Global Government Engagement Lead

Partnership on AI is the leading forum addressing the most important and difficult decisions on the future of AI.

We are a non-profit that invites diverse voices into the process of technical governance, design, and deployment of AI technologies.

Our essential Partners work together across industry, academia, and civil society to understand the implications of AI advancements and ensure they benefit society equitably.

Through dialogue, insight, education, and guidance, PAI informs responsible AI solutions and identifies opportunities to address humanity’s pressing challenges.

Partnership on AI (PAI) is seeking a Global Government Engagement Lead to drive the organization’s government engagement portfolio. This Lead will join PAI’s expanding public policy department, reporting to the Senior Managing Director of Public Policy.

AI policy continues to develop in a variety of forms globally, including through an evolving regulatory landscape, the emergence of newly formed institutions and new roles being explored by traditional multilateral bodies (e.g. the UN and OECD). These developments are taking place alongside the release of a number of AI tools and voluntary frameworks developed by industry, civil society and academia.

Against this backdrop, the Partnership on AI plays an important role in working to ensure that both AI technologies and the policies used to govern them benefit and protect people and society. The Global Government Engagement Lead will work to inform global public policy, advance public understanding, and ensure the adoption of best practices by PAI partners, wider AI stakeholders and government to support the design, development and deployment of equitable and responsible AI systems.

• Develop tailored engagement strategies for priority jurisdictions and institutions, mapping key stakeholders and assessing each government's focus areas, priorities, and gaps, in consultation with the Senior Managing Director of Public Policy.
• Identify new government partners and deepen existing relationships, including supporting PAI's representation within bodies such as the OECD
• Recommend thematic priorities for each jurisdiction, grounded in PAI's programmatic work and shaped through consultation with teams like Programs & Research.
• Working with the Senior Managing Director of Public Policy, scope out opportunities to formalize collaboration with government entities, developing MoU proposals for review and execution by PAI Legal.
• Represent PAI in international and jurisdiction-specific policy discussions, and organize multi-stakeholder convenings with policymakers and PAI Partners.
• Deliverables include engagement plans per jurisdiction/institution, and draft MOUs where appropriate.

• Lead PAI's submissions to government calls for evidence, drawing on PAI's programmatic research and analysis to meet tight deadlines.
• Work across PAI teams to translate research and data into clear, credible public policy positions and short, briefing documents.
• Design and deliver listening sessions and convenings that gather and share evidence directly with policymakers.

• Working with the Senior Managing Director of Public Policy, our Managing Director International and Partnership/Program teams, support PAI's engagement strategy for major government events, summits, and multilateral fora, working with the events team, programmatic leads, and the Policy Steering Committee.
• Design convenings (e.g. round tables) that advance PAI's organizational strategic goals, and lead the summary documents and position papers that follow.
• For each external…