Research Fellow and Strategy Fellow on the Cause Prioritization Team

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.

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.

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.

The Cause Prioritization team is organized around three sub-teams:

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We're hiring for both Research Fellow and Strategy Fellow roles. The distinction is one of emphasis rather than a hard boundary, and both will be evaluated through the same process.

Research Fellows typically have a master's or PhD in a quantitative discipline related to social science or public health, and tend to focus more on in-depth evidence reviews and academic literature synthesis. Strategy Fellows typically have a background in consulting, policy, or global health implementation, and tend to focus on grantmaking and faster, more assumptions-driven analysis.

We use both titles to help make the role legible to people from different professional backgrounds. Your title won't determine your responsibilities.

We're looking for people with at least three years of relevant professional experience (or the equivalent in academia) who are excited to pragmatically apply research and analysis to high-stakes decisions.

We're open to a wide range of experience levels. Some of our best hires have come in with three or four years of experience; others have had over a decade. We care more about the quality of your thinking and your aptitude for the responsibilities described above than the number of years you have worked. There is room to grow with strong performance — multiple members of Coefficient Giving’s current leadership team came up through this team.

We expect all our staff to put our mission first to help us realize our ambitious goals for impact, and to model our operating values of ownership, openness, calibration, and inclusiveness.

You may be a great fit for this role if you have:

Research staff are typically employed by Coefficient Giving’s 501(c)(3), and as such are likely eligible for public service loan forgiveness programs.

We may use AI to assist in the initial screening of applications, including to detect whether candidates have used AI models in drafting their application. Decisions are always made by a human on our team. If you have any questions about our use of AI tools, you can email jobs@coefficientgiving.org.