’ll join one of our grantmaking teams (see our org structure here) and report to a Senior Researcher or Senior Program Officer.
• Compensation:
  • NYC or the San Francisco Bay Area: $220,000.
  • All other U.S. locations: $200,000.
  • International: Similar to the “all other U.S. locations” salary, based on historical exchange rates and delivered in locally-denominated currency.
• Location: GiveWell’s staff work primarily remotely within the U.S. and abroad. This position is eligible to work fully remotely.
  • Offices: You are welcome but not required to work from our offices in Oakland, California; Brooklyn, NYC; or London, UK. We’ll cover relocation expenses for candidates who wish to move to any of our physical office locations.
  • International work: We are happy to employ staff internationally on a case-by-case basis. A successful candidate will need to commit to a work schedule that has some overlap with American working hours and the schedules of key coworkers.
• Flexibility: We support and encourage flexible working, including flexible hours, working remotely, and working from the office when you choose. The majority of our staff, including senior management, work flexibly in one way or another.
• Visa Sponsorship: If you want to work in the United States and need a work visa, we’ll do our best to sponsor it (and also cover up to 100% of relocation expenses on a case-by-case basis). Please note that government entities ultimately dictate our ability to sponsor visas.
• Benefits: Our benefits include:
  • 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
  • Automatic contribution equal to 5% of your gross salary into your 403(b) retirement plan (for U.S. based staff)
• Travel: Research team members are sometimes required to attend international site visits and conferences (on average 1-2 per year), with additional travel for those interested in traveling more. Additionally, we strongly encourage staff members to attend annual department retreats and twice-annual whole org visit weeks to bond with other team members and complete in-person work. We’ll discuss travel obligations in more detail during late stages of the hiring process, and we’ll accommodate staff who have conflicting obligations.
• Start date: We’d like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer, but we’ll offer flexibility for candidates whose personal or professional circumstances require them to moderately delay their start date.
• Application deadline: We don’t currently have an application deadline. If that changes, we’ll update the posting. We’re reviewing applications on a rolling basis, so we recommend applying as soon as possible.

About you

The strongest candidates will typically have around 3-5 years of professional experience, a significant portion of which was in similar or closely-related roles. Many of our Program Officers have quantitatively-oriented advanced degrees, but there’s no hard academic requirement—what matters is a demonstrated ability to use empirical tools to make rigorous, evidence-based decisions, whether that comes from graduate training or hands-on experience.

We expect you will be characterized by many of the below qualities. We encourage you to apply if you would use the majority of these characteristics to describe yourself:

• You are passionate about helping improve global health and alleviate global poverty as much as possible.
• You are highly skilled at critically analyzing and synthesizing empirical research and understanding how a body of evidence applies to real-world funding decisions.
• You get things done, and you’ll drop what you’re doing when something matters more. You drive work to conclusions, and when the evidence shifts or a higher-value opportunity appears, you’re eager to pivot.
• You’re drawn to gaps. When you see something missing—a program that should exist, an implementer worth seeding, a better way to structure a grant—you want to help make it happen, and you’re comfortable taking bets under uncertainty.
• You are able to plan an efficient approach to exploring complicated questions, including identifying and focusing on the most decision-relevant aspects of a project.
• You consider the big picture, asking questions like: is this project appropriately formulated and the best use of my time? What is GiveWell getting wrong in our research?
• You clearly communicate what you believe and why, as well as what you are uncertain about.
• You ask a lot of questions, and are curious, rather than defensive, when interrogating your own or others’ work.
• You are effective at building and managing relationships with external parties, including grantees, experts, and other funders.
• You are respectful, effective, and efficient in your interactions with colleagues as well as external parties.

Other notes

• Please note that our hiring process relies on some (not all) of the same work trials that we use in our Researcher and Senior Researcher roles (including team-specific Senior Researcher postings). If you applied to one of these roles within the last year, you should hold off on applying to others unless our team reaches out directly. If you’re interested in multiple roles, please just apply once and note in your application that you’d like to be considered for the other roles, too.
• After application review, our hiring process consists of a short application exercise, two compensated work trials, and several short interviews. You can see more details about our hiring process on our FAQs page!
• You don’t need to submit a cover letter with your application—we only want your resume/CV and answers to the application questions below.
• We don’t offer informational calls at this stage, but please email us at careers@givewell.org with any questions not answered here!

