<p>I have quite a few developers asking me if certain SQL jobs ran, and I would like to give them access to check it on their own without giving them <code>sysadmin</code> rights.  I know that in <code>SQL 2005</code>, you can grant them the <code>SQLAgentReaderRole</code>, but I am looking for a solution in <code>SQL 2000</code>.  </p>

Pretty sure there isn't one out of the box.  This thread seems to be pretty decent...halfway down they discuss creating a role and then locking that down further.  Also you could just create a mini-program (sp even?) to email the results of the job as a summary, or add to each job an on completion event to email an email group.
http://sqlforums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=60&threadid=43021&enterthread=y