“Open Phil’s GCR team is growing – and we’re hiring several Chiefs of Staff” by George Rosenfeld, maura

Open Phil's Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) team is growing quickly. This year, we expect to make well over $500M in grants across our AI and biosecurity work (that's more than a 60% increase over 2024) and we’re hoping to expand that significantly over the months and years to come. We’re currently hiring several Chief of Staff roles for different parts of our GCR team, each of which we think could substantially boost some of our top priority projects. Specifically, we’re hiring: A Chief of Staff for our GCR leadership team, working with Emily and George to oversee the full GCR portfolio, identify and execute on the next large areas of AI safety grantmaking that should exist at OP, and develop a forward-looking strategy as we continue to scale.  A Chief of Staff for a new short AI timelines special projects team, working with Claire to identify and spin up high-priority projects which would be particularly valuable under short AI timelines.   A Chief of Staff for our Technical AI Safety team, working with Peter to further expand our rapidly-growing technical research program (which has already 3x’ed to ~$150M in grants over the past year).  An Associate Program Officer[1] on our [...] ---Outline:(01:58) Why these roles?(04:49) What does a Chief of Staff actually do?(06:13) Apply to OP! --- First published: November 18th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ekpa33QNJzsYeuHsr/open-phil-s-gcr-team-is-growing-and-we-re-hiring-several --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.