Research Manager – GiveDirectly

Responsibilities :

• Support GD Fundraising and Field Operations teams funding bids through engagement with research partners (where relevant) and project funders and supporting the development of appropriate project monitoring and evaluation plans for instance, choice of indicators, sampling techniques, and evaluation design.
• Design quantitative surveys and qualitative interview guides in collaboration with the data and country teams and perform cognitive testing and piloting of data collection instruments.
• Work with Field Operations to develop and support ongoing monitoring and evaluation and initiate evaluations of non-experimental GD projects.
• Perform data quality checks for ongoing GD internal research and project evaluations.
• Conducting primary data analysis for internal and externally funded non-RCT projects and providing statistical and analytical support to Field Operations teams.
• Write high quality reports and support internal and external stakeholders by critically reviewing reports.
• Conducting literature reviews as requested and keeping abreast of findings from relevant research.
• Support the current Research Manager in preparing, maintaining, and updating GD’s research knowledge databases.
• Undertake other administrative duties related to GDs research projects, such as participating in internal meetings, arranging and facilitating research brown-bag sessions, coordinating dissemination of internal research and country program reports, and maintaining research documents.

Core competencies and experiences

Compensation :

GiveDirectly offers a competitive salary and benefits package, commensurate with experience.

At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to ensure that staff’s total compensation package (base compensation + bonus) falls within the 75th percentile of similar roles, at similar organizations. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles.

This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, UK or Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process.

Read more about our ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts   and about our decision to move our central support teams to remote first  .

About the hiring process

Format :  The hiring process follows the same general outline for all open roles :

First interview (30 mins)

Take home skills assignment (~2 hours)

Second interview (1 hour)

Third interview (1 hour)

Final interview (1 hour)

Reference checks (30 mins each)

Venue :  We conduct interviews over Google Meet with camera on (unless communicated otherwise).

Accessibility :  Closed captioning is available during all Google Meet interviews, and interviewers will also post interview questions in the chat box throughout the call. If you need assistance accessing either of these features, please let your interviewer know at the start of your interview!

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