GiveDirectly

Strategy

• Build and prioritize a portfolio of external options to increase delivery capacity, ranking them by scale, speed, feasibility, and cost
• Conduct primary diligence through engagement with potential partners, regulators, and counsel, reaching defensible recommendations to advance or stop opportunities
• Advance one or two priorities from evaluation through implementation and live pilot
• Hold counterparty relationships and coordinate cross-functional internal work
• Define and run competitive solicitations, including RFPs, selection criteria, and response evaluation
• Lead engagement and negotiations with UN agencies, INGOs, mobile network operators, and government bodies through signed agreements
• Produce analysis and written recommendations to support Executive team decisions on money and capacity allocation
• Report to the Chief of Staff and work directly with the Executive team, Country Directors, and external partners

Director, Strategic Initiatives

Product Manager

• Turn new survey designs, program changes, and system releases into training materials, live training sessions, demo videos, release notes, and internal communications
• Build practical training decks, job aids, quick-reference sheets, and step-by-step guides for field use
• Write communications tailored to Country Directors, Program Directors, Field Managers, Assistant Field Managers, and Field Officers
• Deliver training sessions in person or remotely and record screen-capture demo videos
• Write and maintain release notes and change documentation for common Salesforce builds
• Produce or adapt materials across English, Portuguese, and French, and manage translation support
• Provide ad-hoc support to the Program Design team, including briefings, deck editing, meeting notes, action tracking, and cross-country follow-up
• Identify recurring field questions, unclear designs, and workarounds, and feed insights back to design owners
• Support the 2027 common Salesforce build rollout and 2028 pilot materials
• Travel approximately once per quarter at minimum, with additional travel during rollout waves, to deliver training and observe field use
• Report to Carolina Toth, Senior Director, Product

Product Associate – Product Manager, Training & Enablement

Recruitment

• Own Senior Manager+ searches from launch through offer at a 6 to 8 week pace where the market allows
• Serve as recruitment focal point for senior searches across programs, tech, product, G&A, and fundraising
• Build and maintain regional talent pipelines and GiveDirectly's presence with institutions and networks across the African continent
• Lead outbound sourcing, map talent pools, build boolean searches, and use LinkedIn Recruiter and other tools
• Translate vague profiles into effective searches and recommend profile or approach changes
• Build diverse candidate slates
• Run recruiter-led searches with senior hiring managers, including up to the C-suite
• Lead launch calls and syncs, manage timelines, challenge assumptions, and maintain process quality
• Maintain Greenhouse pipelines, review funnels, track candidate progress, and use pipeline data to diagnose stalled searches
• Own the candidate experience through offer acceptance, including candidate engagement, mission selling, compensation, logistics, and closing
• Peer-coach junior recruiters and develop shared recruiting practices
• Build and roll out consistent search and outbound sourcing processes
• Apply French and/or Portuguese to otherwise inaccessible searches
• Report market insights to the Director, TA and take on selected talent acquisition projects

Senior Recruiter

General Counsel

• Serve as the primary legal partner to Emergency Cash across program strategy, design, launch, and delivery
• Build a repeatable legal model for emergency responses, covering country entry, regulatory review, government engagement, contracting, data use, and local counsel
• Develop response-readiness tools, templates, and decision frameworks
• Lead legal work during active emergency responses and provide clear recommendations under uncertainty
• Coordinate with country teams, program-facing Counsel, and local advisors
• Apply global standards for MNO data and remote enablement to individual responses
• Draft and negotiate partnership, technology, vendor, data-sharing, and other agreements
• Capture lessons from responses and strengthen the Emergency Cash legal model
• Provide legal support for U.S. programs across design, implementation, expansion, and operations
• Advise on recipient eligibility, public benefits, tax treatment, payments involving minors or caregivers, family law, privacy, data use, and state requirements
• Structure and negotiate agreements with governments, research institutions, community organizations, payment providers, and other partners
• Develop reusable guidance and coordinate state-specific or specialist counsel
• Collaborate with Corporate & Business Affairs Counsel, Africa Programs & Country Operations Counsel, and Legal Operations
• Support other priority legal matters within the global Legal team
• Report to the Head of Legal

Legal Counsel, Emergency Cash & U.S. Programs

• Build GiveDirectly’s Business Affairs capability and serve as a primary legal partner to global functions
• Advise Partnerships and Fundraising, People, Finance, Communications, Technology, Product, Grants Management, and public affairs teams
• Structure, draft, and negotiate complex corporate partnerships, funding arrangements, technology and vendor agreements, and strategic transactions
• Advise on corporate, commercial, employment, privacy, nonprofit, and operational matters
• Build templates, playbooks, and repeatable approaches for recurring legal work
• Advise on significant or non-standard gifts, including bequests, donor-advised fund grants, restricted gifts, securities, cryptocurrency, and other non-cash contributions
• Draft and review gift agreements, donor restrictions, planned-giving documentation, and funding arrangements
• Advise on charitable solicitation, fundraising disclosures, sponsorships, cause-marketing arrangements, commercial co-ventures, and nonprofit regulatory requirements
• Support public affairs, Communications, and other teams on lobbying, advocacy, public-policy engagement, and political-activity restrictions
• Lead legal strategy for products, partnerships, and operating models affecting multiple programs, countries, or teams
• Develop GiveDirectly’s legal and regulatory approach to Data Partnerships, MNO data, and remote enablement
• Lead legal work establishing relationships with MNOs, governments, and other data holders
• Advise on data privacy, consent, data sharing, telecommunications regulation, and responsible data use
• Draft and negotiate NDAs, data-sharing agreements, MoUs, and related arrangements
• Support engagement with regulators and government partners
• Translate organization-wide legal approaches into workable models for particular countries and programs
• Coordinate external and local counsel
• Partner with other Counsel on cross-portfolio matters
• Take ownership of priority legal matters as organizational needs evolve
• Strengthen standards, tools, and ways of working across the global Legal team
• Reports to the Head of Legal

Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs

People Operations

• Serve as the dedicated people partner to approximately 200 Global Shared Services employees
• Advise and coach GSS leaders from managers through VPs on team structure, workforce needs, talent, and people decisions
• Lead organizational design and workforce planning, including structure, role definition, levels, sizing, and sequencing
• Own talent and succession planning, including readiness, flight risk, and single points of failure
• Partner on performance and compensation decisions, calibration, promotion cases, and band placement
• Coach senior leaders and global managers on leadership, behavior, and performance conversations
• Lead people-side change for restructures and leadership transitions
• Represent People for global staff and hold employment decisions within the organizational framework
• Define behavior and underperformance categories and communicate them across the organization
• Audit country-level case handling and create global standards for intake, escalation, responsibility, and documentation
• Build an employment decision framework and delegated authority matrix with Legal
• Design and deliver enablement for managers, HR Managers, and staff
• Establish a centralized record of investigation outcomes to identify patterns and inconsistencies
• Recommend within the first 90 days who should support behavior and underperformance cases in each country
• Coach HR Managers through cases and serve as a technical escalation point
• Provide People input during case triage and monitor outcomes for consistency
• Report to the Head of People

Director, Strategic Initiatives

Product Associate – Product Manager, Training & Enablement

Senior Recruiter

Legal Counsel, Emergency Cash & U.S. Programs

Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs

Director, People Partnering