What are the responsibilities and job description for the Indicate interest in the Operations Team position at Open Philanthropy?
At Open Philanthropy, our innovative grantmaking demands a robust and high-quality operations team. We always keep an eye out for people who would make great generalist Operations team members to support and improve the running of our organization.
If you're interested in joining our Operations team, please fill out the form below. We understand that you may not be available immediately, and that's okay - expressing your interest now allows us to consider you for future opportunities as they arise.
We review applications for these roles on a rolling basis, and will contact you to learn more if we think you might be a fit. By default, we won't reach out unless we're advancing your application, and we might not advance applications right away, depending on our current needs.
The main purpose of this form is to allow you to indicate that you're open to us contacting you.
About Open Philanthropy
Open Phil is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We stress openness to many possibilities and have chosen our focus areas based on importance, neglectedness, and tractability.
Our current giving areas include potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence, scientific research, global public health policy, farm animal welfare, and biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. In 2023, we recommended just under $800 million to high-impact causes, and we've recommended over $3 billion in grants since our formation.
About the Operations Team
Open Philanthropy has been growing rapidly, both in the number of staff (which recently exceeded 130) and in the volume of grants we make (more than 850 in 2023). This would not have been possible without our outstanding Operations team, whose goal is to help the organization run as smoothly and effectively as possible by providing excellent support to our staff, grantees, and collaborators. Operations work at Open Phil includes the following :
- Supporting staff and program teams - Directly supporting staff with administrative tasks (like booking travel, purchasing and expensing, receiving and forwarding mail, internal knowledge management, and policy support) and providing support to our program teams (e.g., cleaning up data or notes from grantee calls, light research and data analysis, organizing files, and helping with logistics).
- Ensuring Open Phil has productive and welcoming office spaces - Managing and improving our San Francisco and Washington, D.C. offices, scoping requirements for potential new office hubs, greeting visitors, providing in-person support and reception, managing external contractors, ordering supplies, and fixing workstations.
- Providing executive assistance - Supporting directors and senior executives with logistics, calendar management, triaging tasks, communication, and general administration.
- Executing org-wide events - Collaborating with our People Operations team to organize and support quarterly "Togetherness Week" events and an annual retreat to bring our staff together.
- Assisting our IT team - Alongside our dedicated IT team members, supporting tech-related onboarding, provisioning accounts, and assisting staff with peripherals (e.g. monitors, mice, cables).providing general tech support to our staff, and assisting with the implementation of special IT projects (e.g. an org-wide Helpdesk).
- Making Open Philanthropy more efficient and effective - Investigating and implementing scalable solutions to commonly faced problems (e.g., identifying software to facilitate booking meetings, or supporting the optimization of our new staff onboarding flow).
Handling anything else that needs to get done - We are a nimble team that takes on unique operations requests as they arise, including ad-hoc tasks and larger projects that facilitate strategic decision-making.
Who we're looking for
We are open to hiring at multiple levels of experience. Some of our operations roles require no specific experience, but weare also open to hiring candidates with significant relevant experience at a higher level.
You might be a great fit if you :
We expect all our staff to :
Role details & benefits
These are full-time, onsite roles in our offices in SF and DC. If you don't live in one of these locations, you'd need to relocate (we'd assist with relocation costs).
Unfortunately, we aren't able to sponsor visas for this role, so candidates must have work authorization in the US to apply.
Benefits : Our benefits package includes :
We're considering applicants on a rolling basis. Please apply as soon as you can - we may stop accepting new applications without notice.
We aim to employ people with diverse experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can.
We are committed to creating an environment where all employees have the opportunity to succeed, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability - or have any other questions about applying - please contact [redacted].
US-based Operations staff are typically employed by Open Philanthropy Project LLC, which is not a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. As such, these roles are unlikely to be eligible for public service loan forgiveness programs.
Salary : $86,665 - $88,689
