Description

Build and lead Future Matter's new US AI governance coordination initiatives, keeping the work and the stakeholders moving forward.

Requirements

APPLY HERE: https://careers.future-matters.org/40653

Instead of a cover letter, please answer the short-answer questions below. Please keep answers to 150 to 200 words and don't spend too long editing or formatting.

**Q1: About you** Please share with us how your background and experience are relevant to the skills and qualities listed in the job description. Take this opportunity to highlight accomplishments, experience, and interests that may not be clearly evident in your resume, that you feel are important or would be useful in this role. Where success was achieved by a team, make your specific contributions clear. *(200-300 words)*

**Q2: Field Coordination** Tell us about a time you needed to bring together different parties to agree on a course of action. What were you trying to do? What was the greatest barrier you faced and how did you overcome it? What would you do differently next time? *(150–250 words)*

Responsibilities of the role
- Gain a working command of Future Matters' impact maximization and strategy methodology.
Grow and deepen the existing U.S. coordination infrastructure by deepening relationships, facilitating more candid exchange, and stand up new, responsive forums based on the developing needs.
- Build and lead new US AI governance coordination initiatives. Identify and bring together the right players, establish coalition priorities different stakeholders support, lead the group to alignment on shared priorities and into taking action on these priorities.
- Keep the work and the stakeholders moving forward by being the engine behind winning conditions: you will be responsible for bottleneck diagnosis, backward-chaining, and sequencing the work to ensure barriers and sticking points are identified and ameliorated as quickly as possible.
- Build joint foresight, increasing our collective rapid-response capability by prototyping and running a shared horizon-scanning practice so foreseeable developments get surfaced early, allowing for better chances to anticipate windows of opportunity and capitalize upon them. Build coalition members’ capacity so groups can act quickly and effectively when a sudden window opens.
- Understanding coordination challenges and finding opportunities. Develop a credible, peer-supported answer as to where the AI governance field could be better coordinated and how to achieve this, including a list of what our team could offer specifically that would add the most value.
Adapt as things change: treat plans as provisional, with a bias to action and a "safe enough to try" instinct. Be excited to revise your strategy and sequencing as political and technical developments disrupt assumptions and change the landscape.
- Contribute to strategy craft and capacity-building outputs. Feed insights back into Future Matters' guides and workshops, helping partners across the field work more strategically.
- Support fundraising for this work. Contribute case studies of recent wins, surface intelligence on funding opportunities, and add expert knowledge to grant applications, working with our Partnerships team.

You will work most closely with Managing Director, Justus Baumann, who is leading Future Matters' AI work. We also expect to expand the AI team in the first months after your start. You will also occasionally support colleagues from our Partnerships team and other members of the team.