AI Specialist, Global Health and Wellbeing

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Explore and suggest specific grants from a $100 million exploratory grantmaking budget.

• Perform desk research to evaluate potential strategies.

• Create preliminary models to estimate social returns and the cost-effectiveness of grants.

• Conduct interviews with domain experts and collaborate with prospective grantees to address key inquiries.

• Summarize findings and recommendations in written reports for senior leadership.

• Rigorously assess and synthesize academic evidence pertinent to grantmaking.

• Assist in developing strategies for AI and global health and wellbeing grantmaking.

• Identify promising opportunities and suggest evaluation methods.

• Manage grants that present ambiguity or novelty, depending on the focus of the role.

• Support grants that tackle significant risks from transformative AI and the scaling of AI-driven health and economic solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of three years of relevant professional experience or equivalent academic experience.

• A keen interest in the implications of AI for global health and wellbeing.

• Insights on how AI could transform health and economic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.

• Strong quantitative skills, including the ability to perform back-of-the-envelope calculations.

• Pragmatic mindset with the capacity to make and justify reasonable estimates using limited data.

• Ability to prioritize critical questions and draw concrete conclusions.

• Excellent written communication skills and transparency in reasoning.

• Strong listening abilities and sound epistemic judgment.

• Capacity to interview academics, policymakers, and practitioners in unfamiliar fields.

• Comfort with opportunity costs and the process of prioritization.

• Flexibility to work across a diverse range of topics.

• Research Fellow candidates generally hold a master’s or PhD in a quantitative field related to social science or public health.

• Relevant backgrounds may include policy research, strategy consulting, academia, social sciences, public health, AI, or international development.

• Willingness to accommodate occasional flexible calls across U.S. and European time zones.

• Candidates must possess or be able to obtain the necessary work authorization for their location; U.S. work authorization sponsorship may be available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unconditional 401(k) grant of $24,500.

• Comprehensive health insurance; 100% of premiums covered in the U.S. for employees and eligible dependents.

• Employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain additional personal health expenses.

• Dental, vision, and life insurance coverage for employees and their families.

• Recommended four weeks of paid time off (PTO) per year.

• Fully paid family leave for four months.

• Generous and flexible expense policy covering ergonomic equipment, software, and other services.

• Productivity benefit for items that enhance work efficiency.

• Ongoing learning policy with coverage for professional development expenses.

• Option for remote workspace outside the home or access to a Coefficient Giving co-working hub.

• Cash equivalents of benefits that cannot be provided to international hires, where applicable.

• Potential eligibility for public service loan forgiveness programs for U.S.-based research staff.