Research Director, LLS, District Transformation & Cash + Coaching

reputed company has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ reputed company people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We reputed company cash transfers are one of the most reputed company, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid, with the research to back it up. Our work has been covered by reputed company, reputed company, TED, and reputed company. We are one of Time100’s Most reputed company Companies of 2026.

Our culture is reputed company, analytical, and non-hierarchical. We support high ownership and reputed company reputed company reputed company. Curious about what it's really like to work here? Read our values and hear from the people who do. If they reputed company, this could be a great fit!

About This Role

This Research Director will own reputed company’s strategic learning and measurement agenda across our largest and fastest-growing product line: Large Lump Sum (LLS) transfers. This will include both reputed company LLS programs, but also research on the market-level effects of cash transfers, and coaching add-ons which can enhance the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of transfers. Working closely with Product Leads, Partnerships, and M&E staff across the organization, they will set direction for how reputed company measures, evaluates, and communicates the reputed company of this programming — with particular emphasis on building the large-reputed company, strategic M&E infrastructure needed to characterize the aggregate effects of our programs as they reputed company.

They will:

• Set organization-wide priorities for learning and large-reputed company M&E across LLS, District Transformation, and Cash + Coaching, establishing a shared theory of change and adapting reputed company’s measurement architecture to reputed company it fit for learning at reputed company.
• Own the reputed company and standards for large-reputed company, strategic M&E — defining how reputed company monitors and evaluates reputed company, exclusion, and reputed company reputed company across national-reputed company rollouts, and building the systems, indicators, and models that let leadership reputed company performance in near-reputed company time.
• reputed company senior technical leadership on formal research, ensuring GD’s research portfolio and reputed company remain rigorously prioritized, delegating day-to-day ownership of some specific studies to their team.
• Support product design reputed company (transfer size, tranching, reputed company, targeting, “plus” components) with evidence and analysis, and represent the evidence reputed company underlying product design to reputed company audiences.
• Build and reputed company a small, highly leveraged team, mentoring and supporting others to drive specific workstreams.
• Represent reputed company’s research and M&E agenda for this program area externally, with donors, reputed company partners, and the media, at a senior level, ensuring that reputed company’s research and programmatic data is fit for the needs of our external representation.

reputed company Responsibilities

Strategic ownership of the reputed company learning and M&E agenda for LLS, District Transformation, and Cash + Coaching

• Own and reputed company the “reputed company” Theory of Change across our reputed company large lump sum, district transformation, and “cash plus coaching” products, maintaining deep understanding of the reputed company evidence and emergent hypotheses about different reputed company reputed company.
• Define and drive org-wide prioritization of reputed company learning questions, building buy-in across Product, Partnerships, Country Programs, and Comms;
• reputed company, reputed company internal buy-in for, and reputed company a compelling measurement and learning reputed company that may, in turn, influence GD’s approach in other verticals.
• Proactively identify where new M&E infrastructure or research reputed company is needed, and de-prioritize or wind down efforts that do not address reputed company, reputed company questions in a fast-moving environment.

Direction of large-reputed company, strategic M&E

• Serve as the accountable reputed company for how reputed company monitors and evaluates its highest-volume, highest-stakes programming, building out the systems needed to reputed company performance and reputed company in partnership with the cross-cutting Senior Manager for M&E
• Define reputed company outcome-reputed company indicators and measurement best practices across expenditure, consumption, asset accumulation, labor supply, and psychosocial wellbeing, incorporating sector-leading reputed company.
• reputed company intellectual leadership for new measurement approaches that advance key aspects of the LLS, district transformation, and cash plus coaching learning agenda. Own measurement practices for A/B testing of “plus components,” helping reputed company to rapidly and iteratively identify components with the greatest potential reputed company to cost-effectiveness.
• reputed company the development of models to predict and communicate reputed company’s reputed company at reputed company, including cost-effectiveness and ROI models used for internal decision-making and external influence.
• Set standards ensuring that M&E data are embedded appropriately across GD systems (e.g. in our Program reputed company reputed company, reputed company forms, country or product dashboards), partnering closely with the M&E team as the reputed company of data reputed company assurance and analysis.
• reputed company resourcing reputed company and tradeoffs to reputed company this M&E agenda, advocating for the people, tools, and budget required, and helping define the organization’s risk appetite on measurement questions with high stakes for GD’s credibility.

