Chief of Staff, Events Team
Centre for Effective Altruism
📍 Remote (Global) ⏳ 04/09/2025
💰£69,341 GBP / $116,494 USD p.a. 🕔 Full Time
We are looking to hire a Chief of Staff for our Events team to help us scale up the effective altruism community's largest conference series and event portfolio. In this role, you will provide strategic and operational support to the Director of Events, Amy Labenz, helping to maximize the impact of our programming while ensuring smooth execution across all our initiatives.
The portfolio of events we have developed and manage comprises some of the most important community infrastructure across multiple domains. EA Global and EAGx are the leading conference series in the EA community and play a foundational role in coordinating and representing the movement. The Summit on Existential Security leads the field for coordinating senior stakeholders in AI Safety, and the Meta Coordination Forum brings together key leaders and organizers to help steward the EA community. We believe the success and growth of these products play a key role in the future of the EA community, and that having an exceptional team is crucial to the success of these projects.
We believe our team produces some of the most impactful community-building projects in the EA community:
EA Global attendees typically report that the events are ~5–6x more valuable than how they would otherwise spend their time, and help them to make ~10 new connections
23% of EA Survey 2024 respondents reported EA Global or EAGx as an important factor for their involvement in EA
Attendees from the 2023 and the 2024 Summit on Existential Security founded new organizations, secured CEO appointments, expanded their teams, and successfully fundraised at the events
The Meta Coordination Forum has helped leaders of organizations coordinate and collaborate to address key challenges facing the EA community.
When we survey attendees a few months after each event, 10–20% of respondents report finding a short-term or part-time opportunity as a result of our events, and another 1–5% report finding a new full-time opportunity
In this role, you would join an ambitious and growing team and make an essential contribution to expanding our leadership capacity and maximizing our impact. You would be managed by and work very closely with Amy.
Key Responsibilities
The responsibilities below represent the core areas of this role, but we expect the specific shape and emphasis of your work to evolve based on your strengths, interests, and the team's priorities. We're looking for someone who can take ownership and grow into areas where they can contribute most effectively while meeting the team's needs.
Strategic Support & Executive Function
Team prioritisation: Help Amy set priorities, ensure her plans reflect those priorities, and provide accountability to follow through on commitments (including weekly priority-setting sessions and daily check-ins to ensure critical tasks are completed). You'll work closely with her to expand the team leadership capacity—including by joining the Events team leadership team meetings—making our projects bigger and better.
Supporting Amy’s effectiveness: Help Amy with meeting preparation, task prioritization, calendar management, email correspondence, and other administrative tasks as needed.
Goal setting: Interface with executive leadership to understand CEA-wide goals, then work with the Events team leads to build ambitious OKRs (objectives and key results) that ladder up to organizational objectives
Cross-team impact analysis: Design and update metrics, maintain dashboards, and present updates in meetings. You'll identify performance gaps and optimization opportunities via data and lead retrospectives for the team.
People & Operations
Staff support: Conduct regular one-on-ones with team members to provide an additional support channel and early problem identification
Hiring support: Work with People Operations to prioritize among hiring rounds and collaborate with team leads on designing work tests
Team retreat coordination: Help Amy set the strategy for team retreats and assist with presentations and documentation
Financial Management
Budgeting: Help propose and manage the team’s $10–15 million budget, track spending throughout the year, and review outgoing payments.
Fundraising: Project manage major funding proposals, coordinate input from Amy and team leads, and own shaping the final deliverables
Execution Support
Program management: Run weekly events team meetings and provide roaming support for key decisions and initiatives across the team
Ad hoc event support: Attend events as needed, volunteer when helpful, and make yourself available for extra tasks. This might include liaising with important speakers or handling urgent operational needs.
Amy will retain ownership of final decisions on program strategy and team vision, while you'll own the operational execution of many strategic initiatives and serve as a key strategic advisor and accountability partner.
About You
We’re looking for a strong operator who can be detail-oriented and process-focused, while also being excited about strategic work and high-level decision-making. We're seeking someone who finds fulfillment in multiplying the impact of others through their work and can embrace both high-level and execution-focused responsibilities with a positive attitude, recognizing how administrative excellence contributes to our mission.
You might be an ideal candidate if you can demonstrate many of these traits:
Embrace a service mindset: You're comfortable moving between strategic and administrative responsibilities, recognizing that tasks like meeting preparation, calendar management, and expense reports are essential to our mission's success
Excel at project management and implementation: You've successfully managed complex projects requiring planning, attention to detail, time management, and coordination across multiple stakeholders
Combine strategic thinking with operational excellence: You can generate valuable insights into program effectiveness, build useful dashboards, make data-driven recommendations, and then execute on strategic initiatives
Have strong EA context and judgment: You understand the EA community, CEA’s goals, and can make strategic recommendations about program priorities while contributing meaningfully to high-level discussions
Are an excellent communicator: You have strong written and verbal communication skills, can explain the reasoning behind decisions, and feel comfortable coordinating with colleagues at all levels as well as external stakeholders
Thrive in dynamic, high-ownership environments: You're comfortable with ambiguity, can prioritize effectively across competing demands, and are energized by significant autonomy and responsibility
Work effectively across time zones: Comfortable with some time zone differences (we have team members all over the world) and asynchronous work coordination
Are excited about delivering world-class events: You're interested in the opportunity to help execute EA's largest events portfolio, and value how exceptionally run events can facilitate meaningful connections, drive collaboration, and spark new projects and ideas.
We understand that no candidate will meet every criterion, and we expect our strongest candidates to demonstrate many of these qualities rather than all of them. If you are genuinely excited about our mission and can see yourself making a meaningful contribution to the team, we encourage you to apply.
Other Information
This is a full-time, remote position reporting to the Director of Events. We prefer applicants who can work with significant intersection with Eastern Time.
This role will involve travel. Depending on the location, there are likely 4–6 trips annually, including several international trips to attend team retreats and support events worldwide.
Start date: We'd ideally have you start as soon as possible (approximately 3–4 weeks from offer acceptance), but can be flexible for the right candidate.
Compensation
US: total compensation package of $128,143, comprising a base salary of $116,494 and a 10% unconditional 401k contribution.
UK: total compensation package of £76,275, comprising a base salary of £69,341 and a 10% pension contribution.
Other locations: For candidates based outside the US/UK, we will review local compensation data and norms to determine salary and benefits, while maintaining alignment with our internal compensation philosophy and grade structure.
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, 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 jobs@centreforeffectivealtruism.org.
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