We are a nonprofit evaluating the risks AI brings in cybersecurity and corresponding policy implications. We are looking to hire a research dissemination specialist to help us lodge our internal research artifacts in the popular consciousness.

Different strands of our research target laypeople, security specialists, technical leaders, and policymakers. As such, we package our work in diverse formats, including:

• Policy reports
• arXiv preprints and conference papers
• Landing pages targeting Hacker News and Reddit
• Twitter threads

See the video below to get a feel for our current directions.

As our research output increases, we are looking to hire a person to own the dissemination process end-to-end, coordinating with researchers and partners to produce quality publications.

Your work as a dissemination specialist could look:

1. A researcher hands in a rough draft of a writeup. You work together to crystallize the narrative and outline.
2. You work on the manuscript, crisply articulating the research ideas while keeping in mind the relevant theory of change. If you find the ideas unclear or weakly supported, you ask the researcher to clarify.
3. You push the work to the relevant venue (be it ICLR, Twitter, or anything in-between) and liaise with that venue.

Our work process looks like this:

• We post daily statuses for each other to keep in sync regarding our work.
• We propose new ideas or directions by writing up a doc, sharing it, and getting comments.
• Our median response time to each other is in hours, not minutes; we work in a somewhat independent and self-directed fashion.

Here are the key skills one needs to succeed in this role:

• Strong communication skills: you will need to articulate complex technical and policy-related concepts in crisp, clear language.
• Format versatility: we target academic journals, Reddit, and everything in-between.
• Project Management skills: in our horizontal team you will sometimes have to do some cat-herding.