Research Assistant – Global Health and Development

Founders Pledge are looking for a Research Assistant – Global Health and Development to join their team.

Overview:

• Freelance/Part-Time (up to 30 hours per week)
• Language: English
• Location: London, UK (Hybrid)
• Salary: £15-£20 per hour
• Full list of benefits here
• Applications expire: this role has no specific closing date.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Research Assistant – Global Health and Development (up to 30 hours per week) to help us identify and evaluate high-impact funding opportunities, to enable our members (HNW entrepreneurs) to give as effectively as possible.

You’ll join our Research Team, who provide recommendations across a range of cause areas as follows:

1. the long-term future of humanity,
2. helping the current generation & people living today,
3. animal welfare.

Our aim is to provide the highest-impact funding opportunities across these areas. Reporting to one of our Senior Researchers, you’ll have an active interest in effective giving and you’ll be ‘cause neutral’, with a focus on impact maximisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to ensure that the most funds possible are donated to the highest-impact causes globally.

Responsibilities

You will assist with:

• Cause area investigations: Investigations into the most pressing problem areas that seek to identify the most cost-effective approaches of tackling them, and to recommend funding opportunities that implement those approaches, sometimes leading to a cause area report that we publish on our website.
• Funding opportunity investigations: Individual investigations into promising funding opportunities to see if they meet our bar for recommendation, feeding into a report or other internal or external materials.
• Shallow investigations: Internal investigations of less than a week into a particular problem area or methodological question relevant to our research.
• Other team support tasks, including:
  • Quantifying the amount of funding in particular cause areas.
  • Creating models and theories of change to assist researchers.
  • Literature reviews and summaries.
  • Copy-editing.
• Finally (and importantly) you will be helping to shape our Global Health and Development Fund, through aiding with key tasks in grantmaking decisions.

Role Requirements

We’re open to candidates from a variety of different backgrounds. However, we’re especially keen to speak to those with experience in Global Health and Development research.

You’re likely to have:

• A commitment to social impact with a strong understanding of impact maximisation and the nuances of charity evaluation.
• Excellent analytical skills: comfort working with quantitative tools and concepts.
• Good calibration: knowledge of the extent of your own knowledge, and a good sense of how confident you should be in your beliefs.
• Intellectual curiosity and openness: a willingness to consider alternative points of view, to follow good arguments wherever they lead, and an openness to changing your mind.
• Clear writing: the ability to express nuanced evidence and complex concepts in a clear way.
• Conscientiousness and prioritisation: a willingness to work hard and to focus time on top priorities.
• Good judgment: for example, the ability to decide how long to spend on a project, or on what sections to include in a report.
• The ability to work well with others, to communicate honestly and directly, and to be open to feedback.
• Willingness to work in a high-growth, dynamic startup environment and comfortable with ambiguity.
• An interest in Global Health and Development.

How to apply?

To apply for this role, please fill in the application form.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Founders Pledge.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems requires different perspectives and unique ways of thinking and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can do their best work.