About the Role

We are seeking an entrepreneurial Brand Partnerships Manager to foster and manage high-impact public partnerships, influencer campaigns, and brand partnerships. In this role, you’ll drive fundraising and awareness through strategic partnerships with influential brands, corporations, creators, and thought leaders. Previous successful collaborations include major campaigns with... creators like MrBeast, Lenny’s Newsletter, Supreme, Matt Yglesias, ColdFusion, Happiness Lab and more. 

The ideal candidate will have 3–5+ years of experience. We welcome a range of skill sets and backgrounds; related fields could include product management, data analytics, project management, program management, international development, management consulting, or more. Our team has a wide range of backgrounds from TV writers to folks with PHDs in engineering and everything between.

You’ll thrive in this role if you’re energized by building things from scratch, thrive in a fast-moving, no-ego environment, and want your work to directly and measurably have an impact in the world.



These influencer / partner campaigns will intersect with other teams in Growth, as well as Research, Finance, and Operations. Finally, you’ll be driven by a deep dedication to shifting the status quo in the philanthropy space by putting aid budgets directly in the hands of recipients. This role is fully remote but will need to overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 4 hours.

This Manager should spike on:


High EQ: Skilled at reading a room, navigating ambiguity, and connecting with everyone from YouTubers to researchers to donors.
High ownership / output / quality: Gets things done quickly, reliably, and well. 
Combination of big picture / details thinking: Can think strategically while still getting the specifics right. Eagle eye for the details that matter.
Entrepreneurial and analytical: Comfortable trying new things, failing, and figuring out what works based on evidence. You’re able to create structure in ambiguous situations. 
Rational thinking and common sense: Uses good judgment and reasoned thinking to pattern match and make decisions.


Key Responsibilities

Partner campaign management 




Lead and execute public fundraising campaigns playbook for emergency response appeals, brand partnership activations, research disseminations, and seasonal giving opportunities (e.g., Giving Tuesday, end-of-year matching campaigns).
Project manage campaign calendar and collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, including the Communications and Fundraising Tech teams, to ensure successful campaign delivery.
Own the full lifecycle of partnership campaigns; from pitch to launch to performance reporting.


Donor-Facing Content Development

Develop compelling content and execute strategic distribution across owned, paid, and earned channels such as advertising, influencer partnerships, reports, website, webinars, email, and social media.
Manage content execution end-to-end, ensuring alignment with organizational messaging and audience targeting. Collaborate with our design, content collection, and marketing automation teams.


Growth Acquisition Initiatives & Marketing Experiments

Initiate and drive new marketing experiments aimed at accelerating growth, expanding our donor base, and increasing the impact of our work.
Collaborate cross-functionally on broader Growth team projects, partnering with teams throughout the organization to innovate and scale successful marketing bets.


Measurement & Reporting:

Ensure campaign performance is measured against clear KPIs, providing regular reporting and insights to internal and external stakeholders demonstrating impact.
Support oversight on required reporting for external marketing partnerships, ensuring timely and accurate performance insights.




Qualifications (must haves)


3–5+ years of professional experience: we welcome a range of skill sets and backgrounds; related fields could include product management, data analytics, project management, program management, international development, management consulting, or more. Our team has a wide range of backgrounds from professional TV writers to folks with PHDs in engineering and everything between. 
Strong, succinct communication: skilled in writing (native english level), presentation creation, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders
Analytical problem solving: looks at problems with an analytical and iterative mindset, with strong framework for prioritization and ability to put structure and process to ambiguous problems
Alignment with GiveDirectly Values: exceptional alignment with values and an active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. 
Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritize/explicitly deprioritize, and hold a high quality bar.


