Volunteer

The mission for PAW Climate is to draw more private-sector ML professionals into climate. There is a wealth of expertise, passion, and money pouring into climate tech as both startups and established industrial players seek to address one of the most important challenges facing humanity. Machine learning can be an important component in tech for addressing the climate crisis. Join PAW Climate to explore how companies apply machine learning to problems such as smart electrical grids, supply chain optimization, building energy efficiency, industrial control, precision agriculture, climate risk assessment, weather forecasting, ecosystem monitoring, and disaster response.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently until September. Full time during the days of the conference,.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

[Summary]You will learn a lot about running a conference as well as build strong industry connections as well as support the valuable mission of using AI and Machine Learning to support climate change initiatives.

• Acting as Program Chair for a PAW conference provides a powerful opportunity for career growth, providing opportunities to grow your network.
• As Program Chair, you take a leadership role; you own the event’s contents, its raison d’etre. And so, it is appropriate to not think of yourself as working for PAW, but truly as this event’s Creator; know that many attendees and speakers will view you that way.
• This role also provides greater opportunities for both speaking and writing. In addition to the option of programming yourself as a headline (keynote) speaker at this conference, you can help to design the conference theme.

🛠️ What will I do?

Design, Schedule and Run the conference. Line up speakers, keynotes, and panelists. Include the best speakers and hottest topics that will generate the most excitement, differentiate from other events, and draw the largest crowd.

For example, you might:

• Solicit speakers from your network and broader Climate / AI networks.
• Review each weekly marketing email send and other collateral
• Monitor/review/ update website copy especially when full program is first being posted

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

You will need to be highly organized and have basic management skills and effective communication and outreach skills.

• Excellent individual and group communication skills, ability to work with people of different work and communication styles
• Build and maintain a complete list of project tasks, delegating and following up on completion.
• Effective outreach to varied organizations to build a diverse, high impact speaker list.

🤔 Common Challenges

• Building relationships with potential speakers and getting them to commit to the conference can take time. Many speakers will only be interested in joining if they know that there are other influential keynote speakers involved.

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please send a message to Anne Spalding via email (aespaldi@gmail.com) or WoCl Slack detailing your skills and interests in volunteering for this conference.

The Member Experience team ensures that the Work on Climate community’s tools, resources, and culture make Work on Climate a positive place where members help one another make climate work mainstream.

Our community has grown substantially in the past year. With that growth comes greater opportunity for connection and community building, but also greater risk of spam and other behaviors that go against our Community Guidelines.

We need new strategies to make sure that our Community Guidelines and moderation policies encourage a culture of reciprocation within Work on Climate’s in large channels, subcommunities, and small group and 1:1 interactions. We’re looking for a volunteer to lead that effort!

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

Work on Climate is one of the largest, most active communities helping people make the transition to climate work. You will have a direct impact on how members experience Work on Climate, and ensure that community members connect with the people and resources they need, including the people they are able to help.

Through this work, you will gain the following:

• Gain experience applying your skills to climate-specific work
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates who are passionate about climate
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• A great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us.

🛠️ What will I do?

The Moderation Project Lead will be responsible for proposing and implementing three primary deliverables:

• Updated community guidelines (to help our 20,000+ members find and offer value within Work on Climate)
• Updated moderation policies (to help volunteer moderators apply community guidelines consistently, regardless of how long they’ve been on the team)
• Scalable moderation workflows (to make moderation a consistent and rewarding experience for moderators and community members)

Your tasks over the next 3 months may look like:

• Reviewing the current community guidelines and moderation policies
• Taking a close look at activity within our public channels, to understand what is working well and where we may need to draft new guidelines
• Coordinating daily moderation to make sure that posts that do not adhere to the community guidelines are resolved promptly.
• Drafting new community guidelines and a strategy to implement them

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates will have::

• Demonstrated experience in community moderation and a strong point of view on best practices.
• Ability to manage and delegate work. At the beginning of the role, you will be conducting a fair amount of day-to-day moderation to get firsthand experience with the current process, but the goal is that you will quickly transition to longer-term strategic work. Part of that transition will be determining when additional moderation support is needed, and what that support should look like.
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, with the ability to work with people of different work and communication styles.
• A “founder mindset” – doing whatever it takes, and learning whatever skills are needed to accomplish the goal of improving member experience.