About GiveWell

GiveWell is dedicated to finding and evaluating highly cost-effective global health and development opportunities, and we publish all the work, reasoning, and uncertainties behind our funding decisions. Our giving funds enable donors to contribute to the most impactful and cost-effective programs our researchers identify. 

GiveWell is one of the world’s largest private funders of global development efforts. Trusted annually by tens of thousands of donors, GiveWell searches for highly cost-effective programs that save or improve lives the most. Since 2007, more than 150,000 donors have given over $2.6 billion through GiveWell to the most promising programs its research has identified, which we estimate will save more than 340,000 lives.

GiveWell is most well-known for recommending a small number of Top Charities, which currently support seasonal malaria chemoprevention, insecticide-treated nets, vaccine incentivization, and vitamin A supplementation. However, most of our research capacity and grantmaking is devoted to cost-effective opportunities outside of those programs.

GiveWell grants have:

• Helped governments navigate changes to the funding landscape and implement high-impact health programs, like HIV/syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant people in Zambia and Cameroon.
• Sought to scope and scale promising interventions that don’t have clear existing implementers. We are supporting the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Incubator to identify potentially cost-effective interventions and create programs that we would be excited to support in the future. For example, we funded a program to prevent tuberculosis among young children in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India, that we co-designed with CHAI through the Incubator program.
• Provided funding to ensure that programs that recently faced foreign aid funding cuts could continue, like healthcare support and malnutrition treatment in northern Cameroon.
• Funded program delivery alongside strengthened monitoring and evaluation, as in our grants to support treatment of clubfoot and to evaluate the program.  
• Tested our assumptions and refined our understanding through further research and data collection, including improved estimates of disease burden and studies on the effect of water chlorination on mortalityand the impact of a tree-planting program on farmers’ income.

We make our reasoning public and transparent so others can challenge it (sometimes we even pay people to point out our errors). We go to unusual lengths to check our assumptions and assess our impact, including funding research to address our uncertainties and gathering independent monitoring and evaluation data about the programs we support. We change our minds when the evidence demands it. For more about GiveWell, listen to Ezra Klein’s recent interview with GiveWell’s co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld.

Additional information

We don’t want to miss candidates that could do great things at GiveWell. Practically, that means a GiveWell staff member reviews every application carefully, considering the whole picture of your background and potential. If you’re on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications (some studies suggest this hesitation is especially common for women and people of color), we encourage you to apply anyway.

GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. At minimum, this means that we comply with all federal, state, and local EEO and employment laws. Beyond the requirements of those laws, we value our team’s diversity in all respects, and we desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination—we want our team members to thrive at GiveWell. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org. We will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

By submitting an application, you acknowledge that you have read and consent to GiveWell’s Privacy Statement for Applicants. By completing an application exercise, you acknowledge and assent to GiveWell’s Work Trial Policy.

IASP Lived Experience Campaigns Officer

The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is a non-government organisation (NGO) dedicated to the prevention of suicide and suicidal behaviour. IASP provides a global forum for academics, mental health professionals, crisis workers, volunteers and those with lived and living experience of suicide. IASP is organisedthrough a Central Office (CO) currently comprising of eleven part-time workers located in their home country, all working remotely.

To support our team, we are seeking to expand our team with a Lived Experience Campaigns Officer and we invite you to apply.

Background:

Established in 1960, the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) leads the global effort in suicide prevention having developed an effective forum that is proactive in creating strong collaborative partnerships and promoting evidence-based action in order to reduce the incidence of suicide and suicidal behaviour (www.iasp.info). As a membership organisation with a global network of National Representatives in 80 countries and also 17 topic related “Special Interest Groups” addressing key aspects of suicide and suicide prevention, IASP’s engaged and active network encompasses the best research and practice in suicide prevention.

IASP seeks a part-time (60%) Lived Experience Campaigns Officer to ensure that a lived experience perspective is embedded across all elements of the organisation’s internal and external work, while supporting IASP’s marketing and campaigns activity.

Lived experience of suicide is defined as having experienced suicidal thoughts, made a suicide attempt, cared for a loved one through a suicidal crisis, or been bereaved through suicide. People with lived experience of suicide bring unique insights, wisdom and perspectives that are critical to informing and shaping best-practice approaches to suicide prevention. The meaningful inclusion of these voices has been formally recognised by the World Health Organizationand IASP as critical to system reform. Integrating lived experience into the fabric of an organisation allows it to understand more deeply where its work intersects with the people and communities it serves, to ensure its activities are sensitive to their potential impact, and to identify where improvements can be made. For IASP, embedding lived experience across our governance, programmes, communications, policy, advocacy and campaigns, and partnering with people with lived experience so they can take a leading role, is central to reducing suicide and suicidal behaviour.

