Careers
This is an exciting moment for AAA. Our team is roughly doubling, and we're hiring for four roles spanning research and evaluation, programme delivery, and community partnerships. Together they'll shape how we find, develop and support the people building Africa's farmed animal advocacy movement. Details on the roles can be found below.
Who we are
Animal Advocacy Africa (AAA) works to prevent the spread of industrial animal agriculture in Africa and to address the harms it already causes - by finding and developing the people and organisations who can make the biggest difference for animals on the continent. For more information on our work, please browse our website. We especially recommend reading the yearly reviews on our Blog and skimming the Programmes section.
The people who thrive at AAA care deeply about farmed animals and want to help them as effectively as possible. In practice, that means following the evidence even when it points somewhere unexpected, and being willing to change your mind, including about our own programmes.
If you meet most of the essential criteria and the work excites you, please apply. We'd rather see your application than have you rule yourself out. If you're not sure which role fits best, you can flag interest in more than one.
All roles are full time and remote. Start dates staggered from December 2026 through March 2027. Salaries are defined based on responsibilities, location, and personal circumstances. For the sake of cost-effectiveness and mission alignment, we typically do not meet industry-equivalent salaries. For the same reasons, some of our leadership team sacrifices parts of their salary. Staff are encouraged to do so but not expected. We are open to hiring from Africa, Europe and most other regions, as long as you can work at least 3 hours each weekday that overlap with roughly 8am to 5pm in European and African time zones (about UTC+0 to UTC+3).
“We have very ambitious scaling plans for the next year and beyond. To make these a reality, hiring the right people will be absolutely crucial. We need candidates who show a high level of agency and proactivity, clear alignment with our values and mission, and a fit with our largely remote and candid-yet-warm work culture.”
The roles we’re hiring for
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Reports to: Director of Strategy, Research & MEL
Target start: December 2026, Jan 2027 if needed, later for the right candidate
Purpose: Own AAA's research function: the country and intervention research that shapes where we work and which paths we point people towards. Support our monitoring and evaluation work, including cost-effectiveness analyses of the organisations we incubate, and the assessment and due diligence behind our grantmaking.
Responsibilities
Lead the research for our upcoming in-depth programmes, including ecosystem mapping, landscape analysis, and intervention and career path prioritisation.
Support our monitoring and evaluation work across everything we run, from outreach and entry programmes through to the organisations we incubate, including data collection, analysis and honest reporting of what it shows.
Conduct cost-effectiveness analyses of our incubated organisations.
Support assessment and due diligence for our regranting: evaluating incubation proposals, assessing pilot outcomes, and informing follow-on funding decisions.
Work closely with the Director of Strategy, Research & MEL on prioritisation and methodology.
Essential
Strong applied research skills, comfortable moving between desk research, stakeholder interviews, and quantitative analysis.
Able to reach clear conclusions under uncertainty and communicate them without overstating what the evidence supports.
Comfortable working independently in a small, fast-moving team.
Strong interest in effective animal advocacy and in the African context specifically.
Desirable
Experience with time-capped work.
Experience contributing to programme monitoring and evaluation.
Experience with cost-effectiveness analysis or similar prioritisation methods.
Familiarity with grantmaking, due diligence, or evaluation of early-stage organisations.
Experience working in or researching African contexts.
Comfort using data tools and AI-supported workflows.
Arabic (small plus for this role), French, or another regionally relevant language.
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Reports to: Executive Director, working very closely with the Director of Strategy, Research & MEL
Target start: December 2026, Jan 2027 if needed, later for the right candidate
Purpose: Own the design and delivery of our in-depth programmes end to end: the country fellowships and careers programmes that are the deep end of our talent funnel.
Responsibilities
Own the design and delivery of our in-depth programmes end to end: cohort-based fellowships that support participants to found new organisations and develop their careers, and targeted careers programmes.
Working closely with the Director of Strategy, Research & MEL, who holds functional authority over programme content and strategic design.
Manage the Programme Coordinator, including their priorities and development.
Implement participant selection: assessing and scoring candidates.
Deliver programme content and in-person components.
Hold the supportive relationship with participants, alumni and incubated organisations, including accompaniment through career transitions and early organisational stages.
