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The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is hiring a Chief Financial Officer to manage our finances and oversee our investments. The CFO will report directly to FLI's Executive Director. FLI works to reduce global catastrophic risks from transformative technologies and develop optimistic yet realistic visions of the future... As CFO, you will: • Lead our financial operations • Manage our investments and liaise with our investment management team • The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is hiring a Chief Financial Officer to manage our finances and oversee our investments. The CFO will report directly to FLI's Executive Director.

FLI works to reduce global catastrophic risks from transformative technologies and develop optimistic yet realistic visions of the future...

As CFO, you will:
• Lead our financial operations
• Manage our investments and liaise with our investment management team
• Oversee tax filing and manage our external accounting firm
• Coordinate our annual audit process
• Serve as a strategic financial advisor to the Executive Director and Board of Directors
• Partner with the Executive Director and Director of Operations to set annual budgets
• Establish processes to ensure our accounts are kept up to date
• Collaborate with the Director of Operations to select and implement financial management software solutions for e.g. expense management, bill pay
• Maintain appropriate internal controls
• Create quarterly and annual financial statements; monitor results to budget

Required Qualifications:
• 10+ years of finance experience, with a track record of increasing responsibility
• Significant non-profit experience
• Investment management experience
• Experience with annual audits
• Based in the United States. (Remote work is supported)
• Strong analytical abilities
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excited by the prospect of joining a small but influential team looking to improve humanity’s future

Preferred Qualifications:
• MBA
• SF Bay Area physical location is a mild plus. (Remote work in the US is supported)

This is the equivalent of $150k - $250k annually. Compensation will vary depending on experience and geography.

Work Type: This position is envisaged to be part-time (~20 hours per week) but it is possible in some circumstances to be a full-time role.

Application Deadline: June 11, 2023. Rolling applications may be considered after the application deadline if the position has not been filled.

Start Date: We'd like the chosen candidate to start as soon as possible after accepting an offer.

Application Process: Apply by uploading your resume and optional cover letter, alongside a short answer to the following question:

In 200 words or less, please describe a time you improved the way something was being done.

FLI aims to be an inclusive organization. We proactively seek job applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you are passionate about FLI’s mission and think you have what it takes to be successful in this role even though you may not check all the boxes, please still apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

Questions may be directed to jobsadmin@futureoflife.org.

About the Future of Life Institute

FLI is an independent non-profit working to steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks. Since 2014, our work has included grant-making, educational outreach, and policy engagement.

Our work has been featured in The Washington Post, Politico, Vox, Forbes, The Guardian, the BBC, and Wired.

Some of our communications achievements include:
• Pause Giant AI Experiments, an open letter calling for a 6 month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The letter has been signed by more than 30,000 people, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and Andrew Yang.
• The Asilomar AI Principles, one of the earliest and most influential sets of AI governance principles. The Principles have been signed by nearly 2,000 AI/Robotics researchers and nearly 4,000 others.
• Slaughterbots, a viral video raising awareness about the dangers of lethal autonomous weapons.
• The Future of Life Award, which retrospectively awards unsung heroes who made the world a better place. Past winners include individuals who prevented nuclear wars, helped to eradicate smallpox, and solved the ozone crisis.
• Worldbuild.ai, which imagines flourishing futures with strong AI and works out how to get there.

FLI is a largely virtual organization, with a team of 20 distributed across Europe and the US. We have offices in Campbell, California and in Brussels, Belgium, and meet in person as a full team once a year
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In the past couple of years, The Future of Life Institute has expanded rapidly, from only a small part-time team to a full-time staff of 20+ people. We have ambitions to continue growing our team, so we are always on the lookout for talented and proactive people who are aligned with our mission. If you match this description then please consider filling out our 'Rolling applications' form below, so that we can contact you in the event that a relevant In the past couple of years, The Future of Life Institute has expanded rapidly, from only a small part-time team to a full-time staff of 20+ people. We have ambitions to continue growing our team, so we are always on the lookout for talented and proactive people who are aligned with our mission.

If you match this description then please consider filling out our 'Rolling applications' form below, so that we can contact you in the event that a relevant career opportunity arises. Your details will only be used for the purpose of alerting you about relevant career opportunities .

About the Future of Life Institute
FLI is an independent non-profit working to steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks. Since 2014, our work has included grant-making, educational outreach, and policy engagement.

Our work has been featured in The Washington Post, Politico, Vox, Forbes, The Guardian, the BBC, and Wired.

Some of our communications... achievements include:
- Pause Giant AI Experiments, an open letter calling for a 6 month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The letter has been signed by more than twenty thousand people, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and Andrew Yang.
- The Asilomar AI Principles, one of the earliest and most influential sets of AI governance principles. The Principles have been signed by nearly two thousand AI/Robotics researchers and nearly four thousand others.
- Slaughterbots, a viral video raising awareness about the dangers of lethal autonomous weapons.
- The Future of Life Award, which retrospectively awards unsung heroes who made the world a better place. Past winners include individuals who prevented nuclear wars, helped to eradicate smallpox, and solved the ozone crisis.
- Worldbuild.ai, which imagines flourishing futures with strong AI and works out how to get there.

FLI is a largely virtual organization, with a team of 20 distributed across Europe and the US. We have offices in Campbell, California and in Brussels, Belgium, and meet in person as a full team once a year.

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