Purpose:

To embed the perspective of people with lived and living experience across all aspects of IASP’s work, and to supportthe organisation’s communications and campaigns activity so that advocacy is grounded in, and shaped by, those most affected by suicide.

Responsible to:

IASP Head of Marketing & Campaigns

Support to:

The IASP Central Office Team and specifically the Marketing & Campaigns Team for communications and campaigns work.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Champion the inclusion of lived and living experience across IASP’s internal operations, governance and external programmes;
• Advise teams and leadership on the meaningful and safe involvement of people with lived experience, in line with established good practice;
• Develop and maintain guidance, principles and practical tools that support lived experience integration across the organisation;
• Build and sustain relationships with lived experience networks, partners and individuals across IASP’s global membership;
• Support IASP’s policy and advocacy work across priority areas including decriminalisation, restriction of accessto means including pesticides, and digital and AI safety;
• Contribute a lived experience perspective to policy positions, consultation responses and advocacy materials;
• Support engagement with global and regional networks, both internal and external;
• Support the planning and delivery of IASP campaigns, including World Suicide Prevention Day, working with the Marketing & Campaigns Team;
• Ensure that content and activities apply safe messaging guidelines on suicide;
• Manage and moderate IASP’s social media channels alongside the Marketing & Campaigns Team, fostering safe, respectful and inclusive online engagement.
• Develop, create and schedule engaging social media content that supports IASP’s campaigns, advocacypriorities, events and programmes, while elevating lived and living experience voices and perspectives. Actively engage with and contribute to relevant conversations across the suicide prevention, mental health and public

health sectors through IASP’s social media channels.

• Drive critical thinking, self-reflection, and innovation;
• Other duties that may arise from time to time and as may be assigned to this position.

Person Specification Knowledge

• Lived and living experience perspectives in suicide prevention
• Mental Health sector
• NGO sector
• Policy, advocacy and campaigns
• International and cultural awareness

Skills and Experience

• A lived or living experience of suicidality, suicide bereavement, or significant mental health challenges, and a willingness to draw on this in the role. The postholder will draw on their own lived experience of suicide in this role and in shaping the work of

IASP. We therefore ask that applicants feel ready and able to use their lived experience safely and with purpose in a professional setting, with appropriate self-awareness and personal boundaries. Readiness is not about being “fully recovered” or having all the answers, but about being at a point where reflecting on and sharing aspects of your experience, where you choose to, is safe and sustainable for you. IASP is committed to supporting the postholder in this, including through safe-messaging guidance and a lived-experience-informed working culture.

• Understanding of the principles of meaningful lived experience involvement.
• Experience of policy, advocacy, campaigns or communications work.
• Experience of building, partnering and maintaining strong and sustained relationships.
• Understanding or experience of mental health research, policy and interventions.
• IT literate, excellent technical skills (MS Office, databases, social media).
• Excellent English in speaking and writing. Effective communicator with excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate cross culturally and on relevant subject matter.
• Excellence in working effectively both with diverse groups and independently; demonstrated initiative and creativity in problem-solving.
• Commitment to safe and ethical practice, including safe messaging on suicide.

Attitudes

• Highly organised
• High degree of discretion and integrity
• Self-aware and able to maintain personal boundaries when working with lived experience content
• Good verbal and written presentation
• Team Player
• A continuous learning orientation (as demonstrated through professional development experiences).
• A self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.

Requirement

• 3 days a week equivalent position.
• Working in a remote office environment (institute/home/place with internet).

To Apply

Please send a covering letter and CV via email to apply@iasp.info.

Important note: as a non-profit organisation we will not be able to reimburse any costs related to your application. By submitting your application, you agree that your personal data provided in the context of the application will be processed solely for the purpose of the application.

Closing Date: 14th July 2026

IASP Partnerships Coordinator

The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is a non-government organisation (NGO) dedicated to the prevention of suicide and suicidal behaviour. IASP provides a global forum for academics, mental health professionals, crisis workers, volunteers and suicide survivors. IASP is organised through a Central Office (CO)currently comprising of eleven part-time workers located in their home country, all working remotely.

To support our team, we are seeking to expand our team with a Partnerships Officer and we invite you to apply.

