The Nonlinear Library EA - Expression of Interest: Director of Operations at the Center on Long-term Risk by AmritSidhu-Brar
Jan 26, 2024
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Expression of Interest: Director of Operations at the Center on Long-term Risk, published by AmritSidhu-Brar on January 26, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
You can also see this posting on our website here.
Intro / summary
The
Center on Long-term Risk will soon be recruiting for a Director of Operations. The role is to lead our 2-person operations team, handling challenges across areas such as HR, finance, compliance and recruitment.
Due to uncertainty over whether the role will be located in London (UK) or Berkeley (California), we are running a low-volume invite-only round now; to be followed by an open round in ~April after we gain certainty on the location, if we don't hire now.
We'd also be open to mainly-remote candidates in some circumstances (see below).
We're excited for expressions of interest from anyone with experience of challenging operations work, and at least a little experience of people management.
If you're interested in the role, we'd be excited for you to submit our short
expression of interest form by the end of Sunday 11th February. We'll then invite the most promising candidates to apply for the role now.
Location
As mentioned in our
annual review, CLR is evaluating whether to relocate from London to Berkeley, CA. We are currently in a trial period, and expect to make a decision about our long-term location in early April. For this reason, we unfortunately don't yet know whether this role will be located in London or Berkeley. We'd also be open to remote candidates in some circumstances (see below).
We recognise that this uncertainty will make the role less appealing to candidates. Given this, we will be running a low-volume invite-only hiring round now, for candidates who are willing to spend the time on our hiring process even with our location uncertainty. If we don't successfully hire now, we will launch a full open round in April, after the location decision is made.
Further details on location:
We estimate a 70% chance that we will settle on moving to Berkeley, and a 30% chance of staying in London.
If we settle on London (30% chance): we'd have a strong preference for candidates who can spend at least ~60% of their time at our London office
If we settle on Berkeley (70% chance), we'd be open to remote candidates, with a substantial preference for candidates who can visit Berkeley regularly.
To be clear, we're not looking for a commitment from candidates that you're happy to work in both locations. Just one is fine - it's just that we'll just need to take this into account when making the offer after the location decision is finalised.
We expect to be able to sponsor visas for this role in most cases..
The role
The Director of Operations role is to lead our 2-person operations team, with responsibility across areas such as HR, finance, compliance, office management, grantmaking ops, and recruitment. You'd report to our Executive Director, and would take on the management of our existing Operations Associate.
Specific responsibilities include:
Working with our Executive Director and board of trustees to facilitate major organisational decisions, providing an operations perspective.
Managing and mentoring our Operations Associate, as well as a number of support staff and contractors.
Managing compliance and finances for our ecosystem of charitable entities (in collaboration with the Operations Associate, legal advisors and accountants).
Overseeing and refining CLR's internal systems in areas such as HR, grantmaking ops, IT, recruitment and immigration.
Leading on major operations projects as they arise, such as running events or hiring staff in new countries.
About operations at CLR:
CLR overall is currently a team of 13, and we plan to recruit 3-4 new staff in 2024. As well as supporting our research teams, the operations team facil...
You can also see this posting on our website here.
Intro / summary
The
Center on Long-term Risk will soon be recruiting for a Director of Operations. The role is to lead our 2-person operations team, handling challenges across areas such as HR, finance, compliance and recruitment.
Due to uncertainty over whether the role will be located in London (UK) or Berkeley (California), we are running a low-volume invite-only round now; to be followed by an open round in ~April after we gain certainty on the location, if we don't hire now.
We'd also be open to mainly-remote candidates in some circumstances (see below).
We're excited for expressions of interest from anyone with experience of challenging operations work, and at least a little experience of people management.
If you're interested in the role, we'd be excited for you to submit our short
expression of interest form by the end of Sunday 11th February. We'll then invite the most promising candidates to apply for the role now.
Location
As mentioned in our
annual review, CLR is evaluating whether to relocate from London to Berkeley, CA. We are currently in a trial period, and expect to make a decision about our long-term location in early April. For this reason, we unfortunately don't yet know whether this role will be located in London or Berkeley. We'd also be open to remote candidates in some circumstances (see below).
We recognise that this uncertainty will make the role less appealing to candidates. Given this, we will be running a low-volume invite-only hiring round now, for candidates who are willing to spend the time on our hiring process even with our location uncertainty. If we don't successfully hire now, we will launch a full open round in April, after the location decision is made.
Further details on location:
We estimate a 70% chance that we will settle on moving to Berkeley, and a 30% chance of staying in London.
If we settle on London (30% chance): we'd have a strong preference for candidates who can spend at least ~60% of their time at our London office
If we settle on Berkeley (70% chance), we'd be open to remote candidates, with a substantial preference for candidates who can visit Berkeley regularly.
To be clear, we're not looking for a commitment from candidates that you're happy to work in both locations. Just one is fine - it's just that we'll just need to take this into account when making the offer after the location decision is finalised.
We expect to be able to sponsor visas for this role in most cases..
The role
The Director of Operations role is to lead our 2-person operations team, with responsibility across areas such as HR, finance, compliance, office management, grantmaking ops, and recruitment. You'd report to our Executive Director, and would take on the management of our existing Operations Associate.
Specific responsibilities include:
Working with our Executive Director and board of trustees to facilitate major organisational decisions, providing an operations perspective.
Managing and mentoring our Operations Associate, as well as a number of support staff and contractors.
Managing compliance and finances for our ecosystem of charitable entities (in collaboration with the Operations Associate, legal advisors and accountants).
Overseeing and refining CLR's internal systems in areas such as HR, grantmaking ops, IT, recruitment and immigration.
Leading on major operations projects as they arise, such as running events or hiring staff in new countries.
About operations at CLR:
CLR overall is currently a team of 13, and we plan to recruit 3-4 new staff in 2024. As well as supporting our research teams, the operations team facil...