New Positions on our Cause Prioritization Team (Global Health and Wellbeing)

We plan to grant more than $300 million per year to causes in our Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW) portfolio over the next few years.

We’re hiring for two types of roles (Research and Strategy Fellows) on the GHW portfolio’s Cause Prioritization team, which works closely with senior leadership and program officers to conduct research that improves our grantmaking and high-level strategy.^[1]Note that these roles would not have a significant focus on our Farm Animal Welfare grantmaking, though this is included in the GHW portfolio.

The team’s work includes:

• Investigating potential new cause areas.
• Evaluating and prioritizing across existing cause areas.
• Advancing research agendas within existing cause areas.
• Contributing to high-level strategy decisions.
• Partnering with other organizations and philanthropists to advance the practice of cost-effective grantmaking.

To illustrate what these roles involve day-to-day, here are a few recent projects managed by Research and Strategy Fellows on the GHW Cause Prioritization team:

• In 2021, we announced hires to lead our grantmaking in global aid advocacy and South Asian air quality, two new cause areas we added as a result of the team’s research.
• In 2022, we hired program officers in global health R&D and effective altruism community building (global health and wellbeing), again based on the team’s research and early grantmaking.
• In 2022, we ran the Regranting Challenge, a $150 million initiative to fund highly effective teams at other grantmaking organizations, and the Cause Exploration Prizes (with support from our 2022 summer interns), where we invited people to suggest new areas for us to support.
• In 2023, based on the team’s research, we announced a new program area: Global Public Health Policy, including grantmaking on lead exposure, alcohol policy, and suicide prevention.
• We conduct shallow- and medium-depth investigations as part of our work to explore new potential cause areas. Two examples of shallow investigations: Telecommunications in LMICs and Civil Conflict Reduction.

The team is fully remote; you can work from anywhere (time zones permitting — see the listing for more). And these positions don’t require specialized experience — though we are especially interested in candidates who have experience living or working in low- and middle-income countries.

To see more detail on the roles, and to apply, visit the job listing. To learn more about working at Open Philanthropy, visit our careers page. And please email jobs@openphilanthropy.org if you have any questions!