GiveDirectly - Consultant, Strategic Initiatives [Limited Term]
Requirements
• A driven, disciplined explorer of unfamiliar territory. You have personally taken a mandate as broad as "find us more ways to deliver” and turned it into a short list of options you pressure tested until you arrived at a recommendation. You translate ambiguous ideas into clear strategies with milestones and success metrics. You have done this with no playbook and no team assigned to you. Your work influenced high-stakes strategic decisions. • A driven, disciplined explorer of unfamiliar territory. • Strong analytical instincts. You are adept at using data to generate insights and drive decision-making. You can build comparable estimates for structurally different options, and show what would have to be true for each one to work. • Strong analytical instincts. • A negotiator who uses leverage intelligently. You can assess what an institution's incentives and compliance requirements will allow. You position opportunities for collaboration shrewdly, distinguish a difficult but workable partnership from one that will not advance, and judge when to persist, change your approach, or walk away. • A negotiator who uses leverage intelligently. • A clear, direct communicator. You cut through complexity and influence senior stakeholders with concise, well-structured thinking. Your recommendations lead with what you think we should do, name the assumptions they depend on, and state what further work would test them. • A clear, direct communicator. • Embody and set an example for GD values. We take our values incredibly seriously, and expect the people who represent us externally to embody them in all aspects of their work. • Embody and set an example for GD values. • Additional areas we’re interested in, though not required • Experience with humanitarian or institutional donors, particularly UN agencies and INGO consortia; mobile money, telco, or payments partnerships; grantmaking, organizational due diligence, or cost-effectiveness assessments; running challenge funds or competitive solicitations; negotiating data-sharing and data-protection agreements; and operating in low-income or infrastructure-constrained markets.
Responsibilities
• Build and prioritize a portfolio of options. Generate a comprehensive set of external pathways to increase delivery capacity, from institutional data partnerships to outsourced delivery to telco and payment provider arrangements, and rank them on scale, speed, feasibility, and what it would cost us to pursue them. • Build and prioritize a portfolio of options • Pressure test opportunities to a clear verdict. Run primary diligence on the options that warrant it, including direct engagement with potential partners, regulators, and counsel, and reach a defensible recommendation to advance or stop. • Pressure test opportunities to a clear verdict • Advance one or two priorities from evaluation into implementation. Take the opportunities we select from recommendation through to a live pilot, holding the counterparty relationship and coordinating the cross-functional internal work required to deliver. • Advance one or two priorities from evaluation into implementation • Define and run competitive solicitations. Articulate what we need from a partner precisely enough to publish an RFP (or similar), set selection criteria, and manage and evaluate the responses. • Define and run competitive solicitations • Negotiate with institutional counterparties. Lead engagement with UN agencies, INGOs, mobile network operators, and government bodies, from first contact through to signed agreement. • Negotiate with institutional counterparties • Equip Executive decision-making. Produce the analysis and written recommendations that let the Executive team decide where to commit money and capacity. • Equip Executive decision-making
Benefits
• The salaries shown below represent annual rates for our common hiring locations. This is a term-limited role through December 2027, so the figure reflects the annualized pay rate, not a guaranteed total over the term. The figure below is also based on external & internal benchmarks, but will be ultimately approved by the hiring manager. If candidates are not located in the US, UK, or Kenya, the hiring manager can provide compensation information during the initial screening. • United States • Bonus target: 15% • United Kingdom • Bonus target: 15% • Kenya • Bonus target: 15% • Working at GiveDirectly
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