Resolve to Save Lives is looking for a Consultant: Cost-Effectiveness Assessment and Internal Modeling to design and operationalize a practical analytical framework aligned with effective altruism principles. At an organization dedicated to scaling solutions for the world’s deadliest health threats, you will build a model, run analyses on critical initiatives, and ensure cost-effectiveness thinking is embedded into our work.
What You'll Do
- Design a practical, transparent, and repeatable internal cost-effectiveness model aligned with EA-style approaches (expected value, counterfactual impact, comparison to cash transfer benchmarks, uncertainty ranges).
- Apply the model to a small set of priority initiatives including low-sodium salt interventions, health taxes and fiscal policy work, and selected pandemic preparedness/epidemic prevention initiatives.
- Document key assumptions, sensitivities, and ranges for each case and identify where results are robust versus assumption-dependent.
- Engage directly with relevant RTSL staff to validate assumptions, sense-check attribution and time horizons, and ensure analyses reflect operational realities.
- Develop and deliver training sessions for RTSL staff on how to use and interpret the model.
- Produce short guidance materials on running basic CEA and framing results for proposals.
- Support embedding cost-effectiveness thinking into program design and proposal development workflows.
- Develop cost-effectiveness models and narrative materials that can be credibly shared with EA-aligned funders, including clear documentation and summary outputs.
What We're Looking For
- Demonstrated experience conducting cost-effectiveness analyses used by or for effective altruism-aligned funders.
- Hands-on experience building and running applied models (not purely academic or theoretical work).
- Familiarity with issues such as counterfactual impact, attribution, policy leverage, and uncertainty.
- Ability to work collaboratively with non-economists and translate technical concepts into practical tools.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with global health or policy interventions.
Team & Environment
You will consult closely with relevant RTSL colleagues (Development and Program Technical leads) but retain ownership for driving the work.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates globally.
Resolve to Save Lives is an equal opportunity employer.
