Currently serving as Operations Manager at Rethink Charity, where we run a high-impact donation platform for Canadians, RC Forward. Former Communications Associate at ALLFED and former co-lead at EA Giving Tuesday. I'm a generalist building skills to help me be an effective operations and project manager for small to medium nonprofits that are prioritizing measurement and impact.
I travelled on a bicycle 2015-2019 in Asian and African countries to learn, an experience which compelled me to reorient my career (and catalyzed a great love and curiosity about people and places). I wanted to help humans and animals using evidence more and serendipity less. I'm a former petroleum geologist, BSc Earth Sciences (2011). On my personal time find me travelling, reading, and spending time outside.
I am most interested in animal welfare, global health + development, and pandemic prevention + mitigation. Giving What We Can pledger since December 2020.
Oh this is such a lovely post. Thank you for the wonderful mix of data, anecdotes, pictures, and writing. In particular, the personalities of community members really shone through. Congratulations on all of your accomplishments so far, and best wishes for 2023!
Small thing: the table of "favourite community members" is displaying very tall and narrow for me.
Hi David! I apologize for the very slow response. A few points:
- Your analysis makes me upgrade how important I think diligent time tracking is on this project in future years, segmented by e.g., 'managerial and tech time' vs 'volunteer/student time'
- I don't have a go-to answer for you on the time costs for EA GT 2021. We had 2 Ops Specialists (Aisha and Mac) each work ~200 paid hours; I worked about 350 paid hours (including hiring and training); Avi worked probably a few hundred volunteer hours (including hiring and training); Gina and a few others worked a small amount of volunteer hours.
- Can the project's time costs decrease via "learn by doing?" I am somewhat optimistic about this. But it's tricky because historically, new people have had to be trained on the systems and context every year. So processes can be improved, but a big thing is getting the same people to contribute to the project year after year. And this is tough, because it's uncertain the project will run any given year, and it's only seasonal. Ideally, the "institutional knowledge" would sit at an EA org (ideally, with the same people) over the long term.
- Thanks again for your BOTEC, I enjoyed reading it and I imagine it has helped folks in the community evaluate the projects' value.
Hello Chloe. I'm also an early career communications generalist who likes running, vegan cooking, and living abroad. Happy to chat about my experiences with any of these, or with working at EA orgs! (I work at Rethink Charity and at ALLFED). My email is megan@rethinkprojects.org. Enjoy the EA Forum!
Thanks Grace, donated!