Senior Livelihoods Researcher

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 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.

You will be joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on livelihoods.

You will shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions the GiveWell livelihoods team faces.

In the course of your work, you might approach questions like these:

What effect do rural trailbridges have on the consumption of nearby communities?

What would happen to prices and markets if we took cash transfer and ultra poor graduation programs to scale?

How should GiveWell value interventions which try to reduce the variance of consumption (as opposed to increasing the average)?