Head of AI Strategy

You set the course for artificial intelligence at YouthShare: which uses, with which tools, for which results and within which framework.

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: 6 to 10 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

• Build the association’s AI roadmap, team by team and lab by lab

• Administer the team’s Claude and ChatGPT workspaces: accounts, shared projects, connectors, permissions

• Choose tools and subscriptions, and track both their cost and their use

• Coordinate the AI team and set its quarterly priorities

• Train volunteers in good practice, from the first prompt to advanced projects

• Measure time saved and quality achieved, and report to the Board

• Keep up with models, features and programmes for non-profits

• Represent YouthShare in discussions on AI for the public good

PROFILE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Outstanding command of Claude and ChatGPT, day to day and on advanced projects

• Strategic vision: linking a tool to a need and a result

• Experience leading change or training teams

• Solid understanding of model limits: hallucinations, bias, confidentiality

• Leadership, teaching skills and organisation

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience rolling out AI in an organisation

• Programming in Python or JavaScript

• Good English and French

WHAT THIS ROLE GIVES YOU

• Leading a full AI strategy within an international organisation

• Highly sought-after expertise to build your career on

• A seat on YouthShare’s coordination team

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 de la stratégie IA : Vous fixez le cap de l’intelligence artificielle chez YouthShare : quels usages, avec quels outils, pour quels résultats et dans quel cadre.

Poste bénévole, à distance, pour au moins un an · 6 à 10 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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