About Forethought: Forethought supports and promotes individuals and institutions working on global priorities research, furthers and develops effective altruism and longtermism as ideas, and promotes and presents the ideas of effective altruism and longtermism in social and traditional media, in person, and within academia. Recently, Forethought has worked on writing and promoting the book What We Owe The Future.
There are three obvious ways in which this role could develop, depending on experience and performance:
Research Fellow: This would involve full-time (or close to full-time) work on research in the broad area of ASI governance.
General Manager: If we decided that general-audience content such as a book made the most sense as the main output, then we would build up a team in pursuit of that aim, which would be managed by a General Manager.
Chief of Staff: If we decided that we should form a new research institute, then there would be a need for a Chief of Staff. For more information on the nature of that role, see this description by Matt Mochary.
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The Forethought Foundation is seeking a research/​executive assistant for the director, Will MacAskill.
Salary: £40k-£70k depending on experience
Location: In Oxford. In exceptional circumstances, remote.
Apply by the end of February 13th.
Apply nowThe research/​executive assistant will have two areas of responsibility:
1) Executive and operational support, and
Triaging and drafting emails.
Scheduling meetings.
Planning and making travel arrangements.
And more.
2) Research assistance.
Reading, commenting, and helping to revise draft papers, written by Will and others.
Writing literature reviews.
Case studies.
And more.
About Forethought: Forethought supports and promotes individuals and institutions working on global priorities research, furthers and develops effective altruism and longtermism as ideas, and promotes and presents the ideas of effective altruism and longtermism in social and traditional media, in person, and within academia. Recently, Forethought has worked on writing and promoting the book What We Owe The Future.
There are three obvious ways in which this role could develop, depending on experience and performance:
Research Fellow: This would involve full-time (or close to full-time) work on research in the broad area of ASI governance.
General Manager: If we decided that general-audience content such as a book made the most sense as the main output, then we would build up a team in pursuit of that aim, which would be managed by a General Manager.
Chief of Staff: If we decided that we should form a new research institute, then there would be a need for a Chief of Staff. For more information on the nature of that role, see this description by Matt Mochary.
For more information about this role, read this job description, or Will’s quick take.