We currently want to hire a researcher or policy specialist with skills complementary to those of Owen and me. We had some very strong expressions of interest when we invited them in December, and expect to be able to hire excellent staff. We are looking to build an impressive team—and are open to flexing our work-plan in order to get good people.
Experience drafting policy or working on policy evaluation framework would be very helpful, as would a background in welfare economics. Our next employee will need to be able to do independent research, but also to communicate that research to non-technical audiences. We are also interested in hiring a researcher with expertise relevant to the history of technology and technology forecasting as a separate project (as mentioned in other answers).
We are also looking for volunteers. We have a couple projects where we have chunks of fairly repeatable work which can be easily split over multiple workers. Most of these require strong research skills, because they involve critiquing other work, but limited time commitment. We would also be interested in volunteers with journalism experience.
Another question: who do you want to hire?
We currently want to hire a researcher or policy specialist with skills complementary to those of Owen and me. We had some very strong expressions of interest when we invited them in December, and expect to be able to hire excellent staff. We are looking to build an impressive team—and are open to flexing our work-plan in order to get good people.
Experience drafting policy or working on policy evaluation framework would be very helpful, as would a background in welfare economics. Our next employee will need to be able to do independent research, but also to communicate that research to non-technical audiences. We are also interested in hiring a researcher with expertise relevant to the history of technology and technology forecasting as a separate project (as mentioned in other answers).
We are also looking for volunteers. We have a couple projects where we have chunks of fairly repeatable work which can be easily split over multiple workers. Most of these require strong research skills, because they involve critiquing other work, but limited time commitment. We would also be interested in volunteers with journalism experience.