A short, hand-picked list, with our reason written down for every vacancy on it.
Roles with real leverage on problems that are large, neglected and actually solvable. Work where what you do changes more than one person’s work — and where it matters that you take it, rather than someone who would have been there anyway. How we reason · What counts as doing good?
77 jobs · newest from 22 September
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We are showing it to the Dutch community while it is unfinished, because we would rather hear what is wrong with it now than in six months.
What you will notice: the list is not complete — we follow dozens of Dutch organisations, but nowhere near all of them. The reason we write under each vacancy is our judgement, and it can simply be wrong. The problem-area explainers are not in English yet. And some vacancies close before we catch it.
None of that is a reason to wait before telling us what you think. The opposite.
Five problem areas we track because they are large, neglected and tractable. Pick an area, or go straight to the topic you came for.
Disease and poverty among the poorest people alive today — and the money and policy that move it.
39 jobs
The suffering of animals in food production, and the protein transition that could end it.
10 jobs
Events that could kill a very large share of humanity or permanently end its prospects.
32 jobs
Whether the long-run future goes well if humanity survives: who holds power, and whose values last.
27 jobs
More people taking these problems seriously, and more money reaching the things that work.
8 jobs
For when the problem matters less to you than what you are good at. The same categories Probably Good uses.
If the work itself does not suit you, or you are not the strongest candidate for it, you can still do a great deal by taking a well-paid job and giving away a fixed share of your income. Amsterdam holds one of Europe’s largest trading hubs, so that trade-off is unusually concrete here.
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The board is still in beta, so this is exactly the moment to say what you think. A vacancy we have missed, a judgement you do not share, something that does not work — all of it helps.
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