EA Organisation Updates thread: September 2026
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Impact Accelerator Program: Applications Open until September 20
High Impact Professionals is accepting applications for the Impact Accelerator Program (IAP) until September 20. This is the last round until 2027, so if you’ve been interested in high impact work, this is your chance.
The IAP is a free, 6-week program for mid-career and senior professionals who want to turn their career into meaningful impact. You’ll get support to:
▪️ identify promising paths to impact
▪️ take concrete, impactful actions
▪️ join a network of experienced, impact-focused peers
Interested in founding a high-impact organization? Check out the IAP Entrepreneurship Track. Participants get everything in the IAP, plus a community of fellow aspiring founders, tailored support and guidance on creating your founding roadmap, a curated network of incubators, advisors, communities, and more.
🗓️ Key dates
▪️ Application deadline: Sunday, September 20
▪️ Program runs: October 26 - December 6
Want to learn more before applying? Read the full forum post & check out our website.
Apply nowWe’re also hosting two live info + Q&A webinars on September 17 at 7-8 am UTC & 4-5 pm UTC and would love to see you there.
Fish Welfare Initiative Updates
Expansion and Hiring: We recently published plans for international scoping to guide our future expansion. We are also hiring a Global Growth Manager to lead this.
Lice study: We published initial results from our “sentinel pole” lice study, which uses in-water poles to detect lice eggs before the farmers otherwise would. Lice are a common parasite affecting farmed fishes.
Monitoring and Evaluation: We published the most recent M&E report from our farm program in India.
“Sentinel poles”, which are used to detect lice eggs earlier than famers otherwise would, at our recent study.
Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) is hiring for two high-impact leadership roles in its rapidly growing global team:
Senior Innovation Manager: Lead a zero-to-one technical project to develop and validate scalable, lead-free alternatives to traditional eyeliners such as surma/kohl. LEEP is looking for an entrepreneurial generalist who can quickly master unfamiliar technical material, manage specialists, and drive a complex product-development effort across multiple countries. Remote, UTC-5 to UTC+5; regular LMIC travel; rolling applications.
Regional Head (Francophone Africa): Lead and coach a team of Program Managers delivering LEEP’s lead-elimination programs across Francophone Africa, providing strategic guidance on government engagement, industry partnerships, and complex implementation challenges. Strong people management, LMIC experience, and full professional proficiency in both French and English are required. Remote, UTC-5 to UTC+3; applications close 27 September.
Learn more and apply at https://leadelimination.org/jobs/
Family Empowerment Media – On Air and About to Launch our RCT
Family Empowerment Media is an evidence-based nonprofit whose mission is to reduce unintended pregnancies and the maternal and child mortality and morbidity they can cause. We do this by enabling informed family planning decisions through clear, engaging, and accurate radio-based communication.
Our work is estimated to generate a Couple-Year of Protection (one year of contraceptive protection) for 7 USD, compared with GiveWell’s best-guess benchmark of 20 USD per CYP. Our model of reach and cost-effectiveness was independently validated by Rethink Priorities.
Updates
Our campaigns are on air in Kaduna, Nigeria, and Niger. We conducted formative research to produce a campaign in Benin (campaign production is next). Read more about current and upcoming campaigns in our latest blog.
Our RCT is launching. Baseline data collection for a randomised controlled trial begins this month for two-year campaigns across 11-13 states in Nigeria,. The first wave of the campaign will launch to 14.9 million potential listeners on Dec 1.
Support Our Work. We’re currently fundraising to launch content production in Togo and for our RCT in Nigeria.
Wild Animal Initiative is hiring a Philanthropy Officer to join our Development Team. This role will manage a portfolio of ~50–100 major donors, raising funds to help us accelerate wild animal welfare science by giving donors the information and analysis they need to understand and invest in our work.
We’re not looking for candidates who have held a particular job title in the past; we’re much more interested in finding someone with genuine roots in the effective altruism community. Strong candidates will have a proven history of building relationships across differences — using strategic judgment, clear reasoning, and scientific literacy to communicate their ideas.
If you know a good candidate for this role, please share the opportunity with them or get in touch with our Operations Manager. Salary range is $88,907–$102,243 depending on location, and the application deadline is Monday, September 21.