The Nonlinear Library EA - Summer Internships at Open Philanthropy - Global Catastrophic Risks (due March 4) by Hazel Browne
Feb 16, 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: Summer Internships at Open Philanthropy - Global Catastrophic Risks (due March 4), published by Hazel Browne on February 16, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
We're excited to announce that the
Global Catastrophic Risks Cause Prioritization team at Open Philanthropy will be hiring several interns this summer to help us explore new causes and advance our research. We think this is a great way for us to grow our capacity, develop research talent, and expand our pipeline for future full-time roles. The key points are:
Applications are due at 11:59 PM Pacific on Monday, March 4, 2023.
Applicants must be currently enrolled in a degree program or working in a position that offers externship/secondment opportunities.
The internship runs from June 10 to August 16-30 (with limited adjustments based on academic calendars) and is paid ($2,000 per week) and fully remote.
We're open to a wide variety of backgrounds, but expect some of the strongest candidates to be enrolled in master's or doctoral programs.
We aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can. We particularly encourage applications from people of color, self-identified women, non-binary individuals, and people from low and middle income countries.
Full details (and a link to the application)
are available here and are also copied below.
We hope that you'll apply and share the news with others!
About the internship
We're looking for students currently enrolled in degree programs (or non-students whose jobs offer externship/secondment opportunities) to apply for a research internship from June - August 2024 and help us investigate important questions and causes. We see the internship as a way to grow our capacity, develop promising research talent, and expand our hiring pipeline for full-time roles down the line.
We want to support interns as team members to work on our core priorities, while also showing them how Open Philanthropy works and helping them build skills important for cause prioritization research. As such, interns will directly increase our team's capacity to do research that informs our Global Catastrophic Risks strategy and grantmaking. Ultimately, this will help us get money to where it can have the most impact.
We anticipate that interns will collaborate closely with the team; at the same time, we expect a high degree of independence and encourage self-directed work.
Our internship tracks
We are hiring interns for either the Research or Strategy tracks. The responsibilities for these tracks largely overlap, and the two positions will be evaluated using the same application materials. The main difference is one of emphasis: while research track interns primarily focus on direct research, strategy track interns are sometimes tasked with working on non-research projects (such as helping run a contest or a request for proposals).
You will be asked to indicate which track you'd like to be considered for in the application.
Interns will work on multiple projects at different levels of depth, in the same way as full-time team members. They will report to an existing cause prioritization team member and participate in team meetings and discussions, including presenting their work to the team for feedback.
Specific projects will depend on the team's needs and the intern's skills, but will fall under the following core responsibilities:
Searching for new program areas. We believe there are promising giving opportunities that don't currently fall within the purview of our existing program areas. Finding them involves blending theoretical models with concrete investigation into the tractability of new interventions to reduce catastrophic risk. Much of this research is informed by conversations with relevant exp...
We're excited to announce that the
Global Catastrophic Risks Cause Prioritization team at Open Philanthropy will be hiring several interns this summer to help us explore new causes and advance our research. We think this is a great way for us to grow our capacity, develop research talent, and expand our pipeline for future full-time roles. The key points are:
Applications are due at 11:59 PM Pacific on Monday, March 4, 2023.
Applicants must be currently enrolled in a degree program or working in a position that offers externship/secondment opportunities.
The internship runs from June 10 to August 16-30 (with limited adjustments based on academic calendars) and is paid ($2,000 per week) and fully remote.
We're open to a wide variety of backgrounds, but expect some of the strongest candidates to be enrolled in master's or doctoral programs.
We aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can. We particularly encourage applications from people of color, self-identified women, non-binary individuals, and people from low and middle income countries.
Full details (and a link to the application)
are available here and are also copied below.
We hope that you'll apply and share the news with others!
About the internship
We're looking for students currently enrolled in degree programs (or non-students whose jobs offer externship/secondment opportunities) to apply for a research internship from June - August 2024 and help us investigate important questions and causes. We see the internship as a way to grow our capacity, develop promising research talent, and expand our hiring pipeline for full-time roles down the line.
We want to support interns as team members to work on our core priorities, while also showing them how Open Philanthropy works and helping them build skills important for cause prioritization research. As such, interns will directly increase our team's capacity to do research that informs our Global Catastrophic Risks strategy and grantmaking. Ultimately, this will help us get money to where it can have the most impact.
We anticipate that interns will collaborate closely with the team; at the same time, we expect a high degree of independence and encourage self-directed work.
Our internship tracks
We are hiring interns for either the Research or Strategy tracks. The responsibilities for these tracks largely overlap, and the two positions will be evaluated using the same application materials. The main difference is one of emphasis: while research track interns primarily focus on direct research, strategy track interns are sometimes tasked with working on non-research projects (such as helping run a contest or a request for proposals).
You will be asked to indicate which track you'd like to be considered for in the application.
Interns will work on multiple projects at different levels of depth, in the same way as full-time team members. They will report to an existing cause prioritization team member and participate in team meetings and discussions, including presenting their work to the team for feedback.
Specific projects will depend on the team's needs and the intern's skills, but will fall under the following core responsibilities:
Searching for new program areas. We believe there are promising giving opportunities that don't currently fall within the purview of our existing program areas. Finding them involves blending theoretical models with concrete investigation into the tractability of new interventions to reduce catastrophic risk. Much of this research is informed by conversations with relevant exp...