Background:

Established in 1960, the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) leads the global effort in suicide prevention having developed an effective forum that is proactive in creating strong collaborative partnerships and promoting evidence-based action in order to reduce the incidence of suicide and suicidal behaviour (www.iasp.info). As a membership organisation with a global network of National Representatives in 80 countries and also 17 topic related “Special Interest Groups” addressing key aspects of suicide and suicide prevention, IASP’s engaged and active network encompasses the best research and practice in suicide prevention.

IASP seeks a part-time (60%) Partnerships Officer to deliver against the organisations funding strategy.

Purpose:

To establish and strengthen relationships with funders, identify new funding opportunities and promote the work of IASP.

Responsible to:

IASP Chief Executive Officer

Support to:

IASP Marketing & Campaigns Team and members of the wider CO Team

Duties and Responsibilities

• Operationalise and contribute to IASP’s funding strategy; identifying potential donors and partners, andopportunities for new collaborations and projects with institutional donors, private foundations, corporates and NGO’s and research institutes;
• Lead and coordinate funding pursuits in collaboration with the appropriate team members, including drafting narrative proposals and budgets;
• Research the funding landscape and maintain an up to date database of potential funders, criteria, grant cycles and our relationship history;
• Liaise closely with relevant internal and external teams to ensure funding timelines are maintained;
• Maintain existing funding relations and partnerships
• Drive critical thinking, self-reflection, and innovation;

• Other duties that may arise from time to time and as may be assigned to this position.

Person Specification Knowledge

• Mental Health sector
• NGO sector
• Funding landscape/Fundraising
• International and cultural awareness

Skills and Experience

• Experience in identifying funding opportunities and applying for and executing funded projects.
• Understanding and experience of the non-profit funding space, corporate donors, multinational donors, statutory funding and private foundations.
• Experience building, partnering and maintaining strong and sustained relationships.
• Experience in a project development in an international context
• Understanding or experience of mental health research, policy and interventions.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in international development, social sciences, global health, marketing, or comparable field.
• IT literate, excellent technical skills (MS office, databases, social media)
• Excellent English in speaking and writing. Effective communicator with excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate cross culturally and on relevant scientific subject matter.
• Excellence in working effectively both with diverse groups and independently; demonstrated initiative and creativity in problem-solving.

Attitudes

• Highly organised
• High degree of discretion and integrity
• Good verbal and written presentation
• Team Player
• A continuous learning orientation (as demonstrated through professional development experiences).
• A self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.

Requirement

• 3 days a week equivalent position.
• Working in a remote office environment (institute/home/place with internet).

Please send a covering letter and CV via email to apply@iasp.info.

Important note: as a non-profit organisation we will not be able to reimburse any costs related to your application. By submitting your application, you agree that your personal data provided in the context of the application will be processed solely for the purpose of the application.

Closing Date: 14th July 2026

CJRF Consultancy: Grant Database Creation 

Terms of Reference 

June 2026 

About the Climate Justice Resilience Fund 

The Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF) is a participatory climate justice fund that  channels resources from larger climate funders to community-led climate justice  initiatives that address the impacts and root causes of the climate crisis and sustain life,  and inform and inspire funders to reshape the climate funding ecosystem. 

CJRF supports women, youth, and Indigenous peoples to build and share their own  solutions to climate change, and we make grants in three regions: the Bay of Bengal, East  Africa, and the Arctic. We also have a modest global portfolio that supports scaling  through cross-regional learning, replication, and global advocacy. 

The CJRF governing board members are activists, practitioners, and leaders from across  regions and movements who share a commitment to climate justice, participatory  governance, and equitable philanthropy. 

Grant Database Consultancy 

In preparation for making grants under a new strategy, CJRF is looking for a temporary,  time-bound consultant to support the identification, setting up, and training of a grant  database. This process will entail: 

• Understanding staff needs and priorities for a grant database 

• Identifying database options, and detailing and communicating pros / cons of each  option to staff 

• Supporting staff to identify an appropriate database and testing the database to  ensure it is fit for purpose

• Set up the database, including uploading some historical grant data to the  database 

• Training staff to use the database 

CJRF currently has approximately 100 grants that are either complete or currently active  that would need to be accommodated in the grant database, and CJRF has specific  elements we’re looking for the database to include for future grantmaking. 

This is a fully remote assignment that could be performed by an individual or team  working from anywhere in the world. CJRF welcomes a diversity of applicants. 