Nice to haves


Experience working with relational databases (e.g. SQL)
Familiarity with our growth stack: Salesforces (CRM), Hubspot (ESP), Wordpress (marketing website), Github, Tableau, PostHog, Ads, A/B testing
Experience in writing or data storytelling for large layperson audiences. more

What you’ll do:


Design and build scalable, reliable systems that power our core operations—whether that’s donor platforms, systems that deliver payments directly to recipients, or crisis response tools reaching hundreds of thousands of people globally.
Own end-to-end development of new features and services, from architecture through deployment and monitoring.
Improve our developer... workflows by strengthening CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual steps, and increasing test coverage.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, ops, data) to understand real-world needs and ship tools that directly support program delivery in the field.
Debug and resolve production issues across our stack, with a focus on root cause analysis and long-term fixes.
Advocate for sustainable engineering practices, including testing, documentation, and monitoring
Help shape our tech roadmap with an eye toward scale, maintainability, and recipient experience


What you’ll bring:


Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
Language Requirement: English
4+ years of industry experience creating production-caliber software and systems
Experience with backend architecture: databases, cloud services, APIs
Experience building infrastructure to deploy software
Experience with strongly-typed, object-oriented programming such as Java, C#, Go, etc. and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, etc.
High degree of ownership and autonomy - you proactively advocate for ways to improve systems and constantly leave our codebase in a better state than you found it
Strong analytical skills and communication - able to break down complex problems, describe technical trade-offs, and collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g. technical program managers, product managers)
Bonus: Experience using Python and AWS in a production environment
Bonus: experience with payments/financial software and/or experience with microservice/serverless architecture more

Role overview

This role is remote, but candidates must be based in Nairobi or Lilongwe

The Finance team currently supports finance and accounting activities in eight countries in Africa. As a member of the regional finance team, the Accounting Officer will support the finance and accounting team, and as assigned, fill in other roles from time to time. 

We are looking for someone with a... good technical background, strong analytical skills, strong collaboration and communication skills, an endless drive for improvement, a solutions-oriented mindset, an ability to deliver high-quality accounting on tight deadlines, and the flexibility to adapt to quickly changing needs while being highly detail-oriented. 

What you’ll do:

 Accounting


Documenting transactions in accordance with GD's global bookkeeping standards in GD's accounting software
Reconciling bank statements
Participating in financial audits and in special reporting to donors and regulatory bodies (immigration, NGO regulator etc )
Implementing payment and procurement protocols, including ensuring proper documentation and adherence to controls
Implementing asset management protocols including asset verifications and reconciliations
Preparing and presenting budget to actual reports
Implementing compliance requirements from tax regulators and donors
Assisting in budget preparation and management activities
Assisting on other monthly and periodic close tasks as assigned with time


What you will bring:


Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, or equivalent practical experience
Professional experience in accounting or finance will be an added advantage
Professional qualification (such as CPA/ ACCA) will be an added advantage 
Working language competence in English
Competence in advanced excel is required
Alignment to GD values 
Bonus: Ability to work in a fast-paced, start-up, or matrix work environment. more

We are seeking a Senior Product Director, International Rapid Response to design, build, and scale GiveDirectly’s capabilities for delivering cash transfers in response to global crises, including natural disasters, displacement, and conflict. This role will sit within GD’s growing product team and work cross-functionally to develop and implement technology, operational processes, and partnerships... that enable us to reach affected populations faster, more effectively, more transparently, and with greater dignity and agency than other forms of assistance.

Reports to: VP, Product

Level:  Senior Director

Travel Requirement: 10-20% (~1 week every 2 months) 

What you'll bring:


7+ years of experience in product management, operations, or technology development, ideally within the humanitarian, fintech, or international development sectors.
Exceptional alignment to GD values
Strong understanding of the global disaster response and/or humanitarian landscape, including knowledge of key actors, gaps, and opportunities. 
Experience building tech products from MVP to production, and a demonstrated track record of working closely with engineers to solve technological innovations 
Deep curiosity about our programs and open-minded about areas to improve and drive quality
A track record for mobilizing resources (financial, human) around big ideas and opportunities (programmatic, research, etc)
Excellent altitude awareness - Product leads should be able to flex between big picture vision and “in the weeds,” data-driven problem solving
Excellent communication and project management skills, and be able to bring key stakeholders together around a common goal 
High discernment and conviction to make the hard decisions to say no to things and drive focus -- an exceptional product owner strips things down to the most core things to focus on
Experience using data to inform decision-making, and experience hands on with Excel and at least basic SQL strongly preferred.
Nice to have: Experience as a founder or early founding member of a startup


