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Summary
Effective Altruism Switzerland (EACH) is hiring an Impact Cohort Manager to professionalize and take ownership of our 🇨ðŸ‡Impact Cohort (see current cohort here): a career-advising and talent-placement program that helps altruistically-minded people in Switzerland move into high-impact careers. You would take full ownership of a well-established program, with the mandate to grow and develop it further. We are looking for someone with strong social skills, genuine care for the people they advise, and good program management skills. You should also bring a deep understanding of the core principles of effective altruism.
Due to Swiss work permit regulations, we can only consider applicants who are citizens of Switzerland or an EU/​EFTA member state (or who already hold a valid Swiss work permit).
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About the Impact Cohort
The Impact Cohort is EACH’s in-person career-support program: a seasonal cohort, run about three times a year, that helps motivated people in Switzerland turn their ambition to do good into concrete action. It combines personal 1-on-1 mentoring, in-person co-working days at our PEAKS office in Zurich, and peer support. We have run several cohorts since spring 2025.
The program currently runs in two phases. This is how the cohort works today — but we treat it as a living program, and whoever takes this role will have the mandate to evolve and reshape the format over time. Phase 1 — the Open Cohort is a lower-barrier, four-week kickstart: each participant picks one concrete impact goal and gets light-touch support — a kickoff session, weekly nudges and goal tracking, a 1-on-1 call with one of the organizers, and a co-working day in Zurich. Participants who show real momentum are then invited into
Phase 2 — the Closed Cohort, a smaller group with deeper, more personalized support and tighter accountability: more 1-on-1 calls (chosen from weekly check-ins and biweekly coaching calls), additional in-person co-working days, and peer events.
Beyond the cohort itself, EACH runs the Impact Community — an ongoing alumni group, where members meet participants from earlier cohorts and longer-term community members and can stay involved well after the program ends.
Most participants are between 25 and 35 — advanced students, early-career professionals, or PhDs — from across Switzerland. So far most facilitated career changes have been in AI safety, with growing interest in biosecurity and ongoing interest in global health & development and effective giving. The program is open both to people already active in the community and to those new to these ideas.
About the Role
Location: Switzerland, in person in Zurich (with flexible remote days). Desk at the PEAKS coworking space.
Title: Impact Cohort Manager
Reports to: Erik Jentzen, Director of Effective Altruism Switzerland
Works with: the rest of the EA Switzerland team day-to-day — Marius Wenk (Program Manager), Marcel Steimke (Office & Community Manager), Andre Santos (Events Manager)
Work hours: Full-time preferred, with openness to a part-time arrangement for the right candidate.
Start: As soon as convenient (best by October 2026)
Application Deadline: Sunday, 6 September 2026
Key Responsibilities
End-to-End Program Ownership — Own the Impact Cohort end-to-end: plan, promote, run, and evaluate each cohort, and keep developing the program — including growing its reach over time.
Outreach & Growth — Actively promote the cohort beyond EACH’s established channels to reach new audiences and build a larger, stronger participant pipeline.
Individualized Career Advising — Deliver the program’s core 1-on-1 advising across both phases: give personalized guidance to students, early-career, and more experienced professionals; support participants on concrete applications and track their progress over time.
Lead the Impact Community — Lead not just the cohort but the ongoing Impact Community: run community days, and maintain long-term relationships with members, including participants from earlier cohorts.
Measurement & Reporting — Help shape where the program goes. Collect structured participant feedback after each phase, track outcomes (career changes; pledges/​donations where they happen), and use that evidence to significantly expand and refine the cohort over time. Build strong impact data and contribute to reporting to funders — with the ambition of making this a genuinely data-driven program.
Qualifications
Required:
Eligible to work in Switzerland (CH or EU/​EFTA citizenship, or a valid permit)
Based in Switzerland or willing to relocate (ideally Zurich)
Fluent English
Very strong social skills — an excellent listener with a strong sense for where people are uncertain
Ability to ask situation-specific, critical questions
Strong project and program management skills — able to run the cohort end to end
Strategic planning skills — able to grow and reshape the program over time, not just execute it
Reliable, structured, and well-organized; comfortable handling many relationships and moving parts in parallel
Genuine interest in participants’ lives
Foundational alignment with the core principles of effective altruism
Desired:
Existing familiarity with EA and the high-impact career landscape
Experience in 1:1 advising, mentoring, or coaching
Comfortable with both students and mid-career professionals
Proficiency in German
An established network in the (Swiss) EA /​ high-impact ecosystem
You do not need to meet 100% of the qualifications to be considered. If this role excites you, we strongly encourage you to apply. We’re also a small and currently mostly male team, so we’d be especially glad to receive applications from women.
Compensation & Benefits
Gross salary of 75,000 − 80.000 CHF per year
25 days paid leave
Flexible working arrangements (Full-Time/​Part-Time ; Partly Remote)
Professional development support and advising
A dedicated desk at the PEAKS coworking space in Zurich, alongside organizations like EA Switzerland, Effektiv Spenden, Apollo Research and Zurich AI Safety
For exceptional candidates with significant relevant experience, we are open to discussing higher compensation.
Hiring Process
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. Deadline: Sunday, 6 September 2026. We may adjust individual steps of this process over the course of the hiring round if we find it makes sense.
Initial Application (form)
Intro Call (~15 min)
Paid Test Task (~2 hours)
First Interview (~45 min)
Final Interview (≥ 1 hour)
Reference Check
Apply Here. Recommend someone here. (500$ referral Bonus, if that person gets hired in the end.)
