Research Manager
Independent nonprofit supporting frontier-AI insiders who want to raise concerns, through research, policy advocacy, and access to vetted legal and financial resources.
Funding history
About The AI Whistleblower Initiative (AIWI)
AIWI operates whistleblower-support services and AI-policy work. Its active offering includes Third Opinion, an anonymous expert-opinion service for frontier-AI concerns, plus directories of legal and financial support and advocacy to improve AI-company whistleblowing policies.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will maintain and prioritize the research backlog, scope and manage external researchers, and move research from draft to publication. You will establish scalable research processes, maintain an expert network, support education delivery, and surface findings that shape the organization’s research strategy.
Requirements
- Research quality
- Research operations
- Project management
- Contractor management
- Editorial work
- Publication
- AI safety
- AI policy
- Organizational dynamics
- Psychology
- Law
- Journalism
- Stakeholder management
Responsibilities
- Maintain and prioritize the research backlog
- Translate strategic priorities into well-scoped research questions
- Track dependencies and flag changing priorities
- Source and match contractors and fellows to research questions
- Scope engagements and manage deliverables and timelines
- Provide feedback on drafts and keep research on track
- Own the draft-to-published pipeline
- Edit outputs to publication-ready standards
- Establish research templates, review processes, and quality standards
- Maintain a network of contractors, fellows, and expert reviewers
- Surface research insights and process improvements for strategy