What you’ll do:


Develop and execute a product strategy for GiveDirectly’s humanitarian and rapid response initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and sector best practices.
Lead the design and iteration of products, including software and technical products - that facilitate efficient and equitable cash delivery in crisis settings, including data pipelines, targeting methodologies, verification solutions, and payment integrations.
Manage a small cross-functional team (including engineers and humanitarian specialists) and collaborate with programs, partnerships and research teams to pilot and scale innovative approaches for crisis response, leveraging mobile technology, geospatial data, and AI-driven decision-making
Define and validate high level business and functional requirements for tech solutions
Build partnerships with humanitarian organizations, donors, tech partners, and government agencies to enhance GD’s response capabilities and expand funding opportunities.
Establish and refine key performance metrics to assess the effectiveness and impact of rapid response programs.
Stay abreast of emerging trends and innovations in humanitarian aid, digital payments, and disaster response to continuously improve GiveDirectly’s approach. more

What we’re looking for:


An expert in programmatic delivery of cash in development and humanitarian contexts (particularly our operating countries in Africa), including understanding how operational delivery interacts with everything from government relations to fundraising, academic research to crisis management, the risks of fragile contexts to preventing fraud and safeguarding.
Strategic... judgment and nimble execution: able to see the big picture and operate at 30k feet for what’s most important, while in command of the details and able to operate in a lean, fast moving, entrepreneurial environment.
Embody and set an example for GD values: we take our values incredibly seriously, and expect our leaders to embody, nurture and promote them in the way they work and the teams they build.
An exceptional leader and manager; hire and develop top senior talent, while structuring and running an effective team and setting a high bar for performance. 
Build and manage scalable systems; Able to design, implement and monitor operational delivery systems in highly variable operating contexts that are simple, scalable, data driven, efficient and technology forward in the way they work.


What you’ll do:


Lead and develop high-performing teams – Hire, coach, and manage a team of 600+, including Regional Directors, Country Directors, cross-country staff and field officers, ensuring strong leadership, talent development, and high performance across GiveDirectly’s global programs.
Oversee and scale program execution – Deliver $150M+ in cash transfers efficiently and safely, ensuring excellence in program design, financial oversight, risk management, and continuous operational improvements.
Drive strategy and planning – Set and execute regional and global program priorities, advise the CEO on operational investments, and ensure alignment across teams like Program Tech, Finance, Security, and Fundraising.
Strengthen governance and risk management – Ensure compliance with labor laws, donor requirements, and safeguarding policies while supporting crisis response, audits, and government relations.
Expand GiveDirectly’s impact – Partner with research teams and external institutions to rigorously evaluate our impact, identify and pursue strategic partnerships, oversee new country expansions, and collaborate with research, product and fundraising teams to align opportunities with organizational priorities.
Represent GiveDirectly externally – While this will not be the main focus of the role, there will be ongoing need to engage with key stakeholders, donors, and global forums to advocate for cash transfers, strengthen partnerships, and position GD as a leader in the sector.
Travel: We expect the VP Programs will need to be prepared to travel 25% of the time, spending time with our teams in Africa and the US. more

Operational & Execution Excellence: You combine meticulous attention to detail with the ability to see the big picture. You ensure follow through on the things that matter, and have a proven ability to own complex multi-stakeholder processes and drive execution; creating and maintaining structures to ensure critical priorities are well-tracked, meetings translate into action, and execution is... seamless.
High-Tolerance for Ambiguity & Problem-Solving: You can navigate uncertainty while staying highly attuned to stakeholder needs. You have demonstrated the ability to self-start, and navigate challenges with limited direction, but you’re not just figuring things out in isolation. You’ve experience understanding and aligning to stakeholders (i.e. leadership support, client services, fundraising or similar), shaping decisions with well-structured thinking, and ensuring those you support have what they need to succeed.
Communication & influence: Exceptional communication skills internally and externally, with the ability to engage and influence senior leaders, align cross-functional teams, and ensure clear, concise internal communications. Strong writing and presentation skills are critical.
Strategic Judgment & Analytical Decision-Making: Ability to synthesize complex information (including comfort with quant analysis), make high-quality decisions quickly, and proactively recommend solutions. A strong sense of prioritization and the ability to frame executive-level discussions effectively. Experience with some or all of the different parts of GiveDirectly’s business (organizational strategy & management, fundraising, cash programs, product, shared services) to inform your judgment is a strong bonus. 
Confidentiality & Trustworthiness: Handles sensitive and high-stakes information with discretion and sound judgment. Able to act as a trusted advisor to the CEO, represent their interests, and make independent decisions on their behalf when necessary.
Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values