The selected consultant will be expected to have approximately weekly voice contact  with CJRF staff. The staff most closely associated with this project are located in the  GMT and GMT -4 time zones. Applicants should have access to adequate internet  bandwidth to facilitate communication and should be comfortable working with these  time zones. 

Priority Areas of Experience 

We are looking for a consultant with the following areas of expertise and experience: • Strong knowledge of databases to make and manage grants 

• Experience identifying database needs and matching these with recommendations • Experience working with mid-sized intermediaries (annual budget in the USD 10- 15 million range) 

• Knowledge of Salesforce, as it’s a system CJRF has access to and used in the past 

We are looking for someone who also: 

• Is able to schedule calls at times that cross time zones (mostly EST and GMT, but  possibly others) 

• Can comfortably engage with multiple staff members 

• Is available for this project between August and November 2026 • Comfortable working in English 

CJRF and the selected consultant will agree on deliverables and a detailed scope of work  during the inception phase of the consultancy.

Timeline & Compensation 

We are looking to initiate the contract by August 1, 2026 and conclude this project by  November 30, 2026. 

The contract will be held by CJRF’s fiscal sponsor, the New Venture Fund. The contract  will be for up to USD 35,000. 

Application Process 

By 5 pm GMT on Friday, July 10, 2026 please submit the following to  kanchen.shakya@cjrfund.org with the subject line “Grant database consultancy”: • A short proposal (2 pages max) explaining your qualifications and how you would  approach this consultancy 

• A proposed budget and short articulation of how you would spend it, including  approximate time on tasks (2 pages max) 

• A brief CV or resumé (2 pages max) 

• List of past/present clients (1 page max) 

CJRF will notify candidates of next steps by July 20, 2026.

ABOUT YLABS

YLabs is a leading global design and research organization designing technologies that amplify youth power, agency, and opportunity. Founded in 2014 at the Harvard Innovation Lab, YLabs partners with young people to co-create inclusive digital products and services that improve their lives. Our design process opens spaces where young people’s ideas can become a reality – where they are the architects of the solutions to their most pressing challenges. 

YLabs multidisciplinary team delivers youth-driven innovation and impact at scale. Our team combines expertise in youth-driven design with adolescent health, climate, livelihoods, digital product design, behavioral science, and epidemiology. Based in Rwanda and the USA, we’ve worked in 18 countries to date on projects spanning three focus areas: optimum health and wellness, improved economic opportunity, and increased climate resilience. 

Find out more about our projects here: https://www.ylabsglobal.org/work

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking an African-based Senior Research Specialist (contractor) to lead research initiatives for a YLabs project. This individual will drive high-impact research, innovation, and strategic decision-making using cutting-edge research methodologies and frameworks. The ideal candidate must be able to operate independently, navigate ambiguity, and manage research and innovation projects with minimal supervision. They will be responsible for generating actionable insights that influence strategic initiatives and innovation across sectors like education, youth entrepreneurship, and financial inclusion.  

JOB TYPE

This is an independent contractor (consultancy) position based in Africa. The anticipated contract duration is up to 12 months, with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2026. This role can be based anywhere in Africa. The successful candidate must be willing and able to travel across Africa for fieldwork. 

LOCATION

This role can be based anywhere in Africa. The successful candidate must be willing to travel for field work within the Africa Region.

PAY RATE

This is a 12-month consultancy contract with an annual gross range of USD 35,460 – USD 55,896 commensurate with qualifications and experience. Payments will be made monthly, based on approved deliverables and submitted invoices, via bank transfer.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Research  Strategy and Leadership
  • Lead the design, execution, and management of large-scale, high-impact research projects.
  • Develop innovative, adaptable research methodologies and tools to address project challenges and promote best practices in thematic areas such as economic development and youth employment.
  • Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams, including stakeholders, funders, and regional partners, to ensure research initiatives align with the broader impact goals.
  • Build the capacity of regional teams to conduct high-quality research and innovation activities by leading training and knowledge transfer sessions.
• Quantitative and Qualitative Research
  • Conduct qualitative and quantitative research, including interviews, focus groups, stakeholder engagements, and data analysis.
  • Utilize quantitative methods to analyze large datasets, providing data-driven recommendations for decision-making.
  • Perform qualitative analysis to identify patterns and outcomes that can inform future innovations.
• Innovation and Insight Development
  • Use innovative frameworks like Human-Centered Design, Participatory Action Research, to inform user-centric, actionable solutions for complex development issues.
  • Identify emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges across sectors like education, youth entrepreneurship, and financial inclusion and translate these findings into strategic insights that inform broader efforts.
• Strategic Knowledge Management
  • Capture and synthesize research findings into comprehensive reports, policy briefs, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring insights are actionable and aligned with strategic goals.
  • Facilitate knowledge-sharing and capacity-building sessions to ensure insights are embedded across teams and projects.
  • Manage the collection, storage, and dissemination of research outputs, ensuring they contribute to an institutional knowledge base.
• Stakeholder and Partnership Engagement
  • Engage with key stakeholders within YLabs and partner organizations to understand research needs and priorities.
  • Actively build and maintain relationships with research institutions, academic partners, and sector experts to ensure research outputs are innovative and aligned with best practices.
  • Provide high-quality data, insights, and narratives that demonstrate the impact of the research and innovation initiatives to support donor reporting.
• Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Integration
  • Collaborate with MEL teams to ensure research outputs are effectively integrated into the project’s monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
  • Contribute to the iterative improvement of research processes and MEL frameworks to continuously apply learnings from innovation.
• Project Management
  • Manage project timelines and deliverables, ensuring research initiatives are completed on time and within scope.
  • Provide regular updates and reporting on project progress, challenges, and recommendations to senior leadership.

