Executive summary: The post outlines 5 potential career paths for researchers in effective altruism, including their impact mechanisms, suitable personas, and key skills to develop. It aims to show the breadth of options for those with research skills.
Key points:
Monitoring and evaluation roles ensure organizations achieve impact, suit detail-oriented people, and require theories of change.
Grantmaking research influences funding allocation, suits systematic comparers, and requires cost-effectiveness modeling.
Charity evaluation assesses interventions, suits those who dig deep, and requires quality review skills.
Direct research informs policy and operations, suits generalist philosophers, and requires communication abilities.
Charity founding applies research directly, suits ambitious decisives, and requires rapid investigation.
Strong research skills have wide applicability beyond these roles.
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Executive summary: The post outlines 5 potential career paths for researchers in effective altruism, including their impact mechanisms, suitable personas, and key skills to develop. It aims to show the breadth of options for those with research skills.
Key points:
Monitoring and evaluation roles ensure organizations achieve impact, suit detail-oriented people, and require theories of change.
Grantmaking research influences funding allocation, suits systematic comparers, and requires cost-effectiveness modeling.
Charity evaluation assesses interventions, suits those who dig deep, and requires quality review skills.
Direct research informs policy and operations, suits generalist philosophers, and requires communication abilities.
Charity founding applies research directly, suits ambitious decisives, and requires rapid investigation.
Strong research skills have wide applicability beyond these roles.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.