The Singularity Institute is hiring an executive assistant near Berkeley

Louie

The Singularity Institute is hiring an executive assistant for Executive Director Luke Muehlhauser.

Right now his limiter (besides the need for some sleep and recreation) is not (1) cognitive exhaustion after a certain number of hours or (2) akrasia, but instead (3) needing to spend lots of time doing things that don't need to be him: e.g. hunting down the best product for X and buying it, shopping for food, finding names and email addresses for the top 30 researchers in field X, finding motorcycle classes and a motorcycle so he can stop paying so much for cabs when he doesn't have time for public transport, scheduling meetings with dozens of donors and collaborators, finding a good location for activity X, preparing an itinerary and buying plane tickets, and hundreds of other small things. (Some of these are 'life' things, some of these are SI things, but hours are hours.) Luke may also ask his executive assistant to handle certain tasks for other SI staffers.

Benefits:

Work directly with some of the central figures of Less Wrong, especially Luke(prog)
Work from home most of the time, with a somewhat self-determined schedule
Trial period at $15/hr for 20 hrs/week; if all goes well then get hired full-time at SI's standard starting salary of $3k/month

Responsibilities:

Represent our organization in a professional manner at all times
Manage scheduling and appointments for Luke
Prepare and manage correspondence professionally and accurately
Coordinate travel arrangements for Luke
Online and local shopping and transport
Internet research
Whatever else Luke needs done

Job requirements:

Good interpersonal skills and strong team-player attitude
Capable of clean, professional written communication with proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar
Positive, friendly and helpful attitude
Ability to handle sensitive and/or confidential material and information
Must pay strong attention to detail
Professional demeanor, dedicated and reliable, conscientious
Computer & internet literate
Own a car
Live in or near Berkeley, CA

Bonus points if you...

...have read the Core Sequences
...have experience as a personal or executive assistant
...have even better creative non-fiction writing skills than is required for professional correspondance
...are handy with Google Scholar
...know a good amount of math, statistics, computer science, or cognitive science
...have some skills in graphic design / presentation design

How to apply:

Send an email to jobs@intelligence.org with the subject line "Executive Assistant Position". Include your cover letter as plain text in the email body, and attach your résumé in PDF format.

The Singularity Institute is hiring an executive assistant for Executive Director Luke Muehlhauser.

Benefits:

Work directly with some of the central figures of Less Wrong, especially Luke(prog)
Work from home most of the time, with a somewhat self-determined schedule
Trial period at $15/hr for 20 hrs/week; if all goes well then get hired full-time at SI's standard starting salary of $3k/month

Responsibilities:

Represent our organization in a professional manner at all times
Manage scheduling and appointments for Luke
Prepare and manage correspondence professionally and accurately
Coordinate travel arrangements for Luke
Online and local shopping and transport
Internet research
Whatever else Luke needs done

Job requirements:

Good interpersonal skills and strong team-player attitude
Capable of clean, professional written communication with proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar
Positive, friendly and helpful attitude
Ability to handle sensitive and/or confidential material and information
Must pay strong attention to detail
Professional demeanor, dedicated and reliable, conscientious
Computer & internet literate
Own a car
Live in or near Berkeley, CA

Bonus points if you...

...have read the Core Sequences
...have experience as a personal or executive assistant
...have even better creative non-fiction writing skills than is required for professional correspondance
...are handy with Google Scholar
...know a good amount of math, statistics, computer science, or cognitive science
...have some skills in graphic design / presentation design

How to apply:

Send an email to jobs@intelligence.org with the subject line "Executive Assistant Position". Include your cover letter as plain text in the email body, and attach your résumé in PDF format.

As one of the folks who made this argument in the other job thread, I'm going to disagree with you. Paying an assistant $36k/yr seems low to me for the Bay Area, but $100k/yr is probably out of line. These all seem like assistanty things that draw more modest salaries. Indeed.com puts the average for administrative assistants in SF at $43k/yr, so given that it's non-profit, it's certainly in range. Do SIAI jobs come with health insurance?

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