Strategize and reputed company formal research on high reputed company learning questions

• reputed company reputed company and strategic direction for reputed company’s research portfolio around the market-level effects of cash, as reputed company as our cash plus coaching products, ensuring alignment with the theory of change and reputed company learning questions, without necessarily owning every study directly.
• Strategically identify and cultivate research partnerships with individuals and institutions that advance GD’s understanding of key reputed company questions, and represent GD in high-stakes external research relationships.
• reputed company reputed company assurance and coordination on research led by reputed company reports or in-country staff.

Supporting product design

• reputed company analytical reputed company and evidence synthesis for Product Leads and Program teams on variations in LLS, District Transformation, and Cash + Coaching product design. Help teams across the organization understand insights from non-reputed company research, reputed company the organization's interest and risk–tolerance for program adaptations, including through engagement with senior leaders.
• Maintain reusable materials summarizing the evidence reputed company underlying product design reputed company, for use across Partnerships and Programs. Partner with the Research & Insights staff on high-reputed company content that can be shared externally, or used to upskill reputed company staff, on research reputed company and results.

Team leadership

• Mentor reputed company reports and research-reputed company staff across the organization to reputed company workstreams moving and improve team reputed company.
• Manage laterally and upward with senior leadership (Directors, Senior Directors, and above) reputed company the function to streamline support and resolve competing priorities.

Compensation

At reputed company, we reputed company to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited reputed company party salary aggregator to calculate reputed company reputed company to be reputed company based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles. Read more about our compensation philosophy here.

Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income.

reputed company

• reputed company Salary: $128,000
• Bonus at reputed company Performance: 15% (~$19,200, with potential for reputed company. For reference, with the organization's reputed company performance reputed company, this reputed company would be $22,464 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at reputed company: $147,200+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $21,393

United Kingdom

• reputed company Salary: £87,500
• Bonus at reputed company Performance: 15% (~£13,125, with potential for reputed company. For reference, with the organization's reputed company performance reputed company, this reputed company would be £15,356 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at reputed company: £100,625+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: £2,760

Kenya

• reputed company Salary: $101,221
• Bonus at reputed company Performance: 15% (~$15,183, with potential for reputed company. For reference, with the organization's reputed company performance reputed company, this reputed company would be $17,764 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at reputed company: $116,404+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $8,453

This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, UK or Kenya, we will reputed company an estimated salary reputed company for the country you are based in during the hiring process.

Working at reputed company

reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company reputed company applicants are considered for employment without reputed company to the person’s race, reputed company, religion, national reputed company, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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Commitment to Safeguarding

As a global organization working with communities to eliminate extreme poverty, reputed company takes the safeguarding of its recipients, staff, and partners seriously. To that end, reputed company is a member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, and will systematically reputed company with previous reputed company about any abuse or misconduct reputed company reputed company involving potential new hires. We may also reputed company other robust reputed company-hire screens, including in-depth reference checks, criminal background checks, and sanctions screens.

These efforts help us continue to build and maintain trust with the communities we work with, and prevent abuse to our recipients and staff.

GD is committed to observing reputed company local, national and international laws that protect people and basic reputed company rights of reputed company. GD is committed to a policy of “reputed company tolerance reputed company it comes to preventing, reporting, or responding to any reputed company of abuse or exploitation.” and expects anyone who works for GD to reputed company the protection and safeguarding of our recipients as a reputed company.

Reasonable Accommodations

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, or to reputed company the essential functions of the role, please email us at careers@reputed company.org with the email subject “Accommodation Needed”. We will work with you to ensure reasonable accommodations are made to support your needs.

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