EA - [JOB] Opportunity to found Charity Entrepreneurship NGO (outside of the incubation program): Tobacco taxation advocacy by Yelnats T.J.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [JOB] Opportunity to found Charity Entrepreneurship NGO (outside of the incubation program): Tobacco taxation advocacy, published by Yelnats T.J. on August 1, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Overview of job postingHighlightsWhy found a NGO/charityWhy tobacco taxationThe roleWho your future co-founder isThe selection processHow to applyFAQsRecommended readingsCharity Entrepreneurship is often called the Y combinator of the charity/NGO space and its alumni are compared to the PayPal Mafia (but for the charity sector).Note: this is not an application for the upcoming CE incubation program. You can apply for that here.Early application deadline: August 6th 23:59 UTCApplication deadline: August 13th 23:59 UTCAfter the deadline, applications will be taken on a rolling basis.The process is going to be fast and most applicants that go through the whole process will do so in about 3.5 weeks. Times will be quicker for applicants that submit earlier at each stage. Turnaround times will typically be a matter of days.HighlightsThe opportunityThis is a CE-researched intervention with a CE incubatee - J.T. Stanley - that will be considered for seed funding (via the CE seed funder network) in mid-September.(The CE incubatee went through the winter 2023 cohort. His original match for co-founder from the cohort ended up pursuing another career opportunity with comparable impact that arose near the end of the program.)The impactTobacco is 13x Malaria in deaths (WHO, 2023).Whereas malaria, HIV, and neonatal deaths are all decreasing year over year, deaths from tobacco are increasing. Tobacco is currently on track to kill a billion people in the 21st century (WHO, 2021).Here is a link to a section that talks about the financial and economic impacts.Taxation is both the most effective and most neglected form of tobacco control (WHO; NIH, 2016; World Bank, 2017).Multiple EA organizations have ran analysis that found tobacco taxation advocacy to be "an extremely cost-effective intervention."CE's cost-effectiveness analysis put the expected value between 39 and 51 USD per DALY averted.[1]Open Philanthropy's back-of-the-envelope calculation found 30 USD per DALY averted in expectation.[2]Giving What We Can's (GWWC) report suggested that cost per life saved could go as low as 800 USD according to one scientific study.[3]In other words, a successful tobacco taxation charity would immediately have an impact with cost-effectiveness at the upper echelons (think Against Malaria Foundation for GiveWell and Lead Exposure Elimination Project for CE).Why you should applyThis is your chance to be a founder of an impactful organization.Don't count yourself out. If in doubt apply. Roughly half of the successful applicants/founders that are accepted into the CE incubation program did not think they would qualify. Don't preempt yourself from becoming a founder; let the process play out.If you've applied to CE in the past, this is the opportunity for you.Why found an NGO/charityProsYou are not just a cog in the machine; you have ownership of a venture/organization that could deliver massive impact. The health of hundreds of thousands of tobacco users depends on you and your co-founder's fateful actions.One of the best expected values for impact - This intervention has the potential to avert a ridiculously high amount of deaths and DALYs.Upward career mobility and increased impact later in your career. Running an impactful organization will give you critical skills, experience, and career capital that will better position you for impact later in your career.ConsA much more serious commitment than your typical job.Founder salaries of CE charities are very modest compared to other parts of the EA ecosystem and the first-year salary is lean.Founding an organization...