Researcher

• Find and engage critically with studies and research relevant to effective animal advocacy.
• Produce written outputs from research, including charity reviews, blog posts, and other publications.
• Conduct charity evaluations and contribute to ACE's Movement Grants program.
• Identify and implement improvements to ACE's evaluations and grantmaking methods.

This role helps identify the most effective ways to help animals, ensuring that donations and resources are directed to the highest-impact interventions, thereby maximizing positive outcomes for animals globally.

• Strong quantitative and qualitative reasoning skills, including comfort with cost-effectiveness analysis, probability distributions, and expected value calculations.
• Excellent skills in spreadsheet software, especially Google Sheets.
• Ability to find, interpret, and critically analyze relevant empirical research.
• Excellent written communication skills and strong attention to detail.

Full-time staff are eligible for: 6 weeks of paid leave (PTO and holidays), uncapped sick leave, flexible scheduling, professional development stipend, paid parental/family/medical leave, paid sabbaticals every 5 years, health reimbursement plan (US) or health stipend plan (non-US), disability insurance (US employees). Salary: $72,358 USD per year.

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is a registered nonprofit that uses evidence and reason to help people do the most good for animals by identifying where donations can best help animals and awarding grants to promising projects globally.