Our Grants Operations Team makes it possible for CEA’s Program Officers and Heads of Funds, experts in animal welfare, AI safety, global health and wellbeing, and the EA community, to move money to the people and organizations who can do the most good with it. We handle the operations behind our grantmaking: diligence, compliance, payments, monitoring, and the systems that hold it all together, across a growing set of funds. As our grantmaking and fundraising scale, we’re building the team and infrastructure to match.
CEA is at an inflection point. Our grantmaking and associated fundraising are scaling rapidly: the EA Animal Welfare Fund has raised more than $40M in the first half of 2026 alone (more than the three previous years combined) and we expect our other funds to have similar potential. We anticipate deploying more than $150M from across our funds over the coming years.
As we grow, we’re looking for an experienced grants operations leader to ensure that many millions of dollars move correctly, compliantly, and fast toward the work that improves lives today and safeguards our future.
This is a senior management role reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, and a high-leverage one at the center of CEA’s fastest-growing area. You’ll own our grantmaking operations, serve as our in-house authority on US charitable grantmaking, build the systems and team that let it keep scaling, and hold sign-off on how the grants function is designed. Some of the most interesting work will be the grants that don’t fit a standard template: high-risk, high-impact, and dependent on someone finding the compliant path that makes them possible.
This is a US-based role. Our grantmaking runs through our US entity, meaning you’ll need to be a US resident who can act on behalf of the organization, for example opening financial accounts and serving as a representative where a US-based person is required.