Senior Generalist Roles on our Global Catastrophic Risks Team

Open Philanthropy’s Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) division works to reduce the likelihood of events that could cause major global harm. This umbrella houses our teams working on Navigating Transformative AI, Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness, GCR Capacity Building, and Forecasting, as well as other special projects related to catastrophic risks. The GCR team expects to move over $500 million in grants in these focus areas in 2025, and we expect this figure to grow significantly in the coming years.

As Open Philanthropy’s GCR portfolio grows rapidly, leadership capacity has become an increasingly important constraint. Hiring senior generalists into roles like Chief of Staff has helped us to address this bottleneck, and we think bringing in more talented generalists can increase the team’s impact on some of the world's most pressing problems. We’re looking for people with strong ownership, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

We are therefore hiring up to four new generalists to drive key initiatives, improve our output and decision-making across the team, and maximize the impact of our portfolio as it grows:

• Chief of Staff, Global Catastrophic Risks: joining the executive team of the division, this role will work closely with Emily Oehlsen and George Rosenfeld to lead the wider GCR team, with a focus on supporting our existing programs, developing a forward-looking strategy, and growing the team and its impact.

• Chief of Staff, Technical AI Safety: joining our rapidly growing technical safety team, this role will work closely with Peter Favaloro and focus on accelerating the team’s work, with a focus on organization, strategy, and stakeholder management. Technical experience is not required.

• Chief of Staff, Short Timelines Special Projects: joining a new special projects team, this role will work closely with Claire Zabel and will require a greater degree of agility and a higher level of context on AI futurism. It will focus on getting new projects off the ground and growing a new team to help maximize Open Philanthropy’s impact if timelines to reach AGI are short.

• Associate Program Officer, AI Governance & Policy: joining our largest AI team, this role will work closely with Alex Lawsen. Depending on fit and interest, you may focus on supporting team growth and management or lean toward identifying and developing new grantmaking opportunities. For this role, we are open to applicants who are earlier in their careers than others in this round.

The deadline for applications is 11.59 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, November 20.

If you think you might be a good fit for one or more of these roles, we encourage you to apply!

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