Re: taking a chance on a less experienced grantmaker, it seems like you have two particular assets relative to many other people in EA:
(1) You have experience hiring people, and
(2) You’re relatively well-connected
You might be particularly well-placed to hire someone on a short contract to recommend you some good donation opportunities. I can imagine you being able to hire the right person and ask/pay people to help mentor them as well. If they did well, you could recommend them to your friends for a similar service, or perhaps they’d go on to work at another EA organisation. If they did poorly, you simply wouldn’t take their recommendations.
But there’s a nice potential upside of finding both a talented new grantmaker and some good new donation opportunities, and if anyone can pull it off, you can.
Re: taking a chance on a less experienced grantmaker, it seems like you have two particular assets relative to many other people in EA:
(1) You have experience hiring people, and
(2) You’re relatively well-connected
You might be particularly well-placed to hire someone on a short contract to recommend you some good donation opportunities. I can imagine you being able to hire the right person and ask/pay people to help mentor them as well. If they did well, you could recommend them to your friends for a similar service, or perhaps they’d go on to work at another EA organisation. If they did poorly, you simply wouldn’t take their recommendations.
But there’s a nice potential upside of finding both a talented new grantmaker and some good new donation opportunities, and if anyone can pull it off, you can.