Program Officer / Senior Program Officer, Health Aid Transition

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We are looking for a Program Officer or Senior Program Officer to shape our strategy, identify and fund high-impact opportunities, and cultivate a growing ecosystem of stakeholders - including researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and other funders. This is a high-autonomy role with significant responsibility. You will work alongside our Global Aid Policy team and our Global Growth Fund , both of which currently report up to Sam Donald . Your responsibilities would include: Setting strategy and direction based on your own analysis of which thematic areas and/or geographies to focus on. Soliciting and investigating new ideas

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About Coefficient Giving Coefficient Giving is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, we've directed over $5 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment to cost-effective, high-impact giving. Our current funds include Global Aid Policy , Global Growth , Science and Global Health R&D , Navigating Transformative Artificial Intelligence , Abundance & Growth , Farm Animal Welfare , Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness , and more . In 2025, we recommended more than $1 billion to high-impact causes. We're proud of our track record: Our grants to evidence-backed global health programs have saved over 100,000 lives, and our farm animal welfare grants have improved the lives of over 3 billion animals. We supported late-stage clinical trials for the R21 malaria vaccine, now being scaled to protect millions of kids globally . We were the earliest major funder of the YIMBY movement to build more housing. Our grantees have led the charge on major wins like City of Yes in New York and SB 79 in California, which will enable hundreds of thousands of new housing units. We jump-started the field of AI safety and security and have played a vital role in addressing other existential threats, such as mirror bacteria . Addressing the global health aid gap Over the next three years, Coefficient Giving plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to help low- and middle-income countries navigate the steep decline in health aid levels , and we're looking for someone to lead our grantmaking in this area. Because of aid cuts from the largest donor countries, global health assistance is expected to face an unprecedented contraction over the coming years, with a projected 27% decline by 2030 compared to 2024. The United States, historically the largest global health funder, cut funding for HIV/AIDS, malaria, maternal and child health, and nutrition programs in 2025. Alongside declining funding, there are also changes in how health services will be delivered. Donor-country policy changes - including the America First Global Health Strategy - put partner governments at the forefront of health service delivery, which may result in greater integration of disease-specific service delivery, changes to supply chains , and absorption of donor-funded human resources for health . This combination will place significant pressure on the health systems of low- and middle-income countries, and could be a genuine inflection point in global health. We want to protect people who face significant shortfalls in their medical care, while also seizing the opportunity for reform to strengthen national health planning and build new, more cost-effective health systems. We have made $14 million in related grants in the past year, including grants co-funded with GiveWell to CHAI and PATH . Though the new hire will have significant scope to shape our work on this front, we expect our grantmaking will work toward four goals: Facilitating transitions to locally owned systems and local implementing partners . As part of taking on greater ownership of health service delivery, countries will need to take on functions previously supported by INGOs or contractors, including health data systems, healthcare workforce, and supply chains. We anticipate supporting opportunities to help countries take on these functions while mitigating declines in implementation quality. Reallocating funding to the most cost-effective health sector priorities . As external health assistance declines, governments need to make decisions about how best to use scarce resources. We anticipate supporting opportunities to help countries make hard decisions about which interventions to prioritize. Increasing the absorption of health sector budgets . LMICs underspend their health budgets by an average of 13 percent . Improving absorption could address part of the funding gap left by declining health aid, without having to generate new resources. We anticipate supporting opportunities to help countries improve budget execution and utilization of existing resources. Increasing domestic resource mobilization for health. We anticipate supporting opportunities to help make the investment case for additional domestic health funding.

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