EAIF is part of Effective Altruism Funds (EA Funds), which is the grantmaking arm of CEA. EA Funds directs financial resources to particularly cost-effective and impactful projects across four funds: the EA Infrastructure Fund, the Long-Term Future Fund, the Animal Welfare Fund, and the Global Health and Development Fund.
It’s a particularly exciting time to join EA Funds. The team’s recent integration with CEA allows it to benefit from shared infrastructure and opens up significant opportunities for programmatic synergies. We’ve also seen the Animal Welfare Fund scale from ~$3M to $10M in a single year under full-time leadership, with tens of millions more expected, and we believe significant growth is also possible for EAIF with the right person at the helm.
The EA Infrastructure Fund occupies an important position in the EA funding landscape. It is one of the very few funders dedicated to EA “meta” efforts: the work that multiplies the impact of direct work on the world’s most pressing problems. Its scope spans the organizations, research, and initiatives that support the EA ecosystem as a whole: funding EA groups around the world, supporting efforts to communicate EA ideas to new audiences, backing research on cause prioritization, seeding effective giving platforms that move donations to high-impact charities, and more. While EAIF is not quite alone in supporting that ecosystem, the landscape for meta-EA funding remains far thinner than for cause-specific work — and there are important areas, such as communication about EA principles, cause prioritization research, or smaller or early-stage projects, that would likely not get supported without EAIF. You will shape and lead the strategy of this fund, and in doing so, play a significant role in whether the EA ecosystem lives up to its potential.
You will be responsible for high-quality grantmaking, strategic leadership of the fund, and fundraising. You will make grants yourself – including actively sourcing high-impact opportunities – while working to grow the fund’s capacity over time.
With EAIF’s integration into CEA and this new leadership hire, we’re looking to bring fresh strategic energy to the fund. As the fund’s leader, you’ll have significant latitude to define what EAIF should focus on and how it can add the most value. The right candidate will be guided by EA principles, think rigorously about where EAIF’s marginal dollar does the most good, and be willing to update that thinking over time.
We are genuinely open to your perspective on questions like:
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How should EAIF position itself relative to other funders supporting the EA ecosystem?
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What types of grants and grantees should EAIF prioritize to best support the community’s potential to do good?
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How do we make EAIF a compelling product for donors, whether they’re already excited about supporting EA infrastructure or just starting to see its value?
Community Building Grants
In addition to leading EAIF, you will also lead an updated version of CEA’s Community Building Grants (CBG) program, primarily focused on its grantmaking role. This program will continue to provide funding to professionalized local and national EA communities around the world. It is a distinct program with its own funding sources and grantmaking process, but its mission is closely aligned with EAIF’s scope. We see the combination of these responsibilities as a natural fit and an opportunity to take a more integrated view of how funding supports the EA community ecosystem.
Contributing to EA Funds’ broader strategy
As a senior member of the EA Funds team, you’ll also contribute to the overall strategic direction of EA Funds more broadly — sharing insights from EAIF’s work, collaborating with other fund leads, and helping strengthen the platform as a whole.
These goals will be supported by other teams at CEA. CEA’s Marketing and Communications team will partner with EA Funds to highlight the work of grantees, and we plan to hire fundraising staff to facilitate donations to EA Funds.