Operations Associate

WANT A SINGLE JOB TO SERVE MANY AI SAFETY PROJECTS? ASHGRO IS HIRING AN OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE

WHAT IS ASHGRO?

https://www.ashgro.org/

Ashgro helps AI safety projects focus on AI safety.

We offer fiscal sponsorship to AI safety projects, saving them time and allowing them to access more funding. We save them time by handling accounting, management of grants and expenses, and HR. We allow them access to more funding by housing them within a 501(c)(3) public charity (Ashgro Inc.), which can receive grants from pretty much any source.

Search for ‘Ashgro’ in https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2025/recommendations to find examples of projects we're sponsoring.

WHAT DOES AN OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE DO AT ASHGRO?

Handle parts of tickets, whole tickets and eventually address just generally described opportunities or problems. You'll start out doing very basic tasks, but we aim to move you up the ladder to more and more complicated or open-ended tasks as quickly as we (and you) can. Given that we're a small team, though, some share of very basic tasks will remain your responsibility for the foreseeable future.

Examples of very basic tasks:

- Create tickets, link them to existing tickets and add forms to them.

- Fill details into an email template and send the email.

- Upload an invoice to a procurement platform every month.

- Transfer money to prize recipients.

Examples of well-defined tasks:

- Put together invoices and send them to the UK government.

- Respond to a fiscal sponsorship inquiry.

- Advise project staff on what expenses are allowed or not allowed.

- Review expenses for compliance.

- Ask our lawyer for legal advice and implement it.

Examples of high-level work:

- Create and document processes.

- Figure out how to handle tax withholding for prize payments and communicate about it with project staff.

- Understand why we're not getting deposits from a set of grants and figure out how to get that unstuck. Including finding a solu...