We decided on a dual-entity structure because some of 80k’s work — for example, giving career advice to someone who is considering work at a for-profit — falls outside the scope of what the UK Charity Commission considers clearly charitable, and having only a charitable entity would restrict our ability to engage in this work. At the same time, receiving donations through a non-charity entity is much less tax efficient. These two considerations mean we settled on a dual-entity structure — where the charity funds only our clearly charitable work — even though it’s more complex.
(Note that 80,000 Hours Limited is a non-profit — it’s just not a registered charity.)
Update: Our spin-out from Effective Ventures is now complete. We've established 80,000 Hours Limited and 80,000 Hours Foundation, each with their own board. See our recent blog post for details.
80,000 Hours has completed its spin-out and has new boards
We're pleased to announce that 80,000 Hours has officially completed its spin-out from Effective Ventures and is now operating as an independent organisation.
We've established two entities with the following board members:
80,000 Hours Limited (a nonprofit entity where our core operations live):
Konstantin Sietzy — Deputy Director of Talent and Operations at UK AISI
Alex Lawsen — Senior Program Associate at Open Philanthropy and former 80,000 Hours Advising Manager
Anna Weldon — COO at the Centre for Effective Altruism and former EV board member
Anna Weldon — An overlapping member of both boards
Within our mission of helping people use their careers to solve the world's most pressing problems, we've recently sharpened our focus on careers that can help make AI go well. This organizational change won't affect our core work or programs in any significant way, though we're excited about the strategic guidance our new boards will provide and the greater operational flexibility we'll have going forward as we address these crucial challenges.
See our blog post announcing our completed spin-out here.
We’re looking for a Head of Video to start, and run, a new video programme at 80,000 Hours.
This is a senior hire. We’re looking for someone who will:
Come up with a strategic vision and plan for producing videos at 80,000 Hours
Hire, and then manage, a team executing on that vision
Be responsible for getting feedback on and evaluating the impact of their videos.
Exactly what these videos look like, and how they get made, would be up to you.
Salary, benefits & location
Salary will vary based on your skills, fit, and experience, but to give you a sense, the starting salary for a promising Head of Video with 5 years of relevant prior experience would be £80k per year (though would be higher for an exceptionally strong fit for the role).
We're open to remote applications, though we’d prefer if remote candidates can spend some significant time in London.
Employee benefits include private healthcare, pension scheme/retirement account with employer contributions, a £5k mental health allowance, £5k self-development budget, 10% self-development time, up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a childcare allowance for children under 5.
About you
We're looking for:
Interest in EA/longtermism/80k’s mission
Strong judgement, especially for setting a strategic vision
Clear communication, especially for getting buyin on that vision / stakeholder management
Video and/or content experience is not required, but you do have to be the kind of person who could get obsessed with online video production.
For full details of what we're looking for and what the role will involve, check out the full job description.
Our mission is to get talented people working on the world's most pressing problems — we aim to be the world's best source of support and advice for them on how to do so. We’ve had over 10 million readers on our website, have 450,000 subscribers to our newsletter and have given 1on1 advice to over 4,000 people. After 'personal contact', we're the top way people who get involved in EA first hear about it (ahead of the combined "book, article, or blog post"), and we're the most commonly cited factor for 'getting involved' in the EA community. Over 1,000 people have told us that, due to engaging with us, they have significantly changed their career plans and expect to have a larger social impact as a result.
We’re looking for a new Marketer to help us reach our target audience at scale, by managing channels within marketing, contributing to our strategy, and helping to deploy our marketing budget.
We’re looking for a new Head of Marketing to lead our efforts to reach our target audience at scale, by setting and executing on a strategy, managing and building a team, and deploying our yearly budget of $3mn.
Salary, benefits & location
~£58-80k depending on the role and your experience. We'd prefer you to work in-person in London, but we’re open to remote candidates.
Employee benefits include private healthcare, pension scheme/retirement account with employer contributions, a £5k mental health allowance, £5k self-development budget, 10% self-development time, up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a childcare allowance for children under 5.
About you
We're looking for:
Interest in EA/longtermism/80k’s mission
Strong judgement
Excellent communication skills
For the head of marketing role: either management experience or you could become a great manager with experience.
Marketing experience isn't required for either role but would be a bonus, as would other relevant experience (e.g. measurement and evaluation of a product or programme, product experience, communications experience).
For full details of what we're looking for and what the roles will involve, check out the full job descriptions.
You can apply to whichever seems like the right fit for you — if it seems like the other role is a better fit later in the process, we can change this later on.
About 80,000 Hours
Our mission is to get talented people working on the world's most pressing problems — we aim to be the world's best source of support and advice for them on how to do so. We’ve had over 10 million readers on our website, have 450,000 subscribers to our newsletter and have given 1on1 advice to over 4,000 people. After 'personal contact', we're the top way people who get involved in EA first hear about it (ahead of the combined "book, article, or blog post"), and we're the most commonly cited factor for 'getting involved' in the EA community. Over 1,000 people have told us that, due to engaging with us, they have significantly changed their career plans and expect to have a larger social impact as a result.
I wanted to quickly say thank you for your suggestion that orgs increase information sharing transparency. I haven't seen this discussed elsewhere, and I think it's a good idea! It's now on our list of things to consider for future hiring rounds at 80k.
Here’s a quick update to say that we’ve closed this fundraising round.
If you’re still interested in donating to 80,000 Hours, we always welcome donations through our Giving What We Can donation page and are excited to hear from potential donors at [email protected].
We have also updated the donate page of our site — updating the metrics to cover the whole of 2023 and making an adjustment to account for cookie banner changes in 2023 which affects our growth over time metrics. Going forward, our page is a better source of up-to-date information than this forum post.
Hi Vasco,
We decided on a dual-entity structure because some of 80k’s work — for example, giving career advice to someone who is considering work at a for-profit — falls outside the scope of what the UK Charity Commission considers clearly charitable, and having only a charitable entity would restrict our ability to engage in this work. At the same time, receiving donations through a non-charity entity is much less tax efficient. These two considerations mean we settled on a dual-entity structure — where the charity funds only our clearly charitable work — even though it’s more complex.
(Note that 80,000 Hours Limited is a non-profit — it’s just not a registered charity.)
- Inés
Update: Our spin-out from Effective Ventures is now complete. We've established 80,000 Hours Limited and 80,000 Hours Foundation, each with their own board. See our recent blog post for details.
80,000 Hours has completed its spin-out and has new boards
We're pleased to announce that 80,000 Hours has officially completed its spin-out from Effective Ventures and is now operating as an independent organisation.
We've established two entities with the following board members:
80,000 Hours Limited (a nonprofit entity where our core operations live):
80,000 Hours Foundation:
Within our mission of helping people use their careers to solve the world's most pressing problems, we've recently sharpened our focus on careers that can help make AI go well. This organizational change won't affect our core work or programs in any significant way, though we're excited about the strategic guidance our new boards will provide and the greater operational flexibility we'll have going forward as we address these crucial challenges.
See our blog post announcing our completed spin-out here.
Ah, thanks, that's now fixed!
Thanks, fixed!
80,000 Hours is hiring a Head of Video!
Role
We’re looking for a Head of Video to start, and run, a new video programme at 80,000 Hours.
This is a senior hire. We’re looking for someone who will:
Exactly what these videos look like, and how they get made, would be up to you.
Salary, benefits & location
Salary will vary based on your skills, fit, and experience, but to give you a sense, the starting salary for a promising Head of Video with 5 years of relevant prior experience would be £80k per year (though would be higher for an exceptionally strong fit for the role).
We're open to remote applications, though we’d prefer if remote candidates can spend some significant time in London.
Employee benefits include private healthcare, pension scheme/retirement account with employer contributions, a £5k mental health allowance, £5k self-development budget, 10% self-development time, up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a childcare allowance for children under 5.
About you
We're looking for:
Video and/or content experience is not required, but you do have to be the kind of person who could get obsessed with online video production.
For full details of what we're looking for and what the role will involve, check out the full job description.
Apply
Apply by 23:59 on 25 August 2024:
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Our mission is to get talented people working on the world's most pressing problems — we aim to be the world's best source of support and advice for them on how to do so. We’ve had over 10 million readers on our website, have 450,000 subscribers to our newsletter and have given 1on1 advice to over 4,000 people. After 'personal contact', we're the top way people who get involved in EA first hear about it (ahead of the combined "book, article, or blog post"), and we're the most commonly cited factor for 'getting involved' in the EA community. Over 1,000 people have told us that, due to engaging with us, they have significantly changed their career plans and expect to have a larger social impact as a result.
80,000 Hours is hiring to the Marketing team!
Roles
Marketer
We’re looking for a new Marketer to help us reach our target audience at scale, by managing channels within marketing, contributing to our strategy, and helping to deploy our marketing budget.
Head of Marketing
We’re looking for a new Head of Marketing to lead our efforts to reach our target audience at scale, by setting and executing on a strategy, managing and building a team, and deploying our yearly budget of $3mn.
Salary, benefits & location
~£58-80k depending on the role and your experience. We'd prefer you to work in-person in London, but we’re open to remote candidates.
Employee benefits include private healthcare, pension scheme/retirement account with employer contributions, a £5k mental health allowance, £5k self-development budget, 10% self-development time, up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a childcare allowance for children under 5.
About you
We're looking for:
For the head of marketing role: either management experience or you could become a great manager with experience.
Marketing experience isn't required for either role but would be a bonus, as would other relevant experience (e.g. measurement and evaluation of a product or programme, product experience, communications experience).
For full details of what we're looking for and what the roles will involve, check out the full job descriptions.
Apply
Apply for the Marketer role, or apply for the Head of Marketing role, by 23:59 on 18 August.
You can apply to whichever seems like the right fit for you — if it seems like the other role is a better fit later in the process, we can change this later on.
About 80,000 Hours
Our mission is to get talented people working on the world's most pressing problems — we aim to be the world's best source of support and advice for them on how to do so. We’ve had over 10 million readers on our website, have 450,000 subscribers to our newsletter and have given 1on1 advice to over 4,000 people. After 'personal contact', we're the top way people who get involved in EA first hear about it (ahead of the combined "book, article, or blog post"), and we're the most commonly cited factor for 'getting involved' in the EA community. Over 1,000 people have told us that, due to engaging with us, they have significantly changed their career plans and expect to have a larger social impact as a result.
I wanted to quickly say thank you for your suggestion that orgs increase information sharing transparency. I haven't seen this discussed elsewhere, and I think it's a good idea! It's now on our list of things to consider for future hiring rounds at 80k.
-- Sash, Head of Recruiting at 80k
We also offer audio version of those highlights for all episodes on the '80k After Hours' feed: https://80000hours.org/after-hours-podcast/
Here’s a quick update to say that we’ve closed this fundraising round.
If you’re still interested in donating to 80,000 Hours, we always welcome donations through our Giving What We Can donation page and are excited to hear from potential donors at [email protected].
We have also updated the donate page of our site — updating the metrics to cover the whole of 2023 and making an adjustment to account for cookie banner changes in 2023 which affects our growth over time metrics. Going forward, our page is a better source of up-to-date information than this forum post.