Our mission is to build a global community of young people solving the world's most pressing problems.
Non-Trivial helps bright young people tackle pressing global challenges. Since our first fellowship 2 years ago, we’ve received over 40,000 applications and our alums have already gone on to co-author reports for the UN and publish at NeurIPS. High scoring applicants (top ~0.05%ile in the population) grew by 3.5x since last year.
Read more in our abridged review of 2024 and 2025 plans.
As CEO, you'll lead Non-Trivial in dramatically expanding our impact. Your work will reach and inspire thousands of the world’s most talented high schoolers.
You will own all aspects of our outreach strategy and its execution, expanding on our existing success and testing new approaches.
After successfully establishing Non-Trivial and securing its foundations, our founding CEO Peter McIntyre is transitioning to AI safety work while remaining involved as a board member.
Our previous key funder, Good Ventures, will no longer be funding high school programs. A new major potential funder, Carina, has committed to funding the majority of our budget until the end of 2027 conditional on confidence in the new CEO.
(Good Ventures’ exit does not reflect Open Philanthropy’s assessment of Non-Trivial’s impact. Our lead grantmaker at OP notes: "I think Non-Trivial is filling what is currently a pretty neglected niche identifying and supporting talented high-school students; our estimates suggest they meet OP's cost-effectiveness bar for this kind of outreach work. I would like to see them get funded.")
You'll be responsible for setting Non-Trivial's strategic direction and building the systems and culture needed to achieve our mission at scale.
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