GiveWell

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Location: Oakland, California (preferred); remote work largely within US time zones is possible.

Visa sponsorship: We can sponsor work visas and will resume doing so when the option returns. Currently, international remote work is possible.

About GiveWell

The objective of our research is to identify the giving opportunities which can most cost-effectively improve the lives of the global poor.

GiveWell is expanding our research team so we can broaden the scope of our research and explore global health and development more completely than we have to date. More in this blog post: https://blog.givewell.org/2019/02/07/how-givewells-research-is-evolving/.

Our top charities (https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities) accomplish a huge amount of good. They deliver basic commodities (for example, anti-malarial nets or deworming pills) and cash to the global poor. At our recommendation, donors directed $140 million to these charities in 2018. We roughly estimate that, in expectation, these funds prevented 30,000 deaths, dewormed 38 million children and gave cash to 11,500 poor households. The donors who use our research follow our recommendations closely, so the decisions our research team makes directly affect not only which organizations receive funding, but also the amount of funding each organization receives.

We also made an additional $16 million in incubation grants (https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants) to support work that may lead to new top charities in the future or better information on current top charities.

By joining GiveWell you will have the opportunity to influence and contribute to the direction we take, potentially influencing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding.

We plan to expand the size of our research team, from a team of 22 today to about 30 in the next couple years.

As part of the research team, you will help us identify, analyze and compare funding opportunities so that we direct funding to the most impactful organizations.

A full job description is located in our website: https://www.givewell.org/about/jobs/research-positions