Priority Application deadline: May 15, 2026

Contract Type: This position is a one-year contract with the possibility of renewal or extension depending on evolving org needs.

Location: This role is fully remote but must overlap with NY timezone by at least 2 hours. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time. We have a strong preference for candidates based in one of our Africa countries of operation (Kenya, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia).

About this role

GiveDirectly is hiring two exceptional Coordinators to join our growing People Team. If you’re passionate about building world-class employee experiences and want to be part of a mission-driven organization that cares for its people, this is the role for you.

As a Coordinator, you’ll play a critical role in enabling our People function to scale its impact. Whether you're supporting the end-to-end hiring process, or ensuring smooth and consistent People Operations for our global team, your work will directly contribute to making GiveDirectly an outstanding place to work.

Please Note: While we love career changers and non-traditional backgrounds across many of our roles, this particular opening requires prior direct recruitment experience. We unfortunately aren't able to consider applications from candidates who haven't worked in recruitment before. If that's you, we'd still love for you to keep an eye on our careers page for future openings!

Reporting lines:

• The Global Recruitment Coordinators will report to the Recruitment Manager

Level:  Global Coordinator

Travel Requirement: Must be able to travel ~1-2 times per year to one of our countries of operation for team retreats or field visits

The Recruitment Coordinator will:

• Find top talent: Proactively source, attract, and engage a diverse, high-quality candidate pipeline, internally and externally, and convince them to join the team
• Review CVs, conduct interviews, and coordinate schedules: Serve as the face of the organization as candidates' first point of contact, providing a seamless and supportive hiring experience
• Operationalize a streamlined, first-class talent acquisition process: Build and continuously improve the talent acquisition process, including providing high quality support and communications to both candidates and hiring teams
• Field and quickly close support tickets: Respond to all inbound inquiries, requests, and complaints via the People Team Ticketing System regarding recruitment requests, meeting SLAs
• Contribute to recruiting initiatives focused on equity, process improvement, and team enablement

You'll be a top candidate for this role if you 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. We have a strong preference for candidates based in our countries of operation. 
• At least 3 years of direct recruitment experience, including meaningful exposure to sourcing and a genuine passion for candidate experience. 
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple processes and stakeholders simultaneously
• Clear communication — both written and verbal — with internal teams and external stakeholders (e.g. candidates)
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and adjusting to rapidly changing priorities
• Customer service orientation and extremely high follow-through
• Strong attention to detail and a systems-oriented mindset
• Discretion in handling sensitive and confidential employee information
• A process improvement mindset and a willingness to suggest and test new approaches

Language requirement

• Candidates must be fluent in English
• Strong preference for professional fluency in French

Compensation

At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay 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.

Kenya

• Base Salary: $30,000
• Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~$3,000 with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $3,510)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $33,000

This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process.

Why work at GiveDirectly?

At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:

• 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

 #LI-REMOTE

Job Title: Associate Field Manager - Internal Audit

Location: Kaliro District, Uganda

Reports to: Field Manager, Internal Audit 

Overview: 

The Associate Field Manager - Internal Audit will play a central role in ensuring that GiveDirectly delivers a gold-standard product to donors and recipients. The Associate Field Manager will manage the Internal Audit Field Officers (IA FOs) based in the field. The Associate Field Manager will serve as the key “eyes and ears” resource on the ground for the Internal Audit Field Manager (IA FM) and Programs Manager (IA PM). He/She will be responsible for regularly synthesizing updates on team performance as well as field successes and challenges. The role will reward exceptional personnel management, organizational skills, high-quality judgement on operational challenges, and a strong commitment towards driving both team and individual productivity and quality.

Responsibilities:

1. Tracking IA FOs productivity & quality of deliverables, including reviewing operational reports, and discussing team and individual performance with the IA FM and PM.
2. Identifying opportunities for risk mitigation and keeping the IA FM informed of the required key process improvements.
3. Coaching FOs on challenges that come up in the field. Providing additional case-specific input as requested by FOs. Exercising judgment and escalating recurring issues or questions to IA FM to align on approach.
4. Shadowing staff in order to identify areas for improvement and professional development, particularly during staff training.
5. Developing daily work plans and leading the execution, as well as submitting and managing the expense requests of the field team incurred thereof.
6. Lead in examining the quality of Field team data against set GD data quality standards and reporting any cases of inconsistency.
7. Reporting any identified cases of fraud and bribery by GD staff and or recipient(s).
   

