Senior Nutrition Researcher

The role

You will create and lead research agendas to inform nutrition grantmaking decisions. You will perform empirical evidence reviews, cost-effectiveness modeling, and design impact evaluations.

What you will do

• Create and lead ambitious research agendas
• Answer complex questions to inform grantmaking decisions
• Sift through research questions to find those that matter most
• Communicate work externally
• Mentor and advise other researchers
• Combine empirical evidence review and cost-effectiveness modeling
• Design and oversee learning grants
• Supervise researchers executing impact evaluations
• Build evidence base in new programmatic areas
• Provide research support to grantmakers

Required qualifications

• Quantitatively oriented advanced degree in epidemiology, statistics, economics, public health, nutrition or related fields
• Substantial professional experience relevant to nutrition

Nice to have

• Professional experience in research roles
• Professional experience in program roles
• Professional experience in funding roles
• Professional experience in other roles in public, private or non-profit organizations addressing malnutrition

Benefits

• Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Four weeks of paid time off per year
• One week organization-wide summer break
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships
• Automatic 5% gross salary contribution to 403(b) for U.S. staff

Before you apply

• Must be based in US, UK, Canada, Switzerland, or Germany
• Visa sponsorship only possible in the US and assessed case by case
• For other countries, you must already have work authorization
• Hiring process includes a short application exercise and up to 15 hours of compensated work trials

About the company

GiveWell researches cost-effective ways to save and improve lives and directs donations to impactful programs. They focus on global health and well-being.