EA - Rethink Priorities’ Special Projects Team is hiring by Rachel Norman

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: Rethink Priorities’ Special Projects Team is hiring, published by Rachel Norman on November 1, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TL;DRThe Special Projects Program launched in mid 2022 to provide fiscal sponsorship and operational support to (for the most part, longtermist) megaprojects.We are now hiring for Manager and Associate roles on the Special Projects team.Rethink Priorities is a remote organization that welcomes applicants from almost anywhere in the world.Compensation for the roles ranges from $74,000 USD (for Associate roles) up to $111,000 (for Manager roles).Examples of activities for Managers and Associates include day-to-day operations, running hiring rounds, developing budgets, writing business plans for entrepreneurial projects, fundraising, liaising with stakeholders, researching legal/operational issues, scouting for talent for the projects, helping run prizes or requests for proposals, and grantmaking.In lieu of holding a webinar for these roles, we will aim to answer all questions posted in the comments section of this post. Please ask away!Please apply here by November 13th at the end of the day in your local time.General information about all our rolesWe invite anyone who is interested to apply, regardless of background, experience, or credentials. We will select candidates almost entirely based on their performance in our selection process, putting only minimal weight on CVs and references.Most of our positions are equally open to part- or full-time candidates (anywhere between 20-40 hours per week).The full-time annual salary we offer varies based on title and prior experience. The range for the roles in our Special Projects Team is from $74,000 (for Associate roles) to $111,000 (for Manager roles). Salaries for part-time staff are prorated for the fraction of 40 hours/week they work.See Titles at Rethink Priorities for more information.See the "What we offer" section below for details.We are a remote organization and welcome applicants from anywhere in the world.We expect to be legally able to hire in most countries. If you are unsure whether we can hire in the country in which you are based, please email [email protected] of our staff are in time zones between UTC-8 and UTC+3. While we welcome candidates from outside of these time zones, we often have meetings during working hours in these time zones that employees are expected to attend.For permanent staff, Rethink Priorities offers comprehensive health coverage as regionally appropriate.Other benefits include stipends for workplace equipment, organization-wide mid- and end-of-year breaks, and generous leave policies.About Special Projects and the rolesThe Special Projects Program launched in mid 2022 to support activities outside of RP’s core research agenda. A lot of these projects require complicated operational support. RP’s Core Operations team is focused on ensuring RP's day-to-day functioning, and often these special projects require additional capacity beyond what the Core Ops team has or exploration of novel areas that are outside the purview of the Core Ops team.Although we currently expect Special Projects staff to primarily focus on operations activities, this is unlikely to solely be day-to-day operations tasks, and there are also many other activities we would be excited for the team to engage in. Some possible examples include developing budgets, writing business plans for entrepreneurial projects, fundraising, liaising with stakeholders, researching legal/operational issues, scouting for talent for the projects, helping run prizes or requests for proposals, and grantmaking.We expect that most of these projects will be in the longtermism space, although that is not a requirement. SP plans on fiscally sponsoring, incubating, or otherwise...