Senior Cross-Cutting Researcher

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GiveWellGlobal health and development
United States + International (Remote), some overlap with American working hoursFull-TimeSenior
Salary219,000 - 241,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
5-10 years of post-grad work experience
Required Skills
Research

Requirements

  • Quantitatively-oriented advanced degree or commensurate experience.
  • 5-10 years of post-grad work experience.
  • Experience using empirical tools to make rigorous, evidence-based decisions.
  • Strong ability to interrogate work and handle scrutiny.
  • Ability to communicate confidence levels clearly.
  • Capacity to work with high levels of variety and complexity.
  • Proficiency in identifying and re-evaluating mental models.
  • Willingness to travel for site visits and team retreats.

Responsibilities

  • Develop frameworks for comparing health interventions to poverty alleviation programs.
  • Design lookback studies to assess past grant impacts.
  • Incorporate local field insights into cost-effectiveness models.
  • Develop tools and processes to maintain research quality at scale.
  • Build databases for M&E data, burden estimates, and lookback findings.
  • Improve forecasting skills and calibrate uncertainty levels.
  • Evaluate moral weights, disease burden, and unintended consequences of funding.
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