Fish Welfare Initiative
Website:
fishwelfareinitiative.org
Job details:
Fish Welfare Initiative is hiring a Director of Programs to oversee our growing Programs team and execute scalable, cost-effective, and evidence-based programs. We are additionally seeking someone who can be a co-leader of our organization and take on founder-level responsibilities.
If you are extremely organized, excited by travel and life in India and possibly other countries, and driven to reduce the suffering of farmed animals, this could be the perfect role for you.
More info and application form here: http://fwi.fish/director-of-programs
Requirements
- Experience: We are requiring that candidates have a minimum of two years of leadership experience in order to be eligible. The more experience, the better. The following are the types of experience we think would be particularly relevant:
- Leadership experience running a charity (particularly one that might have come from the Ambitious Impact program).
- Having run an evidence-based global health program, such as the sort that might be recommended by GiveWell.
- Etc.—we are open to a variety of profiles here.
- Language: You are fluent in written and oral English.
- Location: You are excited to spend significant time living in rural India or our other countries of operation, particularly in the first few years. We are not going to place a minimum time here, though we will prefer applicants who are excited to spend more time or live full-time.
The Fine Print
- Position-Status: Full-time, permanent.
- Start Date: ASAP, with some flexibility.
- Salary Range: Flexible. We have a wide budget of $25K to $80K for this role, depending on the applicant's needs (e.g., cost of living).
- Benefits: Generous paid time off (up to 40 days personal leave), parental leave, flexible hours, and the opportunity to work for a cause you believe in.
Key Responsibilities
The following are the key responsibilities you would have:
1 - Oversee the Implementation of our Program(s) in India
A. Program selection: Drawing on R&D findings, decide which interventions move forward as programs, and flag when existing programs should be sunset or restructured.
B. Design, delivery, and scale: Shape new programs from the ground up, redesign existing ones, and bring them to scale — with the goal of improving the lives of thousands of farmed fishes cost-effectively.
C. Impact: Measure and report what FWI's work is achieving. Commission or run studies as needed.
2 - Lead the Programs Department
A. Staff: Build and manage the Programs team. Over time, the team will likely include several Program Leads, each running a large-scale program.
B. Goals: Set the department's annual goals (OKRs) and steer the team toward them.
C. Budget: Plan annual (or longer) budgets, and ensure the money is well spent.
3 - Organization-level Leadership
A. Culture: Embody FWI's values day to day, and help build a workplace where others can too.
B. Leadership decisions: Join leadership meetings and support key organizational decisions.
C. Public representation: Speak for FWI beyond your department — in talks, blog posts, and newsletters.
About Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI)
Fish Welfare Initiative is an animal welfare organization that focuses on one of the most numerous and neglected groups of farmed animals: fishes.
We work to improve farmed fish welfare by developing and implementing scalable, cost-effective, and evidence-based interventions. Our core program, the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture (ARA), partners with fish farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India to improve water quality and reduce stocking densities. Our Research & Development (R&D) department designs and tests new interventions that can become future programs.
FWI is currently in an intervention-development phase: running ARA while investing heavily in R&D. We expect one of our ongoing studies—most likely feed fortification—to reach the pilot and scaling stage within the next year, and bringing that work to scale would be a central part of your role.
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