We are the UK’s civic movement dedicated to averting the risks of superhuman AI. We help citizens organise to take collective actions and make their voice heard. Our volunteers engage with their MPs about AI safety, march in protests, join conferences about AI safety in the European and UK Parliaments and gather signatures for open letters.
If you’re interested in joining our mission as a paid member of staff or contractor, please apply below.
Operations specialist
Expected salary range: £30k - £80k
This can potentially be a part time role. But full time applicants are preferred.
PauseAI is a non-profit company limited by guarantee. We are not currently planning to register as a charity, but we would like to be able to accept donations from a variety of donors, including US donors with requirements to only give to 501(c)(3)s. We need to pay employees, pay tax, comply with regulations and generally be a well-functioning organisation. The first responsibility of this role is to manage all of those requirements and explain everything that you are doing clearly to the Director.
We organise complex events and conferences across the UK. This requires hiring venues, arranging catering, managing volunteers, printing merchandise, booking accommodation, renting buses and many other logistical challenges. The second responsibility of the role is to manage these logistics.
Beyond those two pillars, the scope and responsibilities of this role will depend on your skills and experience.
Essential skills
Apply nowSoftware engineer
Expected salary range: £50k - £100k
The goal of PauseAI is to help citizens organise into an effective political force in the UK. This means that we need to be extremely well organised and have excellent software that helps us run all of our operations.
In this role you will primarily operate as a full stack solo developer creating a complex web application that wrangles data from a wide variety of inputs and provides information and tools for managing our campaigns. You will need to be adept at frontend, backend, DevOps and web architecture. You should be able to deliver high quality code at a rapid pace.
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Nice-to-have skills
Apply nowContent creator
Salary depends on specific scope or role, which will depend on your skills and availability. This can potentially be a part time role or a limited contract.
We want to create compelling video and written content for our social media channels. The goal is to convey the enormous impact that AI could have on our society, grow our audience and funnel people into taking action, while communicating the key messages that PauseAI wants to convey.
Nice-to-have skills
Apply nowCommunity organiser
Expected salary range: £25k - £60k pro rata
This role can potentially be a part time role or a limited contract. It can be well suited to students who would like to work part time for PauseAI UK alongside their studies.
Our volunteer community is the core of what we do. In this role, you will work with volunteers to help them maximise their impact through PauseAI. This will typically involve assisting local group leaders with running their groups and organising events.
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Nice-to-have skills
Apply nowGraphic designer / Web designer / Artist
We very often need to produce graphics to advertise events or present ourselves in some public way. We also want our website and other software to look great and be intuitive to use. This shapes the image that PauseAI presents to the world.
We don’t have enough design work for this to be a full time role. But it can be a useful component of some other role. Or it can be a part time or contract-based role.
Expected salary range will depend on the form of employment but we will probably be able to match typical market rates for this type of work.
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Apply nowLobbyist / Campaign lead
Expected salary range: £50k - £100k
PauseAI is advocating for international treaties and changes in UK law. In this role you would bring your expertise and connections in the UK political system to help PauseAI achieve our legislative and political goals.
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Nice-to-have skills
Apply nowGeneral expression of interest
We also encourage general expressions of interest for people who don’t fit neatly into any of these roles.
Apply nowImportant information about all roles:
- All salaries are open to negotiation based on skills and experience.
- All roles will report directly to Joseph Miller, Director of PauseAI UK.
- Applicants with the right to work in the UK and the ability to work in-person in central London are preferred.
- All roles will begin with a 2 week to 3 month paid work trial and/or probation period.
- Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, so earlier applications have an advantage.
- Using AI to write your answers is strongly discouraged in most cases.