What you’ll do  


Optimize CEO Effectiveness: Streamline decision-making, manage priorities, support communication and provide strategic counsel to maximize the CEO’s focus and effectiveness on high-impact work. You’ll be high context and know all the most important things happening at any given time, and be able to be a strategic air traffic controller, using judgment to identify what’s important, when, and teeing up high impact interventions. You’ll also manage the Executive Assistant who supports the CEO and leadership team.
Lead Special Projects: Manage and deliver high stakes, time-bound initiatives to drive organizational results or improve organizational effectiveness, and that might otherwise fall through the cracks. This could include everything from surge support on a $20m+ fundraising opportunity, to standing up a new team (defining roles, hiring, change management), to preparing for board meetings.
Drive Organizational Operating Rhythms: Own agenda-setting, preparation of and facilitation for leadership meetings, retreats, and planning processes to ensure cross-team coordination and goal execution. Manage the day to day rhythms of tracking goals, identifying blockers, and figuring out how to bring people together to unblock. more

What you’ll do:

Own finance tech systems


Own the administration, configuration, and integration of finance tech systems (including accounting, expenses, timesheets, and payments)
Lead development of finance tech systems strategy to ensure the finance team has the right software tools to operate productively and securely, and lead initiatives to implement that strategy
Build a deep... understanding of finance needs, and use that to anticipate and remove obstacles and leverage tech to drive improvements


Provide user support to org-wide users


Respond to user requests through our ticketing system, such as adding new vendors or troubleshooting access
Ensure effective user access and permissions management, and timely onboarding and offboarding of users
Provide training and support to users across the organization


Ensure trusted, reliable financial data


Create and uphold data quality contracts for core finance data
Interface with engineers and data architects on integrations and ensure that finance data is available and usable for reporting org-wide


What you’ll bring:


Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
Language Requirement: English
4+ years of relevant professional experience in financial systems management, accounting/finance, or IT systems with a focus on financial applications
Knowledge of IT security best practices and secure configuration of cloud-based software tools
Deep expertise with accounting software (Sage Intacct a bonus)
Knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting standards
Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling
Deep expertise with Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets; strong ability to extract, clean, and manipulate large data sets
Strong initiative and ability to drive process improvements that impact multiple teams
High attention to detail and to high quality customer service
Systematic approach to troubleshooting technical problems and finding the root cause
Strong project management experience; comfortable managing complex timelines and multiple stakeholders
Ability to communicate technical concepts to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders, including finance, programs, and fundraising teams
Bonus but not required: accounting experience
Bonus but not required: experience working with relational databases (e.g. SQL) more

The Field Officer will play a critical day-to-day role in delivering GiveDirectly’s gold-standard cash transfer product to donors and recipients. The Field Officer will carry out and support a variety of field activities, depending on his / her team assignment and GiveDirectly’s needs on any given day. In short, the Field Officer will be responsible for executing the recipient surveys and... associated processes that facilitate GiveDirectly’s unique cash transfer model, from enrollment of recipients, to following-up with recipients that have received their transfers. The role will reward high-quality judgment on operational questions and challenges, work ethic, communication skills, and a strong commitment to GiveDirectly’s mission and model.

