Senior Philanthropy Advisor

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

📋 Description

• Establish enduring, trust-based connections with major donors to enhance their understanding of GiveWell’s initiatives.

• Proactively discover insights, data, and narratives from GiveWell’s research that are most pertinent to the decision-making processes of major donors.

• Lead and drive team-wide projects and initiatives aimed at making our work more accessible, including designing learning journeys, creating playbooks and systems, and organizing donor events and communications.

• Convert GiveWell’s research into original content tailored for donors, ensuring our work is accessible to analytically skilled and time-constrained major donors.

• Act as a strategic advisor to GiveWell’s leadership team.

• Enhance our philanthropy culture, systems, and processes to improve the operations and scalability of our philanthropy function.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing complex, high-stakes relationships with major donors, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, foundation officers, board members, or similarly discerning stakeholders from other fields.

• Outstanding relationship management abilities, characterized by high emotional intelligence, an advisory approach, and the capacity to synthesize a large amount of context about individuals in real time.

• A strong interest in global health and development, with the capability to engage in complex research and ideas, even without prior sector experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey clear, tailored, and credible messages to discerning stakeholders, including comfort in producing original written content.

• Leadership capabilities to collaborate with senior staff and influence teams effectively.

• Robust operational expertise in leading cross-team projects, developing scalable processes, and translating strategy into actionable steps.

• Deep alignment with GiveWell’s mission and values, including a commitment to truth-seeking, transparency, humility, and building long-term trust.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents).

• Four weeks of paid time off annually.

• One week of all-office closure.

• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.

• Ergonomic home workstations or memberships to coworking spaces.

• 403(b) retirement plan with a 5% match.