Excellent coaches are key to accelerating people into high-impact AI safety work. With the pace of AI development, we want to help people gain the skills and expertise they need as quickly as possible.

As a coach, you'll be shaping the public artefacts participants use to launch their careers. This requires deep expertise, effective coaching, and commitment to the mission.

## **Apply to be a project coach**

Choose a project sprint and apply through the application form:

- **[Technical AI Safety](https://web.miniextensions.com/2lQmY04m6DdfeGbIYgsG?prefill_[a]%20Role=Facilitator)**

More projects coming soon. Check back regularly for updates.

## **What we look for in coaches**

- Have completed and published several AI safety research or engineering projects
- Have experience coaching others (whether in AI safety or beyond)
- Have enough expertise in AI safety to guide people on which ideas to pursue and how their projects can become stepping stones to impactful work
- Are excited to teach others what you've learned about how to get good at this work
- Care deeply about helping others succeed

## **What we're not looking for**

- Seeing this as low-effort passive income
- No direct experience in AI safety research or engineering
- Unable to challenge participants or push thinking forward
- Unwilling to proactively follow-up with participants

## **What you'll do**

**Your mission is to ensure everyone in your group publishes their project by the end of the sprint.** Projects have more impact when they're discovered, so support them in publishing on their blog, Twitter, GitHub and LinkedIn.

**You're their guide.** Participants will have the technical skills but less sense of the landscape. They'll lean on you for what's worth working on, what tools will help, what goals to set, and who to talk to.

**The best coaches ask lots of questions** to help identify the core issue and empower participants to work through it themselves. Here's some actionable [advice on coaching](https://medium.com/@hannahpixels/12-top-takeaways-from-the-coaching-habit-e2ea3028ec34).

**Be proactive in following up.** We have a Slack group set up by default, but we encourage you to experiment with what works best for your group. Some groups find it easier to provide regular updates over Telegram or WhatsApp instead.

**You'll lead a weekly 1-hour group check-in** to keep everyone accountable. The check-ins are also a good opportunity for participants to learn from each other. If attendance drops, talk to your participants about how to make these more valuable, and let us know if it becomes an issue.

**You'll review projects.** We'll provide you with a rubric and interface to do this on. We will publish the best projects on our website and may share them with other organisations that have relevant jobs or other opportunities.

## **Compensation**

We'll pay you **$250 per session**, which works out to $50/hour for approximately 5 hours per session (4 hours individual support + 1 hour check-in).

The Technical AI Safety Project sprint runs for 5 sessions.

**We'll also pay you $50/hour for reviewing projects.** You will be expected to review at least 6-8 projects per group. For example, if you've been assigned 2 groups, you will be expected to review 12-16 projects.

You'll have 1 week from the project submission deadline to finish reviewing all projects assigned to you.

We sometimes disband or re-shuffle groups due to attendance. You may also volunteer to cover another coach's discussions. In either case, we will update your compensation accordingly.

## **Payment methods**

We can pay coaches in countries supported by [Wise](https://wise.com/help/articles/2571942/what-countriesregions-can-i-send-to) or PayPal UK. This means we are unable to send payments to sanctioned countries.


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