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Supports rapid A/B testing across GiveDirectly programs by designing experiments, conducting power calculations, preparing high-quality datasets, analyzing results, and translating findings into actionable recommendations. The role coordinates with Programs, Product, Research teams, and external academic partners, manages multiple concurrent experiments, prepares learning products and de-identified datasets, and helps apply evidence across country programs. The position is remote from Rwanda with regular East Africa travel.

Develop and standardize analytical methods for inferring residence, displacement, and poverty from mobile network operator data. Assess data quality, write technical specifications and tests, guide operator engineering teams, tune statistical methods, and balance accuracy with implementation constraints. Design privacy-preserving analyses, improve data security practices, train internal teams, and support international workshops and emergency-response programs.

Build GiveDirectly’s talent management function across performance management, onboarding, manager and leadership development, employee listening, engagement, talent planning, succession, and culture. The role will redesign and implement a global performance system linked to pay, ensure fair calibration across countries, revamp onboarding, establish manager programs, plan leadership values initiatives, and develop a multi-year talent management roadmap. This is a hands-on director-level role requiring experience building programs in growing, international organizations.

Leads marketing strategy, operations, and special projects as the VP of Marketing’s strategic implementation partner. Owns planning, OKRs, performance analysis, budgets, headcount planning, vendor management, operating rhythms, and cross-functional initiatives. Supports marketing leadership with strategic decisions, stakeholder alignment, executive communications, and execution in an ambiguous, fast-growing environment. The role also develops scalable processes, tests new initiatives, documents playbooks, and helps transition the organization to AI-enabled ways of working.

Own GiveDirectly’s paid media strategy across Meta, Google, YouTube, TikTok, programmatic, and emerging channels. Manage acquisition and brand campaigns, creative direction, budgets, testing, attribution, dashboards, forecasting, and performance reporting. Optimize one-time and recurring donor growth while partnering with Brand and Marketing teams. The role requires hands-on campaign execution, strong data-driven decision-making, and occasional travel to operational countries.

Lead a lean internal consulting function evaluating and advancing external partnerships that expand cash-transfer delivery capacity. Build and prioritize strategic options, conduct diligence, develop executive recommendations, manage RFPs, negotiate with institutional counterparties, and take selected opportunities through pilot implementation. The role requires autonomous strategic problem-solving, quantitative analysis, negotiation, concise executive communication, and coordination across internal teams and external partners.

Build and scale reliable software systems supporting donor platforms, cash payments, and rapid-response programs. Own features end to end from architecture through deployment and monitoring, improve CI/CD and testing, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, operations, and data teams. The role also contributes to technical roadmaps and sustainable engineering practices in a mission-driven, fully remote organization.

Build and maintain fundraising technology that supports donors, fundraisers, donation processing, and reporting. Responsibilities include website development, backend integrations, legacy-system maintenance, data processing, testing, launches, bug fixes, incident ownership, and on-call support during peak donation periods. The role requires autonomous work with Laravel, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Salesforce, WordPress, SQL, and partner CSV files, along with close collaboration with non-engineering fundraising teams.

Own GiveDirectly’s fundraising revenue operations, including CRM and pipeline systems, KPI frameworks, forecasting, reporting, operating cadences, revenue reconciliation, and capacity planning. Partner with Finance, Compliance, Grants, People, and Fundraising teams to scale systems and donor operations. Serve as a strategic chief-of-staff partner to the VP of Partnerships, lead organizational change and executive communications, and potentially build and manage a team of 3–5.