We're hiring a Development Officer to build and run major donor fundraising for the Animal Welfare Fund (AWF). This role is responsible for developing our fundraising strategy, managing relationships with high-net-worth donors, and running the systems that make those relationships work. This role will start as an individual contributor position on the EA Funds team, reporting to Karolina Sarek, Chair of the Animal Welfare Fund, and collaborating with AWF’s grantmakers, EA Funds Leadership, Marketing and Communications, and the future Partnerships team when it is developed – and will have opportunity to grow into a management position.

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.

We had significant success in 2025, building momentum within CEA. Our headcount grew from 42 to 66 core staff. Program participation (e.g., events, courses, groups) grew by 20-25% year over year. We merged with EA Funds and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and associated fundraising: our first Fund staffed with full-time employees (EA Animal Welfare Fund) raised almost as much as the previous three years combined.

In 2026, we’re maintaining ambitious momentum while building the foundations for a step-change in the wider EA ecosystem’s growth trajectory from 2027 onwards.

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