Community Manager

Responsibilities

• Build meaningful relationships with fellows through one-on-one meetings to learn about their needs, help create a plan for the individual to flourish, provide emotional support, talk through challenges, and receive feedback;
• Execute on our community strategy;
• Coordinate with the Community Lead about fellow needs;
• Collaborate with Research Management and Operations teams, as needed, to support fellows;
• Support fellow orientation and offboarding;
• Facilitate MATS community building by organizing and supervising socials, networking events, and workshops (occasional hosting of events on evening or weekend);
• Help improve the program based on fellow feedback;
• Proactively identify concerns and coordinate with appropriate team members to address them, connecting fellows with appropriate resources;
• Support our engagement with the broader AI alignment and security community, deepening relationships with other organizations and facilitating collaboration with MATS fellows.

Requirements

• 2-5 years experience across a combination of the following:
• Community building (with focus on relationship building)
• People management
• Counselling
• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Autonomy and proactivity;
• Strong interpersonal skills (e.g., patience, active listening, empathy);
• Strong communication skills;
• Comfortable working with private and confidential information;

Preferred

• Experience setting community policies, for example in an HR function;
• Some data analysis skills are a plus, but not required;
• Some knowledge of (or willingness to learn about) AI safety-specific concerns that sometimes bear on community health (e.g. potential consequences of transformative AI as described in this video).

Benefits

• Opportunity to help accelerate and launch the careers of highly talented early-career AI Safety researchers
• Professional development and skill enhancement opportunities, including training and attending industry and professionally-relevant conferences
• Work in a small team and take on responsibility and initiatives
• Collaborative and intellectually stimulating work environment
• Access to our office spaces in London, Berkeley, and other partnered office spaces
• Competitive salary, sick and vacation leave
• Private medical insurance, including dental and vision
• Lunch and dinner provided Monday-Friday