Impact Evaluator
Future of Life Institute
📍Remote (Global) 🕘 Full Time
💰 $82-$150,000 USD/year ⏳ 26/11/2025
The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is hiring an Impact Evaluator to design and implement systemic impact evaluation across the organization. This role is crucial for systematically capturing grantee voices and providing data-driven insights that will shape our strategy. The Impact Evaluator will report to the Director of Operations and collaborate closely with the Grants Manager to ensure we achieve measurable outcomes aligned with our mission.
As Impact Evaluator, you will:
Design Impact Measurement: Develop and refine the organization's evaluation framework, integrating both qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the short-term and long-term impact of our grants and programs.
Assess the counterfactual impact of each grant: Dive deep on each grant to test the theory of change against real-world impact.
Engage with Grantees: Cultivate strong relationships with grantees, conducting interviews and surveys to gather comprehensive feedback, stories, and data.
Evaluate large scale communications and policy campaigns: Conduct bespoke analysis for major initiatives. Examples include advertising campaigns or outreach to policymakers.
Conduct Data Analysis & Reporting: Translate raw data, grantee feedback, and field research into actionable insights and compelling reports. You will produce reports, case studies, and dashboards for internal learning, funders, and public communications.
Collaborate strategically: Translate evaluation findings into actionable recommendations for the Grants Manager and leadership team. Collaborate to refine grant selection processes, identify strategic gaps, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
Required Qualifications:
A degree in an analytical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
Experience of data administration and analytics, sometimes from disjointed data sets, with the ability to produce high-quality outputs to explain findings clearly.
Willingness to overlap at least one hour of your work day with the standard working day in California, PST.
Skills and qualities required:
Excellent attention to detail.
Skills in both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to translate complex analyses for diverse audiences.
Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management capabilities.
Project management skills with ability to handle multiple concurrent evaluations.
Preferred qualifications, skills and qualities:
Experience designing and applying theories of change.
Knowledge of evaluation methods, ideally of impact evaluation and reporting within a non-profit
Experience working within grantmaking functions.
Experience evaluating policy advocacy, communications campaigns, or research programs.
Familiarity with the AI safety landscape.
Application Process
Apply by uploading your resume, alongside a short answer to the following questions:
What do you think about existential risk and the FLI cause areas? (200 words or less).
Please outline why you feel you are uniquely placed to help us evaluate our impact, given the types of grants we make and the projects we run (250 words or less).
Please apply via our website. Email applications are not accepted.
FLI aims to be an inclusive organization. We proactively seek job applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you are passionate about FLI’s mission and think you have what it takes to be successful in this role even though you may not check all the boxes, please still apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.
Questions may be directed to jobsadmin@futureoflife.org.
