Researcher Application

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Contact Information

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General Fit

Are you available to work 32-40 hours per week, with regular working hours Monday through Thursday?(Required)

Yes

Are you able to maintain routine availability between 8–10 am PT (4–6 pm BST) for team coordination?(Required)

Yes

Tell us about your comfort with quantitative analysis, including a brief description of your technical skills(Required)

Which two or three skills from our preferred skills list do you consider your strongest, and can you briefly describe a specific example of each in action? Which would you be most excited to develop as an ACE researcher?(Required)

Describe your experience most relevant to this role — whether in animal advocacy, animal welfare, or effective altruism. How did it prepare you for this role?(Required)

Give an example of a research project you completed while working independently or remotely. How did you overcome challenges, how did you measure success, and what did you learn?(Required)

If you had $100,000 to grant to a single animal charity, which charity would you donate to and why? What’s the best argument against your choice?(Required)

Give properly formatted citations (APA style) and your own summaries for two examples of well-designed studies in animal advocacy that provide useful information for animal advocates, and explain how the information is useful.(Required)

What recent research (within the past 5 years) has caused you to significantly update your thinking or change your mind? Why?(Required)

How do you use AI tools to improve your efficiency?(Required)

How did you use AI to answer the questions above? (Note: At ACE, we are okay with you using AI, but we’d like to understand how.)(Required)

How long would you need between receiving an offer and giving your notice, winding down your current projects, etc.?(Required)

Demographic questions

Diversity, equity and inclusion are a crucial and permanent part of our strategy to help animals. To help us increase and maintain a diversity of perspectives of our staff at all levels in our organization, we invite you to fill out this voluntary survey so we can further our DEI efforts. Filling out this survey is optional and declining to answer these questions will not affect your application. If you do choose to answer, your responses will be fully anonymized: they will not be visible to the hiring committee, and will not be associated with your application, your name, or your email address. This data will only be used in aggregate to help us determine whether our hiring process was accessible to a sufficiently diverse pool of candidates, which we believe gives us the best chance of finding the most qualified candidate for the role.

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What is your gender?

Do you identify as the same gender you were assigned at birth?

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What is your romantic and/or sexual orientation? (optional to share)

For instance, gay, bi, lesbian, asexual, heterosexual, queer

What is your disability status?

This can include intellectual, psychiatric, physical and sensory disabilities

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What is your age?

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25-34 years old

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Was English your first language?

Yes

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What is your residency status?

I live in the country I was born in and am a documented citizen there

I have moved to the country I now live in and am a documented resident there

I have moved to the country I now live in and am a naturalized citizen there

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Do you live in the USA?

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Are you an underage child’s guardian or parent?

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Suggestions, feedback, and questions

If you have answers to some of the following questions, please share.

How can we improve this survey? What phrasing do you think currently works well? What other categories, especially those underrepresented in research and animal advocacy, should we ask about? Do you have suggested reading you'd like to share? How do you think the data that comes out of this survey can increase animal welfare?