Episode Details

“The EA Opportunities Board now has full-time roles” by Agnes Hasselblad 🔸

Published 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Description

The Effective Altruism Opportunities board now lists full-time roles alongside internships, fellowships, and volunteering opportunities. We’re aiming for it to be a curated home for EA opportunities across all cause areas.

If you’re actively looking for a role you might want to check out the board, and if you’re only passively looking you might want to sign up for the newsletter to get a weekly digest of impactful roles.

History

The Effective Altruism Opportunities Board was originally aimed at helping people find internships, volunteering opportunities, and part-time roles to build skills or contribute to impactful work. It was run by students and young professionals for a long time, and has had multiple iterations over the years.

The Online team at CEA took over the board early 2025, and I started giving it focused attention beginning this year. In April we decided to start listing full-time roles.

Why we added full-time roles

After taking over the board I was exploring if the current niche was still what visitors expected and wanted, and whether it was filling a gap. The board's niche was defined back when 80,000 Hours covered full-time roles across cause areas equally (without focusing more strongly on [...]

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Outline:

(00:45) History

(01:18) Why we added full-time roles

(02:26) Numbers

(03:17) Other improvements

(03:56) We're looking to hire someone to own the board

(04:25) A visual timeline

(05:27) Ways you can help

The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
July 13th, 2026