Targeting Analyst, Emergency Cash

GiveDirectly (GD) aims to reshape international giving and millions of lives by providing cash grants directly to the worlds poorest. The Brookings Institution estimates that $70B of cash transfers would be required to eliminate the poverty gap; the aid sector currently spends $135B each year much of it on evidence-free interventions. GiveDirectly wants to change that establishing cash transfers as a benchmark for foreign aid as the index fund is a benchmark for the financial industry and in the process accelerating the end of extreme poverty.

GD has raised over $1B since launching in 2011 and delivered cash to more than 2 million people in 15 different countries. Weve also supported large-scale experimental research that indicates strong recipient impact of our programs. As a result GD has been celebrated as one of the most innovative non-profit companies by Fast Company while the growing cash transfer movement (and GDs leading role within it) have been featured in the New York Times Magazine This American Life Foreign Affairs and The Economist.

Our culture is candid analytical agile and non-hierarchical. Our global team of 150 and country operations teams of 650 span 21 different countries and 69 languages. From software engineers to seasoned humanitarian workers management consultants to public servants researchers to field operations -- its an incredible group of people.

Our values are central and deliberately opinionated. We genuinely center the people we serve in our decision-making and strive to build an ambitious dynamic and high-performing environment. We strongly encourage you to read through our values carefully if they reflect how you like to work and energize you this could be a great fit.

We work hard to create an environment in which all our team members can thrive succeed and grow. We support high ownership flexibility take care of each other have fun and create professional growth opportunities.

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Remote (Must overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 3 hours)
Reports to: Senior Product Manager - Targeting Emergency Cash
Travel Requirement: 1020% (1 week every 2 months)

Overview

GiveDirectly is seeking a Targeting Analyst to identify and prioritize communities and individuals to deliver cash to in moments of crisis. This person will serve as the analyst for targeting within the Emergency Cash (EC) Product team using a variety of data sources and tools to ensure GD knows:

• When and where a crisis event has occurred that fits GD response criteria.
• Which subpopulations are most affected and relevant for our programs.
• The actionable lists of individuals to enroll for assistance.

The analyst will apply humanitarian needs analysis frameworks to ensure that our emergency cash response is data-driven and contextually grounded. The ideal candidate will have a background in humanitarian data analysis using both traditional and novel data sources as well as experience delivering actionable data products to decision makers and operational teams. The analyst will give input to shape analysis product design and work closely with engineers and data scientists to create them.

What Youll Do

Analyze Humanitarian Needs for Program Targeting

• 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 GDs targeting systems.
• Surface test and use novel data sources such as from geospatial imagery call detail records social media crowd-sourcing etc.
• Provide clear targeting analysis with relevant subpopulations for emergency cash programs as a service to other teams visualizing data on maps and dashboards.
• Based on determined targeting criteria general recipient lists of individuals to be enrolled in GD EC programs.
• Provide targeting analysis services for both GDs preparedness and response states scoping and prioritizing relevant subpopulations based on pre-existing risks and delivering on-demand analysis during response deployments (remote).

Monitor and Analyze Crisis Events

• Monitor global risks and crises providing analysis for GD teams to make activation decisions.
• Communicate with humanitarian agencies data providers and crisis monitoring organizations to integrate reliable event and needs assessment data into GDs workflow.

Systems

• Participate in product development from problem discovery and user requirements gathering to launch and iteration working with engineering data science and operations.
• 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 tools ensuring outputs are timely relevant and usable in the field.
• Maintain internal data source documentation including a qualitative assessment of accuracy reliability and limitations of sources and datasets.

Drive Efficiency and Document Learning

• Continuously evaluate and improve targeting approaches for speed accuracy and inclusivity while maintaining humanitarian principles.
• Stay abreast of emerging technology and new data sources to ensure GD is leveraging cutting-edge approaches to targeting.
• Document learning to scale best practices across different contexts.

What Youll Bring

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence problem solving project management follow-through and fostering inclusivity.
• 3-5 years experience conducting humanitarian needs analysis assessing vulnerabilities interpreting crisis data and applying frameworks such as the IPC MIRA or sectoral needs assessments to directly inform operational planning.
• 2 years of experience producing data tools with a track record of providing actionable humanitarian information products to decision makers and operational teams.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement reusable analysis approaches that scale across multiple contexts.
• High technical fluency across 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 agencies and data providers.
• Proven ability to thrive in fast-changing high-stakes environments.
• Ability to adapt to change and navigate ambiguity and a curiosity-driven mindset.
• Ability to balance speed and rigor in high uncertainty.

Nice to Have

• Prior field experience in humanitarian response or international social protection programs in resource constrained contexts.
• Familiarity with data security and privacy frameworks in sensitive contexts.
• Comfort working in SQL Python or R for data manipulation and analysis; Experience working with a data visualization tool.
• Experience in geospatial data analysis and knowledge of applications for GIS in humanitarian response.
• Experience using generative AI for decision support.
  

  Compensation

  At GiveDirectly we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role location and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles.Read more about our compensation philosophyhere.

  • TheUnited Statesbase salary for this role is $94700.
  • TheKenyabase salary for this role is $61900.
  • TheUKbase salary for this role is 61200.

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

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Working at GiveDirectly

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Commitment to Safeguarding

As a global organization working with communities to eliminate extreme poverty GiveDirectly takes the safeguarding of its recipients staff and partners seriously. To that end GiveDirectly is a member of theMisconduct Disclosure Scheme and will systematically check with previous employers about any abuse or misconduct related matters involving potential new hires. We may also employ other robust pre-hire screens including in-depth reference checks criminal background checks and sanctions screens.

These efforts help us continue to build and maintain trust with the communities we work with and prevent abuse to our recipients and staff.

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Reasonable Accommodations

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