EA - Rethink Priorities is hiring a COO by abrahamrowe

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: Rethink Priorities is hiring a COO, published by abrahamrowe on September 1, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I'm Abraham Rowe, the current Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Rethink Priorities (RP). I joined RP as its first operations hire in 2020. At the time, RP was fiscally sponsored by Rethink Charity, who provided its operational support, and was getting ready to spin out into being an independent entity.Since then, we've expanded a lot. From around 10 staff when I joined, to over 110 (including staff of fiscally sponsored projects) today. We're operating in over 15 countries, have two legal entities, and are now an operationally complex (and interesting!) project. We fiscally sponsor cool projects like Epoch, Apollo Research, and the Existential Risk Alliance Fellowship. We incubate projects like Condor Camp. We conduct high quality research in animal welfare, AI governance and strategy, global health and development, and more. We conduct public opinion polling, run coordination events for cause areas, and generally work to improve the coordination and research quality in EA and adjacent fields.I'm now leaving to pursue other projects, and RP is hiring its next COO! This is a senior leadership position at Rethink Priorities, directly contributing to organizational strategy, while overseeing multiple critical lines of work, like finance, HR, development, and communications.If you're interested in applying, check out the full job ad here, and feel free to drop any questions in the comments, or send them to [email protected] if you aren't interested, please refer strong candidates to us! We will pay $5,000 to the first person who refers to us a candidate we offer this position to.Some fast facts about the role:Applications are due September 30th, 2023.This role pays $130,000 to $135,000 USD, is fully remote, and is open to candidates able to work in the USThis role manages a team of around 25 direct and indirect reports, and oversees finance, HR, legal compliance, fiscal sponsorship, development, communications, and other core non-research functions at RP.This role is a senior member of Rethink Priorities' leadership team, directly advising the Co-CEOs and shaping the future of the organization, especially as we continue to grow.Relevant (operational) background on Rethink Priorities:RP is a fully remote research organization, with 75 staff (as of writing). We also fiscally sponsor several other projects with 35 additional staff, and with summer fellowships this number has been much higher. In the next year, we could easily see the total budget and headcount that this role has to account for being over 120 people / $15M USD.We've grown really quickly over the last few years - from around 10 staff in 2020 to our current size today.We're fully remote and very international, with staff in over a dozen countries. We work highly asynchronously.RP is committed to building an inclusive, equitable, and supportive community for you to thrive and do your best work. Please don't hesitate to apply for a role regardless of your age, gender identity/expression, political identity, personal preferences, physical abilities, veteran status, neurodiversity or any other background. We provide reasonable accommodations and benefits, including flexible work schedules and locations, mental health coverage in medical benefits (as available), as well as technology budgets and professional development time that can be used, for example, to purchase assistive technology or engage in job coaching.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org