Recruiter - Grantmaking Support

Open Philanthropy is now Coefficient Giving. You can read more about this decision and our growing work with multiple philanthropic partners on our new website here.

Coefficient Giving is growing rapidly. The organization has almost doubled in size over the past two years, and the Recruiting team has overseen every step of those acquisitions, helping teams do everything from identifying their initial hiring needs to making final offers. We develop and implement the systems by which Coefficient Giving finds and evaluates top talent, and serve as its institutional memory and point of call for all things hiring.

The team currently has eight members, led by Phil Zealley. Coefficient Giving's impact relies on having top talent work on important problems. To support that mission, we’re looking to add more recruiters to enable Coefficient Giving to grow our team and our impact.

Recruiting at Coefficient Giving currently comprises three work streams – pipeline development, round management, and active grantmaking support. Roughly, pipeline development is everything we do to get strong candidates to apply, and round management is everything we do to help hiring managers hire the strongest candidate from the applicant pool. Active grantmaking support is a mixture of both, but importantly involves sourcing leaders to found initiatives that address critical gaps in the AI safety and global catastrophic risk ecosystems.

This posting is for the active grantmaking support workstream.

Note:

if you submitted an application for the Recruiter role that was recently advertised and indicated your interest in this workstream there, you do not need to submit another application.

You’ll represent Coefficient Giving to candidates, hiring managers, and external partners, serving as a key face of the organization. You’ll spend time maintaining and improving our recruiting systems and working on strategic projects, such as developing hiring forecasts, updating evaluation processes in response to LLM developments, and building new dashboards for data analysis.

In essence, supporting active grantmaking founder searches means you’ll help to launch new initiatives by finding the right leaders to run them. When our program teams identify a critical gap in the ecosystem, you’ll support the search for founders. This involves:

• Project management: Managing the logistics and timeline of founder searches from start to finish, including determining evaluation steps, planning search timelines, coordinating between program staff for interviews and assessment, tracking overall progress, and ensuring (almost!) nothing falls through the cracks. You’ll also set up and maintain the back‑end systems for each search to ensure seamless operations.
• Broad candidate sourcing and screening: Conducting screening calls with potential founders to assess their interest, fit, and strategic alignment with the project vision. Many strong candidates have only recently become engaged with AI risk and aren’t yet in our networks, so you’ll help with outreach and candidate assessment to identify and bring in new talent.
• Candidate evaluation and experience management: Reviewing applications, interviewing candidates, and developing or advising on work tests specific to founder assessments. You’ll keep candidates engaged, informed, and excited throughout search processes, responding to questions and requests, and ensuring all parties stay updated as searches evolve.
• Network building and partnerships: Cultivating internal and external referral networks relevant to founder searches. This includes managing relationships with external partners (such as grantees, relevant community organizers, and peer organizations) who can refer strong founder candidates, and serving as a point of contact for these relationships.
• External firm management: Managing relationships with executive search firms when we engage them for particularly specialized searches.
• Systems, reporting, and guidance: Maintaining and improving systems for tracking leads, relationships, and sourcing outcomes for founder searches. You’ll advise program staff on key decisions, maintain legal…