[Hiring] Senior Nutrition Researcher @GiveWell

Role Description

GiveWell is seeking a Senior Nutrition Researcher to help direct tens of millions of dollars annually to the most cost-effective nutrition interventions we can find. You will have an outsized influence on our funding decisions and help us save and improve lives on a global scale.

As a Senior Nutrition Researcher, you'll create and lead ambitious research agendas related to our portfolios of work and answer complex questions that will inform GiveWell's grantmaking decisions. The researchers on our team combine rigorous evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, and thoughtful judgment.

The role involves:

• Joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on nutrition.
• Sifting through questions to focus on those that matter most.
• Communicating externally about your work and mentoring other researchers.
• Shaping a research agenda that combines empirical evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, and critical synthesis.

What you might work on in your first year:

• Tackling thorny research questions in existing portfolios.
• Designing and overseeing learning grants.
• Building our evidence base in new programmatic areas.
• Providing research support to grantmakers.

Qualifications

• A quantitatively oriented advanced degree (e.g., in epidemiology, statistics, economics, public health, nutrition or related fields).
• Substantial professional experience relevant to nutrition, including roles in research, program design, implementation, or funding.

Requirements

• Curiosity and willingness to interrogate others’ work.
• Ability to surface value judgments and strategic commitments in your work.
• Strong communication skills, especially regarding confidence levels in findings.
• Ability to assess whether the team is working on the most important questions.

Benefits

• Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% of premiums covered for you and dependents in the US).
• Four weeks of paid time off per year, plus a one-week organization-wide summer break.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships.
• Automatic contribution equal to 5% of your gross salary into your 403(b) retirement plan (for U.S. based staff).