The role

As a Research Analyst on GiveWell's Commons team, you will support our broader research team in identifying cost-effective giving opportunities. Your work will contribute to GiveWell’s decisions about how hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent to save and improve the lives of people living in the lowest-income communities in the world. You will also play a key role in fulfilling our commitment to transparency and ensuring that the work we produce is accurate and high quality.

You will contribute to our work in a variety of ways, including:

• Quality checking pages we publish about our work and spreadsheets that we rely on to inform our decision making
• Writing public summaries of the reasoning behind our grant decisions
• Answering defined research questions via desk research (for example, "What options does a maize farmer in Malawi have for selling their product?" or "How difficult is it for adults in rural Mozambique to purchase basic health commodities like chlorine tablets or insecticide treated nets?")
• Summarizing results from the monitoring and evaluation reports that grantees send us
• Updating our cost-effectiveness analyses to reflect new information or analysis performed by other research staff
• Exploring ways to use AI tools to increase the efficiency and quality of our team's work
• Providing occasional project management support (more detail below)

Why this role may not be the right fit

We want to be transparent about what this position entails so you can make an informed decision about whether it's right for you:

• This is an entry-level research position. For your first year, you'll primarily conduct vetting work—rigorously checking the work outputs of more senior research team members for accuracy and clarity. You won’t be driving strategic decisions or leading major research initiatives.
• Your projects will be assigned rather than self-generated. Senior researchers and program officers will determine your work priorities (typically ve