Senior Philanthropy Advisor

GiveWell

10h • Remote

About The Position

GiveWell is hiring a Senior Philanthropy Advisor to manage and advise a portfolio of its largest donors. This role will help shape the relationship strategy with donors giving seven- to ten-figure gifts and will have significant influence over how GiveWell’s philanthropy function grows and evolves. The advisor will manage and advise a portfolio of the largest donors, serve as a leader within the philanthropy team, and be a thought partner to the senior leadership team. This role is crucial for scaling giving to high-impact causes and saving lives globally by strengthening philanthropic partnerships with current and future major donors.

Requirements

• Understanding of how people translate their values into action.
• Comfort connecting with a wide range of people.
• Significant experience earning trust with discerning, analytic people, acting as a partner in high-stakes decisions.
• Ability to help people navigate doubt and complexity.
• Comfort bringing a clear point of view and helping people strengthen their own judgment over time.
• Excitement for intellectually demanding work and engaging with complex global health topics, including cost-effectiveness models, program evaluation, and evidence quality.
• Ability to get up to speed quickly on complex quantitative subject matter and translate it rigorously and credibly.
• High emotional intelligence, curiosity, and a clear sense of mission.
• Collaborative spirit, connecting dots and building relationships across teams.
• Depth of leadership experience, comfort supporting strategic decisions, and willingness to roll up sleeves to build and shape work.
• Adaptive energy and comfort deeply explaining reasoning and taking time to reach high-quality decisions.
• A track record of managing sophisticated, high-stakes relationships (e.g., with major donors, ultra-high-net-worth clients, foundation officers, board members, or similarly discerning stakeholders).
• Exceptional relationship management skills, with high emotional intelligence, an advisory mindset, and the ability to hold a large amount of context about a person and synthesize it in real time.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal—clear, tailored, and credible messaging for discerning stakeholders, including comfort producing original written content.
• Leadership skills to partner with senior staff and influence across teams collaboratively.
• Strong operational expertise: leading cross-team projects, building scalable processes, and translating strategy into action.
• Strong alignment with GiveWell’s mission and values, including truth-seeking, transparency, humility, and long-term trust-building.

Nice To Haves

• Prior global health experience.

Responsibilities

• Build long-term, trust-based relationships with major donors that deepen donors’ understanding of GiveWell’s work.
• Proactively identify the insights, data points, and narratives from GiveWell’s research that are most relevant to major donor decision-making.
• Drive and lead team-wide initiatives and significant projects to make GiveWell's work accessible, from learning journey design, playbooks, and systems to donor events and donor communications.
• Translate GiveWell’s research into original donor-facing content that makes its work accessible to analytically sophisticated, time-poor major donors.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to GiveWell’s leadership.
• Drive improvements to GiveWell’s philanthropy culture, systems, and processes to improve how its philanthropy function operates and scales.

Benefits

• Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% of premiums covered within the US for employee and dependents).
• Four weeks of paid time off per year.
• One week all-office closure.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships.
• 403(b) retirement plan with a 5% match.
• Relocation expenses covered for candidates who wish to move to Oakland, California or Brooklyn, NYC.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed