Vacancies at GiveDirectly

What you’ll do:

Design and implement high-quality programming:

• Coordinate design, planning, and execution of emergency response operations, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met.
• Apply operational playbooks and deployment criteria to rapidly set up response programs across a growing number of countries.
• Conduct operational diligence, feasibility, and risk assessments for individual disaster responses, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and context realities.
• Track and report on program metrics to support learning and performance management.
• Liaise with partners, vendors, and subgrantees to ensure smooth execution.
• Become an expert in GiveDirectly’s tech systems and processes (Salesforce, CommCare, Jira, etc.) to support project execution and excellence

Project and team coordination

• Manage day-to-day activities of designated response, including field staff tasking and coordination with surge teams
• Provide coaching and mentorship to junior staff or surge team members during deployments
• Contribute to team goal-setting, impact tracking, and knowledge sharing

Strategic and external contributions

• May be asked to support new business development, donor reporting, or appeal materials, most often by translating field updates into compelling content. 
• Represent GiveDirectly in select internal and external forums (e.g. Cash Working Groups)
• Ad hoc strategy and/or capability investment projects that advance GiveDirectly’s global response capacity. 

Qualifications 

• Alignment with GiveDirectly Values: exceptional alignment with values and an active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. 
• 3-5+ years of experience in a role focused on problem solving, team management, and/or new business development, including prior humanitarian/emergency experience
• Analytical problem solving: looks at problems with an analytical and iterative mindset, with strong framework for prioritization and ability to put structure and process to ambiguous problems.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritize/explicitly deprioritize, and hold a high quality bar.
• Strong technical skills, including data analysis and ease with learning new third-party tech platforms and tools.
• Fundraising: Preference for candidates with a strong partnership and relationship management background.
• Strong communications skills: Skilled in speaking, writing, presenting, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to orient in new context quickly, rapidly understanding unfamiliar environments, stakeholders, and processes, with a track record of setting up effective systems in dynamic situations.
• Enthusiasm for fast-paced environments, which may lack pre-defined playbook for success and involve significant “learning by doing.” Comfort with ambiguity and building systems from scratch.

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What You’ll Do

Lead Humanitarian Needs Analysis for Targeting

• Design and implement approaches for systematically assessing needs in crisis-affected populations.
• Incorporate humanitarian data sources (e.g., needs assessments, poverty statistics, vulnerability indices, displacement monitoring, etc) into GD’s targeting systems.
• Translate complex needs analysis into clear eligibility criteria and operational plans as a service to other teams.

Detect and Prioritize Crisis Events

• Develop systems and frameworks to monitor global crises and determine when GD should mobilize.
• Partner with humanitarian agencies, data providers, and crisis monitoring organizations to integrate reliable event and needs assessment signals into GD’s workflow.

Identify Relevant Subpopulations

• Define methodologies and establish systems for determining which groups within a crisis are most relevant for GD’s programs, using vulnerability analysis and humanitarian standards.

Generate Recipient Lists

• Establish the tool kit for producing accurate, actionable lists of individuals to be enrolled in GD IRR programs.

Technical Product Management

• Lead and steward the roadmap for targeting capabilities, including capability prioritization
• Lead end-to-end product development from problem discovery and user requirements gathering to launch and iteration, hand-in-hand with engineering, data science, and operations
• Pair strong technical expertise with deep understanding of users and humanitarian realities to design reusable, leveraged systems
• Conduct agile iterative experiments and pilots to validate assumptions about crisis detection and targeting, using results to refine strategy
• Define and track success metrics for targeting products
• Direct engineering and data science and partner with operations teams to ensure outputs are timely, relevant, and usable in the field.

Drive Efficiency and Learning

• Continuously evaluate and improve targeting approaches for speed, accuracy, and inclusivity, while maintaining humanitarian principles.
• Stay abreast of technology and industry developments to ensure GD is leveraging cutting-edge approaches to targeting.
• Document learnings and build playbooks to scale best practices across different contexts.

What You’ll Bring

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity.
• Proven experience conducting humanitarian needs analysis — assessing vulnerabilities, interpreting crisis data, and applying frameworks such as the IPC, MIRA, or sectoral needs assessments.
• 5+ years of product management experience, with a track record of shipping data-intensive or humanitarian-focused products and collaborating closely with engineers and data teams.
• High technical fluency across data engineering, data analytics, and data science – ability to ask the right questions, internalize technical tradeoffs between approaches, and shape complex data and technical challenges into operationally viable targeting strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences, including humanitarian partners.
• Proven ability to thrive in fast-changing, high-stakes environments.
• Ability to adapt to change and navigate ambiguity and a curiosity-driven mindset.
• Strong product sense and ability to balance speed and rigor in high uncertainty.
• Demonstrated ability to design reusable systems, processes, and technology that scale across multiple contexts.
• Supervisory and team leadership skills, including setting direction for analysts, data scientists and data engineers. Proven ability to set priorities, provide mentorship, and build collaborative cross-functional teams.