Who we are

We help people create a better future for humanity by designing and running courses on the world’s most pressing problems. We find people who could have enormous impact, we motivate and equip them via our courses, and we connect them with impactful opportunities.

BlueDot Impact was founded in August 2022, and grew out of a non-profit supporting students at the University of Cambridge to pursue high-impact careers. To learn more, check out this podcast interview and our blog.

Over the past 2 years, we’ve supported 2,500 people to learn about AI safety and pandemic preparedness, and our alumni work in critical roles across government and industry. In 2024, we will train ~3x more people than 2023 by running each of our three existing courses every four months (AI Alignment, AI Governance, Pandemics). In 2025, we will design more courses on important topics, build a platform to enable local communities to run amazing versions of our courses, and provide intensive support for our top alumni to start new projects.

What is a Teaching Fellow?

Our course facilitators guide weekly discussion calls with small cohorts of 6-8 students to help them understand the course topics, dig deeper into specific areas of interest and support participants with steps after the course.

Facilitators are typically assigned 1-2 cohorts, but we are launching a new facilitation approach, where some of the facilitators (known as ‘Teaching Fellows’) are on part- to full-time contracts, facilitating more cohorts and are more closely involved with ongoing curriculum and session plan development.

We’ve seen that facilitators who facilitate multiple cohorts tend to:

• Deliver higher-quality learning experiences
• Be better equipped to accelerate the impact of their participants after the course
• Provide more nuanced feedback on the curriculum

We created this role because we are excited to work more closely with facilitators to improve their teaching skills and continuously improve the course material. We believe these improvements will help deliver higher-quality learning experiences to participants and accelerate their impact.

What you’ll do

Teaching Fellows will:

• Facilitate 5-10 cohorts
• Work closely with the course designer to improve the curriculum and session plans
• Offer 1-1 calls with participants to support their learning and actions

Some ideas we had in mind to additionally support Teaching Fellows, which we are excited to shape with you include peer-to-peer feedback and mentoring new facilitators.

The start date for the first week of facilitator training is July 21, 2024. The fellowship will last 16 weeks.

Time demand will be roughly 15-30 hours per week, depending on the number of cohorts facilitated. All work will be fully remote.

If the initial 16 weeks go well, we’d be open to making this a longer-term role. We aim to run our courses back-to-back, meaning this could be a year-round position.

About you

We are looking for someone who is passionate about supporting the policymakers and researchers to positively develop future AI systems.

You might be particularly good for this role if you:

• Previously facilitated a BlueDot Impact course or any other learning experiences using active learning techniques.
• Have engaged with the materials in our curriculum.
• Have academic or professional experience in AI Governance.
• Feel motivated to improve the quality of learning of your students and support them.

We encourage speculative applications; we expect many strong candidates will not meet all of the criteria listed here.

Location and compensation

This position is fully remote. We accept applications from anywhere in the world and will assign you to a cohort based on your given availability. Our participants are also spread around the world, so having global Teaching Fellows will complement this!

Compensation is based on the number of sessions you facilitate and will fall in the range of £4,900-£9,600 for each round of the course.

Apply for this role

The application process consists of three stages:

• Stage 1: Initial application (<20 minutes).
• Stage 2: Interview (40 mins).
• Stage 3: Reference checks.

Deadline: 7 July