Operations Lead
Odyssean InstituteRemote
Why this is on the board
At a small institute researching how risks such as unsafe AI could disrupt society, the director's time is the bottleneck: whoever takes over fundraising, recruitment and citizens' assemblies gives that time back to research and policy work. The institute is young and pays per project, so what that amounts to depends on how it grows from here.
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About the role
Operations lead managing fundraising, project coordination, and administrative support for a systems-risk research institute. - Support CEO across fundraising, hiring, volunteer management, stakeholder engagement, and communications. - Handle rapid task-switching across grant writing, policy outreach, website management, and citizen assembly coordination. - Requires prior operations, chief-of-staff, or personal assistant experience with comfort in early-stage environments. - Proficiency with…
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