Senior Manager, Emergency Cash Delivery
Overview
GiveDirectly is scaling its emergency response operations to reach more people, faster, with cash in the wake of crises. As a Senior Manager on the Humanitarian team, you will play a key role in launching and overseeing rapid cash responses globally.
Job Description
GiveDirectly (GD) aims to reshape international giving – and millions of lives – by providing cash grants directly to the world’s poorest. GD has raised over $1B since launching in 2011, delivered cash to more than 1.5 million people in 15 different countries. Our culture is candid, analytical, agile, and non-hierarchical.
Responsibilities
- - Design and implement high-quality programming
- - Oversee end-to-end design, planning, and execution of improvements to emergency response capabilities
- - Refine and scale deployment criteria and operational playbooks
- - Conduct operational diligence, feasibility, and risk assessments
- - Define, track, and report on operational efficiency and impact metrics
- - Ensure high-quality management of partners, vendors, and subgrantees
- - Assess and advocate for required resources
- - Pursue new funding opportunities
- - Translate field learnings and operational successes into compelling donor proposals
- - Establish and maintain high quality relationships with designated donors and operational partners
- - Represent GiveDirectly at external and internal fora
- - Manage and develop high-performing teams
- - Support team goal-setting, impact planning, and performance tracking
- - Foster talent development through coaching, career planning, and clear accountability
Required Skills
- - Alignment with GiveDirectly Values
- - 5-8+ years of experience in a role focused on problem solving, team management, and/or new business development
- - Analytical problem solving
- - Strong project management skills
- - Strong technical skills, including data analysis
- - Fundraising: Preference for candidates with a strong partnership and relationship management background
- - Strong communications skills
- - Enthusiasm for fast-paced environments
- - Comfort with ambiguity and building systems from scratch
- - Nice to have: Fluent in a language other than English, especially French, Portuguese, Arabic, or other languages
Benefits
- - Generous and equitable pay
- - No negotiation policy to ensure equitable pay
- - Commitment to safeguarding
- - Reasonable accommodations for an inclusive and accessible work environment
About the company
GiveDirectly is a nonprofit organization that helps people living in extreme poverty by delivering unconditional cash transfers directly to recipients via mobile payments. Operating across countries including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Bangladesh, the DRC, and the United States, GiveDirectly enables governments, foundations, and individual donors to move resources efficiently and transparently to those who need them most. By using technology to identify recipients, deliver payments end-to-end, and rigorously measure impact through randomized controlled trials, GiveDirectly is reshaping international development—putting choice and agency in the hands of recipients while building one of the most scalable, evidence-driven models in global aid.
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