Executive Director�Application Pack

Thanks for your interest!

Thanks for your interest in working at One for the World!

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We are building a movement to revolutionize charitable giving to end extreme poverty, through education, training, and community building. To achieve such an ambitious goal, we know we need the best talent available. We really hope that starts with you!

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This deck should help you understand what we’re looking for and what your experience will be like working at One for the World. If you have any questions, or need any assistance applying for the role, please email Chloë using jobs@1fortheworld.org

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Best of luck!

Katharina Schwarz & Robert Colonel�Co-Chairs of Trustees

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Who We Are

One for the world

One for the World’s mission is to build a movement of people revolutionizing charitable giving to end extreme poverty through education, training, and community building.

One for the World’s vision is a world in which everyone fully embraces their opportunity to give effectively and therefore no one lives in extreme poverty.

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Values�Guiding lights: Principles that guide us in our work & strategy

• Recipient focussed / human-centred - We are always focussed on the best outcomes for our beneficiaries and determined to remember the human stories at the center of systemic issues like extreme poverty. We also nurture, develop and support our staff and volunteers. Much of our work and many of our decisions are volunteer-focussed, as our volunteers are critical to our success.
• Effective / data-driven - The idea of effectiveness is central to our identity. We only recommend the most effective charities, irrespective of what is popular, or most moving, or topical. We choose the most effective strategies for outreach; we aim to measure our own efficacy rigorously and transparently; and we’re unsentimental in serving our beneficiaries.
• Celebratory - We are positive in our outlook and we celebrate giving in all its forms. We encourage our donors to take advantage of the amazing opportunities of effective giving, rather than scolding them for giving from the heart. We celebrate our volunteers and our donors and invite others to join our movement.
• Equitable - We want a world which is more equitable internationally, and internally by valuing a range of perspectives and creating a welcoming environment for traditionally marginalized groups.

Values�Ways of working: How we treat each other & forge our team

• Kind / Respectful - We are kind and respectful to each other. This means ‘putting an arm around’ each other when we need it - and also giving clear, candid, well-intentioned feedback. We give each other the benefit of the doubt, assuming good faith and good intentions, even if we need to point out that something may have had a negative impact.
• Open-minded - Our commitment to being data-driven and seeking effectiveness means that we approach disagreement thoughtfully. We are curious to learn and assume that our colleagues and volunteers have something to add to our perspective. We tolerate a diversity of viewpoints, except when it comes to the necessity of ending extreme poverty, which is our shared mission.
• Ambitious - We set big goals and challenge ourselves and each to deliver high performance. We are candid about our successes and our areas for improvement. We prefer to set a big goal and fall short than to set easy targets. We embrace continuous learning and improvement as a path to realizing our ambition.

Founded by

Joshua McCann and Kate Epstein

at Wharton

2014

Started new chapters at Harvard Business, Penn Und., MIT Sloan. Record year for Wharton.

2016

Record donations and new chapters of Georgetown, UMD, McGill, Stanford GSB, Harvard College, Tufts and Villanova.

2018

2015

First pledge week held at Wharton; donations nearly doubled.

2017

Chapter expansion continues with Columbia, Harvard Law, and Penn Law.

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Start

The One for the World Story

The One for the World Story

Hired our first full-time staff, Evan (COO), and saw recruitment skyrocket!

2018

Hired Jack (Executive Director) and Kennan (Director of Growth).

2019

Now operating in over 50 chapters in four countries.

Gained UK charitable registration. Hired Chloë (Director of Communications)

2021

2019

We raised a ton of pledges!!!�Incorporated and gained our 501(c)3 status

2020

Secured investment from GiveWell and donated our millionth dollar.

2018

2019

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2020

2021

2022

$3m donated

430 deaths averted

Building an international movement.

Launched our new brand and website.

Hired Ella (Organizing Manager) and Emma (Director of Chapter Organizing).

Secured Open Philanthropy funding.

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2022

2023

$5.9m donated�953 deaths averted

Hired Gabby and Savita (Chapter Organizers). Expanded corporate programs and began running Giving What We Can city groups.

2023

Why does One for the World exist?

• 14,500 children under the age of 5 are killed by extreme poverty each day.

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• Extreme poverty is defined as consuming less than $2.15 of resources per day.

