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Epoch AI is looking for an Operations Associate to help us grow and support our team. This person will manage our recruiting, onboarding, and offboarding processes, and support our staff in various other ways to help our organisation thrive. It's a great opportunity for generalists looking to contribute to a mission-driven team working on making sure AI goes well.
Salary: $60,000 to $70,000 pre-tax depending on previous experience. This role is open to full time candidates only.
Location: Remote. We are a fully remote organization, and we are able to hire in...
Hey Robi! Yeah, I agree fiscal sponsorship can be a misleading term, since "sponsor" suggests someone who provides money. In the case of fiscal sponsorship, what the sponsor provides is tax-exempt status. I'd be somewhat reticent to use another term because this one is widely used in the nonprofit world. From Wikipedia:
Fiscal sponsorship refers to the practice of non-profit organizations offering their legal and tax-exempt status to groups (...). It typically involves a fee-based contractual arrangement between a project and an established non-profit.
I do ...
FYI, the lottery system described above as a means to distributing prizes is illegal in the US (states have a monopoly on random lotteries, unfortunately)
Basically, if a payment system involves three features together, it will likely be illegal:
- Consideration (e.g. you need to spend money or time to be considered for the prize)
- Chance
- Prize (cash or anything of value)
The typical way around this is to get rid of consideration and give an alternative means of entry, e.g. “you can also enter by emailing this email” or similar. This is why promotions often ...
Location: London, UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Skills:
- Communications consulting (I started and still own a copywriting and communications company in Mexico City https://www.contexto.studio/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/contextoestudio)
- Strong generalist start-up/interpersonal/operations skills
- Clear and persuasive writing (experience in journalism, consulting, and the publishing sector)
- Research in the philosophy of the social sciences
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/merilalama/
Good point, thank you for the flag! There's no deadline; we are accepting rolling applications, and we will close the role if and when we make a hire. I've edited the note at the bottom to reflect this.