Impact Evaluator

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is hiring an Impact Evaluator to design and implement systemic impact evaluation across the organization. This role is crucial for systematically capturing grantee voices and providing data-driven insights that will shape our strategy. The Impact Evaluator will report to the Director of Operations and collaborate closely with the Grants Manager to ensure we achieve measurable outcomes aligned with our mission.

Who we are

FLI educates and engages lawmakers, key stakeholders, and the general public about transformative technologies and their implications. We advocate for policies and approaches that mitigate catastrophic risks while advancing positive futures for humanity.

• Design Impact Measurement: Develop and refine the organization's evaluation framework, integrating both qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the short-term and long-term impact of our grants and programs.
• Assess the counterfactual impact of each grant: Dive deep on each grant to test the theory of change against real-world impact.
• Engage with Grantees: Cultivate strong relationships with grantees, conducting interviews and surveys to gather comprehensive feedback, stories, and data.
• Evaluate large scale communications and policy campaigns: Conduct bespoke analysis for major initiatives. Examples include advertising campaigns or outreach to policymakers.
• Conduct Data Analysis & Reporting: Translate raw data, grantee feedback, and field research into actionable insights and compelling reports. You will produce reports, case studies, and dashboards for internal learning, funders, and public communications.
• Collaborate strategically: Translate evaluation findings into actionable recommendations for the Grants Manager and leadership team. Collaborate to refine grant selection processes, identify strategic gaps, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

• A degree in an analytical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience of data administration and analytics, sometimes from disjointed data sets, with the ability to produce high-quality outputs to explain findings clearly.
• Willingness to overlap at least one hour of your work day with the standard working day in California, PST.

• Excellent attention to detail.
• Skills in both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to translate complex analyses for diverse audiences.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Project management skills with ability to handle multiple concurrent evaluations.

• Experience designing and applying theories of change.
• Knowledge of evaluation methods, ideally of impact evaluation and reporting within a non-profit.
• Experience working within grantmaking functions.
• Experience evaluating policy advocacy, communications campaigns, or research programs.
• Familiarity with the AI safety landscape.

Application Deadline: 26 November 2025. Rolling applications may be considered after the application deadline if the position has not been filled.

Start Date: We'd like the chosen candidate to start as soon as possible after accepting an offer.

Application Process: Apply by uploading your resume, alongside a short answer to the following questions:

1. What do you think about existential risk and the FLI cause areas? (200 words or less).

2. Please outline why you feel you are uniquely placed to help us evaluate our impact, given the types of grants we make and the projects we run  (250 words or less).

Please apply via our website. Email applications are not accepted.

FLI aims to be an inclusive organization. We proactively seek job applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you are passionate about FLI’s mission and think you have what it takes to be successful in this role even though you may not check all the boxes, please still apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

Questions may be directed to jobsadmin@futureoflife.org.

About the Future of Life Institute

Founded in 2014, FLI is an independent non-profit working to steer transformative technology towards benefitting life and away from extreme large-scale risks. Our work includes grantmaking, educational outreach, and policy engagement.

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

Some of our achievements include:

- Pause Giant AI Experiments, an open letter calling for a 6 month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The letter has been signed by more than 30,000 people, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and Andrew Yang.

- The Asilomar AI Principles, one of the earliest and most influential sets of AI governance principles.

- How would a nuclear war between Russia and the US affect you personally?- A scientifically accurate simulation showing the consequences of nuclear war, with over 6 millions views and a feature in Time Magazine.

- AI Safety Index - an objective rating of AI companies on key safety and security domains, as judged by experts in the field.

- Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest - From 180+ submissions, we selected 6 winning artworks that best illustrate the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.

FLI is a largely virtual organization, with a team of >30 distributed internationally, mostly in Europe and the US. We have four offices: Campbell in California, Brussels in Belgium, London in the UK, and Washington DC. We meet in person as a full team twice a year.