Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) is a research and training program aimed at creating multiple high-impact charities annually with a focus on a number of cause areas, including animal advocacy, mental health, and global health. The focus of the research will be on breadth and being applicable to recommending charities to be founded, much like the previous research that led to the founding of five poverty charities, two animal advocacy charities, and one mental health charity, including Charity Science Health and Fortify Health.
About the Role
Like fundraising, operations work is crucial to an organization being able to help others, but because it hasn’t had as much publicity in the Effective Altruism community, it is more neglected. 80,000 Hours recommends working in operations for an EA organization as a way to have high direct-impact.
EA operations roles can provide a lot of career capital while having a high counterfactual impact. For example, the salary to hire a non-EA for the position would mean we would be unable to hire an additional one or two research staff. Additionally, if there isn’t an effectively functioning operations system set up, the organization falls apart. The difference between an organization with an effective operations system and one without is enormous. One runs smoothly and people are able to focus on their projects and the other is a series of escalating catastrophes with people having to worry about whether they’ll get paid or whether there will be legal problems. This means that if you have the right skills for the job, you would have the impact of one or two marginal employees and also contribute many counterfactual hours to the direct work.
This role would be an ideal position for those interested in starting their careers in the EA community and who are interested in meta-positions.
Responsibilities
A great deal of operations work is required to keep Charity Science running. Major tasks include:
Given the relatively small size of our nonprofit, the ideal candidate would also have skills in more general areas such as communications and research so that they could assist with these tasks depending on organizational needs.
What we need
What we want
Benefits
Application process
About the Role
Like fundraising, operations work is crucial to an organization being able to help others, but because it hasn’t had as much publicity in the Effective Altruism community, it is more neglected. 80,000 Hours recommends working in operations for an EA organization as a way to have high direct-impact.
EA operations roles can provide a lot of career capital while having a high counterfactual impact. For example, the salary to hire a non-EA for the position would mean we would be unable to hire an additional one or two research staff. Additionally, if there isn’t an effectively functioning operations system set up, the organization falls apart. The difference between an organization with an effective operations system and one without is enormous. One runs smoothly and people are able to focus on their projects and the other is a series of escalating catastrophes with people having to worry about whether they’ll get paid or whether there will be legal problems. This means that if you have the right skills for the job, you would have the impact of one or two marginal employees and also contribute many counterfactual hours to the direct work.
This role would be an ideal position for those interested in starting their careers in the EA community and who are interested in meta-positions.
Responsibilities
A great deal of operations work is required to keep Charity Science running. Major tasks include:
- Correspondence with donors, banks, and our staff to ensure the smooth running of the organization
- Problem-solving ways to accept or grant funding in a wide variety of ways
- Creating, maintaining, and improving systems
- Payroll and overall charity bookkeeping
- Managing expenditures for budget reports and to meet grant requirements
- Legal research
- Ensuring legal and financial compliance to maintain charity status in Canada and India
- Providing support and guidance for new employees and charity founders who move to Vancouver or London
- Automating operational systems
- Making travel arrangements for work-related travel (organization wide)
- Document and research reviewing, producing, and editing
Given the relatively small size of our nonprofit, the ideal candidate would also have skills in more general areas such as communications and research so that they could assist with these tasks depending on organizational needs.
What we need
- Passion for doing good in the world and an excitement for helping Charity Entrepreneurship expand to new projects and/or launch additional spinoff charities
- Excited about creating and optimizing systems
- Intelligent and quick learner
- Creative problem-solver
- Detail-oriented
- Excellent time management skills
- Minimum of intermediate skills with Excel or Sheets
- Solid interpersonal skills
- Calm under pressure
- Has good internal organizational skills and can organize tasks and big projects coherently
- You can see more about what makes a good operations lead here
What we want
- Interest in founding an effective charity in the future
- Background doing similar work
- Understanding of Canadian and/or Indian tax systems
- Understanding of Quickbooks
- Local to London or willing to relocate
- Research and/or communications abilities
- Have followed the written output thus far from any of Charity Science’s projects
- A good understanding of EA concepts.
Benefits
- A job that has a huge impact on the world
- Get to know the Charity Science team and work in a lean startup mentality
- Get experience with an EA nonprofit
- Work with like-minded, dedicated, and compassionate teammates
- A casual and low organizational bureaucracy environment
- Get a strong resume reference
- Flexible working hours
- Training in important skill sets
- Pay: amount dependent on role fit and employee needs
Application process
- The application deadline is September 22nd, 2019
- Fill out this form
- The strongest candidates will be contacted for the first stage interview