Executive Office Senior Associate

The Centre for Effective Altruism’s mission is to build and nurture a global community of people who are thinking carefully about the world’s pressing problems and taking impactful action to solve them.

To foster and empower this community, we run conferences, support hundreds of local groups, and provide online resources and forums for discussion.

We are looking for people to join us in that work.

“Working at CEA has been a dream job for me. I get to work with people who share my values and epistemic norms in a way that I wasn’t able to find working as a lawyer. I have had the opportunity to provide support and get feedback from teammates who have different skills than I do, and their weekly feedback helps me continue to grow in my role after more than 5 years.”

Amy Labenz, Head of Events

Team values

We strive to prioritize our shared purpose ahead of reputation, ego, or systems, ensuring goals and processes support our mission without adding unnecessary complexity. We want to take individual responsibility while backing each other up, choosing high-impact strategies even if they're unpopular, and act with integrity.

We continuously reflect, celebrate successes, and fix problems to improve. We embrace learning on the job and help each other grow through feedback, and managers empower staff to play to their strengths, ensuring everyone contributes their best.

We set specific goals, test our largest uncertainties, and iterate. We value empirical tests and collaborative truth-seeking, creating true MVPs, and making small, regular improvements to projects.

We approach our work with a team mentality, supporting each other, coordinating with partners, and taking a collaborative approach. We prioritize user understanding, servant leadership, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance. We acknowledge our differences, consult and act decisively, and encourage learning from mistakes through mutual support and clear communication.

The full hiring process for many roles looks something like this:

Initial application

Application screening by CEA recruiting team

An invitation to complete an initial paid work test designed to evaluate certain skills important for success in the role

A short interview with someone from the hiring team

An invitation to complete a longer paid work test, typically designed to simulate the work you would do if hired

A series of 3-4 remote final interviews, typically conducted with your would-be manager in the role, someone from our recruiting team, and other team mates you would be interacting with regularly in the role*

In some cases, a 1–5 day paid work trial. If this step will be included in your hiring process, we aim to communicate it well in advance.

Reference checks

An employment offer

We believe it’s worthwhile to invest significant time in hiring in order to build the strongest possible team. We realize our hiring process is unusually demanding, and we offer monetary honorariums for completing our work tests — partly to ensure financial constraints do not keep candidates from applying, and partly to demonstrate that we respect and appreciate the time that applicants put into these tests.

We aim to adapt our process as much as possible to accommodate any individual requirements. If you have any questions about applying, please reach out to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). or speak to the recruiting team directly.

In most areas, we have funding and management capacity to take on additional excellent staff. We want to share the roles we might be interested in hiring for, even if we’re not actively running a full round at this time. We hope this will give a better sense of the types of talent we would like to add, and allow people to find roles that might be a good fit for them.

Therefore, we are accepting expressions of interest for a variety of roles. We generally have some flexibility with these roles, and might adapt them for excellent candidates. We will assess applications on a rolling basis, using the process described above. Because we are not actively focused on…