Senior Program Officer, Abundance and Growth Fund

We’re looking for a Senior Program Officer to lead strategy and grantmaking on our new Abundance and Growth Fund, with a commitment of at least $120 million over the next three years.

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 Abundance and Growth Fund

We are launching the Abundance and Growth Fund to accelerate frontier economic growth and technological progress while addressing cost-of-living challenges and policy barriers. Over the past two centuries, scientific and technological advances — alongside the policies and institutions that enable their adoption — have driven sustained economic growth. This has led to remarkable increases in global wealth and life expectancy while significantly reducing poverty. We believe there are major opportunities to further accelerate this progress and remove barriers that lead to artificial scarcity and high costs. 

Building on our successful initiatives in Land Use Reform and Innovation Policy, which will now fall under the Abundance and Growth umbrella, this program will expand those areas as well as explore additional high-impact areas that align with our mission, such as energy policy (permitting, interconnection, etc.), clinical trial reform, limiting non-competes, and improving state capacity, among others. With at least $120 million in committed funding from multiple donors over the next three years, this program represents a significant expansion of our existing work in this space. Our announcement blog post has more information on why we’re starting this program now.

The Abundance and Growth Program will be one of the largest grantmakers in this space, helping to shape the agenda and fund the development of high-impact organizations that do not yet exist. We see this as an opportunity to be a major catalyst in building the nascent abundance and progress field — creating the infrastructure and communities needed to drive key policy areas forward.

While we have identified some promising directions, the Senior Program Officer will play a critical role in shaping and executing the program’s strategy to maximize social impact. We remain flexible on the precise strategy we pursue and will discuss candidates’ potential approaches as part of the hiring process.

About the role

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