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• This forces people to make impossible choices, which leads to completely preventable deaths - from things like lack of clean water, malaria or vitamin-deficiency.

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• If a plane crashed every hour, on the hour, all year, that would kill ~14,500 people/day.

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• But these deaths are entirely preventable - we just need to give, and give effectively.

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Karimatu used a conditional cash transfer from New Incentives to help her vaccinate her children Rabiatu and Maryam. With the cash, she was able to get a bike ride to the clinic in northern Nigeria, instead of walking, and to buy essentials for Rabiatu and Maryam.

Unfortunately, most people don’t give effectively.

• Only 35% of donors do ANY research at all before giving to charity.

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• 63% of those donors only do research to validate a choice they have already made.

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• Only 3% of donors do comparative research between nonprofits and give to the best performing charity.

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• Most donors believe that the best nonprofits are only 1.5-2.5x more impactful than average nonprofits.

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• Actually, the best interventions in the world are demonstrably 100-1000x more cost-effective than the average.

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Abdoul lives in southern-central Mali, in a village called Massala. When he was young, he suffered from night blindness, going completely blind when the sun went down, and was hospitalized on average twice a month with routine childhood infections. After receiving a $1 vitamin-A supplement from Helen keller International, he has been able to lead a life like every other child in his community.

For example…

>1,000x more cost-effectiveness

Accordingly, our Nonprofit Partners are some of the most cost-effective nonprofits in the world.

Against Malaria Foundation – distributes and monitors antimalarial bed nets at a total cost of $5 per net.

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Malaria Consortium’s Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention program – distributes preventive antimalarial drugs to children 3 to 59 months old to prevent illness and death from malaria during peak malaria transmission season, at $7 per treatment.

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New Incentives - increases the uptake of routine immunizations through cash transfers, raising public awareness of the benefits of vaccination and reducing the frequency of vaccine stockouts. It costs around $155 to vaccine a child against measles, diphtheria, tetanus, TB, whooping cough, pneumococcal disease and hepatitis B.

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Helen Keller International's Vitamin A Supplementation Program – provides vitamin A supplementation programs. Vitamin-A not only prevents childhood blindness and death at $1 per supplement; it also produces a ~20% immuno-boost against other lethal diseases.

What does One for the World do?

Advocate

for people living in extreme poverty.

Educate

people about effective giving and our Nonprofit Partners.

Motivate�people to take the

1% Pledge with

One for the World.

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What does One for the World do?

We support student chapters at many of the top MBA and Law schools around the world.

We deliver corporate talks at some of the world’s best known brands.

All of this in the pursuit of raising large amounts o money for the most cost-effective global health and poverty interventions.

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We’ve grown really fast and we want you to lead our next stage of growth…

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In order to help us prevent our next 1,000 unnecessary deaths.

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What are we

looking for in an

Executive Director?

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Executive Director - What you’ll be doing at One for the World:

• Strategy: Creating the organization’s strategy, on both a 3-year and 12-month timeframe. Reacting to results in order to prioritize the highest ROI activities. Assigning resources appropriately to reflect these priorities and ensuring that all staff and activities are aligned with achieving the organization’s overall strategy.
• Managing the team: Managing all staff, or delegating that management to other team leaders. This includes line management, performance management and managing any HR issues that might arise. Supporting team members as needed with their own work streams, such as on campus chapter fundraising or delivering volunteer conferences.

• Fundraising: Managing key relationships with donor organizations and individuals. Securing financing to cover One for the World’s operational costs.
• Operations: Overseeing each facet of One for the World’s operations, from the on campus chapter fundraising, through corporate fundraising and community engagement work. Embedding solid monitoring and evaluation systems within workstreams and managing the execution of each workstream.

As Executive Director, you will lead the development and execution of One for the World’s strategy and be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the organization. You will be the most senior responsible person at One for the World, driving it towards fulfilling its mission - building a movement of people revolutionizing charitable giving to end extreme poverty.

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You will be responsible for:

Executive Director - What you’ll be doing at One for the World continued:

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• Governance: Liaising with the Board, producing Board papers for four annual meetings and seeking Board sign-offs as necessary. Ensuring that the Board has the information it needs to oversee the US and UK registered charities and coordinating the annual audits.

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• Finance and compliance: Ensuring that finance and compliance run smoothly, particularly financial record-keeping and bookkeeping; and regulatory compliance, at both the state and national level, for both our US and UK registered charities.

