Senior Communications Officer, Editorial & Production - GiveWell

GiveWell’s mission is to help people in need as much as we can by researching the most cost‑effective ways to save and improve lives, sharing our work openly, and directing donations to the programs we believe will do the most good. Our work focuses on global health and well-being, funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We’ve grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025, and anticipate our total grantmaking is likely to approach or exceed $1 billion this year.

We’re hiring a Senior Communications Officer, Editorial & Production to lead the editorial quality and production of GiveWell’s communications. You will set the editorial bar, build the people and systems needed to produce excellent work consistently and at increasing scale, and personally shape some of our most complex and consequential content.

This role will lead a small and growing team. This is one of three new communications leadership roles, alongside a Senior Communications Officer, Strategic Communications and a Senior Communications Officer, Media & Public Affairs.

What You'll Do

• Own Editorial Quality & Production: Ensure our work is clear, accurate, useful, carefully reasoned, and delivered on time. Serve as GiveWell’s senior editor for communications content, with responsibility for returning or correcting work that does not meet our editorial bar.
• Build Systems & Workflows: Establish workflows, editorial standards, review processes, and production systems that allow GiveWell to create consistently excellent content at increasing scale.
• Strategic Planning: Lead planning, prioritization, and resource allocation for GiveWell’s owned-content portfolio, managing dependencies and moving complex projects from concept through publication.
• Uphold Voice and Standards: Maintain GiveWell’s voice across everything we publish, and help colleagues across the organization write within them.
• Recurring Products: Own the development of GiveWell’s recurring communications and reporting products.
• Hands-On Creation: Personally create, edit, or substantially shape our most complex, sensitive, or high-priority content.
• Website Content Operations: Oversee GiveWell’s website content operations, including routine updates and publishing, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a senior editorial and production partner to teams across GiveWell, helping shape high-priority projects early and establishing clear roles and review paths.
• Asset Oversight: Oversee the production of design, visual, and multimedia assets across GiveWell’s channels, including internal team members and external contractors.
• Team Management: Manage and develop one or two team members initially, determining how the function’s capabilities should grow over time.

About You

• 10+ years of experience leading editorial and content-production work, setting and maintaining editorial standards, managing writers and editors, and building systems that produce consistently high-quality work.
• Exceptional communications judgment, with the ability to understand audience, context, risk, timing, and underlying substance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to make complex ideas clear and compelling without sacrificing rigor or nuance.
• A proven track record of building and leading teams, hiring, and developing people.
• Recent, hands-on excellence at your craft, with work from the past few years you personally produced or substantially shaped.
• Experience producing direct, factual communications that succeed through substance and clarity.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to engage deeply with research and complex data.
• Experience advising executives or other senior decision-makers directly.
• Strong alignment with GiveWell’s mission, values, truth-seeking, and transparency.

Key Information

• Team: You’ll report to our Head of Communications, collaborate closely with the two other Senior Communications Officers, and lead a small, growing team.