Targeting Analyst, Emergency Cash (Remote)

Role Overview

GiveDirectly is seeking a Targeting Analyst to identify and prioritize communities and individuals to deliver cash to in moments of crisis. This person will serve as the analyst for targeting within the Emergency Cash (EC) Product team.

What You’ll Do

• Rapidly Analyze Humanitarian Needs
• 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, generate 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 and Analyze Crisis Events
• 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.
• Systems
• 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.
• Drive Efficiency and Document Learning
• Continuously evaluate and improve targeting approaches for speed, accuracy, and inclusivity, while maintaining humanitarian principles.
• Document learning to scale best practices across different contexts.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Why work at GiveDirectly?

• 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

Compensation

• United States: Base Salary: $94,700, Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~$9,470), Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $104,170, Annual Benefits Stipend: $21,393
• UK: Base Salary: £61,200, Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~£6,120), Estimated Total Compensation at Target: £67,320, Annual Benefits Stipend: £2,760
• Kenya: Base Salary: $61,900, Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~$6,190), Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $68,090, Annual Benefits Stipend: $2,760

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