Head of Guidance and Preparedness
Independent nonprofit supporting frontier-AI insiders who want to raise concerns through research, policy advocacy, and access to vetted legal and financial resources.
About The AI Whistleblower Initiative (AIWI)
AIWI supports AI-industry whistleblowers, their support organizations, lawyers, and journalists. Its active services include anonymous independent concern assessment, a directory of support organizations, and guidance on legal and financial support; it also conducts AI whistleblowing policy research and advocacy.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will research high-priority AI disclosure scenarios and turn findings into practical guidance, tools, and response plans. You will conduct stakeholder consultations and workshops, manage fellows and contractors, build an expert network, train partners and insiders, and shape strategic priorities.
Requirements
- Strategic thinking
- Project management
- Stakeholder management
- Frontier AI organizational knowledge
- Technical understanding
- Research
- AI safety
- AI governance
- Incident response
- Emergency preparedness
- Threat modeling
- Communication
- Expert network
- Authorization to work in the US
Responsibilities
- Design and run research on AI disclosure guidance gaps
- Conduct stakeholder consultations and scenario workshops
- Commission and manage fellows and contractors
- Develop actionable guidance, tools, and processes
- Train insiders and partner organizations
- Build and maintain a trusted expert network
- Prepare response plans for high-sensitivity disclosures
- Advise on risk categories, company functions, and disclosure priorities
- Initiate projects that close gaps in the whistleblowing process
Hiring Process
Application review → introduction call → hiring-manager interview → work task → final interview with founder → references