Senior Research Manager - Animal Welfare

Remote, Worldwide

About the role

Rethink Priorities ' Animal Welfare Department produces research and strategic advice to help organizations make well-informed decisions for animals . The Department is splitting into three teams. The AI and Animals Team helps organisations navigate an AI-transforming world. The Frontiers Team advances the field of animal welfare, focusing on neglected animals (such as shrimp) and emerging topics (such as breeding for welfare). And a new Animal Welfare Strategy Team, described below.

The Animal Welfare Strategy Team (working name) will focus on supporting and accelerating funders and organizations toward achieving their core goals of accelerating the end of low-welfare farming and reducing the suffering of animals on farms , with a focus on terrestrial vertebrates. This will involve a mix of consulting work, in-house research, and other activities.

Recent consulting work has included economic analysis of egg prices for a policy advocacy organization, prioritization of welfare-tech ideas for a venture studio, and research on alternative-protein regulation to guide a large grantmaker with a $10m+ portfolio. RP is independent: clients get the answers that the...