Research Fellow and Strategy Fellow on the Cause Prioritization Team

Responsibilities

• The Cause Prioritization team is organized around three sub-teams:
• New Programs identifies promising new programs and funds for us to launch. We aim to launch at least one program a year capable of cost-effectively allocating over $100 million in its first few years of grantmaking.
• Incubation makes exploratory grants to advance our learning agenda in potentially promising areas where we still have open questions. Current focus areas include education in low- and middle-income countries and applying AI tools to improve health and wellbeing.
• Internal Evaluation informs how Coefficient Giving allocates its budget between funds and holds us accountable by rigorously assessing our impact. This sub-team also refines our cost-effectiveness methodology and draws general lessons from our grantmaking.
• All roles on the team involve:
• Conducting desk research to assess potential cause areas, evaluate programs, and inform strategy.
• Building back-of-the-envelope models to estimate the social returns and cost-effectiveness of potential grants.
• Interviewing domain experts and working with potential grantees to answer key questions.
• Synthesizing conclusions and recommendations in writing for senior leadership.
• Depending on the role, you may also:
• Investigate and recommend specific grants. The team currently has a $20 million exploratory grantmaking budget, with the ability to bid for more if we find sufficiently strong opportunities.
• Develop and maintain methodological guidance for cost-effectiveness analysis across GHW.
• Assess program impact through case studies and evaluation of forward-looking strategies.
• Rigorously evaluate and synthesize academic evidence relevant to our grantmaking.
• Support program teams with answering research questions that could shape their strategies.
• Past work by Research and Strategy Fellows includes preliminary assessments into potential new cause areas like telecommunications in LMICs and civil conflict reduction , more in-dep

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Additional Information

Coefficient Giving is scaling its giving significantly over the next few years. To support that growth, we're looking to hire Research Fellows and Strategy Fellows to join our Cause Prioritization team, focused on global health and wellbeing. We're planning to make at least three hires from this application cycle. The Cause Prioritization team is the intellectual backbone of Coefficient Giving's Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW) team. Your job will be to help us prioritize and launch new $100 million+ funds , design the systems we use to evaluate our impact, and conduct research to inform our grantmaking approach. Past work by the team has led us to launch programs on lead exposure , air quality , global health R&D , global aid policy , economic growth , and effective giving and careers . About Coefficient Giving Coefficient Giving ( formerly Open Philanthropy ) 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. In 2025, we directed over $1 billion to high-impact causes, and we continue to rapidly scale. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment to cost-effective, high-impact giving. Our current funds include Science and Global Health R&D, Navigating Transformative Artificial Intelligence, Abundance & Growth, Farm Animal Welfare, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness, and more. We're proud of our track record. Our grants to evidence-backed global health programs have saved over 100,000 lives. We supported the late-stage clinical trials for the R21 malaria vaccine, now being scaled to protect millions of kids globally . And our work in policy advocacy helped catalyze major wins on housing reform, including City of Yes in New York and SB 79 in California, which will enable thousands of new housing units. About the Cause Prioritization Team The GHW team makes grants across scientific research, policy advocacy, and global health and development to serve our mission of helping others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We prioritize grants with the potential to improve health outcomes and economic wellbeing, with most of our work focused on people living in low- and middle-income countries. Within GHW, the Cause Prioritization team works closely with senior leadership and program staff to conduct research that improves our grantmaking and high-level strategy. Its primary focus is recommending new funds to launch and allocating funding between GHW programs.

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