As Executive Director, you will lead the development and execution of One for the World’s strategy and be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the organization. You will be the most senior responsible person at One for the World, driving it towards fulfilling its mission - building a movement of people revolutionizing charitable giving to end extreme poverty.

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You will be responsible for:

Executive Director - What you’ll be doing at One for the World:

• Fundraising & networking: Being the leading fundraiser on the team, particularly in High Net Worth fundraising and pitching to the employees of blue chip corporations. Recruiting new donors via events, personal outreach or other approaches and then stewarding them to give year-on-year. Writing and executing pitches and being the public face of One for the World.

• Stewardship: You will hold key fundraising and donor relationships for One for the World, managing them professionally and working to deepen their connection to One for the World, as well as enabling them to donate regularly and to increase their donations over time.

Depending on the skill set and preferences of the successful candidate, we will consider two possible versions of this role. In one, you will be primarily an executive, running the organization and its team day-to-day. This role is similar to a Managing Director or Chief of Staff position, and would require a Director of Fundraising role to support it.

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Alternatively, you may be a brilliant fundraiser who also brings the skills to be Executive Director and to be the public face of One for the World. In this scenario, you would give a significant part of your time to fundraising and networking, and delegate more responsibility for day-to-day management to your colleagues.

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In the fundraising and networking focused role, you would also be responsible for:

You should indicate on your application which type of role you would like to be considered for. You can apply for both versions at once.

Executive Director - What you’ll achieve at One for the World:

Early in your tenure, you’ll need to absorb the current strategic trajectory of One for the World and then produce your own 2024-25 strategy, blending organizational knowledge with your own vision and energy to create a strategic plan. You can see the 2023-24 strategy plan here.

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Part of this work will be drafting organization-wide objectives, and the key results that will help us achieve them (OKRs).

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We want you to own this process but we think the following are a sample of suggested success metrics for your first year:

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Executive Director - What we value in a candidate:

An outstanding candidate will have the following skills and attributes:

• Highly values-aligned, with a strong personal commitment to the principles of effective giving - that is, encouraging giving to programs that have strong evidence of effectiveness, room to absorb more funding and which are highly cost-effective; and taking a morally impartial view on where the recipients of our support live. A strong personal commitment to ending extreme poverty;
• An exceptional leader, who can create and then deliver a compelling vision, bringing staff, donors, volunteers, external stakeholders and the Board along with the strategy of the organization.
• Ability to think strategically and in systems, to assess and improve performance across multiple workstreams. Sound strategic judgement and comfort making big strategic calls with imperfect information;
• An adept and skillful people manager, with management experience;
• Exceptional internal communication skills - the ability to coach and motivate staff, to communicate clearly up and down the organization’s hierarchy, and to give and receive feedback effectively;
• Analytical and able to use data to inform decisions and track progress;
• Highly professional, setting and demonstrating high standards across the organization;
• The ability to weigh the interests of the organization, the team and your own interests. As Executive Director, you will be the primary person responsible for One for the World, and this may require you to set aside your own interests to serve the organization;
• A growth mindset, with a hunger for self-development.

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Executive Director - What we value in a candidate:

A candidate for the fundraising position must also have:

• Exceptional external communication skills - an exceptional public speaker, with the ability to advocate respectfully and effectively for One for the World’s amazing nonprofit partners and the people who access their services. Comfortable speaking at conferences, pitching in corporations, and having 1:1 conversations with important donors.
• Comfortable stewarding donors, managing and deepening their relationship to One for the World and making the ask. Able to build and maintain a network of other effective giving organizations and current and potential operational funders.
• Able to fundraise for our operating costs, as well as our Nonprofit Partners, from a mixture of High Net Wealth individuals and foundations such as Open Philanthropy.

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Essential experience for all versions of the role:

• 3+ years of people management experience
• 3+ years of managing projects, teams or organizations
• Prior exposure to the professional environments in which we focus our fundraising, either professional services (consulting, investment banking, law) or big tech. This doesn’t require having worked for any of these organizations, and could involve pitching them or other work on site.
• Preferred to have studied at a US college or university.

Essential experience for fundraisers:

• Demonstrable track record raising six-figure sums or higher in a commercial or philanthropic environment.