🤔 Common Challenges

• Balancing the work to do with the amount of time you (and others) have to do it: Volunteers can commit ~5 hours per week. You’ll need to be thoughtful about how to make the best use of scarce time (yourself and others’).
• Asynchronous work: Our team usually works asynchronously, and coordinates work primarily through Slack and Asana. You’ll need to be comfortable proactively communicating progress and asking for help when you need it.
• Balancing urgent tasks with long-term goals: Moderation comes with the need to balance urgent and important tasks. This role involves a mix of ongoing moderation and long-term strategic work, so you’ll need to balance when to focus on short-term needs (such as removing spam accounts when they’re reported) with longer-term needs (like developing new methods to prevent spammers from accessing the community).

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

The Member Experience team ensures that the Work on Climate community’s tools, resources, and standards make Work on Climate a positive place where members help one another make climate work mainstream.

Our community has grown substantially in the past year. With that growth comes greater opportunity for connection and community building, but also greater risk of spam and other behaviors that go against our Community Guidelines.

We are seeking community moderators to help make sure that activity within Work on Climate meets our Community Guidelines, and to support the Moderation Project Lead in an ongoing project to update our community guidelines and moderation strategies.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

Work on Climate is one of the largest, most active communities helping people make the transition to climate work. Volunteering as a community moderator means you will have a direct impact on how members experience Work on Climate, and ensure that community members connect with the people and resources they need.

Through this work, you will gain the following:

• Exposure to a bunch of detailed resources and conversations within the Work on Climate community – because moderation involves keeping up to date in channels, previous moderators have been some of our most active community members
• Experience applying your skills to climate work
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates who are passionate about climate
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• A great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us

🛠️ What will I do?

Moderators are closely exposed to what goes on on Slack, empathize with member experience, and are uniquely equipped to identify ways to improve the community guidelines, the moderation process, and overall Slack structure. In addition to day-to-day moderation, you will work closely with the Moderation Project lead to update our community guidelines and moderation policies.

Your tasks over the next 3 months may look like:

• Doing (and coordinating) daily moderation to make sure that posts that do not adhere to the community guidelines are resolved promptly.
• Identify common violations that could be automated to allow moderators to focus on more nuanced moderation decisions.
• Working with the Moderation project Lead to develop new moderation strategies and community guidelines.

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates will have:

• Interest in leading both day-to-day moderation and supporting long-term improvements to the community guidelines and moderation policies.
• Experience in community moderation and a strong point of view on best practices.
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, with the ability to work with people of different work and communication styles.
• Bonus: experience/interest in slack automations and/or large language models like ChatGPT. Our team is constantly looking for ways to help reduce manual moderation workload by automating moderation of common violations.

🤔 Common Challenges

• Balancing the work to do with the amount of time you (and others) have to do it: Volunteers can commit ~5 hours per week. You’ll need to be thoughtful about how to make the best use of scarce time (yourself and others’).
• Asynchronous work: Our team usually works asynchronously, and coordinates work primarily through Slack and Asana. You’ll need to be comfortable proactively communicating progress and asking for help when you need it.
• Balancing urgent tasks with long-term goals: Moderation comes with the need to balance urgent and important tasks. This role involves a mix of ongoing moderation and long-term strategic work, so you’ll need to balance when to focus on short-term needs (such as removing spam accounts when they’re reported) with longer-term needs (like developing new methods to prevent spammers from accessing the community).

