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, using a variety of data sources and tools to inform GD on:

• When and where a crisis event has occurred that fits GD response criteria.
• Which subpopulations are most affected and relevant for our programs.
• The actionable lists of individuals to enroll for assistance.

The analyst will apply humanitarian needs analysis frameworks to ensure that our emergency cash response is data-driven and contextually grounded. The ideal candidate will have a background in humanitarian data analysis, using both traditional and novel data sources, as well as experience delivering actionable data products to decision makers and operational teams. The analyst will give input to shape analysis product design, and work closely with engineers and data scientists to create them.

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, general recipient lists of individuals to be enrolled in GD EC programs.
• Provide targeting analysis services for both GD’s preparedness and