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CEA is seeking a leader for a new version of the Long-Term Future Fund. This is a rare opportunity to shape millions of dollars in funding toward critical work on existential risks and the broader implications of transformative AI. You'll have substantial autonomy to define the fund’s strategy and scope (and the fund’s new name), build your own team, and establish the fund as a go-to resource for some of the most promising work shaping our future. This is a senior management position on our EA Funds team, reporting to the Director of EA Funds.
Job Responsibility:
Grantmaking: Investigate and evaluate grant opportunities rigorously, assessing theories of change, team strength, expected impact, and other relevant factors
Communicate your grantmaking reasoning transparently through grant reports, feedback to applicants, and public writing
Source high-quality applications based on your strategic insights and the fund's priorities
Contribute to improvements in the grantmaking processes of EA Funds
Strategic leadership: Develop a compelling strategy for LTFF's focus areas, grant types, and role in the funding ecosystem
Represent the fund (and occasionally EA Funds as a whole) within the EA community, the AI safety community, as well as the broader AI community
Team building: Hire and manage additional grantmakers as the fund grows
Build a team culture of rigorous evaluation, intellectual honesty, and responsiveness to applicants
Fundraising: Grow LTFF’s donor base in collaboration with others at CEA
Build and cultivate relationships with potential major individual donors
Communicate LTFF's impact and strategy in ways that are honest and compelling
Ecosystem development: Collaborate and possibly build partnerships with other funders and organizations working in relevant areas
Support grantees to succeed and maximize their impact
Contribute to the broader EA, AI safety, and longtermist communities' thinking on funding and other strategic priorities
Requirements:
Strong familiarity with AI safety and/or other potential implications of transformative AI: key research directions, major organizations, ongoing debates, and the people doing important work
Value alignment with EA principles
An entrepreneurial mindset to lead the re-establishment of the fund
Strong interpersonal skills to professionally represent CEA, build networks, and navigate difficult conversations with potential grantees
Nice to have:
Have pre-existing networks in the AI and AI safety ecosystems
Have grantmaking experience, or experience in roles requiring similar judgment (e.g. investment, policy advising, or research/technical leadership roles where you've had to evaluate complex projects and allocate resources under uncertainty)
Can navigate nuanced conversations about AI progress with people who hold a wide range of views on timelines, implications, risks and potential solutions
Have strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex reasoning clearly and build trust with very diverse stakeholders
Have strong project management skills
Have experience building and managing teams
What we offer:
Private insurance
Flexible work hours
A $6,000 / £5,000 annual professional development allowance