Senior Legal Counsel - Global Impact | Flexible Remote

The Centre for Effective Altruism’s mission is to build and nurture a global community of people who are thinking carefully about the world’s pressing problems and taking impactful action to solve them.

To foster and empower this community, we run conferences, support hundreds of local groups, and provide online resources and forums for discussion.

We are looking for people to join us in that work.

Team values

Purpose first

We strive to prioritize our shared purpose ahead of reputation, ego, or systems, ensuring goals and processes support our mission without adding unnecessary complexity. We want to take individual responsibility while backing each other up, choosing high-impact strategies even if they're unpopular, and act with integrity.

Collective growth

We continuously reflect, celebrate successes, and fix problems to improve. We embrace learning on the job and help each other grow through feedback, and managers empower staff to play to their strengths, ensuring everyone contributes their best.

Perpetual beta

We set specific goals, test our largest uncertainties, and iterate. We value empirical tests and collaborative truth‑seeking, creating true MVPs, and making small, regular improvements to projects.

Alliance mentality

We approach our work with a team mentality, supporting each other, coordinating with partners, and taking a collaborative approach. We prioritize user understanding, servant leadership, and maintaining a healthy work‑life balance. We acknowledge our differences, consult and act decisively, and encourage learning from mistakes through mutual support and clear communication.

How will I learn and grow?

On top of the basics, we invest in helping employees to grow in a variety of ways. We work with all staff to help them identify areas for improvement, via annual, in‑depth, growth‑focused performance reviews, as well as more regular check‑ins. We try to shape roles around people’s strengths, and focus development on extending and supplementing those strengths.

We then work with staff to set development plans. These plans generally focus on getting relevant hands‑on experience, but we are happy to pay for specialised training and mentorship where that would be helpful. There are optional staff‑organised meetings and Slack channels where we support each other’s personal growth goals.

We also hold all‑staff training with external experts (e.g. on survey design). Roles at CEA are often open‑ended and challenging, but include lots of feedback and support. This can be a good environment for learning a wide variety of skills quickly, but it’s less suited to becoming an expert in one thing, or for people who prefer a more pre‑defined career track.

What benefits do you offer?

Currently, our benefits include:

• Health: We offer comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage as well as £5,000 mental health support allowance.
• Retirement: We provide all staff a 10% pension contribution (UK) or equivalent salary boost elsewhere.
• Flexible Work: We want staff to be able to work when and where they feel most productive. Staff are generally free to set their own schedules, and many work remotely, or from home one or more days per week.
• Training: We offer all staff a £5,000 professional development allowance, and we might offer more if there are additional compelling opportunities for you to learn.
• Time Away: We offer 25 days of paid vacation per year, plus public holidays. We encourage staff to use their full allowance. We also offer up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave, leave for bereavement, and options for unpaid leave.
• Equipment and office: We will pay for high‑quality and ergonomic equipment (laptop, monitors, chair, desk, etc.), both in the office and at home (if you work remotely).

Do I need to move?

Around half of our current staff are remote, and we have a strong remote culture. We prefer applicants who are able to work in time zones between US Pacific time and Central European Time, but we already have some contractors who work outside those time zones. We hold in‑person staff retreats 2‑4 times per year, to discuss our plans and build strong working relationships.

If you want to work in our Oxford office but don’t have the right to work in the UK, we may be able to provide visa sponsorship.

What compensation can I expect to receive if hired?

We set salary based on a formula that accounts for prior experience, location, and relevant comparables. We do this to reduce bias, and to allow us to make our principles more transparent to staff. Our salary levels for the same role tend to vary significantly based on the candidate’s location and prior experience.

For some roles, the scope and responsibilities of the role might also vary, depending on the candidates available. Therefore, any accurate range is very wide. We’ve found that when we share a range, candidates often expect a salary towards the top of that range, which sometimes conflicts with our commitment to having a consistent policy for compensation.

This often makes it hard for us to give a realistic general salary range. We aim to pay competitively enough that salary isn’t a dealbreaker for candidates who would otherwise be interested in taking a role with us. Please ask if you would like more information on salary, and we can give you more information based on your location and experience.

What are we looking for?

The specifics of what we are looking for depend on the role; details can be found in each job description. In general, we’re looking for people who have many of the following traits:

• Self‑motivated, hard‑working, and independent;
• Able to communicate clearly in writing and in person;