Head of Grantmaking Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $143.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Effective Altruism Israel

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2018

🤲 Charity

🌍 Social Impact

📚 Education

Charity • Social Impact • Education

Effective Altruism Israel is a community focused on using research and careful analysis to help individuals maximize their impact on the world. The organization promotes effective ways to be altruistic, offering career guidance, volunteer opportunities, and insights into effective donating and research. They aim to educate people on how to create the most good possible through various charitable actions and provide resources for impactful decision-making.

📋 Description

• Own accountability for the full grant lifecycle across funds: intake, diligence, structuring, approval, payment, monitoring, reporting, and closeout • Partner with Program Officers and Heads of Funds to align workflows, risk ownership, and decision rights with fund goals • Ensure complex grants are properly structured from the outset • Partner with Finance on payment requests, documentation, approvals, system records, and tracking grant funds • Serve as CEA's in-house authority on US charitable grantmaking and advise leadership on permissible funding and conditions • Own diligence, OFAC/sanctions screening, audit-ready recordkeeping, risk appetite, and use of external counsel • Lead cross-border grantmaking and build in-house capability around recipient-country requirements • Own compliant grants to individuals, including charitable class, objective selection, grant-versus-compensation distinctions, and overseas withholding/reporting • Advise on DAF grantmaking and possible c4 or organizational DAF structures • Find compliant structures for non-standard grants, including recoverable grants, PRIs, fiscal sponsorship, regranting, and pooled funds • Lead and grow the Grants Operations Team, currently two people • Serve as senior point of contact for grantmakers and navigate sensitive stakeholder conversations • Facilitate collaboration between the Grants Team and EA Funds Team • Design scalable grantmaking systems, fast-track workflows, and higher-risk grant processes • Codify processes into SOPs, templates, and internal guidance • Set direction and approve grants-function architecture, systems, documentation standards, and board reporting • Sharpen monitoring and evaluation processes with Program Officers and Heads of Funds • Report to the Chief Operating Officer

🎯 Requirements

• Substantial hands-on experience in US charitable grantmaking; depth of experience matters more than years • Deep working knowledge of domestic 501(c)(3) grants, grants to non-charities, grants to individuals, international grantmaking including recipient-country law, public charity lobbying limits, and DAF rules • Experience structuring non-standard grants and building compliant paths for high-risk, high-impact grants • Track record of turning a manual operation into a streamlined or automated one while retaining appropriate judgment • Calibrated judgment to make and defend hard calls and recognize when external counsel is needed • Credibility to advise Program Officers and Heads of Funds through expertise rather than authority • Experience managing and developing people, with enthusiasm for coaching a growing team • US resident able to act on behalf of the organization where a US-based person is required • Full-time availability • Familiarity with effective altruism cause areas is a bonus • Experience running a fellowship or individual-grants program at scale is a bonus • Experience standing up a DAF, c4, or other non-standard grantmaking vehicle is a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• 10% unconditional 401k contribution • Private health insurance • Flexible work hours • $6,000 annual professional development allowance • $6,000 mental health support allowance • Extended parental leave • Ergonomic equipment • 25 days of paid vacation • Travel to team retreats and other events, including several international trips