[Remote] Targeting Analyst, Emergency Cash (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GiveDirectly is a leading organization that has delivered over $1B in cash directly to people living in poverty. They are seeking a Targeting Analyst to identify and prioritize communities for cash delivery during crises, utilizing various data sources to inform their emergency cash programs.

Responsibilities

• Implement approaches for systematically assessing needs in crisis-affected populations
• Incorporate traditional humanitarian data sources (e.g., needs assessments, poverty statistics, vulnerability indices, displacement monitoring, etc.) and novel data sources (e.g., geospatial imagery, call detail records, social media, crowd-sourcing, etc.) into GD’s targeting systems
• Provide clear targeting analysis with relevant subpopulations for emergency cash programs as a service to other teams, visualizing data on maps and dashboards
• Based on determined targeting criteria, general recipient lists of individuals to be enrolled in GD EC programs
• Provide targeting analysis services for both GD’s preparedness and response states – scoping and prioritizing relevant subpopulations based on pre-existing risks and delivering on-demand analysis during response deployments (remote)
• Monitor global risks and crises, providing analysis for GD teams to make activation decisions
• Communicate with humanitarian agencies, data providers, and crisis monitoring organizations to integrate reliable event and assessment data into GD’s workflow
• Participate in product development from problem discovery and user requirements gathering to launch and iteration, working with engineering, data science, and operations
• Conduct agile iterative experiments and pilots to validate assumptions about crisis detection and targeting, using results to refine strategy
• Define and track success metrics for targeting tools, ensuring outputs are timely, relevant, and usable in the field
• Maintain internal data source documentation, including a qualitative assessment of accuracy, reliability, and limitations of sources and datasets
• Continuously evaluate and improve targeting approaches for speed, accuracy, and inclusivity, while maintaining humanitarian principles
• Stay abreast of emerging technology and new data sources to ensure GD is leveraging cutting-edge approaches to targeting
• Document learning to scale best practices across different contexts

Skills

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity
• 3-5+ years experience conducting humanitarian needs analysis — assessing vulnerabilities, interpreting crisis data, and applying frameworks such as the IPC, MIRA, or sectoral needs assessments — to directly inform operational planning
• 2+ years of experience producing data tools, with a track record of providing actionable, humanitarian information products to decision makers and operational teams
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement reusable analysis approaches that scale across multiple contexts
• High technical fluency across data analytics and data science – ability to ask the right questions, internalize technical tradeoffs between approaches, and shape complex data and technical challenges into operationally viable targeting strategies
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences, including humanitarian agencies and data providers
• Proven ability to thrive in fast-changing, high-stakes environments
• Ability to adapt to change and navigate ambiguity and a curiosity-driven mindset
• Ability to balance speed and rigor in high uncertainty
• Prior field experience in humanitarian response or international social protection programs in resource constrained contexts
• Familiarity with data security and privacy frameworks in sensitive contexts
• Comfort working in SQL, Python, or R for data manipulation and analysis; Experience working with a data visualization tool
• Experience in geospatial data analysis and knowledge of applications for GIS in humanitarian response
• Experience using generative AI for decision support

Benefits

• Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~$9,470 with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $11,080)
• Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~£6,120 with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be £7,160)
• Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~$6,190 with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $7,242)
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $21,393
• Annual Benefits Stipend: £2,760
• A supportive team that works hard and cares hard
• A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• Flexible paid time off that staff is encouraged to take
• Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development

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