If anyone is undecided about applying for this kind of position vs earning to give, I found the following quote from Ben Kuhn interesting:
All the EA organizations that I’ve talked to have mentioned difficulty in finding people. This is despite the fact that I know many people in the movement who seem like they would be quite good candidates. I’m wondering if this is because the earning-to-give meme has propagated so strongly that everyone decides they would rather earn money and fund someone else working there, and then they don’t apply, leading to a shortage of qualified applicants. At any rate, few enough people have the required skills and attitudes to work at e.g. GiveWell, Giving What We Can or 80,000 Hours that it seems pretty non-replaceable.
If anyone is undecided about applying for this kind of position vs earning to give, I found the following quote from Ben Kuhn interesting: