About CEA

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world's most pressing problems. We're working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks.

Our work centers on growing and supporting a global community of people who rigorously analyze where they can do the most good—and take action on those insights. Current strategic priorities include increasing understanding of effective altruism and its principles, growing the number of people who are motivated by EA principles to take significant action to address pressing problems, and diversifying funding sources for high-impact work.

About EA Funds’ Animal Welfare Fund

Effective Altruism Funds (EA Funds) is the grantmaking arm of CEA and aims to increase the amount of funding that is dedicated to particularly cost-effective and altruistically impactful projects across global health & development, animal welfare, long-term future and EA infrastructure. The EA Animal Welfare Fund (AWF) exists to reduce animal suffering by rigorously evaluating, funding, and catalyzing the most effective interventions for the world's most neglected animals, supporting the people and programs with the greatest potential to create lasting impact.

We fill critical gaps in the animal advocacy ecosystem by:

• Identifying and supporting work across regions and species where suffering is the largest yet remains neglected

• Funding promising early-stage projects and helping them get off the ground until other funders can take over

• Scaling proven work that other grantmakers won't or can't fund

• Pushing frontiers by actively seeking interventions to address emerging or newly recognized sources of suffering

• Deploying rigorous evaluation to ensure maximum impact per dollar

• Coordinating with other funders to strengthen the entire movement

Key long-term objectives we are working towards include (but are not limited to):

• End the confinement of egg-laying hens in cages globally, focusing on accelerating this transition in the Global South

• Improve the welfare of aquatic animals in the Global South by establishing and scaling on-farm welfare improvements

• End the worst forms of death for billions of animals by making effective, humane slaughter for farmed shrimp the default standard in European and U.S. supply chains

• Protect numerous and neglected species from intensive confinement systems as new forms of animal agriculture emerge

• Reduce wild animal suffering at scale by validating and implementing cost-effective interventions in urban and agricultural settings

• Improve farm animal welfare in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where the scale of production is the largest

You can read our 3-year grantmaking strategy here.

Since its founding in 2017, the AWF has emerged as a major funder in effective animal advocacy, distributing $24.1M across more than 362 grants. We've experienced rapid growth, raising $10M in 2025 alone – more than the previous two years combined. In 2026 we plan to raise and regrant at least $20M+, with potential to scale to ~$50M+ as funding opportunities materialize, and we expect further growth beyond 2026. This growth trajectory means your work will directly shape how tens of millions of dollars flow to the most impactful interventions for animals.

We've also built a reputation as a recognized leader in the space: Giving What We Can lists the AWF as one of only two top-recommended effective animal advocacy charities due to our high potential for impact, and in the two most recent years, AWF was recommended by Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) staff, as the sole best giving opportunity in farmed animal welfare due to our program officer’s experience and focus on tangible impact for animals.

About the role

This role puts you at the center of decisions that could transform the lives of billions of animals. As part of AWF allocating tens