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What it’s

like working at

One for the World

One for the world

Pay, Contract, and Benefits

Benefits:

• Full health, dental and vision insurance
• 20 days annual paid time off
• Annual ‘learning and development’ fortnight with $500 budget/staff member
• 3% 401k match
• Generous parental leave policy (see here)
• IT allowance ($900 every two years)
• Weekly online team socials
• Regular (i.e. quarterly) trips for in-person working - recently these have included New York, Madison, Seattle, London, and Berlin
• An allowance for an Executive Coach
• Weekly support from co-founder Josh McCann and a monthly check-in from one of the Board co-Chairs

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Start date: as soon as possible

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Level: Executive Director - the most senior executive on the One for the World staff team. All other staff report to this position, directly or indirectly.

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Reports to: One for the Trustee Board, directly to the co-Chairs

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Contract: Permanent, full-time

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Location: Strong preference for someone based in the mainland US, ideally on the Northeast/Acela corridor. We will consider strong applications for remote work but would expect commensurate ability to travel and accommodate synchronous meetings across US time zones. Accordingly, we anticipate appointing someone in the US.

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Salary: US$110k-$150k per annum, plus a 0-20% performance-related bonus each year. Pay will be location-adjusted by up to 15% if you live outside the US - let us know if you want to understand your location-based pay in advance of applying.

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Why should you apply?

1. You’ll have an enormous impact. One for the World members have donated $6m to highly cost-effective charities, preventing nearly 1,000 deaths. You’ll be critical to our future impact and responsible for rapidly increasing how much we raise and how much good it does.�
2. You’ll own the strategy. You will have broad autonomy and decision-making power in your work and will set the strategic direction of an international nonprofit.

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• You’ll build a great network. One for the World is well-respected in effective giving and you’ll have the chance to work alongside and build relationships with leaders at many international charities, including some of the most cost-effective, highest profile organizations in the world.

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• You’ll lead a highly-motivated, passionate, kind staff team, dedicated to making the world a better place.

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5. You will work with leading young philanthropists from some of the top schools in the world. We are lucky to work at schools where most nonprofits don’t have a presence, such as Wharton, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Yale School of Management, Chicago Booth, and Darden. You’ll be harnessing the potential of future leaders and building your personal network of future changemakers at the same time.

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6. You’ll work with volunteers at the world’s leading companies. You’ll work with volunteers at and deliver presentations to the most prestigious companies in the world, including Bridgewater, Microsoft, Facebook, Accenture, and Bain, and have the chance to travel regularly to global hubs like New York, London, and San Francisco.

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7. You’ll lead an organization funded by two of the most rigorous grantmakers in the world. One for the World is one of a handful of organizations currently funded by Open Philanthropy and previously funded by GiveWell, two of the most rigorous grant makers globally. We have ~12 months’ cash-on-hand to get you started.

How to Apply

Application process

If the chance to join our team excites you, we hope you’ll apply. (If you’re not sure about applying because you don’t know if you’re qualified, we would encourage you to apply anyway. For our last role, ⅗ of the final round interviewees thought they “weren’t qualified” for the position!!)

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Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis but we will aim to appoint from the first batch received. Ideally, submit your application by 5th of April.

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1. Application form and CV - apply here

Applicants who pass screening will be sent the application questions.

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• Application questions

Applications will be scored with reference to the listed skills, attributes and experience. Candidates who demonstrate, with evidence, the majority of the essential skills and experience for the job will score most highly. Candidates who omit parts of the essential skills or experience, or who do not evidence their skills and experience, will score less highly.

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• Trial tasks

Shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete two short, paid trial tasks (<6 hours in total).

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• Shortlisting and interviews

Interviews will be conducted over video calls on a rolling basis. We can be flexible to accommodate your schedule.

Application process

One for the World is committed to encouraging diversity and eliminating discrimination in both our role as an employer and as a provider of services. We aim to create a culture that respects and values each other’s differences, that promotes dignity, equality and diversity, and that encourages individuals to develop and maximize their true potential. We are committed to recruiting and maintaining a community that broadly reflects the local community in which we operate - among our staff, volunteers, Board and donors.

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We especially encourage applications from self-identified women and people of color who are excited to contribute to our mission; and from those not currently part of the effective altruism or effective giving communities.

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If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact Chloë using jobs@1fortheworld.org in confidence.

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