OUTREACH DIRECTOR

How this role is causing impact

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In the past three years of running our Charity Incubation Program (IP), we have found that the best predictor of which incubated charities will end up causing the highest impact is the quality of the co-founding team. As we scale up, one of our biggest bottlenecks is finding highly talented, value-aligned people to apply to our program, receive training, and then launch the top charity ideas our research team has found. We estimate the impact of the average IP alumnus to be equivalent to donating $300,000 USD / year to effective charities, so finding these gems is difficult, but extremely high-impact. The Outreach Director will manage 1-4 direct reports and create and maintain strategies for this team to succeed. 

Right now a lot of our most qualified and impactful candidates come from the EA community - therefore, this will be one key focus of outreach, e.g. via giving talks at different EAG(x)s around the world, talking to university EA groups to present CE’s model and the career path to their members, and helping audiences determine whether charity entrepreneurship might be a good fit for them. In addition, domain expert communities and cause area communities often yield great candidates: A professional working on alcohol regulation might be able to found an evidence-based alcohol policy organization lobbying for alcohol taxation, or an animal rights activist might be able to found a great charity working on chicken feed fortification to reduce suffering in factory farms on a grand scale (these are true stories from our 2021 Incubation Program).

The Communications Team

Our communications team so far consists of our current Director who will move on to another position within the organization, a Digital Media Manager responsible for social media, graphics and general outreach, a Consultant responsible for partnerships and moonshots that might elevate CE’s outreach to the next level, and a Recruitment Officer chiefly responsible for our event attendance and relationships with EA Group Organizers. The new Outreach Director will focus on management of this team (~60%), as well as on key relationships and overarching outreach strategy and activities

Key responsibilities:

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• Creating, executing, and evaluating an outreach and recruitment strategy

• Setting up fast feedback loops and adjusting activities on the go

• Managing an international, ambitious, fast-moving outreach team

• Liaising with other departments in CE to enable inter-departmental cooperation and feedback loops

• Researching cause area and domain expert communities to create talent pipelines for professionals from our cause areas

• Representing CE to EA and non-EA audiences at events such as EAGs, EAGxs, and cause-specific conferences around the world, both as a speaker and an attendee

• Giving talks and workshops for EA or student groups and coordinating other potential events, e.g. book clubs

• Participating in local EA events and helping organize events focused on recruitment

• Accurately communicating both the benefits and drawbacks of the charity entrepreneurship career path to diverse audiences

• Speaking and writing with people from different backgrounds and communities who might be interested in the CE Incubation Program and help them determine whether they might be a good fit

• Searching, identifying, and reaching out cold to potential candidates and following up when necessary

• Maintaining organized databases and pipelines with potential candidates’ data

• Forming connections with EA and domain expert communities and cause area-specific organizations to establish mutual relationships in sharing potential candidates

• Assisting our incubated charities with outreach advice and strategy