Fantastic to see Rethink expanding, and I absolutely love the idea of the Special Projects program!
Regarding the Special Projects Associate position:
Salary: $72,000 to $76,000 USD
Summary: Coordinator between incubated RP projects (especially in our new Megaprojects program) and RP operations
A good fit for:
Early-career people interested in operations
People with a strong understanding of longtermism
People interested in working on megaprojects and other high-risk/high-reward charitable projects
I’m curious as to why this is an Associate level position and not titled Coordinator? Would you still be open to candidates that are slightly more experienced yet perhaps not to the extent of the Director position (2-4 years experience or analagous to the Researcher tier per your website)?
Separately, would candidates who apply for the Director position be considered for the Associate opening or other indeed other suitable roles within Rethink?
We set the title level for the Special Projects Associate roles for a few reasons:
We think that this could be a valuable way for people new to operations for EA organizations to gain skills.
We think that generally these roles would be good learning opportunities for early career EAs to explore ops careers.
These roles are fairly generalist
I think it is likely that if someone came in who had a fairly deep background in operations relevant to these roles, we’d basically evaluate them for a different title level on an individual basis.
I think we’d also likely consider really strong candidates for the Director-level for other roles on the Special Projects team, so only one application is needed to that team, but for other positions at RP, we have different evaluation committees, so multiple applications would need to be submitted. We are happy to consider candidates for any number of roles they’d like to apply for across programs though!
Fantastic to see Rethink expanding, and I absolutely love the idea of the Special Projects program!
Regarding the Special Projects Associate position:
Salary: $72,000 to $76,000 USD
Summary: Coordinator between incubated RP projects (especially in our new Megaprojects program) and RP operations
A good fit for:
Early-career people interested in operations
People with a strong understanding of longtermism
People interested in working on megaprojects and other high-risk/high-reward charitable projects
I’m curious as to why this is an Associate level position and not titled Coordinator? Would you still be open to candidates that are slightly more experienced yet perhaps not to the extent of the Director position (2-4 years experience or analagous to the Researcher tier per your website)?
Separately, would candidates who apply for the Director position be considered for the Associate opening or other indeed other suitable roles within Rethink?
Hey!
We set the title level for the Special Projects Associate roles for a few reasons:
We think that this could be a valuable way for people new to operations for EA organizations to gain skills.
We think that generally these roles would be good learning opportunities for early career EAs to explore ops careers.
These roles are fairly generalist
I think it is likely that if someone came in who had a fairly deep background in operations relevant to these roles, we’d basically evaluate them for a different title level on an individual basis.
I think we’d also likely consider really strong candidates for the Director-level for other roles on the Special Projects team, so only one application is needed to that team, but for other positions at RP, we have different evaluation committees, so multiple applications would need to be submitted. We are happy to consider candidates for any number of roles they’d like to apply for across programs though!
Many thanks for the quick reply & clarifications Abraham! Looking forward to the information sessions.