AI Ethics & Governance Lead

You make sure AI serves YouthShare’s mission with respect for people, data and the law, and you make our practices transparent.

Read the full role description on our website: full role description

HOW TO APPLY: PLEASE READ

You can apply here on Idealist, but you must also apply on our website, even if you have already sent your application on Idealist. On the website you present your background, attach your CV and receive your application reference by email.

Apply on our website: apply for this role on youthshareinitiatives.org

THE ROLE AT A GLANCE

• Level: Lead

• Time: 4 to 6 hours a week

• Commitment: at least one year, fully voluntary role

• Location: fully remote, from any country

• Languages: English or French, ideally both

• Applications open until 31 January 2027. This listing may close earlier, as soon as the right person is found.

• Role page: youthshareinitiatives.org

TWO MONTHLY MEETINGS

As a Lead, you take part in two meetings every month. You must be able to align your team around shared goals and to organise and run its meetings.

ABOUT THE TEAM

At YouthShare Initiatives, artificial intelligence is part of everyday work: Claude, first and foremost, and ChatGPT support research, writing, translation and organisation. The AI team makes demanding, useful and responsible use of them, in service of the five labs.

YOUR ASSIGNMENTS

• Write and maintain the association’s AI use charter

• Define, with the editorial board, transparency rules on AI use in our publications

• Govern the data entrusted to AI tools, in line with the GDPR

• Follow the implementation of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act and what it means for the association

• Assess the risks of each new use: bias, confidentiality, copyright, accuracy

• Train the team in good habits for verification and data protection

• Contribute to The Digital Palaver’s work on the ethics of automated decision-making

PROFILE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Strong command of the ethical, legal and social issues of AI

• Good hands-on use of Claude and ChatGPT, to judge with full knowledge

• A background in law, ethics, political science or computer science

• Rigour, teaching skills and diplomacy

NICE TO HAVE

• Knowledge of the GDPR and compliance

• Experience drafting charters or internal policies

• Good English and French

WHAT THIS ROLE GIVES YOU

• Hands-on AI governance experience, a rare and sought-after skill

• Drafting a charter that is published and applied

• Dialogue with The Digital Palaver’s researchers

A VOLUNTEER ROLE, OPEN TO YOUNG PEOPLE

Every role we offer is fully voluntary. The experience we ask for can come from a course, a student project, an internship, volunteering or a personal project: every skill counts, wherever you gained it. We weigh your motivation and potential as carefully as your track record.

HOW SELECTION WORKS

• Online application on our website: apply online

• Profile review: the Talent team reads every application and sends a first reply by email within three days on average.

• Video interview: a conversation to get to know each other and shape the assignment together.

• Decision and arrival: our answer by email, then a welcome to the team and access to its tools.

If you need an adjustment to apply or to take part in an interview, write to hr@youthshareinitiatives.org

ABOUT YOUTHSHARE INITIATIVES

YouthShare Initiatives is an international think-action tank and a French non-profit (Act of 1 July 1901). It brings young people from around the world together in five labs to think together, then act: research, debate, mentoring and foresight. Discover us: youthshareinitiatives.org

APPLY ON OUR WEBSITE (REQUIRED, EVEN IF YOU APPLIED ON IDEALIST)

• Apply for this role

• Read the full role description

• See all our open roles

RÉSUMÉ EN FRANÇAIS

Responsable éthique et gouvernance de l’IA : Vous veillez à ce que l’IA serve la mission de YouthShare dans le respect des personnes, des données et du droit, et vous rendez nos pratiques transparentes.

Poste bénévole, à distance, pour au moins un an · 4 à 6 h par semaine. Candidatures jusqu'au 31 janvier 2027.

En tant que lead, vous participez à deux réunions par mois : vous devez savoir fédérer votre équipe et organiser ses réunions.

Même si vous postulez sur Idealist, vous devez aussi postuler sur notre site : postuler sur youthshareinitiatives.org

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