“Writing about my job: Program Director” by Gavriel Kleinwaks

I'm the 1Day Sooner program director for indoor air quality (IAQ). In practice, that means I research indoor air cleaning interventions (including how they work and their associated economics) and do relevant public communication and policy analysis. I spend most of my time reading academic literature, writing about IAQ (for policy or general audiences), and talking to people. 1Day Sooner is small and idiosyncratic.[1] I don't know if my job description generalizes well to older and/or larger organizations, and I think other orgs would be unlikely to give this title to someone of my age and experience level. How I got here 1Day Sooner was founded at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, and I learned about it from some EA influencer's public Facebook post. (Possibly Rob Wiblin?) I signed up to volunteer, and later contracted, for 1Day Sooner while in grad school for mechanical engineering.[2] The volunteering was [...] ---Outline:(00:51) How I got here(02:10) Responsibilities(03:28) A representative segment of a weeks to-do list(04:21) Some representative work output(04:48) Pros & Cons--- First published: July 23rd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZFbsCqAJ6KY4WHEeZ/writing-about-my-job-program-director --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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