Talent and Operations Deputy Director (AI Safety Institute)

This is a fast-paced role responsible for enabling AISIs continued growth and ensuring structures are in place as AISI begins planning for being placed onto a statutory footing. Given this, the responsibilities of this role will evolve over time. However, the postholder can expect to be initially responsible for:Attracting world leading talent to work for AISI. Many of the skill sets we are looking for are not normally available to government. You will need to have the ability to design the offer, marketing and talent sourcing to hire extraordinary people. You will need to commit to, and articulate, our mission to compete for talent against large private sector organisations.The ability to create an onboarding process that rivals the experience of leading private sector organisations. Youll need to innovate, understand constraints, and deal with often unique personal circumstances to land talent.Establishing the AISIs office in San Francisco, leading all relevant logistics, commercial activities and recruitment linked to this.Leading the AISIs special projects team, responsible for both reactive and strategic projects and developing the AISIs Employee Value Proposition.Lead on scoping out the significant operational start-up requirements for setting up AISI on statutory footing. This will be very akin to standing up a new organisation from scratch, with a lot of room for exercising vision, leadership, execution excellence, and exceptional judgement.Leading the AISIs wider corporate support functions including L&D, Business Management, and other functions.Be an active part of the wider senior leadership team of AISI, delivering and taking ownership of corporate objectives.Above all, the postholder will need to be able to deliver this through their team, creating a sustainable and ambitious talent and operations function in AISI.