Exploratory Programs Lead

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About the Organization

Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) is a nonprofit dedicated to improving animal welfare in aquaculture (fish farming). We currently partner with 180+ fish farms through our Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture and are developing programs to reach many more.

Job Description

FWI’s ExPros team exists to identify, test, and launch scalable, evidence-based interventions beyond our current core work. As the Exploratory Programs Lead, you will set the department’s agenda, build the team and budget, and execute and iterate to develop scalable programs—beginning with considering the following programs:

• Improved Slaughter Methods (“chill kill”): An implementation-focused push to improve slaughter practices at scale. This intervention is already in progress—learn more.
• The Fish Welfare App: A farmer-facing product to deliver practical, welfare-forward advice (water quality, disease, stocking/feeding), and nudge adoption of higher-welfare practices. This intervention is in its very early stages, and we need to determine whether and how to proceed further—learn more.

Your first task on the job will be to set your team’s agenda, and to determine whether and if so how the already existing two projects above will fit in that agenda.

You’ll operate with a bias for action and rapid, evidence-based iteration—complementing FWI’s R&D team, which optimizes for deeper research cycles and more rigor but less speed.

Some of your work tasks will involve:

• Planning your department’s programmatic agenda and budget.
• Hiring new staff. Currently, the team has two non-leadership staff members. Based on project needs, we may want you to set a plan to expand the department.
• Implementing the projects you have planned, such as the above.
• Evaluating the success of your initial studies and programs, and then building from there.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Experience: You have previously built a program or product from the ground up, including managing multiple staff. OR you have completed an entrepreneurship training program, such as Charity Entrepreneurship.
• Location: You are happy to live at least four months per year (not continuous) at our field site in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India, for at least the first two years of your work.
• Competence: You have extremely strong organizational, planning, attention to detail, and project management skills.

Ideal

• You have prior experience working in India or lower- and middle-income countries.
• You have prior experience with the animal advocacy or effective altruism movements.

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