Senior Program Associate/Program Officer, Abundance and Growth (Specialist Track)

Open Philanthropy is looking to hire up to four new team members to join our Abundance and Growth team, led by Matt Clancy. The Abundance and Growth Fund (AGF) aims to accelerate economic growth, boost technological progress, and reduce unnecessary obstacles to prosperity, primarily in the United States. Our work focuses on removing barriers to increasing the supply of everything from housing to energy to healthcare, and enabling more discovery and invention. We aim to support the groundswell of energy and enthusiasm for policy changes that accelerate scientific progress and remove these constraints to create a richer, healthier world. In order to do so effectively, we need to grow our own team.

Over the past decade, Open Philanthropy has been one of the most active philanthropic funders in core areas of the pro-abundance and pro-growth movements – particularly in housing policy reform and innovation policy. You will help expand this new program and help more people to live richer, healthier, and fuller lives by making grants, and by conducting research to help develop our strategy. The program has a minimum budget commitment of $120 million over three years, with the possibility of extension as well as additional fundraising. You can find more information about our Abundance and Growth Fund here.

About Open Philanthropy

Open Philanthropy is a philanthropic funder and advisor; our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We stress openness to many possibilities and have chosen our focus areas based on importance, neglectedness, and tractability. Our current giving areas include potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence, global health and development, scientific research, global public health policy, farm animal welfare, and biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. In 2024, we recommended $650 million to high-impact causes, and we’ve recommended over $4 billion in grants since our formation.

About the Role

We are planning to hire 2-4 new team members, across two different types of roles. If you bring deep expertise in one or two specific areas related to some of our core abundance and growth areas listed below, we encourage you to apply to this specialist role, which we expect to fill with 1-3 hires. We are also expecting to make 1-2 hires for our generalist role; if your experience and interest spans several of our abundance and growth areas, we recommend applying to the generalist role. This job description is for our specialist track.

Senior Program Associates and/or Program Officers will specialize in one or two strategy areas in the Abundance and Growth Fund. We expect that at least one hire will bring a background in housing policy. We also intend to make at least one hire who will bring experience in federal policymaking and be based in Washington, D.C. Beyond that, we are excited to build a team that reflects a diverse mix of backgrounds across the broad range of areas related to Abundance and G