YOU ARE:

• Currently based in Africa
• Experienced in conducting research on economic empowerment initiatives and working with youth.
• Proactive in recommending how to adapt the research approach based on evidence
• An excellent collaborator who understands working with a diverse, multi-cultural team across time zones
• Adaptable to diverse field conditions including rural and hard-to-reach areas
• Able to communicate succinctly to non-academic audiences about research findings and their relevance
• Able to travel to and stay in rural areas for up to 7 days at a time

YOU HAVE:

• 5 or more years of experience leading research studies (qualitative and/or mixed-methods), particularly interviews, focus groups, and community-based research activities
• Experience managing or contributing to donor-funded research projects.
• Demonstrated experience turning research findings into actionable insights to guide programmatic or design decisions
• Demonstrated ability to recruit research participants, especially adolescents and youth
• Strong project management skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects concurrently.
• Proficiency in research and data analysis tools (e.g., SPSS, Stata, R, NVivo).
• A strong commitment to driving innovation and measurable impact in research initiatives.
• Fluency in English is required. Proficiency in other regional languages is highly desirable.

DESIRABLE:

• Masters degree or PhD in a related field (Development Studies, Development Economic, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration, etc)
• Previous research experience on projects related to economic empowerment for youth is highly desirable
• Experience in community-based and/or participatory research and facilitation with vulnerable populations, including young people, is highly desirable
• Experience with youth-driven design, co-design, and rapid prototyping methods is a plus

APPLICATION PROCESS

 Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

YLabs recognizes the time and effort that goes into submitting an application and reviews every submission carefully. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we will contact candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the role to discuss next steps in the hiring process. Thank you for your interest in joining our team. All YLabs offers of employment are conditional on satisfactory background check and criminal record clearances. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

YLabs is committed to building teams and policies that promote equity, justice, and belonging at work. We strongly encourage people from all cultures, races, educational backgrounds, socio-economic classes, sexual orientations, age, gender, and physical abilities to apply. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, familial status, marital status, caregiver status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Request for Proposals

Impact Report Content Lead (Consultant, contract)

1.  About us

Raising The Village’s mission is to build and strengthen pathways out of ultra-poverty through an approach guided by data, designed with communities, and scaled by partnerships. We work with last-mile communities to implement solutions that raiseincomes, sustain impact, and chart sustainable pathways to possibility within 24 months. To date, we have supported more thantwo million people in Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with help from our partners and our teamin North America. Learn more at www.raisingthevillage.org.

2.  The opportunity

We rigorously measure the impact of our work through annual household surveys, peer-comparison benchmarks, andlongitudinal cohort tracking. Every year, we publish a comprehensive Impact Report that anchors funder relationships andserves as the public face of our methodological rigor. Read our 2025 Impact Report here.

For the first time this year, our Impact Report will be produced as a web-first report via our online Impact Studio microsite(completing a shift that began at a smaller scale in 2025), and as an abridged PDF report.

Our goals for the 2026 project are to:

• Expand the Impact Studio microsite into a comprehensive and interactive digital report (2026 edition) with fullreporting and analysis, deeper structured views, multiple cohort reports, and a consistent template system that scales annually;

• Produce a substantive but shorter PDF Impact Report;
  • Take a single-source, dual-output approach to content development, authoring content once and adapting for use in both products.

