Senior Researcher, Research Communication

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. We anticipate our total grantmaking is likely to approach or even exceed $1 billion this year, and we are working toward a future that could be several times that scale. 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. We're hiring for roles that will help us scale effectively. We expect to make one or more hires from this round, including a leadership-track hire who we believe can scale to build out a new function. This role (or roles) will shape how we communicate about our research, our reasoning, our uncertainties, and our mistakes, in keeping with our commitments to transparency and rigor. The problem this role would solve and why it matters GiveWell 's Research teams own the work of determining which grants are most cost-effective: investigating existing programs, building and revising cost-effectiveness models, commissioning research to resolve our own uncertainties, an