Over the last two years, we have built an exciting portfolio of projects across perinatal health, mental health, and nutrition. We are looking for a team member with public health expertise to nurture our investments and build an ecosystem around our grantees.

What You’ll Do

• Prospect: Identify and interact with partner organizations in the maternal and child health space, and in related areas of public health (like nutrition and mental health). Create opportunities for engagement.
• Build capacity: Facilitate the supply of technical support to grantees, including coordination of data sharing agreements, terms of reference for Agency Fund data scientists, and reporting on outcomes. Manage information flows between partners and the Agency Fund team, and resolve issues quickly.
• Fundraise: Draft proposals and progress reports, maintain reliable communication, and track metrics or indicators of success.
• Grow the Ecosystem: Co-develop, maintain, and deliver fellowship opportunities for cohorts of organizations working in public health.
• Build Cooperative Initiatives: Collate partners’ research outputs, draft reports, and manage work plans. Coach partners on their internal data collation and preparation (including education on relevant file formats and/or extraction processes). Set up practices to maintain data integrity.

What We're Looking For

• Facility with global public health concepts, institutions and dynamics.  In particular, understanding of women’s reproductive health needs across the life cycle, with particular focus on antenatal care needs, perinatal health challenges, post-partum morbidity (including depression), and postnatal care.
• Ability to listen for stakeholder input and synthesize others’ ideas into a shared vision that inspires group collaboration and cohesion with a mindset of abundance that prioritizes cooperation and public goods over individual success.
• Experience stewarding philanthropic resources, either as a grantee or as a grant manager.
• Ability to travel up to 25% time internationally.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with quantitative user research design, including survey design and piloting, statistical data analysis, randomized impact evaluation and A/B testing.

You can be based anywhere in the world, although we have a slight preference for people with proximity to Africa or South Asia (since most of our grantees operate in these regions of the world). Your salary will be in the range of $70,000 - $160,000, depending on your experience and location. We may sponsor exceptional applicants for US work permits. This position will remain open until filled, but we encourage you to apply before the 30th of June, 2023.

We are seeking a full-time team member to join the Agency Fund as Senior Psychologist / Behavioral Scientist. This role is central to our mission, and an exceptional opportunity to deploy psychological science for good. Through partnerships with major actors in social innovation and global policy, your work will have the potential to positively impact the lives of millions of people. 

This staff position is ideal for an accomplished researcher who wishes to commit their career to policy and practice.

What You’ll Do

You will serve as an advisor to the nonprofit grantees of the Agency Fund, and (through a part-time secondment) as an advisor to the missions and bureaus of USAID. Your central objective will be to enrich these partners’ programs with insights that unlock human flourishing. You will help them conceptualize & measure human agency as a construct in their work; engage the consciousness and meet the psychological needs of program participants; and more generally identify opportunities to expand the impact of global development work through psychological science. Your ultimate objective is to help our partners advance the economic and health outcomes, as well as the subjective well-being, of millions of people.

What We're Looking For

• PhD (or equivalent experience) in Social / Cognitive / Clinical Psychology, Behavioral Science, Neuroscience, Economics, Public Policy, Anthropology, Sociology, or other relevant field.
• Deep expertise in the psychology of human agency, as relates to information processing and belief revision; meaning-making and construal; mental models and representations; identity (e.g., stereotype, stigma); motivation (e.g., self-efficacy, executive function); social cognition (e.g., cultural learning, narratives); and psychological well-being (e.g., happiness, mental health).
• Demonstrated track record in the design and evaluation of psychological interventions through randomized controlled trials and A/B tests.
• Strong commitment to open science.
• Self-starter with strong program management skills; able to thrive in a start-up environment with minimal hierarchy.
• Team player with an abundance mindset.
• Preferably, significant work experience in the nonprofit sector and/or public policy.
• Preferably, significant life experience in low- and middle-income countries.
• Willingness to travel (up to 25%).
• Experience in media & communication, data science, and/or the technology industry are a plus.

This position can be remote, though we have a slight preference for a presence in the SF Bay Area / Silicon Valley or Washington DC (US), Sub-Saharan Africa, or India. We may sponsor exceptional applicants for US work permits. Your salary will be in the range of $80,000 - $200,000, depending on your experience and location. This position will remain open until filled, but we encourage you to apply before the 31st of July, 2023.

We are seeking applicants to our two-year nonprofit industry post-doc. This role is an exceptional opportunity to deploy psychological science for good. Through partnerships with major actors in social innovation and global policy, your work will have the potential to positively impact the lives of millions of people. 

This fellowship is ideal for individuals who see themselves at the intersection of academia and practice, and who may continue an academic career. You are welcome to pursue publishable research over the course of your fellowship.

‍What You’ll Do

You will serve as an advisor to the nonprofit grantees of the Agency Fund, and (through a part-time secondment) as an advisor to the missions and bureaus of USAID. Your central objective will be to enrich these partners’ programs with insights that unlock human flourishing. You will help them conceptualize & measure human agency as a construct in their work; engage the consciousness and meet the psychological needs of program participants; and more generally identify opportunities to expand the impact of global development work through psychological science. Your ultimate objective is to help our partners advance the economic and health outcomes, as well as the subjective well-being, of millions of people.

In the context of your engagement with grantees and partners, you are free to identify and initiate publishable research projects. You may spend up to 50% of your time on research, and you may apply to the Agency Fund for research funding.

What We're Looking For

• PhD (or equivalent experience) in Social / Cognitive / Clinical Psychology, Behavioral Science, Neuroscience, Economics, Public Policy, Anthropology, Sociology, or other relevant field.
• Deep expertise in the psychology of human agency, as relates to information processing and belief revision; meaning-making and construal; mental models and representations; identity (e.g., stereotype, stigma); motivation (e.g., self-efficacy, executive function); social cognition (e.g., cultural learning, narratives); and psychological well-being (e.g., happiness, mental health).
• Demonstrated track record in the design and evaluation of psychological interventions through randomized controlled trials and A/B tests.
• Strong commitment to open science.
• Preferably, significant life experience in low- and middle-income countries.
• Willingness to travel (up to 50%).
• Experience in media & communication, data science, and/or the technology industry are a plus.
• This position can be remote, though we have a preference for a presence in Washington DC (US). We do not sponsor US work permits for this fellowship.

This position can be remote, though we have a preference for a presence in Washington DC (US). We do not sponsor US work permits for this fellowship.

Your salary will be in the range of $110,000 - $160,000, depending on your experience and location. This position will remain open until filled, but we encourage you to apply before the 31st of July, 2023.