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

The Member Experience team ensures that the Work on Climate community’s tools, resources, and standards make Work on Climate a positive place where members help one another make climate work mainstream.

We are seeking volunteers to help improve our onboarding experience, from projects to help people get oriented to helpful resources from day one, to experimenting with new onboarding models to help ensure people make helpful connections straight away.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

Work on Climate is one of the largest, most active communities helping people make the transition to climate work. You will have a direct impact on how members experience Work on Climate, and ensure that new community members connect with the people and resources they need.

Through this work, you will gain the following:

• Experience supporting a long-term strategic project in climate (updating the onboarding strategy is an important strategic priority for Work on Climate)
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates who are passionate about climate
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• A great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us

🛠️ What will I do?

You will work directly with the Onboarding Project Lead to plan and implement updates to the onboarding experience.

Current projects include:

• Overhauling the intake form to better match new members with relevant resources and subcommunities
• Auditing current communications sent to new members and identify ways to better communicate how to best engage with the Work on Climate community
• Piloting onboarding strategies to help members make useful “in-person” connections from day one.

As you dive deep into the Work on Climate onboarding experience, we also expect that you may have additional ideas for how to improve it!

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates will have:

• Interest in a mix of strategic and hands on work. Onboarding initiatives ranges from editing Notion resources to leading welcome calls to devising new strategies to address common pain points for new members.
• Past experience with onboarding, enablement, or community moderation, as well as a strong point of view on best practices for online/asynchronous community building.
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, with the ability to work with people of different work and communication styles.

🤔 Common Challenges

• Balancing the work to do with the amount of time you (and others) have to do it: Volunteers can commit ~5 hours per week. You’ll need to be thoughtful about how to make the best use of scarce time (yourself and others’).
• Communicating with other volunteer teams: Onboarding affects the Mentorship, Subcommunities, and Events team, so you’ll need to collaborate and gain alignment with a large number of teams within Work on Climate.
• Asynchronous work: Our team usually works asynchronously, and coordinates work primarily through Slack and Asana. You’ll need to be comfortable proactively communicating progress and asking for help when you need it.

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

The Member Experience team ensures that the Work on Climate community’s tools, resources, and standards make Work on Climate a positive place where members help one another make climate work mainstream.

We are seeking volunteers to help build new and improve upon current tools to support moderation, feedback, and data analysis within our 20,000+ member community.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

Work on Climate is one of the largest, most active communities helping people make the transition to climate work. You will have a direct impact on how members experience Work on Climate, and will help to strategize and build the tools that enable the volunteers at Work on Climate to focus on engaging and improving the member experience.

Through this work, you will gain the following:

• Experience applying your software engineering skills within a climate-focused organization
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates who are passionate about climate and come from different backgrounds
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• A great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us

🛠️ What will I do?

Your first project will be to work directly with the Member Experience Team Lead and Moderation Project Lead to design, build, and refine tools to support moderation. Software Engineers also work with various other volunteer teams such as the Impact Research team and Metrics and Data team to help Work on Climate measure its impact and improve internal processes.

Your work over the next 3 months may look like:

• Developing methods for automating moderation of common community guideline violations, such as mass DMs, survey requests, or excessive cross-posting.
• Architect and implement features and tools to streamline volunteer work, such as optimizing slack features and managing survey roll outs.
• Reviewing PRs for new tools other volunteers are working on.
• Documenting (and improving upon!) our current processes for the above.

As you dive deep into the Work on Climate member experience, we also expect that you may have additional ideas for projects to support it! There’s a ton of potential projects to improve the member experience, and we look forward to working with you to implement your ideas.

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates will have:

• At least one year of experience in software development
• Experience overseeing and implementing projects
• Experience in typescript and google cloud, or interest in learning these tools
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, with the ability to work with people of different work and communication styles.

