The Nonlinear Library EA - New positions on Open Philanthropy's Cause Prioritization team (Global Health and Wellbeing) by Open Philanthropy
Dec 21, 2023
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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: New positions on Open Philanthropy's Cause Prioritization team (Global Health and Wellbeing), published by Open Philanthropy on December 21, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
Open Philanthropy plans to grant more than $300 million per year to causes in our Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW) portfolio over the next few years.
We're
hiring for two types of roles (Research and Strategy Fellows) on the GHW portfolio's Cause Prioritization team, which works closely with senior leadership and program officers to conduct research that improves our grantmaking and high-level strategy.[1]
The team's work includes:
Investigating potential new cause areas
Evaluating and prioritizing across existing cause areas
Advancing research agendas within existing cause areas
Contributing to high-level strategy decisions
Partnering with other organizations and philanthropists to advance the practice of cost-effective grantmaking
To illustrate what these roles involve day-to-day, here are a few recent projects managed by Research and Strategy Fellows on the GHW Cause Prioritization team:
In 2021,
we announced hires to lead our grantmaking in global aid advocacy and South Asian air quality, two new cause areas we added as a result of the team's research.
In 2022, we hired program officers in
global health R&D and
effective altruism community building (global health and wellbeing), again based on the team's research and early grantmaking.
In 2022, we ran the
Regranting Challenge, a $150 million initiative to fund highly effective teams at other grantmaking organizations, and the
Cause Exploration Prizes (with support from our 2022 summer interns), where we invited people to
suggest new areas for us to support.
In 2023, based on the team's research, we announced a new program area:
Global Public Health Policy, including grantmaking on lead exposure, alcohol policy, and suicide prevention.
We conduct shallow- and medium-depth investigations as part of our work to explore new potential cause areas. Two examples of shallow investigations:
Telecommunications in LMICs and
Civil Conflict Reduction
.
The team is fully remote; you can work from anywhere (time zones permitting - see the listing for more). And these positions don't require specialized experience - though we are especially interested in candidates who have experience living or working in low- and middle-income countries.
To see more detail on the roles, and to apply, visit the
job listing. To learn more about working at Open Philanthropy, visit our
careers page. And please feel free to share any questions in a comment, or by emailing
jobs@openphilanthropy.org.
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Note that these roles would not have a significant focus on our
Farm Animal Welfare grantmaking, though this is included in the GHW portfolio.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org
Open Philanthropy plans to grant more than $300 million per year to causes in our Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW) portfolio over the next few years.
We're
hiring for two types of roles (Research and Strategy Fellows) on the GHW portfolio's Cause Prioritization team, which works closely with senior leadership and program officers to conduct research that improves our grantmaking and high-level strategy.[1]
The team's work includes:
Investigating potential new cause areas
Evaluating and prioritizing across existing cause areas
Advancing research agendas within existing cause areas
Contributing to high-level strategy decisions
Partnering with other organizations and philanthropists to advance the practice of cost-effective grantmaking
To illustrate what these roles involve day-to-day, here are a few recent projects managed by Research and Strategy Fellows on the GHW Cause Prioritization team:
In 2021,
we announced hires to lead our grantmaking in global aid advocacy and South Asian air quality, two new cause areas we added as a result of the team's research.
In 2022, we hired program officers in
global health R&D and
effective altruism community building (global health and wellbeing), again based on the team's research and early grantmaking.
In 2022, we ran the
Regranting Challenge, a $150 million initiative to fund highly effective teams at other grantmaking organizations, and the
Cause Exploration Prizes (with support from our 2022 summer interns), where we invited people to
suggest new areas for us to support.
In 2023, based on the team's research, we announced a new program area:
Global Public Health Policy, including grantmaking on lead exposure, alcohol policy, and suicide prevention.
We conduct shallow- and medium-depth investigations as part of our work to explore new potential cause areas. Two examples of shallow investigations:
Telecommunications in LMICs and
Civil Conflict Reduction
.
The team is fully remote; you can work from anywhere (time zones permitting - see the listing for more). And these positions don't require specialized experience - though we are especially interested in candidates who have experience living or working in low- and middle-income countries.
To see more detail on the roles, and to apply, visit the
job listing. To learn more about working at Open Philanthropy, visit our
careers page. And please feel free to share any questions in a comment, or by emailing
jobs@openphilanthropy.org.
^
Note that these roles would not have a significant focus on our
Farm Animal Welfare grantmaking, though this is included in the GHW portfolio.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org