EA - Summer Internships at Open Philanthropy - Global Health and Wellbeing (due Feb 26) by ChrisSmith

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Summer Internships at Open Philanthropy - Global Health and Wellbeing (due Feb 26), published by ChrisSmith on February 9, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.We’re excited to announce that the Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization team at Open Philanthropy will again be hiring several interns this summer to work with us on research to help pick new causes to support. We think this is a great way for us to grow our capacity, develop research talent, and expand our pipeline for future full-time roles. The key points are:Applications are due at 11:59 PM Pacific on Sunday, February 26, 2022.Applicants must be currently enrolled in a degree program or working in a position that offers externship/secondment opportunities.The internship runs from June 5 to August 11-25 (with limited adjustments based on academic calendars) and is paid ($1,900 per week) and fully remote.We’re open to a wide variety of backgrounds, but expect some of the strongest candidates to be enrolled in master's or doctoral programs in the social sciences.We aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can. We particularly encourage applications from people of color, self-identified women, non-binary individuals, and people from low and middle income countries.Full details (and a link to the application) are available here and are also copied below.We hope that you’ll apply and share the news with others!About the internshipWe’re looking for students currently enrolled in degree programs (or people whose work offers externship/secondment opportunities) to apply for a research internship from June-August 2023 and help us investigate important questions and causes. We see the internship as a way to grow our capacity, develop promising research talent, and expand our recruiting pipeline for full-time roles down the line. We plan to treat interns as team members working on the team’s core priorities, while also showing them how Open Philanthropy works and helping them build skills important for cause prioritization research.Most projects will take the form of “opinionated, short research briefs” – synthesizing expert opinion, academic research, and prior views to get to a bottom line on an important question or promising area. Examples of projects our interns have taken on in the past include:assessing how greater risk of conflict from climate change should affect our social cost of carbonevaluating tobacco control as an area for high impact grantmakinghelping with a major internal project focused on determining Open Philanthropy’s optimal spending pathWe expect that future interns will work on additional shallow investigations on diverse and potentially highly impactful topics — such as community health workers in low- and lower-middle income countries, the elimination of non-compete clauses from employment contracts, and vaccine adjuvants. Interns will work on multiple projects of different depths in the same way as full-time team members. Specific projects will depend on the team’s needs and the intern’s skills. Interns will report to an existing cause prioritization team member and participate in team meetings and discussions, including presenting their work to the team for feedback.Like the day-to-day work of our full-time Research and Strategy Fellows, the internship would require:Talking to global experts, reviewing reports or academic papers, and working with potential grantees to decide whether a potential cause area is important, neglected, and tractable.Dividing time between gathering new information and synthesizing it into concrete recommendations.Working to get the right answer, not to summarize others’ views. This will require making reasonable judgment calls and be...