Special Projects Manager (Communications Team) at Future of Life Institute (FLI)

Job Description

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is hiring a Special Projects Manager for the Communications Team. The Communications Team produces a excessive quantity of design and digital work — web sites, marketing campaign microsites, occasion identities, stories and property — for a worldwide viewers, typically on quick timelines tied to coverage moments. We work with a retained exterior studio that delivers design and growth from briefs, supported by a small in-house group. You would be the one that makes that mannequin work – driving various tasks from preliminary scoping all the best way to completion.

The Special Projects Manager will report on to the Director of Communications.

Who we’re

FLI educates and engages lawmakers, key stakeholders, and most people about transformative applied sciences and their implications. We advocate for insurance policies and approaches that mitigate catastrophic dangers whereas advancing optimistic futures for humanity.

As Special Projects Manager, you’ll:

• Develop briefs: translate stakeholder necessities into clear, actionable artistic and technical briefs, and push again constructively when asks are unclear, conflicting or unscoped.

• Oversee challenge efficiency and progress: work with inner and exterior stakeholders to outline what success seems like for every challenge, combine these objectives into design and content material methods, and develop/execute comms tasks that mirror them.

• Identify, onboard and handle companies and contractors: i dentify the ability gaps required to make a challenge shine, then supply and steer expertise to fill these gaps via net growth companies or particular person freelancers.

• Own high quality assurance: outline what “performed” seems like — reviewing deliverables in opposition to transient, model pointers and accessibility requirements (WCAG), operating structured overview rounds, and holding the ultimate high quality bar earlier than something ships.

• Product innovation: ideate and develop digital merchandise to assist obtain FLI’s mission and meet org aims.

• Run particular tasks: ship multi-month initiatives akin to overseas artistic contests finish to finish.

• Steward model coherence: work with the web site growth company to take care of our design system and preserve high-volume output visually constant.

Required expertise and {qualifications}:

• Based in a timezone between West Coast, USA and the UK (UTC-8 to UTC+1).

• Proven means to coordinate advanced, multi-stakeholder tasks — snug navigating competing priorities, securing alignment from senior colleagues, and turning messy enter into clear path.

• A observe report of constructing or considerably bettering supply processes — consumption, overview, QA or approval workflows — not simply working inside them.

• Project administration expertise throughout design, communications and/or digital/net tasks, ideally together with managing exterior companies.

Required expertise and qualities:

• Genuine curiosity in FLI’s mission and the problems we work on — capable of characterize our work credibly to companies, judges, contest entrants and companions.

• Sharp high quality instincts and the arrogance to ship issues again after they’re not proper (ideally provable with a portfolio of shipped work you’ve quality-assured).

• Calm underneath deadline strain; snug saying no and providing options.

Preferred {qualifications}, expertise and qualities:

• Experience operating participatory or multi-stakeholder tasks — contests, awards, grant rounds, festivals or related.

• Familiarity with web site supply: CMS platforms and sufficient technical literacy to triage points and discuss credibly with builders.

• Working information of web optimization and digital viewers development: technical and on-page fundamentals, analytics instruments (e.g. GA4, Search Console), and the way content material and marketing campaign selections have an effect on attain.

• Nonprofit, coverage, advocacy or marketing campaign expertise.

$100,000 – $190,000 a 12 months

Exact compensation will fluctuate relying on expertise and geography.

For US hires, further advantages embrace: medical health insurance, 24+ days of PTO per 12 months, paid parental depart, 401k matching within the US, a work at home allowance for the acquisition of workplace provides or gear, and knowledgeable growth price range.

Exact advantages will depend upon location.

Application Deadline: 2nd October 2026

Start Date: We’d just like the chosen candidate to start out as quickly as attainable after accepting a suggestion.

Application Process: Apply by importing your resume, a portfolio of design merchandise you will have high quality assured (if obtainable), alongside a brief reply to the next query(s):

• In 200 phrases or much less, please describe the digital or communications challenge you’re most pleased with engaged on. What was the challenge and the way had been your contributions important to its success.

• In 200 phrases or much less, define why are you curious about working at FLI particularly

Please apply through our web site. Email purposes will not be accepted.

FLI goals to be an inclusive group. We proactively search job purposes from candidates with various backgrounds. If you’re enthusiastic about FLI’s mission and suppose you will have what it takes to achieve success on this position although you might not examine all of the containers, please nonetheless apply. We would recognize the chance to contemplate your software.

Questions could also be directed to [email protected].

About the Future of Life Institute

Founded in 2014, FLI is an impartial non-profit working to steer transformative know-how in the direction of benefiting life and away from excessive large-scale dangers. Our work contains grantmaking, instructional outreach, and coverage engagement.

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

Some of our achievements embrace:

• Superintelligence Statement, an open letter calling for a prohibition on the event of superintelligent AI till there’s robust public buy-in and scientific consensus that it may be developed safely and controllably. The letter has been signed by greater than 130,000 individuals, together with Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Steve Wozniak, Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Prince Harry and Susan Rice.
• Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest – From 180+ submissions, we chosen 6 successful artworks that greatest illustrate the dangers of superior synthetic intelligence.
• The Asilomar AI Principles, one of many earliest and most influential units of AI governance rules.
• The Pro-Human AI Declaration, a doc with 5 pointers on how AI growth should be centred on humanity first, created throughout a gathering of bipartisan civil society teams spanning religion, labour, and suppose tanks.
• How would a nuclear conflict between Russia and the US have an effect on you personally?- A scientifically correct simulation exhibiting the implications of nuclear conflict, with over 6 thousands and thousands views and a function in Time Magazine.

FLI is a largely digital group, with a group of roughly 40 distributed internationally, largely in Europe and the US. We have 4 places of work: Campbell in California, Brussels in Belgium, London within the UK, and Washington DC. We meet in individual as a full group twice a 12 months.