Impact Evaluator

The Future of Life Institute (FLI); City Of London; Remote; GBP 62,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

A non-profit organization focused on technology and policy advocacy is seeking an Impact Evaluator to design evaluation frameworks and assess the impact of grants and programs. This role includes cultivating relationships with grantees, conducting data analysis, and translating findings into actionable insights. Ideal candidates have a strong background in data analytics, excellent communication skills, and are willing to work in line with California hours. Compensation ranges from $82,000 to $150,000 per year.

Benefits

Health insurance

24+ days of PTO per year

Paid parental leave

401(k) matching

Work-from-home allowance

Qualifications

• Experience in data administration and analytics from disjointed data sets.
• Willingness to overlap at least one hour of your work day with PST.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine the organization’s evaluation framework.
• Assess the counterfactual impact of each grant.
• Cultivate relationships with grantees for feedback.
• Conduct analysis for major initiatives.
• Translate data into actionable insights and reports.
• Provide recommendations for strategic alignment.

Skills

Attention to detail

Qualitative and quantitative analysis

Written and verbal communication skills

Relationship-building

Project management

Education

Degree in an analytical discipline or equivalent work experience

Job description

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is hiring an Impact Evaluator to design and implement systemic impact evaluation across the organization. This role is crucial for systematically capturing grantee voices and providing data‑driven insights that will shape our strategy. The Impact Evaluator will report to the Director of Operations and collaborate closely with the Grants Manager and the broader Operations team to ensure we achieve measurable outcomes aligned with our mission.

Who we are

FLI educates and engages lawmakers, key stakeholders, and the general public about transformative technologies and their implications. We advocate for policies and approaches that mitigate catastrophic risks while advancing positive futures for humanity.

Responsibilities

• Design Impact Measurement: develop and refine the organization’s evaluation framework, integrating both qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the short‑term and long‑term impact of our grants and programs.
• Assess the counterfactual impact of each grant: dive deep on each grant to test the theory of change against real‑world impact.
• Engage with grantees: cultivate strong relationships with grantees, conducting interviews and surveys to gather comprehensive feedback, stories, and data.
• Evaluate large‑scale communications and policy campaigns: conduct bespoke analysis for major initiatives (e.g., advertising campaigns or outreach to policymakers).
• Conduct data analysis & reporting: translate raw data, grantee feedback, and field research into actionable insights and compelling reports. Produce reports, case studies, and dashboards for internal learning, funders, and public communications.
• Collaborate strategically: translate evaluation findings into actionable recommendations for the Grants Manager and leadership team; collaborate to refine grant selection processes, identify strategic gaps, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Required Qualifications

• A degree in an analytical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in data administration and analytics, sometimes from disjointed data sets, with the ability to produce high‑quality outputs that explain findings clearly.
• Willingness to overlap at least one hour of your work day with the standard working day in California (PST).

Skills and Qualities Required

• Excellent attention to detail.
• Skills in both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to translate complex analyses for diverse audiences.
• Strong relationship‑building and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Project management skills with ability to handle multiple concurrent evaluations.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Experience designing and applying theories of change.
• Knowledge of evaluation methods, ideally of impact evaluation and reporting within a non‑profit.
• Experience working within grantmaking functions.
• Experience evaluating policy advocacy, communications campaigns, or research programs.
• Familiarity with the AI safety landscape.

Compensation

$82,000 - $150,000 per year. Exact compensation will vary depending on experience and geography.

For U.S. hires, additional benefits include health insurance, 24+ days of PTO per year, paid parental leave, 401(k) matching, and a work‑from‑home allowance for the purchase of office supplies or equipment. Exact benefits will depend on location.

Application Deadline

26 November 2025. Rolling applications may be considered after the application deadline if the position has not been filled.

Start Date

We would like the chosen candidate to start as soon as possible after accepting an offer.

Application Process

Apply by uploading your resume, alongside a short answer to the following questions (200 words or less and 250 words or less respectively):

• What do you think about existential risk and the FLI cause areas?
• Please outline why you feel you are uniquely placed to help us evaluate our impact, given the types of grants we make and the projects we run.

Please apply via our website. Email applications are not accepted.

Questions

Questions may be directed to [e-mail].

About the Future of Life Institute

Founded in 2014, FLI is an independent non‑profit working to steer transformative technology toward benefiting life and away from extreme large‑scale risks. Our work includes grantmaking, educational outreach, and policy engagement.

Our work has been featured widely, including in The Washington Post, Politico, Vox, Forbes, The Guardian, the BBC, The Economist, and Wired.

Achievements

• Pause Giant AI Experiments – an open letter calling for a 6‑month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT‑4. The letter has been signed by more than 30,000 people, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and Andrew Yang.
• The Asilomar AI Principles – one of the earliest and most influential sets of AI governance principles.
• “How would a nuclear war between Russia and the US affect you personally?” – a scientifically accurate simulation showing the consequences of nuclear war, with over 6 million views and a feature in Time Magazine.
• AI Safety Index – an objective rating of AI companies on key safety and security domains, as judged by experts in the field.
• Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest – from 180+ submissions, we selected 6 winning artworks that best illustrate the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.

FLI is a largely virtual organization, with a team of 30 distributed internationally, mostly in Europe and the U.S. We have four offices: Campbell in California, Brussels in Belgium, London in the UK, and Washington, D.C. We meet in person as a full team twice a year.