EAGx Program Lead / Head of EAGx

About CEA

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is an organization dedicated to building and stewarding a global community of people who are thinking carefully about the world's most pressing problems and taking action to solve them. Our strategic priorities include growing the effective altruism community, improving the EA brand, and diversifying EA funding sources.

Join us in building and stewarding a community dedicated to doing good. We want to help build a radically better world, which will take the best effort of many people. We want to contribute to humanity solving a range of pressing global problems - like poverty, factory farming, and existential risk - and being prepared to face the challenges of tomorrow.

About the role

We are looking to hire an EAGx Program Lead to run our EAGx program. The EAGx program is a key part of our mission to build a community of students and professionals acting on EA principles, by nurturing high-quality discussion spaces. We hope that this will help lead to a world where effective and impartial service to others is a core commitment of global leaders, thinkers, and philanthropists.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading and scaling up the EAGx program. In 2025, we will run 10 EAGx events, 5-10 EA Summits and we aim to welcome 5,000 attendees . In 2026, our goal is to see a 30-50% increase in attendees (6,000-8,000) while maintaining a focus on impact, professional event quality, and global reach.

EAGx events help people familiar with EA concepts build their network and find high-impact jobs. We're seeing evidence that these events are effective at doing this:

• We regularly encounter community members who cite EAGx events as playing a key part in their EA journey. Some examples from 2024 include:

  • An attendee at EAGxLATAM met someone working at an AI field-building org to ask about an AI safety training curriculum. This led to this attendee being hired as a contractor to teach the curriculum at a retreat for students interested in AI safety.

  • A donor interested in animal welfare donated €35K to an organization after talking to someone at EAGxUtrecht.

  • At EAGxNordics, a staff member at a national EA group hired an intern, recruited a new organizer for a university, and found a volunteer to help their team with communications.

• 56 of 340 respondents to Open Philanthropy's 2023 survey of people involved in longtermist priority work reported that EAGx events helped them find high-impact work.

• In the 2022 EA Survey , 14% of respondents reported EAGx as an important factor for their involvement in EA. 13% of respondents reported that EAGx was an important factor for their personal ability to make a positive impact.

• EAGx events also help increase the diversity and global reach of the EA community. For example, we suspect that EAGx events are likely one of the only large events where serious consideration of existential risks takes place in many parts of the world (e.g., India, Latin America, and East Asia).

As EAGx Program Lead, you'll take ownership of our EAGx program, craft the strategy, steer the execution of the program, and build systems to help us scale up the program even further. You will manage our team of EAGx coordinators; we currently have a coordinator for Europe & North America and another for APAC & Africa, and you will be responsible for hiring, training and managing the coordinators we hire. Your manager will be the Director of Events at CEA, Amy Labenz .

Responsibilities

• Determine the strategy and scope of the EAGx program, with input from your manager, including setting goals for 2026 and beyond.

• Manage at least two EAGx Coordinators; advising them on project management, people management, event strategy, and evaluation.

• Decide which EAGx events we should support or scale up.

• Manage the budget for the program, including program revenue and additional fundraising if necessary.

• Review and analyse feedback from EAGx events, to understand how we can improve our program and advice.

• Write updates about our program for the wider CEA team, our stakeholders, and the EA community.

What we're looking for

You might be a good fit if you:

• Manage and implement projects effectively. You've initiated and successfully executed large projects that required project planning, delegation, time management, and a lot of work.

• Manage people thoughtfully and effectively. You've supported people as they execute on projects, providing clear feedback and guiding the project towards its goals.

• Have experience building or scaling projects. You've either founded a project or joined a team early on in the process of building a project and scaled that project through hiring, fundraising, and designing systems.

• Have a strong understanding of EA community-building work. You've been actively involved in EA community-building, and have well-informed views about how EA discussion spaces can help people make meaningful progress on pressing problems.

• Love improving systems. You're able to spot when systems are incomplete, strained or repetitive, and generate solutions that save time and/or improve the process for our users, including attendees, organisers and CEA staff.

• Write clearly.

• Are able to juggle multiple tasks at once. You are not easily overwhelmed and excel at managing your time and focus.

• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills. You would thrive in a role involving frequent back-and-forth with grantees, colleagues and external stakeholders.

Other information

• This is a full-time, remote position. We prefer applicants who are able to work in time zones between US Pacific Time and CET.

• This role will involve a lot of travelling. Depending on location, likely 5-10 trips annually, including several international trips to support EAGx events around the world.

• Start date: We'd ideally have you start as soon as possible, but can be flexible for the right candidate.

• Compensation

  • US: total compensation package of $128,143-$152,849, comprising a base salary of $116,494-$138,954 and a 10% unconditional 401k contribution.

  • UK: total compensation package of £76,275-£90,981, comprising a base salary of £69,341-£82,710 and a 10% pension contribution.

  • Compensation and role title for this position depend on the level of experience and expertise you bring to the role and will be determined throughout the hiring process.

• Benefits include private insurance, flexible work hours, a $6,000 / £5,000 annual professional development allowance, a $6,000 / £5,000 mental health support allowance, extended parental leave, ergonomic equipment, unconditional 10% pension / 401k contribution, 25 days of paid vacation, and more.

• We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. We especially encourage applications from self-identified women and people of colour who are excited about contributing to our mission. The Centre for Effective Altruism is an equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact .

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This is non-unique attendees i.e., if someone attended two, they are counted twice.