Roles across Operations (Grants, People, Tech, and Executive Support)

About this role

GiveWell’s mission is to help people in need as much as we can by researching the most cost‑effective ways to save and improve lives, sharing our work openly, and directing donations to the programs we believe will do the most good. Our work, which focuses on global health and well-being, is funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We’ve grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025. We anticipate our total grantmaking is likely to approach or even exceed $1 billion this year, and we are working toward a future that could be several times that scale. Through years of deliberate groundwork, we’ve been growing our research capacity and scope in order to direct substantially more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find.

GiveWell Is Hiring Operations Staff Across Several Ops Functions

GiveWell’s Operations department provides strategic partnership, infrastructure, and support to enable GiveWell’s mission: we make things work—and work better—so that GiveWell can do more good in the world. In close partnership with the Research and Outreach teams, we own the critical processes and systems that help GiveWell work efficiently, manage risk, and steward donors’ funding responsibly. Operations at GiveWell encompasses seven critical functions: Finance & Accounting, Gift Processing, Grant Administration, Legal, People Operations, Talent Acquisition, and Technology. We share a passion for supporting GiveWell’s mission, and we bring excellence, dedication, and good humor to our work every day.

Why we’re hiring these roles right now: In the last 18 months, GiveWell has grown faster than even our most ambitious projections, and we expect that growth to continue in the coming years. Our Operations scaffolding needs to scale as well, to support GiveWell today and build a resilient and adaptable foundation for the future. We have a particular need for early- to mid-career staff across most Operations functions, and we’re excited to look at a broad pool of applicants—both Ops generalists and subject matter specialists—who can bring their experience, skills, and passion to support and improve the way that GiveWell operates.

Open roles

The application deadline is September 7, 2026.

GiveWell is hiring across multiple Operations roles in parallel, mostly at the Coordinator and Associate/Specialist level (though we may consider Senior Associates in certain cases for experienced candidates). For most of the roles described below, we will consider hiring more than one person. We welcome applications from candidates who have developed domain-specific expertise, and we are also very open to “generalist” candidates who have strong operational skills and a desire to apply them in impactful operational roles in support of GiveWell’s mission. See below for details on the responsibilities of each role, and how it contributes to GiveWell.

Grants Administration (Associates and Senior Associates)

The GiveWell Grants Administration team is hiring up to three new team members through this application process. Those joining the Grants Admin team would:

• Shepherd grants through the administrative and logistics process, including handoff from the Research team, grantee communications, due diligence, contract generation and negotiation, signature, payment, and submission of required reports.

• Create and maintain timely and meticulous grant records in GiveWell’s grants database.

• Provide advice to the Research team regarding their proposed and active grants, helping to ensure that grant investigators have full context on logistics requirements and limitations and that grantee expectations are appropriately set and met throughout the logistics process.

• Build and improve systems used for grant administration (including in Salesforce, Asana, and Ironclad). Look for and implement opportunities for automation and increased efficiency.

• Work collaboratively with Research Operations, Finance, Legal, and Outreach; this role sits at a critical intersection impacting GiveWell’s work.

People Operations (Coordinators and Specialists)

The GiveWell People Ops team is excited to hire up to three new team members through this application process. Those joining would have the opportunity to support a variety of functional areas including:

• End-to-end employee lifecycle including onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews and feedback programs, and incoming team questions or HR tickets.

• Multi-state and international payroll processing, benefits and COBRA administration, open enrollment, leave management, new state setup, tax compliance, and annual reporting.

• International employment and global mobility support including immigration and visa application processing, international employment research, and EOR management.

• Helping to build and improve POps processes and infrastructure including updating and maintaining our company handbook, policies and procedures, and self-service tools.

Talent Acquisition (Coordinators)

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