Recruiter - Active Grantmaking Support

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About Coefficient Giving

Coefficient Giving is a philanthropic funder and advisor; our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We stress openness to many possibilities and have chosen our focus areas based on importance, neglectedness, and tractability. Our current giving areas include navigating transformative artificial intelligence, global health and development, scientific research, global public health policy, farm animal welfare, and biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. In 2024, we recommended $650 million to high-impact causes, and we’ve recommended over $4.5 billion in grants since our formation.

About the Recruiting team

Coefficient Giving is growing rapidly. The organization has almost doubled in size over the past two years, and the Recruiting team has overseen every step of those acquisitions, helping teams do everything from identifying their initial hiring needs to making final offers. We develop and implement the systems by which Coefficient Giving finds and evaluates top talent, and serve as its institutional memory and point of call for all things hiring. The team currently has eight members, led by Phil Zealley. Coefficient Giving's impact relies on having top talent work on important problems. To support that mission, we’re looking to add more recruiters to enable Coefficient Giving to grow our team and our impact.

Recruiting at Coefficient Giving currently comprises three workstreams — pipeline development, round management, and active grantmaking support. Roughly, pipeline development is everything we do to get strong candidates to apply, and round management is everything we do to help hiring managers hire the strongest candidate from the applicant pool. Active grantmaking support is a mixture of both, but importantly involves sourcing leaders to found initiatives that address critical gaps in the AI safety and global catastrophic risk ecosystems. This posting is for the active grantmaking support workstream.

Note: if you submitted an application for the Recruiter role that was recently advertised and indicated your interest in this workstream there, you do not need to submit another application.

What you'd be doing

You'll represent Coefficient Giving to candidates, hiring managers, and external partners, serving as a key face of the organization. You'll spend time maintaining and improving our recruiting systems and working on strategic projects, such as developing hiring forecasts, updating evaluation processes in response to LLM developments, and building new dashboards for data analysis.

In essence, supporting active grantmaking founder searches means you'll help to launch new initiatives by finding the right leaders to run them. When our program teams identify a critical gap in the ecosystem, you'll support the search for founders. This involves:

• Project management: Managing the logistics and timeline of founder searches from start to finish, including determining evaluation steps, planning search timelines, coordinating between program staff for interviews and assessment, tracking overall progress, and ensuring (almost!) nothing falls through the cracks. You'll also set up and maintain the back-end systems for each search to ensure seamless operations.

• Broad candidate sourcing and screening: Conducting screening calls with potential founders to assess their interest, fit, and strategic alignment with the project vision. Many strong candidates have only recently become engaged with AI risk and aren't yet in our networks, so you'll help with outreach and candidate assessment to identify and bring in new talent.

• Candidate evaluation and experience management: Reviewing applications, interviewing candidates, and developing or advising on work tests specific to founder assessments. You'll keep candidates engaged, informed, and excited throughout search processes, responding to questions and requests, and ensuring all parties stay updated as searches evolve.

• Network building and partnerships: Cultivating internal and external referral networks relevant to founder searches. This includes managing relationships with external partners (such as grantees, relevant community organizers, and peer organizations) who can refer strong founder candidates, and serving as a point of contact for these relationships.

• External firm management: Managing relationships with executive search firms when we engage them for particularly specialized searches.

• Systems, reporting, and guidance: Maintaining and improving systems for tracking leads, relationships, and sourcing outcomes for founder searches. You'll advise program staff on key decisions, maintain legal compliance throughout the search process, and uphold overall standards while capturing pipeline health for senior leadership.

Depending on the requirements of our organization, you will likely also work as a recruiter across Coefficient Giving, meaning that you will own the process from start to finish across our funds, including Global Health and Wellbeing and Farm Animal Welfare. Relatedly, it's hard to predict everything you might do. We're a rapidly growing organization where priorities can shift, and all staff pitch in across different areas to support our mission.

Who we're looking for

We think people from a variety of backgrounds could be great fits for our team. In particular, we're looking for candidates who bring many of the qualities outlined below.

