.impact is recruiting for jobs and internships!

.impact is recruiting for full-time or part-time salaried positions. Alternatively, if you’re interested in interning with .impact, there are opportunities to do so over summer, or for a few months (for example, after graduating), either remotely or alongside the team in Vancouver. You can find details of a recent intern’s experiences here.

At .impact, you’ll be part of a small, non-hierarchical team with high levels of autonomy, living and working alongside dedicated EAs. Depending on your interests, you could learn skills such as project and volunteer management or web development.

A few of the projects .impact is currently focusing on are:

The Local Effective Altruism Network (LEAN) which encourages and supports people in running local EA presences.
The annual EA Survey
Expanding and improving the Effective Altruism Hub website

Some advantages of both jobs and internships include:

A great opportunity to live in an exciting new city with access to natural beauty
Most of the logistics of setting yourself up in a new place taken care of, with the apartments already set up
Living and working with like minded EAs
A fun social scene available, with regular movie nights using our projector, intellectual discussion evenings, parties and hikes in the mountains
A chance to explore the Pacific North West
The convenience of free food in the office
Unparalleled levels of autonomy and responsibility
Intellectually stimulating, diverse and rewarding work

For these positions, the following are desired:

Able to work in Vancouver for full-time work (visa will be sorted out); part time work can be remote
Able to work for at least a few months; longer preferable
Strong dedication to EA
Motivated by direct EA work
High levels of autonomy, able to make autonomous decisions and manage projects
Good written and verbal communication skills (i.e. able to deal with large amounts of correspondence with EAs and prioritize tasks)
General technical proficiency (being able to learn computer skills; web development would be a plus, though is not necessary)
Great organizational skills, dealing with a high variety of tasks and prioritizing well

Potential ways to demonstrate your fit for this position:

Successfully organizing a local EA presence
Participating in or running EA projects
Showing conscientiousness and the ability to get things done
Volunteering with .impact first by making a firm commitment to do some fixed minimum number of hours a week.

To apply, please email your CV and details of your availability to office@eahub.org. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.