EA research jobs are often remote, and if there aren’t many meetings the timezone difference to an org’s headquarters can be pretty manageable. I spent the first month at OP working from Sydney. My team was spread across the US and UK, which did make finding times suitable for everyone trickier. But it was doable. My impression is that Rethink Priorities is similarly flexible wrt location/timezone. Givewell is more restrictive—requiring people to be within 3 hours of Pacific Time.
CE/AIM’s incubation program was/is spread across timezones, and if you founded a charity you’d be deciding where to live. While there are advantages to living in hubs of funders/influence, I don’t think they’re decisive. The issue is whether you’d be able to spend time in the field, but that can vary depending on the intervention and co-founder.
EA research jobs are often remote, and if there aren’t many meetings the timezone difference to an org’s headquarters can be pretty manageable. I spent the first month at OP working from Sydney. My team was spread across the US and UK, which did make finding times suitable for everyone trickier. But it was doable. My impression is that Rethink Priorities is similarly flexible wrt location/timezone. Givewell is more restrictive—requiring people to be within 3 hours of Pacific Time.
CE/AIM’s incubation program was/is spread across timezones, and if you founded a charity you’d be deciding where to live. While there are advantages to living in hubs of funders/influence, I don’t think they’re decisive. The issue is whether you’d be able to spend time in the field, but that can vary depending on the intervention and co-founder.