[Hiring] Senior Research Manager @Rethink Priorities

Role Description

Rethink Priorities' Animal Welfare Department produces research and strategic advice to help the animal advocacy movement do the most good for animals. The department is splitting into three teams:

• The AI and Animals Team helps the movement navigate an AI-transforming world.
• The Frontiers Team focuses on neglected animals (such as shrimp) and emerging topics (such as breeding for welfare).
• The new Animal Movement Foundations Team will support and accelerate the animal advocacy movement toward achieving its core goals.

The Animal Movement Foundations Team will involve a mix of consulting work, in-house research, and other activities. Recent consulting work has included:

• Economic analysis of egg prices for a policy advocacy organization.
• Prioritization of welfare tech ideas for a venture studio.
• Research on alternative protein regulation to guide a large grantmaker with a $10m+ portfolio.

The team will also run the annual Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum and may build capacity for other actions to enable the success of the movement.

The department seeks to hire a Senior Research Manager to lead this new team. This is a leadership role in a growing and restructured department. You will work with the Director to set a strategy for this team covering:

• Project prioritization.
• Measuring and maximizing impact for animals.

You will also work on hiring, managing incoming consulting projects, designing research processes, and managing staff.

Qualifications

• Impact first: Driven to have as much impact for animals as possible.
• Decision-oriented research experience: Experience conducting or overseeing research aimed at informing or influencing a specific stakeholder's decision.
• Good judgment: Demonstrated judgment in prioritization and decision-making under uncertainty.
• Management experience: Experience managing or mentoring others, including people with deeper expertise than yours.
• Strategy and process design: Experience of, or clear ability to set a team's strategy and build processes to deliver it.
• Research review skills: Ability to interrogate both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Communication skills: Excellent reasoning transparency and strong ability to synthesize complex information.
• Delivery: Track record of getting projects finished on deadline.
• Consulting experience: Identifying the decision a client is facing and shaping or declining work accordingly.
• Experience of the animal movement: Professional or voluntary experience of animal advocacy.
• In-depth expertise in a relevant area: Such as economics, policy and regulation, M&E, or animal science.
• Events and convening experience: Running convenings or facilitating events.
• Talent development experience: Running talent programs or fellowships.
• Grantmaking experience: Distributing funds and evaluating organizations for funding.

Requirements

• Ability to work in a remote, asynchronous, international environment.
• Professional level of English language required.
• Availability for meetings between 3pm and 5pm UK time on most weekdays.
• Open to full-time and part-time candidates who can work at least 24 hours per week.

Benefits

• Annual salary between $98,500 - $125,000 USD pre-tax.
• Remote-first environment with flexible work hours.
• Comprehensive global benefits program.
• Generous paid time off (PTO) and unpaid leave.
• Technology stipend of $2,000 USD equivalent every 3 years.
• Professional Development Budget of $4000 USD per year.
• Paid work trips, including one annual all-staff Mega Team Retreat.
• A caring team that values respectful work relations and a healthy work-life balance.