Open Philanthropy is Offering a Remote Fellowship Opportunity: Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization Team: Apply!
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December 29, 2023
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Open Philanthropy's Global Health and Wellbeing team centers on scientific research, policy advocacy, and global development work aimed at improving lives as much as possible by reducing premature deaths and raising incomes, particularly for the world's poorest people. Applications are due 28 January 2024.
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- In 2021, we announced hires to lead our grantmaking in global aid advocacy and South Asian air quality, two new cause areas we added as a result of the team’s research.
- In 2022, we hired program officers in global health R&D and effective altruism community building (global health and wellbeing), again based on the team’s research and early grantmaking.
- In 2022, we hired program officers in global health R&D and effective altruism community building (global health and wellbeing), again based on the team’s research and early grantmaking.
- In 2022, we ran the Regranting Challenge, a $150 million initiative to fund high impact teams at other funders, and the Cause Exploration Prizes (with support from 2022 summer interns), where we invited people to suggest new areas for us to support.
- In 2022, we ran the Regranting Challenge, a $150 million initiative to fund high impact teams at other funders, and the Cause Exploration Prizes (with support from 2022 summer interns), where we invited people to suggest new areas for us to support.
- In 2022, we ran the Regranting Challenge, a $150 million initiative to fund high impact teams at other funders, and the Cause Exploration Prizes (with support from 2022 summer interns), where we invited people to suggest new areas for us to support.
- In 2023, based on the team’s research, we announced a new program area: Global Public Health Policy, including grantmaking on lead exposure, alcohol policy, and suicide prevention.
- We conduct shallow and medium depth investigations as part of our work to explore new potential cause areas. Two examples of shallow investigations: Telecommunications in LMICs, Civil Conflict Reduction.
- We conduct shallow and medium depth investigations as part of our work to explore new potential cause areas. Two examples of shallow investigations: Telecommunications in LMICs, Civil Conflict Reduction.
- Talk to global experts, review reports or academic papers, and work with potential grantees to create back-of-the-envelope calculations (or cost-benefit analyses) to decide whether a potential cause area is important, neglected, and tractable.
- Write clearly and well, with strong reasoning transparency.
- Do back-of-the-envelope calculations to estimate social returns and valuations.
- Work in a way that is aligned with Open Philanthropy’s core operating values of openness, ownership, calibration and inclusiveness.
- Land Use Reform
- Global Public Health Policy
- The role would operate at the intersection between our cause prioritization and programmatic teams. A successful candidate would report to James Snowden (who oversees several of Open Phil’s GHW programs), and would work closely with Norma Altshuler, the Senior Program Officer who manages our Global Aid Policy program.
- The role would operate at the intersection between our cause prioritization and programmatic teams. A successful candidate would report to James Snowden (who oversees several of Open Phil’s GHW programs), and would work closely with Norma Altshuler, the Senior Program Officer who manages our Global Aid Policy program.
- If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact jobs@openphilanthropy.org.
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