Qualifications

• Bachelors' Degree in Relevant Field.
• Work experience in Monitoring and Evaluation will be an added advantage.  
• Fluency in Lulamogi and Lugwere.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Exceptional leadership ability with demonstrated success in motivating and developing junior staff.
• Exceptional ability to solve complex operational challenges in the field and ability to work in Excel.
• Alignment with GiveDirectly’s core values and commitment to advancing GD’s mission.
• Positive attitude, strong work ethic, and team-player mentality.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly independent and self-directed manner, while effectively communicating upwardly about gaps and risks.
• Strong communication and relationship building skills and the ability to represent the organization effectively to external parties.

This is a field based role role on a temporary project (5 months) and applications for this role will be processed on a rolling basis.

Job Title: Field Officer - Internal Audit

Location: Kaliro District, Uganda

Reports to: Associate Field Manager - Internal Audit

About GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly (GD) provides cash grants directly to people living in extreme poverty. GD has raised over $800M since launching in 2011, delivered cash to more than 1.2 million recipients, and launched offices in 11 countries. We’re continuing expansion across the Global South. Over the past decade, GD has also supported large-scale, experimental research, expanding the evidence that cash has a positive short and long-term impact on  recipients. As a result, GD has been celebrated as one of the most innovative non-profit companies by Fast Company, while the growing cash transfer movement (and GD’s leading role within it) has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.

Across our global offices, our culture is candid, analytical, non-hierarchical, and agile. We work alongside 750+ individuals who come from 21 different countries and speak 69 different languages. Team members at GiveDirectly attest that diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just buzzwords, but a fundamental part of our culture and values. We actively seek to recruit individuals from the communities we serve, and use DEI as a lens in our hiring practices, programs, and initiatives. Our goal is to maintain a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, and feel valued and respected for who they are. We continue to grapple with balancing inclusivity of all cultures and experiences while maintaining cohesion in our values. While there is much that we are still learning, we take care of one another, have fun, as well as provide flexible working hours wherever possible. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other status protected by law.

Role Overview
Field Officer - Internal Audit
The Field Officer - Internal Audit will play a critical day-to-day role in delivering GiveDirectly’s gold-standard cash transfer product to donors and recipients. He/she will be responsible for reviewing the recipient surveys and associated processes that facilitate GiveDirectly’s unique cash transfer model. 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. In brief: The Field Officer- Internal Audit will be expected to audit the work of the enrolment team, whose core responsibility is surveying households and enrolling them in our programme.

Key responsibilities:

Engaging with GiveDirectly recipients in the field, to:
1. Assess our field processes and recommend any corrections and improvements as and where seen.
2. Measure the quality of Field Officer data against set data quality standards and report any cases of inconsistency.
3. Assess our field team’s compliance with GD field processes and policies.
4. Identify and report key risks associated with GD’s program in the community.
5. Report any cases of fraud and bribery by GD staff and or recipient(s).
6. Examine local stakeholder’s assessment of GD’s program within their community.

Desired Attributes

• Language requirement: Lulamogi (mandatory) and Lugwere
• Possess at minimum a bachelors degree in relevant fields
• Previous working experience in the field with preference to disadvantaged communities (2 years minimum).
• Ability to audit recipient surveys and associated processes.
• Some Monitoring and Evaluation Experience
• Good computer and mobile device data entry and assessment ability or experience
• Critical thinking ability and good judgment in resolving operational glitches
• Particularly skilled with interpersonal skills with high honesty, and integrity.
• Strong interest in the mission of GiveDirectly and commitment to advancing GiveDirectly’s distinctive values.
• Physical fitness and the ability to cope with difficult weather conditions or terrain.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to represent the organization effectively to external parties.

This is a field based role role on a temporary project (5 months) and applications for this role will be processed on a rolling basis.