Senior Researcher

Senior Researchers must have quantitatively-oriented advanced degrees and substantial relevant experience using empirical tools to make rigorous, evidence-based decisions in the real world.

Practically, our senior research staff typically has 5-10 years of post-grad work experience prior to joining GiveWell.

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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.

Senior Researchers are the intellectual leaders of GiveWell’s work.

In this role, you’ll join a small senior team in setting ambitious research agendas, sifting through the countless questions we could try to answer and honing in on those that matter most.

Your decisions will inform the allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars to dozens of grantees.

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

You’ll execute that agenda by combining thorough review of empirical evidence, cost-effectiveness modeling, discussions with subject matter experts, understanding of the broader context, and your own judgment.

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