🤔 Common Challenges

• Work on Climate’s technical processes and documentation are not robust…yet! You will be one of the founding software engineering volunteers. We anticipate that this practice will grow in the next year, and part of this role will be to help establish more standardized practices.
• Balancing the work to do with the amount of time you (and others) have to do it: Volunteers can commit ~5 hours per week. You’ll need to be thoughtful about how to make the best use of scarce time (yourself and others’).
• Asynchronous work: Our team usually works asynchronously, and coordinates work primarily through Slack and Asana. You’ll need to be comfortable proactively communicating progress and asking for help when you need it.

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

Too many basic questions about climate work have gone unanswered for too long. Nobody knows how many people want to work on climate, how many people know that it’s possible, and what’s stopping those that do. You’d think someone would have figured these out by now? Nope, it’s on us!

That’s where the Ecosystem Research Team comes in.

Work On Climate has established a research practice committed to answering these questions. We are using this research to better serve our members and to advocate for change with organizations reaching the workforce en masse—such as mainstream job platforms, educational, industry, and government bodies.

We are looking for a new Team Lead to steer these efforts.

That’s where you come in.

⏰ Time commitment

10 hours/week consistently for the next 6+ months.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

In addition to playing a critical role in enabling the climate talent transition, you will get to:

• Stretch your skills and try out the best and latest research methods
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate (e.g. one of the volunteers on this team runs a market research firm!)
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest across the climate space
• Add a great line on your resume! 🙂 Employers know and respect us.

🛠️ What will I do?

In short, you will lead the Ecosystem Research Team to success! Though each Team Lead will bring their own unique flair to the role, the core responsibilities of the Team Lead are:

• Managing volunteer team members and research projects as needed to accomplish your team’s quarterly objectives at a high bar of excellence
• Overseeing the communication of those research studies to ensure they have the highest impact possible
• Working with our Executive Director to pitch research projects to potential funders

Please note: you will step into the role gradually over a few weeks, and the current Team Lead will remain on the team as an individual contributor, and will be able to help you.

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates for the Team Lead are those that have:

• Experience managing projects and/or people – this is a management role
• 5+ years of experience in research, ideally in a mix of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies
• Comfort with ambiguity, both about what questions should be asked and about how to answer them.
• Dependability and ability to roll up your sleeves. The natural tendency in volunteer projects is for things to slip through the cracks, and as Team Lead, the buck will stop at you.
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, ability to work with and lead people of different work and communication styles

🤔 Common Challenges

• Right now, the team is small (but mighty!). One of the immediate challenges will be finding volunteers who can do the necessary research to reach success.
• Managing a team of volunteers who have competing personal priorities.
• Finding the right volunteers on an adequate timeline to reach success.
• Conducting research on a timeline! Ecosystem research studies are not easy and take a serious amount of effort, careful scoping, and breaking down complexity.

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

We are upgrading all our events to truly connect people who can help each other, and build lasting work relationships and collaborations. Help us create and run these kinds of events!

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months

🎁 What’s in it for me?

• You will play a large role in helping our members build strong work relationships in climate.
• You will grow your event design and facilitation skills by applying them within the world’s largest community of its sort, on a high-powered team of event professionals.
• You will build your own climate network and gain visibility.

🛠️ What will I do?

You will design and run Work on Climate events and other scalable face-to-face experiences that educate and help community members on their climate career path, while at the same time building lasting work relationships between attendees.

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

• Significant experience and skill at facilitating interactive events – excellent communication skills, understanding of group dynamics, empathy and intuition for how people respond to nuances of an event experience.
• High creativity, curiosity, and attention to detail – a strong drive to get the little things right without being told to, or needing someone to check your work
• High autonomy and reliability – please see Expectations for a WoCl volunteer
• 4-5 hours per week for a minimum of 3-6 months

🤔 Common Challenges

• It can be challenging to source, book and get time in with speakers
• Designing and hosting events requires thinking on your feet, attention to detail and being flexible, adaptable to change. A speaker may cancel, zoom microphone might not work, someone might not be able to find the zoom link.
• As this role evolves, we may need to develop event series on specific topics so leadership skills and being able to manage other volunteers would be a plus.

