Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: CEA is hiring a Head of Operations (apply by Sep 16), published by JP Addison on August 16, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.

Application deadline: September 16th 2024. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

We are hiring a Head of Operations to set a newly-independent CEA up for success by establishing our new legal entities, managing our spin-out process, and building a world class operations team.

I (JP) am crossposting the whole job description because I think it's a good look into what a really senior ops role looks like, and what CEA in particular has going on behind the scenes.

CEA is entering a new era having recently appointed a new CEO and begun the process of spinning out from Effective Ventures (EV) to become an independent organisation. With around 40 staff (and growing), a budget of over $25 million, and an established track record of delivering highly impactful programs, we're uniquely well-positioned to steward the effective altruism community, increase its potential for impact, and its capacity to fulfil that potential.

This role is an unusual leadership opportunity to build a team from the ground up within an established organisation. We expect the team to grow quickly, reaching between 5 and 15 people by the time we become independent in 2025.

Most or all of these staff will be new to CEA, and our Head of Operations will play a vital role in ensuring the success of a critical team that will be among the largest at CEA and will provide the infrastructure required for us to implement ambitious and complex projects.

Exceptional candidates will have the potential to grow into an externally-facing community leadership role with the goal of increasing the impact of value-aligned organisations by helping others implement best practices and creating operational infrastructure that can be used throughout the community.

You are well-suited to this senior role if you have experience in operations or systems management and a track record of managing a successful team. You would report to the CEO, and have a significant degree of autonomy in terms of figuring out the best way to achieve our goals and executing plans that deliver them.

Given the scale and complexity of our financial, legal and logistical operations, and the potential for growth, we expect this to be an opportunity for top candidates to have a substantial counterfactual impact.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

What would you do?

This role would involve two main and related responsibilities:

1. Overseeing the creation of the new legal entities, systems and processes necessary for CEA to exist completely independent of Effective Ventures.

2. Leading an Operations team that delivers excellence across the range of its responsibilities and is a strategic thought partner for other teams' and organisations' operational needs.

We expect the spin-out process to take between 12-24 months: faster is better, but we're prioritising making spinning out go well, not necessarily quickly. This process is likely to be complicated and multi-faceted - requiring back and forth with lawyers, external stakeholders, and the relevant regulatory agencies.

As part of Effective Ventures, our operational systems and processes are currently provided to us by the EV Ops team. An independent CEA will likely need to be self-sufficient in the following areas (and potentially others):[1]

Finance: we have a budget of over $25m, a demanding set of reporting requirements, and many of our projects depend on fast, accurate, and well-documented payments to locations and vendors worldwide.

Grantmaking: we support a wide network of community building organisations and individuals with grants that fund their impactful work.

Systems: we use and manage a multitude of systems and services, including Salesforce,...