Senior Advisor, GCR Partnerships

Coefficient Giving • San Francisco, CA

2d • $295,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Coefficient Giving is hiring a Senior Advisor to build and deepen relationships with major donors in the San Francisco Bay Area who are interested in reducing global catastrophic risks. We believe the next few years represent a unique opportunity to significantly scale philanthropic funding for AI safety and biosecurity. The Senior Advisor will support a new generation of major donors early in their philanthropic journey, helping them move quickly toward concrete, high-impact giving.
The decisions made in AI and biosecurity over the next few years will matter enormously. Your job is to ensure more philanthropic capital reaches the highest-impact opportunities, faster than it would otherwise.
About Coefficient Giving
Coefficient Giving is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, we’ve 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.
We’re proud of our track record:
Our grants to evidence-backed global health programs have saved over 100,000 lives, and our farm animal welfare grants have improved the lives of over 3 billion animals.
We supported the late-stage clinical trials for the R21 malaria vaccine, now being scaled to protect millions of kids globally.
We were the earliest major funder of the YIMBY movement to build more housing. Our grantees have led the charge on major wins like City of Yes in New York and SB 79 in California, which will enable hundreds of thousands of new housing units.
We jump-started the field of AI safety and security and have played a vital role in addressing other existential threats, such as mirror bacteria.
About the Partnerships team
The Partnerships function was launched in 2024, leveraging our internal research and grantmaking expertise to direct donors to the highest-impact funding opportunities available. In 2025, Partnerships helped direct more than $200 million to high-impact causes outside our core relationship with Good Ventures. We see the coming years as a unique opportunity to be even more ambitious in scaling this work.
The Partnerships team builds relationships with philanthropists who are interested in cost-effective giving across our cause areas. Within our Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) portfolio, we find and match donors with promising but unfunded opportunities in AI safety and biosecurity. (This is strategic advisory work, not fundraising for Coefficient’s own vehicles.) The GCR Partnerships team currently works closely with more than two dozen donor partners to fill funding gaps at worthwhile projects and seed new organizations. We manage the entire pipeline, from building relationships with existing and potential donors to matching them with suitable opportunities and reporting back on the impact of their giving. Over time, we expect to significantly scale our work, advising on hundreds of millions of dollars in new GCR funding annually.
Our work blends donor relationship support, opportunity matching, grantee coordination, and system-building for a new, growing function. We are a small, nimble team that works fast and aspires to embody Coefficient Giving’s operating values: ownership, openness, calibration, and inclusiveness.
About the role
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a growing cohort of donors who are ready to deploy significant philanthropic capital cost-effectively across many causes, including AI safety and biosecurity. We’re building the advisory infrastructure to meet that moment, and we expect the most important partnerships to require a higher level of staffing and support than we’ve provided to date.
We're looking for someone who can engage as a peer with major donors who have deep technical backgrounds in AI (alongside other ultra-high-net-worth philanthropists). We tend to work with people who are deeply informed about AI developments and care a lot about cost-effectiveness. We’re looking for a Senior Advisor who speaks that language.
The Senior Advisor would serve as a trusted advisor, translating donor interest into high-impact grants and building a durable network of philanthropists focused on reducing global catastrophic risks. They would co-own and help scale our engagement with major philanthropists, ensuring that more capital flows to high-impact GCR opportunities, particularly those that benefit from a diversified funding base.

Requirements

• Ability to clearly explain AI risk concepts: Has enough knowledge and insight to present core arguments and trade-offs to varied audiences; understands the landscape of AI interventions and can speak credibly about complex topics.
• Pre-existing GCR network: Familiarity with the AI safety and biosecurity ecosystem; knows the key organizations, funders, and ideas.
• Sociable: Draws energy from in-person relationship building; enjoys spending time in social settings like happy hours, conferences, and small group meetings.
• High-stakes communicator: Comfortable with accomplished leaders; offers candid, decision-relevant advice.
• Relationship builder with judgment: Tailors engagement; balances persistence with respect for constraints.
• Operations mindset: Juggles multiple workflows; keeps systems clean; moves quickly without dropping details.
• Ownership and initiative: Spots bottlenecks, proposes fixes, and drives to-dos with minimal oversight.
• Calibration and humility: Updates views as evidence changes; seeks and incorporates feedback.

Nice To Haves

• People who have done direct work in AI and adjacent areas — for example, employment at a think tank, policy advocacy organization, or AI company.
• People who have experience in partnerships, philanthropy, or client-service environments.
• People who have experience in management consulting or investment research.
• People who have built and led small teams or a growing function, especially one with high levels of senior visibility.
• Prior fundraising exposure is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Build the next generation of GCR philanthropists: Identify and cultivate emerging major donors early in their giving journey; develop programming and content strategies to move high-potential individuals toward substantial GCR-aligned commitments.
• Serve as the senior GCR Partnerships presence in the Bay Area: Build and sustain peer-level relationships with major donors, foundation leaders, and senior figures across the tech industry and leading AI safety nonprofits; represent the team at dinners, convenings, and conferences; be a go-to thought partner for philanthropists navigating GCR giving.
• Shape and activate funding opportunities: Craft compelling cases for time-sensitive or strategically important opportunities; advise donors on portfolio construction, timing, and where their capital can be most valuable.
• Drive cross-team strategy: Contribute to team-wide priorities, including donor landscape analysis, partnership strategy with peer foundations and advisories, and material development.

Benefits

• Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the U.S. 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. This policy also includes a productivity benefit, which provides a set amount for staff to expense items that enhance their productivity.
• A continual learning policy that encourages staff to spend time on professional development with related expenses covered.
• Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one, or connect you with a Coefficient Giving coworking hub in your city. We currently have offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and multiple staff working from several other cities in the U.S. and elsewhere.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed