Program Officer​/Senior Program Officer, Strategic Communications — AI Governance and Policy

Location

Remote - Global

Full time

Grantmaking - AI Governance and Policy

Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, we’ve directed over $4 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment to cost-effective, high-impact giving. Our current funds include Science and Global Health R&D, Navigating Transformative Artificial Intelligence, Abundance & Growth, Farm Animal Welfare, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness, and more.

In 2025, we recommended over $900 million to high-impact causes.

The AI Governance and Policy (AIGP) team funds work aimed at reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI, and is housed under our broader work on navigating transformative AI, the largest fund at Coefficient Giving. This fund aims to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in grants annually over the coming years across a wide range of priorities, several of which you can read about here.

Decision-makers and the general public will need a much better understanding of the challenges posed by transformative AI if societies are to successfully navigate its development. We want to support strategic communications projects and organizations that will help build understanding of these challenges and support for addressing them.

This is a grantmaking role where you'll be identifying, funding, and supporting the people and organizations best positioned to do strategic communications related to AI governance. Your job will be to build the strategic communications capacity of the AI governance field by finding high-impact opportunities, scoping new projects, recruiting the right people to run them, evaluating potential grants, and helping grantees succeed.

The Final date to receive applications for the role is January 19, 2026
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Grantmaking experience is not required for this role. We expect many of our strongest candidates to be new to philanthropy, and to come from backgrounds like communications, advocacy, or campaigns. What matters most is your strategic communications expertise and your interest in applying it to help build this field.

We’re hiring at either the Program Officer (PO) or Senior Program Officer (SPO) level.

• A Program Officer would be experienced in strategic communications (5–10 years of relevant experience) and excel in the traits described below. You would drive forward our strategic communications grantmaking with significant autonomy over priorities and execution.

• A Senior Program Officer would be an expert in strategic communications (10+ years) and would fully own our strategic communications grantmaking, taking leadership of the vision, strategy, and tactics we pursue in that portfolio.

Both roles will have the opportunity to substantially influence AIGP's overall strategy, manage other team members, and (especially for the SPO role) build a team focused on AI strategic communications. For candidates with exceptional experience, we’re open to hiring at a more senior level.

• Develop strategy — Build and refine our approach to funding strategic communications measures that might help actors — particularly governments and relevant organizations — address risks from transformative AI systems. This includes identifying which audiences matter most, understanding what messages resonate with them, mapping the landscape of relevant actors, and adapting as the policy and technical environment evolves.

• Source and evaluate opportunities — Most of this work is proactive: scoping new projects, identifying the right organizations or individuals to execute them, and convincing talented people to take on new work. Projects might span polling and audience research; media tracking and engagement; coalition building; spokesperson recruitment and training; convenings; and media, social media, and ad campaigns. You would also evaluate inbound proposals and make grants for rapid-response work as opportunities arise.

• Support grantees — Help the…