EA Switzerland is Hiring: 🇨ðŸ‡Impact Cohort Manager
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Summary
Effective Altruism Switzerland (EACH) is hiring an Impact Cohort Manager to professionalize and take ownership of our 🇨ðŸ‡Impact Cohort (see current cohort here): a career-advising and talent-placement program that helps altruistically-minded people in Switzerland move into high-impact careers. You would take full ownership of a well-established program, with the mandate to grow and develop it further. We are looking for someone with strong social skills, genuine care for the people they advise, and good program management skills. You should also bring a deep understanding of the core principles of effective altruism.
Due to Swiss work permit regulations, we can only consider applicants who are citizens of Switzerland or an EU/​EFTA member state (or who already hold a valid Swiss work permit).
Apply Here
Recommend someone here. (500$ referral Bonus, if that person gets hired in the end.)
About the Impact Cohort
The Impact Cohort is EACH’s in-person career-support program: a seasonal cohort, run about three times a year, that helps motivated people in Switzerland turn their ambition to do good into concrete action. It combines personal 1-on-1 mentoring, in-person co-working days at our PEAKS office in Zurich, and peer support. We have run several cohorts since spring 2025.
The program currently runs in two phases. This is how the cohort works today — but we treat it as a living program, and whoever takes this role will have the mandate to evolve and reshape the format over time.
Phase 1 — the Open Cohort is a lower-barrier, four-week kickstart: each participant picks one concrete impact goal and gets light-touch support — a kickoff session, weekly nudges and goal tracking, a 1-on-1 call with one of the organizers, and a co-working day in Zurich. Participants who show real momentum are then invited into
Phase 2 — the Closed Cohort, a smaller group with deeper, more personalized support and tighter accountability: more 1-on-1 calls (chosen from weekly check-ins and biweekly coaching calls), additional in-person co-working days, and peer events.
Beyond the cohort itself, EACH runs the Impact Community — an ongoing alumni group, where members meet participants from earlier cohorts and longer-term community members and can stay involved well after the program ends.
Most participants are between 25 and 35 — advanced students, early-career professionals, or PhDs — from across Switzerland. So far most facilitated career changes have been in AI safety, with growing interest in biosecurity and ongoing interest in global health & development and effective giving. The program is open both to people already active in the community and to those new to these ideas.
About the Role
Location: Switzerland, in person in Zurich (with flexible remote days). Desk at the PEAKS coworking space.
Title: Impact Cohort Manager
Reports to: Erik Jentzen, Director of Effective Altruism Switzerland
Works with: the rest of the EA Switzerland team day-to-day — Marius Wenk (Program Manager), Marcel Steimke (Office & Community Manager), Andre Santos (Events Manager)
Work hours: Full-time preferred, with openness to a part-time arrangement for the right candidate.
Start: As soon as convenient (best by October 2026)
Application Deadline: Sunday, 6 September 2026
Key Responsibilities
End-to-End Program Ownership — Own the Impact Cohort end-to-end: plan, promote, run, and evaluate each cohort, and keep developing the program — including growing its reach over time.
Outreach & Growth — Actively promote the cohort beyond EACH’s established channels to reach new audiences and build a larger, stronger participant pipeline.
Individualized Career Advising — Deliver the program’s core 1-on-1 advising across both phases: give personalized guidance to students, early-career, and more experienced professionals; support participants on concrete applications and track their progress over time.
Lead the Impact Community — Lead not just the cohort but the ongoing Impact Community: run community days, and maintain long-term relationships with members, including participants from earlier cohorts.
Measurement & Reporting — Help shape where the program goes. Collect structured participant feedback after each phase, track outcomes (career changes; pledges/​donations where they happen), and use that evidence to significantly expand and refine the cohort over time. Build strong impact data and contribute to reporting to funders — with the ambition of making this a genuinely data-driven program.
Qualifications
Required:
Eligible to work in Switzerland (CH or EU/​EFTA citizenship, or a valid permit)
Based in Switzerland or willing to relocate (ideally Zurich)
Fluent English
Very strong social skills — an excellent listener with a strong sense for where people are uncertain
Ability to ask situation-specific, critical questions
Strong project and program management skills — able to run the cohort end to end
Strategic planning skills — able to grow and reshape the program over time, not just execute it
Reliable, structured, and well-organized; comfortable handling many relationships and moving parts in parallel
Genuine interest in participants’ lives
Foundational alignment with the core principles of effective altruism
Desired:
Existing familiarity with EA and the high-impact career landscape
Experience in 1:1 advising, mentoring, or coaching
Comfortable with both students and mid-career professionals
Proficiency in German
An established network in the (Swiss) EA /​ high-impact ecosystem
You do not need to meet 100% of the qualifications to be considered. If this role excites you, we strongly encourage you to apply. We’re also a small and currently mostly male team, so we’d be especially glad to receive applications from women.
Compensation & Benefits
Gross salary of 75,000 − 80.000 CHF per year
25 days paid leave
Flexible working arrangements (Full-Time/​Part-Time ; Partly Remote)
Professional development support and advising
A dedicated desk at the PEAKS coworking space in Zurich, alongside organizations like EA Switzerland, Effektiv Spenden, Apollo Research and Zurich AI Safety
For exceptional candidates with significant relevant experience, we are open to discussing higher compensation.
Hiring Process
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. Deadline: Sunday, 6 September 2026. We may adjust individual steps of this process over the course of the hiring round if we find it makes sense.
Initial Application (form)
Intro Call (~15 min)
Paid Test Task (~2 hours)
First Interview (~45 min)
Final Interview (≥ 1 hour)
Reference Check
Apply Here.
Recommend someone here. (500$ referral Bonus, if that person gets hired in the end.)