You might be a great fit for this work if you:

• Have strong project management skills. You are highly organized in your own work, and also able to ensure other stakeholders stay on track. You'll obsess over maintaining a clean candidate pipeline.

• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills. You'll represent Coefficient Giving to candidates, external partners, and hiring managers. You can build trust, convey what's compelling about working here, navigate sensitive conversations effectively, and maintain a high degree of transparency.

• Like to move fast, get things done, and prioritize aggressively. We treat all recruiting work as urgent by default.

• Enjoy thinking about people and organizational needs. You can assess individual potential against complex role requirements, take a broad, systems-level view of Coefficient Giving's talent needs across diverse cause areas, and connect strategy to long-term goals.

• Are excited about supporting Coefficient Giving's work across cause areas. You'll need enough context to identify and interface effectively with people working across our cause areas, whether that's biosecurity, navigating transformative AI, abundance and growth, or effective giving and careers. You don't need to be a subject matter expert in any of these fields, but you should be passionate about our mission.

• Are conscientious and organized — you're reliable and responsive, and make sure important deliverables and relationships don't fall through the cracks.

• Enjoy iterating and improving processes. You're skilled at breaking down complex workflows and optimizing them for clarity and efficiency.

Experience requirements:

• The most competitive candidates will likely have a combination of the above requirements alongside demonstrated interest in AI safety.

While not required, we'd be excited about:

• Past experience with talent sourcing, executive search, or recruiting

• Existing networks or experience in technical AI safety, global catastrophic risks, or adjacent spheres

The ideal candidate for this position will possess many of the skills and experiences described above. However, there is no such thing as a "perfect" candidate. If you are on the fence about applying because you are unsure whether you are qualified, we strongly encourage you to do so.

If you know someone that you think would be a strong fit for this role, refer them here and receive a $5,000 reward if you are the first person who puts the person we hire on our radar.

Role details & benefits

• Compensation: The baseline compensation for this role is $116,977.12, which (for U.S. hires) would be distributed as a base salary of $101,719.24 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $15,257.88.

  • These compensation figures assume a remote location; we offer higher compensation for candidates located in San Francisco or Washington, D.C.

  • All compensation will be distributed in the form of take-home salary for internationally based hires.

• Time zones and location: You can work remotely. While we aren’t able to sponsor visas for this role, we are open to hires outside the US willing to consistently overlap with U.S. business hours for at least 5-6 hours of the day. Our current team is dispersed from the Pacific U.S. through U.K. time zones.

• Benefits: Our benefits package includes:

• Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the U.S. for you and any eligible dependents) and an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain other personal health expenses.

• Dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your family.

• Four weeks of PTO recommended per year.

• Four months of fully paid family leave.

• A generous and flexible expense policy — we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment, software, and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive. This policy also includes a productivity benefit, which provides a set amount for staff to expense items that enhance their productivity.

• A continual learning policy that encourages staff to spend time on professional development with related expenses covered.

• Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one, or connect you with a Coefficient Giving coworking hub in your city. We currently have offices in San Francisco and Washington D.C., and multiple staff working from several other cities in the U.S. and elsewhere.

• We can’t always provide every benefit we offer U.S. staff to international hires, but we’re working on it (and will usually provide cash equivalents of any benefits we can’t offer in your country).

• Start date: We expect to make offers by late January, and hope new hires can start as soon as possible after receiving an offer, though we understand that some candidates may need longer to exit existing commitments. If this timeline doesn’t work for you, please err on the side of applying anyway and let us know in your application in case we can make alternate arrangements.

We aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can. We are committed to creating an environment where all employees have the opportunity to succeed, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact [email protected] (this email remains the same as we transition to our new email alias).

Please apply as soon as you can — we may give priority to candidates who are able to move through the process sooner, and intend to fully close this position down by 11.59pm PT on Sunday, December 7.

US-based Operations staff are typically employed by Coefficient Giving LLC, which is not a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. As such, this role is unlikely to be eligible for public service loan forgiveness programs.

We may use AI to assist in the initial screening of applications, but every application is carefully reviewed by a human before any decisions are made.

You can opt out of AI being used on your application by emailing [email protected] let a member of the team know. Opting out will not impact your application.