We are seeking a consultant to write the report, working in close collaboration with our data and communications teams.

3.  What you’ll do

• Write Impact Studio and PDF report content. Maintain a consistent narrative voice across both products, alignedwith RTV’s brand and messaging guidelines, and ensure that the framing and narrative are factual and engaging;
  • Edit and fact-check content: Cross-check and fact-check numbers,

percentages, methodology footnotes, glossary terms, cohort labels, and framing for consistency between PDF andStudio at every gate. Run a final pre-launch QA pass on both;

·       Upload content to the Impact Studio CMS and QA for accuracy and readability.

Success means:

• A high-quality and accurate Impact Studio and accompanying PDFs launch on schedule in a phased process from September to December;
  • Frameworks and guiding documents are developed to support an effective and efficient process this year and in future years.

4.  Who you are

You are the rare hybrid: A person with one foot in monitoring and evaluation and one foot in communications. You have builtcomplex reports that are part research report, part communications tool, and have experience writing about what the data says, what the organization has learned, and how its programs and impact are evolving, while clearly articulating our mission andhelping stakeholders understand why their support matters.

You understand data and read cohort tables, ROI calculations, and longitudinal indicators with comfort, and have a passion for bringing information to life through clear, rigorous and compelling writing. You are able to take complex impact data, understand the findings, and write content that hones in on why it matters – the so what? – to people and the organization. You have experience developing the frameworks and ways of working that ensure the successful production of complex reports.You are a meticulous editor and fact-checker with a relentless eye to ensuring consistency of voice and information across platforms.

Required:

• 10+ years of writing and producing impact reports, research publications, or annual reports for nonprofit, philanthropic, research, or development-sector organizations, with lead writing responsibilities of at least onecomparable publication to our 2025 ImpactReport;
  • Background in monitoring, evaluation, and learning or development

economics and demonstrated comfort with quantitative impact data: cohort analysis, ROI, peer-comparisonmethodology, distribution analyses, longitudinal indicators. You can read it, understand it, and write about it without flattening it;

• Excellent writing skills, with experience writing for a variety of audiences and platforms, and a range of products, including reports, executive narratives, data spotlights, and impact stories.
  • Comfort with single-source / dual-output writing, modular content, content reuse, and CMS work;
  • Familiarity with how to use AI to support – not direct – report creation;
  • Strong understanding of the different ways of working of – and ability to collaborate with – MEL, communications, and web design;
  • Remote work fluency. East Africa or Toronto-overlapping working hours preferred.

Strongly preferred:

• Familiarity with poverty graduation, ultra-poverty programming, smallholder agriculture, or livelihoods development in sub-Saharan Africa;
  • Direct experience with Uganda or east Africa development context.

5.  How we’ll work together

• Modular engagement
  • Work is broken into clear phases and deliverables — content audit, drafting, CMS build-out, QA, launch — so scope and effort are visible at every step.

·       Time profile

• We estimate that this project will require a total of 13 weeks of work between late July and end of December.
  • Light in July: Planning, alignment to tone and messaging, content audit;
  • Peak in August–November Writing, editing, coordination, data checks, CMS input;
  • Taper in December: Final QA, launch, handover.

·       Fee structure

• We are open to either a day-rate engagement or a fixed-fee retainer with milestone-based payments.

6.  How to apply

Proposals should include:

1. A short cover letter (no longer than one page) that describes who you are, why this engagement is a fit, your relevant experience, where you are based, and your confirmation of availability from July to December;

2.     Your CV

• Two to three relevant work samples. Ideal examples include impact reports or similar publications you led, and apiece where you communicated quantitative findings clearly. Links are fine, as are redacted PDFs;
• Proposal and quote, including preferred engagement structure.

5.     Two relevant professional references

Deadline: Email proposal to connect@raisingthevillage.org by July 10, 2026. We will review proposals on a rolling basis.

7.  Selection process

• Review and shortlist within one week of the deadline.
  • Video interview with shortlisted candidates to review work samples, experience, and discuss two scenarios drawn from the engagement.
  • Short paid technical assessment
  • Reference check

Executive Assistant (Part-Time)

Reports to: Executive Director
Location: Remote (Global) – 60% of their contracted hours are worked within the core hours of 09:00–17:00 GMT
Contract Type: Part-Time Contractor
Time Commitment: 20-hours/per week

Duration: 6- months with possibility of extension both in hours and contract length, subject to performance and Organisational need

About HOT

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) sits at the nexus of participatory mapping, community-led development, humanitarian response, open data and tech, with a talented and diverse team spread around the globe.

