EA - Announcing Animal Advocacy Careers’ introductory course (2022 cohort) by Ana Barreiro

Link to original articleWelcome 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: Announcing Animal Advocacy Careers’ introductory course (2022 cohort), published by Ana Barreiro on August 20, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Tldr Animal Advocacy Careers is launching the 2022 cohort of our online course. Applications are open now, and will close on the 18th September. The course is an introduction to effective animal advocacy and relevant career opportunities. The online course will be split over nine weeks (or more), with each online session taking an hour or two to complete. We have an unusually strong body of evidence as online courses go that this particular course does help people to make career plan changes and land new relevant roles. Getting sign ups from relevant people is our main bottleneck limiting the impact of this course right now. We’re very grateful for shares with relevant people and have launched a volunteer referral program. This could be an easy opportunity for you to help build the talent pipeline in the animal advocacy and/or effective altruism communities. The announcement Animal Advocacy Careers is launching the 2022 cohort of our introductory online course. Applications are open now, and will close on the 18th September. This online course will walk you through some of the key points to maximising your positive impact for animals through your career. It will provide you with information on the effective animal advocacy community and the diverse and exciting career opportunities that are available. In this cohort, you will be taking the course together with other aspiring animal advocates and be part of a group where you’ll be able to discuss your ideas and meet like-minded people. The online course will be split over nine weeks (or more, if you choose optional additions), with each online session taking an hour or two to complete. The sessions are: Why farmed animals? What does the farmed animal movement look like today? Which interventions should we focus on? How can you donate effectively? How can you have a career that helps animals effectively? How can you test your personal fit? Can you help animals? How much have you learned? (Test) What are your next steps? Planning your career After the course, we will also provide some follow-up contact and support to help you implement your plans. If you engage sincerely with the course and complete it, you’ll be given a certificate of completion. The course is intended to be an introduction to effective animal advocacy and the possible careers in the space. Engaged readers of this forum who are already interested in effective animal advocacy might find that they are already familiar with many of the concepts and research summarised in the course. But if you know someone who is in the early stages of animal advocacy and/or effective altruism, this might be a great opportunity to share with them. More on that below! How does this help? In our first 3 cohorts of the course, it seems like about 7% of participants started in a new paid effective animal advocacy role within 6 months of signing up (and a higher percentage did so within a year). Others start new roles in EA community building, change their donations, start internships or start volunteering relevant to effective animal advocacy or EA. Of course, some of these people would have made such changes without the course. But our longitudinal study of the first two cohorts of the course suggests that participating in the course does make you more likely to change your career plans and start working in a relevant job, such as in an effective animal advocacy nonprofit. And we have some case studies of how the course might help. For example, Lyda Durango became a Project Director at Vegetarianos Hoy (and ACE “Standout Charity”) in February 2022 after being supported by AAC’s course. Professional background: Had worked in vari...