Coordinate with local partners, Effective Animal Advocacy (EAA) group leads and external capacity builders supporting our participants.
Feed programme learnings back into design for subsequent cohorts.
Essential
Experience designing and delivering programmes with cohorts of participants: fellowships, accelerators, training programmes or similar.
Demonstrated management experience, or clearly demonstrable capability, since this role manages others from early on.
Strong organisational skills and comfort holding many moving parts at once.
Able to work in close partnership with a colleague who holds design authority while retaining clear ownership of delivery.
Strong interest in effective animal advocacy and in the African context.
Ability to travel for roughly two weeks per year.
Desirable
Experience in incubation, entrepreneurship, or start-up environment.
Experience in one of our priority careers paths.
Experience working across multiple countries or in African contexts.
Comfort with data tools and AI-supported workflows.
Arabic (strong plus), French, or another regionally relevant language.
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Reports to: Programme Manager
Target start: February 2027
Purpose: Support delivery of our in-depth programmes, taking on the execution work that makes them run well.
Responsibilities
Support delivery of our in-depth programmes: cohort-based fellowships and careers programmes for advocates in priority countries.
Support participant selection for our programmes.
Support programme logistics, including in-person components, venues, travel and scheduling.
Support programme outreach activities.
Prepare and maintain programme materials, templates and documentation.
Support participants and alumni throughout and after programmes.
Support data collection for research and monitoring and evaluation.
Essential
Strong organisational and coordination skills, with attention to detail.
Reliable and proactive, comfortable owning tasks without close supervision in a small team.
Clear written communication with a wide range of people.
Interest in effective animal advocacy and in the African context.
Desirable
Experience supporting programmes, events or cohorts.
Experience working remotely across time zones.
Comfort with data tools and AI-supported workflows.
Arabic (strong plus), French, or another regionally relevant language.
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Reports to: Director of People & Operations
Target start: February/March 2027
Purpose: Build AAA's presence on the ground: the locally led communities, partnerships and relationships that feed our talent funnel and support our programmes.
Responsibilities
Help identify and recruit local leaders to establish and run Effective Animal Advocacy (EAA) groups in priority countries.
Work with group leads on local outreach, community building and adapting our messaging to local contexts.
Build and maintain partnerships with universities, professional associations, existing organisations and other recruitment channels.
Coordinate on-the-ground support for our in-depth programmes, including local research and logistics, working with group leads.
Support due diligence and local intelligence gathering through Effective Animal Advocacy (EAA) group leads, including farm visits and stakeholder interviews where relevant.
Work with the Communications Manager on outreach in priority countries.
Essential
Experience building communities, networks or partnerships, ideally in more than one country.
Strong relationship-building skills with a wide range of stakeholders.
Based in Africa, with strong understanding of at least one of our priority regions (esp. Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Northern Africa, South Africa).
Interest in effective animal advocacy.
Ability to travel for several weeks per year.
Desirable
Existing networks in animal advocacy, effective altruism, or adjacent fields in Africa.
Experience supporting or running volunteer-led or locally led groups.
Arabic (strong plus, particularly for North African group building), French, or another regionally relevant language.
Comfort with data tools and AI-supported workflows.
Our Hiring Process
Application form — only 20-30 minutes, if you have your up-to-date CV or LinkedIn profile at hand.
Asynchronous interview — a short set of questions you complete in your own time.
Test task — a single, role-specific task.
Interviews — two stages.
Work trial — with the winning candidate.
We move quickly between stages and aim to keep you updated on the timing at each step.
Why these roles might not suit you?
A few honest signals this might not be the right fit:
If you need in-person interaction to do your best work. We're fully remote, and most collaboration happens asynchronously over Slack, email, and shared documents.
If you prefer close, day-to-day direction from a manager. We keep management layers deliberately thin, and staff are expected to run their own priorities with real autonomy.
If direct feedback is hard for you to give or receive. We treat feedback, including about our own mistakes, as a routine part of the job, not a rare or formal event.
If you'd rather work from fixed procedures than figure things out. Our SOPs are guidelines, not rulebooks, and we lean on judgment more than a set playbook.
If the cause itself isn't a genuine pull for you. This work asks a lot of people who aren't personally motivated by reducing farmed animal suffering specifically, beyond wanting meaningful work in general.
