Rob Wiblin

Do you know what was done in countries like the UK or the US to get really high levels of childhood immunization in the past?

So it's actually not so different, this intervention, than what the UK is already doing, for example.

All right, we'll stick up a link to the charity entrepreneurship website where I guess you can find out about the process for applying and take a look through all of these really interesting white papers that they've written where they look at different interventions where no one's particularly trying to scale that intervention at the moment and evaluate them on a whole bunch of different criteria, like how practical is it?

How cost effective might it be?

Yeah, I think it seems like a really cool program.

And I've enjoyed looking at some of the other organizations that have gone through charity entrepreneurship as part of prepping for this interview.

It's pretty inspiring to see people out there doing things on the ground and not just releasing podcasts.

Let's talk maybe for a minute about, yeah, current opportunities to work at Civita.

For people who might like to get involved, what roles are you currently trying to fill?

Yeah.

Did the jobs mean moving to India or is there going to be a London office consistently as well?

Yeah.

Are there any particular skills that are most limiting your ability to grow, like technology or management expertise or familiarity with logistics and so on?

Yeah.

To what extent is it useful to have a background in global health and development versus just having, you know, really developed some particular strong skill in whatever area?

Yeah, hiring is difficult.

What fraction of your total work hours go towards hiring?

Yeah, I wonder, maybe it's not so bad if you're spending a huge amount of time on hiring.

I've heard stories that many very successful organizations early on, an astonishing fraction of staff time was spent on getting exactly the right hires and figuring out exactly what roles you actually need to hire for.

It makes some intuitive sense because the cost of a bad hire can be pretty famously quite large and the benefits of getting exactly the right person into exactly the right role can be huge in terms of then unlocking this potential to grow more.