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General Interest
GiveDirectly
WorldwideremotePosted 1 day ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- GiveDirectly has delivered over $1 billion in direct cash transfers to more than 2 million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011.
- GiveDirectly is named one of Time100’s Most Influential Companies of 2026.
- The organization’s work culture is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical, with a focus on high employee ownership and professional growth.
- GiveDirectly offers referral bonuses of $3,000 for successful referrals to Senior Manager or above roles, and $500 for successful referrals to Manager roles.
- GiveDirectly is an Equal Opportunity Employer that conducts pre-hire screening including reference checks, criminal background checks, and sanctions screens for all candidates.
- This is a general talent pool page, not an active specific job opening, and GiveDirectly reviews its applicant database first when new roles are posted.
Role overview
This page is a general expression of interest talent pool for GiveDirectly, not an active specific job opening. GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that has delivered more than $1 billion in direct cash transfers to over 2 million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011, recognized as one of Time100’s Most Influential Companies of 2026 for its work advancing scalable, cost-effective, dignified aid backed by research. The organization invites values-aligned candidates to submit their profiles to be considered for future open roles across its full suite of teams.
Requirements
- Talent and deep alignment with GiveDirectly’s core values
- Commitment to upholding the protection and safeguarding of GiveDirectly’s recipients as a top priority
- Willingness to undergo GiveDirectly’s required pre-hire screening processes, including in-depth reference checks, criminal background checks, sanctions screens, and checks with previous employers regarding abuse or misconduct related matters
Benefits
- Candid, analytical, non-hierarchical work culture that supports high employee ownership and real professional growth
- Reasonable accommodations provided during the application and interview process, as well as to perform essential job functions, to support an inclusive accessible work environment
- $3,000 referral reward paid for successful referrals to Senior Manager or higher open roles, and $500 referral reward paid for successful referrals to Manager open roles
Additional details
- GiveDirectly’s work has been featured in coverage from The Economist, NPR, TED, and The Washington Post.
- GiveDirectly shares its organizational values and employee testimonials on its site for candidates to review to learn more about the work experience.
- Open roles at GiveDirectly may be posted at any point throughout the year, and the organization aims to fill open positions as quickly as possible by identifying top candidates.
- GiveDirectly’s teams and their core functions are: Tech and Data (builds software and data systems to deliver cash to recipients, partners with Programs teams to operationalize tech-enabled programs); Finance (manages and reports organizational financials to ensure responsible, efficient, and transparent money management); Humanitarian (develops and implements emergency relief programs in response to humanitarian crises including conflicts, natural disasters, and refugee crises); Growth (raises money for recipients and creates broader public awareness for direct giving); Communications (manages the organization’s public image, storytelling, and outreach, including content creation, donor communications, and brand messaging and strategy); Partnerships (raises money for recipients and manages GiveDirectly’s relationships with governments, institutions, nonprofit organizations, and strategic foundations); People (oversees the full employee lifecycle including hiring, employee experience, and employee development, and drives organization-wide culture initiatives); Product (assembles and leads cross-functional teams to drive product development, optimization, and scale, overseeing either single large/complex products or a portfolio of products at different development stages); Programs (runs day-to-day cash delivery operations, working with host governments, local authorities, and community leaders to enroll and follow up with recipients); Research (conducts and compiles research findings to inform GiveDirectly programs, supports benchmarking studies comparing cash transfers to other aid forms, and educates the public about cash transfers); Risk, Safeguarding, and Compliance (RISC) (ensures all internal, funder, and sector-wide policies are clear and met, and monitors recipient experiences to protect against fraud and safeguarding breaches); CEO’s Office (supports the CEO’s strategic priorities, facilitates high-level decision making, and manages coordination across global functions)
- GiveDirectly is an Equal Opportunity Employer: all qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. US-based applicants are invited to review their 'Know Your Rights' as job applicants.
- GiveDirectly is a member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, and is committed to observing all local, national, and international laws that protect people and basic human rights, with a formal zero tolerance policy for preventing, reporting, or responding to any form of abuse or exploitation.
- Candidates or employees requiring reasonable accommodations can email GiveDirectly with the subject line "Accommodation Needed" to request support.
- Candidates are instructed to answer all application questions succinctly but specifically to help GiveDirectly match their profile to open positions; candidates with strong matches to open roles will be prioritized, and lack of immediate response does not indicate rejection, only that the profile has not yet been matched to an open role.
- Candidates who have already applied for a specific GiveDirectly job opening are instructed not to submit an application via this general talent pool page.
- GiveDirectly offers a Candidate Application Prep Guide to help applicants prepare their submissions.
- This page was originally posted on the Himalayas platform.