Great stuff - good luck!

Yeah, I'm aware of those, but I don't think they've published a ToC for CEA as an organisation anywhere. I think it would be good for CEA to have a public ToC because, as noted here, this is a basic good practice in the non-profit sector. 

If accurate, it’s useful info about Altman’s character.

I don't think CEA has a public theory of change, it just has a strategy. If I were to recreate its theory of change based on what I know of the org, it'd have three target groups:

1. Non-EAs
2. Organisers
3. Existing members of the community

Per target group, I'd say it has the following main activities:

• Targeting non-EAs, it does comms and education (the VP programme).
• Targeting organisers, you have the work of the groups team.
• Targeting existing members, you have the events team, the forum team, and community health. 

Per target group, these activities are aiming for the following short-term outcomes:

• Targeting non-EAs, it doesn't aim to raise awareness of EA, but instead, it aims to ensure people have an accurate understanding of what EA is.
• Targeting organisers, it aims to improve their ability to organise.
• Targeting existing members, it aims to improve information flow (through EAG(x) events, the forum, newsletters, etc.) and maintain a healthy culture (through community health work).

If you're interested, you can see EA Netherland's theory of change here. 

Interestingly, CEAP did some excellent work in this vein in NL recently - but clearly it wasn’t enough.

Agreed. 

Quick case study. We hired a production officer for EAGxUtrecht who is a professional event manager but wasn't even aware of EA as a thing. She's amazing. 

EAGxUtrecht (July 5-7) is now inviting applicants from the UK (alongside other Western European regions that don't currently have an upcoming EAGx).^[1] Apply here!

Ticket discounts are available and we have limited travel support.

Utrecht is very easy to get to. You can fly/Eurostar to Amsterdam and then every 15 mins there's a direct train to Utrecht, which only takes 35 mins (and costs €10.20).

1. ^{^}

   Applicants from elsewhere are encouraged to apply but the bar for getting in is much higher.

Maybe René Bekkers can help you out? He's the director of the Center for Philanthropic Studies at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. They focus on EU + Dutch stuff, e.g., they contributed to the 2017 Giving in Europe report. You can find his email address here. I don't know him well but he attended a small event we organised. 

I'm surprised by the disagree votes. Is this because people think I'm saying, 'in the case of whether it is ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good, one ought not to say what one truly believes'? 

To clarify, that's not what I'm trying to say. I'm saying we should have nuanced thoughts about whether it is ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good, and we should make sure we're expressing those thoughts in a nuanced fashion (similar to the 80k article I linked). If you disagree with this I'd be very interested in hearing your reasoning!

Minor nitpick: you list work ethic as your first example of a soft skill but I don't think it's commonly listed as an example of a soft skill.