HOT is an NGO which supports a dynamic global community of thousands of dedicated volunteers, community and partner organizations using maps and open data for humanitarian response and the Sustainable Development Goals. Working with humanitarian and development partners like the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, UN agencies, governments and others, the HOT community maps in solidarity with those affected by or at risk of disaster, contributing the maps and data aid workers need to do their lifesaving work.

Role Overview

The Executive Assistant works closely with the Executive Director to provide strategic administrative, confidential, and people operations support. This role coordinates and manages a range of executive, operational, and secretarial responsibilities, ensuring the smooth and effective functioning of the Executive Director’s office and enabling the delivery of organisational priorities. 

This role demands excellent communication skills, exceptional organisational ability, sound judgement, and a proactive approach to managing competing priorities in a fast-paced and multi-cultural environment. A primary goal for the job holder is to take ownership of all administrative tasks, including organising daily, monthly calendars, research, scheduling of meetings, conferences, travel coordination and arrangement, and an excellent experience in managing multiple tasks and/or projects. 

The job holder will work closely with colleagues in HOT and the leadership team to help track defined priorities and ensure awareness of deadlines. 

Key Responsibilities

Key Executive Administrative Support:

• Manage the Executive Director’s diary, scheduling and prioritising meetings, appointments, and travel arrangements including visas, itineraries, accommodation, and transfers;
• Screen and manage incoming correspondence including, emails  and selected  written communications on behalf of the Executive Director;
• In collaboration with the Comms team, prepare and review briefing notes, presentations, and other communications to a high standard ensuring tone, accuracy, and professionalism on behalf of the Executive Director;
• Maintain effective communication between the Executive Director and cross-functional teams, ensuring timely information flow;
• Support with prioritisation and communication across the organisation
• Handle confidential and sensitive information with absolute discretion at all times;
• Review and approve monthly timesheets for all direct reports of the Executive Director; alongside other administrative tasks including Expenses.

2. Meeting & Event Coordination

• Organise and coordinate internal and external meetings, including leadership meetings and/or external engagements;
• Prepare agendas, compile meeting and conference packs, presentations, and circulate documents in advance;
• Attend meetings on behalf of the Executive Director as as required, take accurate minutes, and track agreed actions to completion;
• Coordinate logistics for events, workshops, and external engagements involving the Executive Director;

3. Project & Strategic Support

• Support the Executive Director in tracking progress  against strategic priorities and key deliverables
• Coordinate cross-functional follow-ups on behalf of the Executive Director, ensuring accountability and timely delivery
• Assist in the preparation of board papers, monthly all-hands staff updates (Leadership corner) and organisational documents as required. in collaboration with the Ops team.
• Research and prepare draft talking points and slide decks using Google Slide for internal and external meetings;

Person Specification

Essential:

• Proven experience in an executive assistant, personal assistant, or senior secretarial role supporting C-suite or senior leadership;
• Minimum of 2-3 years hands-on experience;
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English
• Strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously, and coordinate across timezones
• Proficiency in G-Suite (Google Docs, Slides, Sheets) and aptitude to pick up virtual collaboration tools (Zoom, Teams, Miro, Google Workspace, Asana, Egencia, Neon-One, etc);
• Ability to work independently, use initiative, and remain calm under pressure;
• High level of discretion, professionalism, and confidentiality;
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy;
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision;
• Although a remote structure, the job holder will be required to ensure that a minimum of 60% of their contracted hours are worked within the core hours of 09:00–17:00 GMT, to support effective collaboration with the Executive Director and organisational stakeholders;

Desirable

• Experience working in an international, non-profit, or development sector organisation
• Familiarity with Board governance and reporting processes
• Experience supporting remote or geographically distributed teams
• Proficiency in an additional language relevant to HOT’s operations regions;
• Familiarity with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s mission and values;
• Familiarity with OpenStreetMap ecosystems, humanitarian mapping, GIS/data collection tools, or community‑led programs

To Apply

Interested persons should submit a CV and statement of interest (as one document) not more than 2-pages, outlining:

• Your motivation for applying for this role;
• relevant skills and experience to function in this role,
• how this role aligns with your professional and career goals. 

Kindly submit your application by CoB, Thursday, July, 16th, 2026. 
Early submission is encouraged, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please note that this vacancy may close prior to the stated deadline should the volume of applications received exceed 250.