Senior Program Officer, Neglected Animals
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Program Officer advancing Rethink Priorities’ research and action for neglected terrestrial invertebrate welfare. Evaluating interventions, commissioning external work, and coordinating stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct decision-oriented analysis and intervention evaluations for neglected terrestrial invertebrate welfare
- Run shallow intervention reviews and make defensible recommendations within fixed time budgets
- Identify and interview experts when academic and gray literature is insufficient
- Analyze production systems, economics, costs, and potential commercial viability at scale
- Specify external analytical work and quality-assure contractor deliverables
- Analyze published financial disclosures to assess company or sector trajectories
- Scope, commission, and manage external contractors or consultancies
- Decide when to stop external work that is not delivering
- Organize coordination events and follow through on agreed actions
- Write and present funder updates on project achievements, shortcomings, and improvements
- Present work at conferences and build field relationships
- Identify and evaluate new opportunities, running with promising ideas or ending ineffective ones
- Exercise discretion over sensitive information
- Manage contractors and external partners; no current line management of RP staff
- Spend roughly half the time on farmed terrestrial invertebrates and half on wild invertebrates, with the balance shifting as opportunities change
Requirements:
- Professional level of English required
- Analytical judgment under time pressure
- Ability to scope vague questions, identify critical assumptions, choose defensible methods, and deliver usable answers by deadlines
- Experience specifying work for and overseeing contractors, consultants, agencies, or external teams
- Quantitative reasoning and comfort building, interrogating, and explaining simple models
- Ability to produce back-of-the-envelope calculations and express confidence using numbers and words
- Clear written communication for non-specialist decision-makers
- Comfort working with deep uncertainty and providing transparent, caveated, decision-useful answers
- Sound judgment about handling sensitive information
- Pragmatism and flexibility when priorities change
- Commitment to truthseeking and research ethics
- Commitment to improving the welfare of neglected animals, with openness to focusing on terrestrial invertebrates
- Ability to work at least 30 hours per week; full-time preferred
- Ability, ideally, to attend 4–6 work-related events per year, often requiring international travel
- Desirable: techno-economic analysis, unit-economics modeling, or industry/market analysis
- Desirable: interpreting company financial statements, statutory accounts, or investor disclosures
- Desirable: invertebrate biology or entomology knowledge
- Desirable: agricultural production systems, animal feed, crop protection, or waste management knowledge
- Desirable: low- and middle-income country experience, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia
- Desirable: grantmaking, due diligence, procurement, or contract management experience
- Desirable: funder, grant-maker, or board reporting experience
- Desirable: convening or facilitating multi-organization processes
- Desirable: stakeholder mapping, scenario analysis, or SWOT skills
- Desirable: proficiency with R or Python
- Desirable: animal advocacy movement experience
- Desirable: working proficiency in a language other than English
- Desirable: experience overseeing projects in remote, distributed teams
- Desirable: comfort working in an AI-forward workplace
Benefits:
- Remote-first environment with flexible work hours and schedule
- Comprehensive global benefits program, including statutory and country-specific supplemental benefits
- Unlimited vacation with minimum statutory days off
- Three weeks of organization-wide mid- and end-year breaks
- Unlimited personal and sick paid and unpaid leave
- 4–9 months of combined paid and unpaid parental leave
- Other paid and unpaid leave, including bereavement leave
- $2,000 USD-equivalent technology stipend every 3 years
- $40 USD-equivalent monthly AI tools budget
- Workshops and training sessions
- 10% of work time dedicated to professional and personal development
- Paid work trips, including annual all-staff Mega Team Retreat and relevant conferences
- Virtual co-working spaces
- RP Peer Support Program for New Employees
- Flexible work schedules and locations
- Mental health coverage through medical benefits, where available
- Other benefits at the discretion of RP Leadership
- Paid skills assessment
- Reasonable accommodations and accessibility support
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