Barazas: explain GiveDirectly’s program to entire villages prior to the census surveys; answer any questions.
Explain GiveDirectly’s program to eligible households
Meet with the village elder and guides to understand village boundaries
Coordinating with team members, visit every household in the village, excluding none
Complete census surveys using TaroWorks with accurate data more

What You’ll Do

Own finance tech systems

Own the administration, configuration, and integration of finance tech systems (including accounting, expenses, timesheets, and payments)
Lead development of finance tech systems strategy to ensure the finance team has the right software tools to operate productively and securely, and lead initiatives to implement that strategy
Build a deep... understanding of finance needs, and use that to anticipate and remove obstacles and leverage tech to drive improvements

Provide user support to org-wide users

Respond to user requests through our ticketing system, such as adding new vendors or troubleshooting access
Ensure effective user access and permissions management, and timely onboarding and offboarding of users
Provide training and support to users across the organization

Ensure trusted, reliable financial data

Create and uphold data quality contracts for core finance data
Interface with engineers and data architects on integrations and ensure that finance data is available and usable for reporting org-wide

What You’ll Bring

Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
Language Requirement: English
4+ years of relevant professional experience in financial systems management, accounting/finance, or IT systems with a focus on financial applications
Knowledge of IT security best practices and secure configuration of cloud-based software tools
Deep expertise with accounting software (Sage Intacct a bonus)
Knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting standards
Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling
Deep expertise with Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets; strong ability to extract, clean, and manipulate large data sets
Strong initiative and ability to drive process improvements that impact multiple teams
High attention to detail and to high quality customer service
Systematic approach to troubleshooting technical problems and finding the root cause
Strong project management experience; comfortable managing complex timelines and multiple stakeholders
Ability to communicate technical concepts to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders, including finance, programs, and fundraising teams
Bonus but not required: accounting experience
Bonus but not required: experience working with relational databases (e.g. SQL) more

About this role
The mission of the Central Data team is to empower GiveDirectly with a rigorous, data-driven culture to maximize our efficiency, effectiveness, and scale of delivering dollars to recipients. Building datasets that help us fully understand our donors, improve fundraising interventions, and ultimately raise more money is key to this mission. However, we currently lack many necessary... datasets because we do not have pipelines to extract data from key fundraising platforms or combine data across platforms. 
We have been awarded a $100,000 grant to fund a contractor role that will work full-time (40 hours / week) within Central Data for around one year to address these needs. You will work closely with the Senior Data Architect who oversees our infrastructure (AWS, Databricks, Tableau) and data pipeline development; the Fundraising Data Manager who will turn these datasets into dashboards and insights; and fundraising stakeholders who will use these insights to raise more money for recipients. 
Reports to: Graham Tyler (Director of Data)
Level: Manager
Travel Requirement: There are no travel requirements for this role.
What you’ll do:
Success in this role is determined by meeting these key objectives: 
[20%] Ingest all relevant data sources into our data lakehouse (AWS, Databricks). 

We have existing pipelines, metrics, and dashboards leveraging data from our donor CRM and email provider. You will build new pipelines and jobs to ingest data from our website analytics platform and donor ticketing system.

[40%] Build unified datasets to fully understand donors and fundraising interventions. 

Once all data sources are in Databricks, you will work with stakeholders to define metrics, facts, and dimensions necessary for new dashboards, analysis, ML models, and experimentation that will drive fundraising strategy. Then you will build pipelines to clean, transform, and combine data from all platforms into these actionable datasets.  

[30%] Reduce data quality incidents with automated data quality tests and monitoring. 

Implement data quality tests and alerting for key donation, donor, and donor engagement variables.
Monitor job and pipeline performance. 
Proactively identify and implement improvements to our existing pipelines. 

[10%] Make it easy to maintain your pipelines and tools. 

Create comprehensive, easy to understand documentation to ensure effective knowledge transfer of your work. 
Build within our existing configurable pipeline framework and identify ways to improve this process. 
Leave our systems and processes better than you found them.

What you’ll bring:

Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
Language Requirement: English
Language Preferences: No additional language preferences
Critical thinking and analytical approach necessary to develop technical solutions that scale and are resilient to changes over time
Entrepreneurial mindset and stakeholder management skills required to identify, design, and execute technical solutions that solve important, ambiguous organizational problems
Python, SQL, and spark expertise, along with core competencies required to ship high quality data pipelines and data tools fast
Extensive experience with Databricks preferred; experience with Tableau is a plus
Intellectual humility, curiosity, and a commitment to being part of an exceptional team more