Program Assistant Farm Animal Welfare

Summary

Join Open Philanthropy's Farm Animal Welfare team as a Program Assistant and contribute to their mission of improving animal welfare on factory farms. You will provide administrative and operational support, including collecting materials from grantees, maintaining grant trackers, running team meetings, and tracking grantee compliance. You will also conduct check-ins with grantees, collect data to assess their impact, and assist with special projects. This role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and efficiency in handling tasks. You should be passionate about farm animal welfare and comfortable in a support role that involves repetition. Open Philanthropy offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a remote work environment.

Requirements

• Are very well-organized. You will be responsible for handling a lot of small, time-sensitive tasks, while keeping track of many details in larger projects. Excellent organizational skills are required to flourish in this role
• Are detail-oriented and conscientious. Much of your work will involve tracking data and processes, and making sure details are entered correctly and nothing gets dropped
• Are very efficient in your work. We have high expectations for team members’ output, and think it will be a lot easier to meet those expectations if you are highly efficient at basic tasks (including emails, data input, and task tracking)
• Are particularly interested in an operations role and would be happy to remain in an operations role for at least a couple of years. Operations staff at Open Philanthropy have occasionally transitioned into roles that include grantmaking and strategy, but this isn’t a common or expected path
• Are passionate about, and have demonstrated interest in, farm animal welfare work (past work experience in the movement is not necessary)
• Are service-minded , and comfortable with a support role that involves some repetition; you are motivated by the idea of contributing to what Open Philanthropy needs most, even if it’s not glamorous
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills , especially the ability to explain your views clearly. Your role may involve building rapport and relationships with grantees, and sometimes communicating about sensitive topics
• Across roles, we value staff who are able to communicate clearly and honestly about what they think , are comfortable giving and receiving feedback (including upward feedback for their manager or the organization), and are interested in taking ownership of their work and proactively seeking ways to help Open Philanthropy meet its goals

Responsibilities

• Operational tasks to boost the program’s efficiency, such as collecting materials from grantees, maintaining our grants tracker, running team meetings, tracking grantee compliance with our policies and expectations, and assessing and reporting on the progress of team goals
• Check-ins with grantees around the world to learn more about how their work is progressing
• Data collection to help our research team assess the impact of grantees’ work
• Special projects and one-off requests from program staff. This type of work would range from making travel accommodations to creating bimonthly updates for the leadership team on our grantees’ progress

Benefits

• Compensation: The baseline compensation for this role is $96,488.73, which would be distributed as a base salary of $83,903.24 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $12,585.49 for U.S. hires. (All compensation will be distributed in the form of take-home salary for internationally based hires.)
• These compensation figures assume a remote location; there would be geographic adjustments upwards for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Washington, D.C
• 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
• A continual learning policy that enables 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 an Open Philanthropy coworking hub in your city
• 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)