Operations CoordinatorAssociate in San Francisco or Washington D.C.

At Coefficient Giving our innovative grantmaking demands a robust and high-quality operations team. We always keep an eye out for people who would make great generalist Operations team members to support and improve the running of our organization.

We review applications for these roles on a rolling basis and hope to fill the position as soon as possible. The application will close on December 31 or earlier if the position is filled before then. We will contact you to learn more if we think you might be a fit. By default we wont reach out unless were advancing your application and we might not advance applications right away.

These roles require you to work full-time from one of our offices in either San Francisco or Washington D.C. Well support candidates who are not already based in these areas with relocation costs.

About Coefficient Giving

Coefficient Giving is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014 weve directed over $4 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment to cost-effective high-impact giving. Our current funds include Science and Global Health R&D Navigating Transformative Artificial Intelligence Abundance & Growth Farm Animal Welfare Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness and more. In 2024 we recommended $650 million to high-impact causes.

About the Operations Team

Coefficient Givings impact would not be possible without our outstanding Operations team whose goal is to help the organization run as smoothly and effectively as possible by providing excellent support to our staff grantees and collaborators. Operations work at Coefficient Giving includes the following:

• Supporting staff and program teams Directly supporting staff with administrative tasks (like booking travel purchasing and expensing receiving and forwarding mail internal knowledge management and policy support) and providing support to our program teams (e.g. cleaning up data or notes from grantee calls light research and data analysis organizing files and helping with logistics).

• Ensuring Coefficient Giving has productive and welcoming office spaces Managing and improving our San Francisco and Washington D.C. offices scoping requirements for potential new office hubs greeting visitors providing in-person support and reception managing external contractors ordering supplies and fixing workstations.

• Providing executive assistance Supporting directors and senior executives with logistics calendar management triaging tasks communication and general administration.

• Executing org-wide events Collaborating with our People Operations team to organize and support quarterly Togetherness Week events and an annual retreat to bring our staff together.

• Assisting our IT team Alongside our dedicated IT team members supporting tech-related onboarding provisioning accounts and assisting staff with peripherals (e.g. monitors mice cables).

• Making Coefficient Giving more efficient and effective Investigating and implementing scalable solutions to commonly faced problems (e.g. identifying software to facilitate booking meetings or supporting the optimization of our new staff onboarding flow).

• Handling anything else that needs to get done We are a nimble team that takes on unique operations requests as they arise including ad-hoc tasks and larger projects that facilitate strategic decision-making.
  
  

Who were looking for

We are open to hiring at the Coordinator or Associate level. Coordinator roles dont require specific experience whereas we would expect at least four years of relevant experience at the Associate level.

You might be a great fit if you:

• Communicate effectively and in a professional and welcoming manner. Operations roles typically involve interacting with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

• Work in a responsive agile way; you stay calm when conditions change and can improvise and pivot quickly when priorities shift.

• Enjoy getting stuff done even small or lower-profile tasks. You are excited to contribute to impact-driven work in a supportive capacity; you know that behind-the-scenes tasks are important even if they seem indirect or tedious at face value.

• Have a getting to yes solutions-focused approach. When someone comes to you with a problem you want them to come away with a solution even if that solution looks different from their original ask.

• Work with an operations mindset. You proactively notice whats broken move fast to fix it and continually identify opportunities to do more with the same amount of time and resources.

• Are excited about Coefficient Givings mission and its cause areas. You are enthusiastic about working in an organization that values a wide variety of viewpoints and navigates difficult tradeoffs between cause areas.

We expect all our staff to:

• Put our mission first and act with urgency to help us realize our ambitious goals.

• Work to model our operating values of ownership openness calibration and inclusiveness.
  
  

Role details & benefits

These are full-time onsite roles in our offices in SF and D.C. If you dont live in one of these locations youd need to relocate (wed assist with relocation costs).

• For Coordinators

  • compensation in San Francisco is $108426.08 (comprising a $94283.55 salary and a $14142.53 unconditional 401k grant).

  • compensation in Washington D.C. is $106819.79 (comprising a $92886.77 salary and a $13933.02 401k grant).

• For Associates

  • compensation in San Francisco is $134716.66 (comprising a $117144.92 salary and a $17571.74 unconditional 401k grant).

  • compensation in Washington D.C. is $132720.87 (comprising a $115409.45 salary and a $17311.42 unconditional 401k grant).

Unfortunately we arent able to sponsor visas for these roles so candidates must have work authorization in the US to apply.

If you lack US work authorization please submit a general application instead. Similarly if you are only interested in senior/management roles or roles in research or grantmaking please apply through the general application.

Benefits: Our benefits package includes:

• Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any eligible dependents) and an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain other personal health expenses

• Dental vision and life insurance for you and your family

• Four weeks of PTO recommended per year

• Four months of fully paid family leave

• A generous and flexible expense policy we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment software and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive

• A continual learning policy that encourages staff to spend time on professional development with related expenses covered

• We cant always provide every benefit we offer US staff to international hires but were working on it (and will usually provide cash equivalents of any benefits we cant offer in your country)

Were considering applicants on a rolling basis but we will close applications on December 31 or sooner. Please apply as soon as you can we prioritize early applications and we may stop accepting new applications without notice.

We aim to employ people with diverse experiences perspectives and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can.

We are committed to creating an environment where all employees have the opportunity to succeed and we do not discriminate based on race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability or have any other questions about applying please contact (this email remains the same as we transition to our new email alias).

US-based Operations staff are typically employed by Coefficient Giving LLC which is not a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. As such these roles are unlikely to be eligible for public service loan forgiveness programs.

AI/ML notice: We may use AI to assist in the initial screening of applications but every application is carefully reviewed by a human before any decisions are made.

You can opt out of AI being used on your application by emailing to let a member of the team know. Opting out will not impact your application.

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