GCP Program Manager

Kairos Project; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kairos Project is expanding the Global Challenges Project into a full portfolio of three-day residential workshops in AI safety and biosecurity. You will own two or more programs, shaping their strategy, design, delivery, and evaluation to broaden impact.

You’ll drive outreach, recruit guests, design sessions, and lead in-person workshops with a small team. You’ll measure outcomes, iterate, and help scale the program while maintaining high standards.

Qualifications

• Experience running events such as workshops, conferences or retreats.
• Strong project delivery experience in in-person settings.
• Mission-aligned with AI safety and biosecurity.
• Good with people and energized by workshops.

Responsibilities

• Own two or more GCP programs and oversee strategy, design, delivery and evaluation.
• Own outreach and participant selection, marketing and building strong applicant pools.
• Build relationships and recruit guests from researchers, policymakers, funders and other experts.
• Design sessions, structure and participant experience for each program to high standards.
• Lead workshops in person and manage the on-site team.
• Measure impact with structured feedback and track outcomes over time.
• Scale the program by building operational structures and automation.

Skills

Event management

Project delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Public speaking

Job description

Build and lead residential workshops that help exceptional people pursue high-impact work in AI safety, biosecurity, and policy.

We're reviewing applications on a rolling basis.

About KairosKairos is a nonprofit accelerating talent into AI safety and policy. In just over two years, we've trained 1,200+ people through our flagship programs:

• SPAR: The largest AI safety research fellowship, with 800+ mentees per round mentored by researchers from Anthropic, Redwood Research, RAND, MIT, the UK AI Security Institute, and others.

• Generator Residency: In partnership with Constellation, a platform for generalist talent to pitch, build, and ship projects that build capacity and infrastructure across the AI safety ecosystem, with advisors from OpenAI, AI Futures Project, METR, and more.

• Global Challenges Project: A workshop series introducing promising students to careers in AI safety and biosecurity, run several times a year across Oxford, Boston, and Berkeley.

• Pathfinder Fellowship: Helping grow the global network of AI safety university groups from a few dozen to nearly 100, with $9.5M in funding over the next two years to support their work.

We see ourselves as a portfolio of highly impactful projects in a fast-evolving field. Over the next six months, we expect to double in size and launch several new initiatives addressing critical gaps in the ecosystem.

The RoleThe Global Challenges Project (GCP) runs three-day residential workshops that help talented individuals explore careers in AI safety and biosecurity. Over the past few years, GCP has run dozens of workshops for 400+ students, mostly in Oxford, Boston, and Berkeley. GCP has a long and successful track record and became part of Kairos in early 2026.

We're now expanding GCP into a full portfolio of workshops serving different audiences and career stages, with the ambition of becoming the leading fieldbuilding workshop organizer in AI safety and biosecurity. This means building new programs, new formats, and the systems to deliver reliably at scale.

What You'll Do

Own two or more GCP programs. You'll take responsibility for their strategy, design, delivery, and evaluation. Programs you may own include:

• Workshops for students newer to AI safety, for professionals considering a pivot into AI safety, or for accelerating people into politics or policy

• Workshop support for other organizations, from advice and coordination to running workshops on their behalf

• A high-impact format you propose (we're open to strong cases for new programs)

• Run programs experimentally. We're testing which of these programs offer the most value to the ecosystem. You'll experiment with both the format and purpose of your workshops, and be willing to discontinue programs that aren't working, even after investing significant time in them.

• Own outreach and participant selection. You'll develop marketing and outreach strategies, build strong applicant pools, and decide who will benefit most from attending each program.

• Build relationships and recruit guests. High-quality guests are central to the impact of our workshops. You'll proactively build relationships across the field and invite researchers, policymakers, funders, operators, and other experts to participate.

• Design excellent workshops. You'll develop the structure, sessions, content, and participant experience for each program, holding everything to a very high standard.

• Lead workshops in person. You'll give talks, introduce guests, advise participants, manage the team on the ground, and take responsibility for how well each workshop runs.

• Lead your program teams. We organize delivery program by program. You'll direct the work of the GCP team, interns, and volunteers on your programs (typically three to four people per workshop). Once the team grows, you'll likely line-manage one GCP team member and our interns.

• Measure impact and iterate. You'll collect structured feedback at every workshop, track participant outcomes over the following months, and use the evidence to improve, scale, or discontinue programs.

• Help GCP scale. You'll contribute to team-wide strategy, build operational structures and automation that let us expand without compromising quality, and help design and launch our internship program.

Who You Are

Experienced at running events. You've organized and delivered events such as workshops, conferences, or retreats, and you're comfortable making game-time decisions. Strong project delivery experience in complex in-person settings can substitute.

• Mission-aligned. You care deeply about how the development of advanced AI and biotechnology plays out, and you believe workshops can be a highly effective way to help talented people enter these fields.

• Good with people, and energized by workshops. Leading three-day residential events is central to this role. You'll need the energy to engage with participants and guests throughout while keeping the event running smoothly.

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