You can read the full job description here. 

Application deadline: December 29th. Applications will be processed on a rolling basis, so early applications are encouraged.

Expected hours: Full-time (40 hours per week) or part-time (at least 6 hours per week)

Location: Remote, ability to co-work with other EA organizations in the Trojan House in Oxford

Compensation: $60 per hour for part-time staff, between $60,000 and $100,000 (based on experience) for full-time staff. For full-time employees, we offer generous benefits, described below.

Start date: As soon as possible, ideally February or early March 2025

If you know of anyone who might be a good fit for this role, please forward this to them and encourage them to apply. 

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to the fund chair, Karolina, at [email protected]

We are also seeking expressions of interest in the role of Fund Development Officer/Manager/Director. You can read more about this here. 

About EA AWF

The AWF's mission is to alleviate the suffering of non-human animals globally through effective grantmaking.

Our grants portfolio prioritizes interventions that can collectively have the highest impact and help the greatest number of animals. Thus, we support projects focused on:

• Reducing suffering and improving the lives of animals in factory farms
• Bringing factory farming to an end
• Positively affecting other groups of animals on a large scale
• Supporting these goals by researching and piloting novel approaches and interventions

Since its founding in 2017, AWF has emerged as a major funder in effective animal advocacy (EAA), distributing $23.3M across 347 grants and contributing to building a more robust and diverse funding ecosystem. 2024 brought many positive changes and improvements to the fund, and we have ambitious plans for the future. You can read our 2024 review here.

Why join us?

• Joining the AWF as a fund manager offers a high-impact opportunity to alleviate animal suffering on a global scale. AWF is dedicated to transforming animal welfare by deploying funds strategically to the most promising and effective interventions across a range of neglected and emerging areas, such as factory farming and invertebrate and wild animal welfare.
• As a fund manager, you would be directly involved in identifying and evaluating grant opportunities and deciding how millions of dollars should be spent to advance AWF’s mission to maximize positive impact.
• This role includes an intellectually stimulating process of assessing projects for the strength of their theory of change, scale of counterfactual impact, cost-effectiveness, and more.
• You will be able to increase your knowledge across all areas that AWF’s grantmaking supports, such as policy advocacy, corporate reform, emerging welfare initiatives, movement building, and other strategies, as well as across various species such as chickens, wild animals, invertebrates, fish, and more.
• You will also contribute to the broader ecosystem: By communicating your reasoning to the community through communications with applicants and public payout reports, you will indirectly contribute to the culture and epistemics of the EA and effective animal advocacy (EAA) community. By providing feedback, you will help existing projects improve. In the longer term, your work will help develop the capacity to allocate a potentially much greater volume of funding each year. While doing so, you will interact with other intellectually curious, experienced, and welcoming fund managers, all of whom share a profound drive to make the biggest difference they can.
• You will be offered a competitive salary and generous benefits designed to best support you and your work.

Responsibilities

We are interested in experienced grantmakers, professionals working in various roles at animal advocacy organizations (such as campaign managers, policy experts, corporate outreach specialists, or program coordinators), and researchers, as well as junior applicants who are looking to build experience in grantmaking.

As a fund manager, your primary goal will be to source, investigate, and make decisions about grant opportunities, while also having the ability to contribute to other areas of AWF’s work.

• Your core responsibilities will include:
  • Investigating and evaluating grants assigned to you
  • Reviewing and engaging with other fund managers’ grant recommendations
  • Voting on grant recommendations (each fund manager can vote on each grant)
  • Sourcing high-quality applications based on your ideas and fund strategy (‘active grantmaking’)
  • Communicating your thinking to the community in writing, e.g., feedback to grantees, grant reports, EA Forum posts and comments
• If they wish, each fund manager can also contribute beyond those responsibilities to wider priorities of the fund, such as:
  • Providing input on the overall strategic direction of the fund
  • Conducting monitoring, evaluation, and learning based on previous grants
  • Improving grant evaluations and other processes
  • Broader responsibilities in communicating about our work and grantmaking
  • And more.

If you are interested in the fund manager role - please apply here.

If you know of anyone who might be a good fit for this role, please forward this document to them and encourage them to apply. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to Karolina via [email protected]

Applications are open now until the 29 of December.

We look forward to hearing from you!