🤚🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

Please confirm that our Expectations for a WoCl volunteer work for you.

As Work On Climate has grown to 20,000+ members, we are looking to develop programs that can better service our community. Creating systems at scale for developing mentorship relationships can positively impact knowledge transfer, which ultimately leads to progress.

That’s where the Mentorship Team comes in.

WoCl is committed to helping members on their path to finding climate work through fostering connections. This team runs the Expert Office Hours and Peer to Peer Mentorship initiatives. The goal of these programs is simply to get people who want to work in climate in the same room with people who do – to share knowledge, to foster interpersonal connections, and to demystify the idea of working in climate and the people in it.

The expert office hours program has an important goal which is to deliver office hours sessions that serve underserved mentees and topics. We are looking for a new Team Lead to steer these efforts.

That’s where you come in.

⏰ Time commitment

10 hours/week consistently for the next 6+ months.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

In addition to playing a critical role in enabling the climate talent transition, you will get to:

• Stretch your skills and try out the best and latest community building strategies and program design
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest across the climate space
• Add a great line on your resume! 🙂 Employers know and respect us.

🛠️ What will I do?

In short, you will lead the Mentorship team to success! Though each Team Lead will bring their own unique flair to the role, the core responsibilities of the Team Lead are:

• Managing the volunteer team members needed to accomplish your team’s quarterly objectives at a high bar of excellence
• Overseeing the Expert Office hours program and other mentoring initiatives that you and your team dream up in the next 6 months
• Measure success of Mentorship programs, communicate it to the Leadership team, and continue to improve the shared framework and program design

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates for the Team Lead are those that have:

• Experience managing projects and/or people – this is a management role
• 5+ years of experience in program design and implementation, such as Learning and Development and/or community management
• A “founder mindset” – doing whatever it takes and learning whatever skills are needed to accomplish the goals of the mentorship program.
• Dependability and ability to roll up your sleeves. The natural tendency in volunteer projects is for things to slip through the cracks, and as Team Lead, the buck will stop at you.
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, ability to work with and lead people of different work and communication styles

🤔 Common Challenges

• Managing a team of volunteers who have competing personal priorities.
• Finding the right volunteers on an adequate timeline to reach success.
• Ensuring that interactions between mentors and mentees are consistently high-quality.
• Sourcing mentors and keeping them engaged so that all parties feel that the mentorship opportunity is a beneficial use of time
• Measuring key outcomes and determining what success looks like

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

Simply put, the Impact Research Team studies Work on Climate’s impact! Our team serves as the compass to guide Work on Climate’s programs, events, and initiatives to make climate work mainstream.

Climate change isn’t waiting, and so we can’t either. Our projects and initiatives need to be as good as possible as soon as possible. So, we are looking for experienced User Researchers to shepherd other teams on this path of rapid feedback gathering and product iteration to maximize impact.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

In order to truly address climate change at scale, Work on Climate’s Impact Research Team needs to consistently produce high-quality findings that enable our volunteers to make the most impact possible. As a User Researcher, you will play a critical role in collaborating with other teams directly, enabling them to optimize their projects and initiatives to make the most impact possible.

This means that you’ll gain the following:

• Gain experience applying your user researching skills to climate-specific work
• Getting to stretch your skills and try out the best and latest research methods
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• A great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us.

🛠️ What will I do?

Simply put, you will be the compass guiding the direction of projects and initiatives across Work on Climate.

This will look like:

• Collaborate with other teams to understand their goals, target members, and KPIs, and help them generate research goals to measure and amplify their impact
• Conduct user research alongside teams as they implement projects and initiatives
• Compile data from user research studies and communicate it in a compelling way to ensure projects and initiatives are evolving to best fit the needs of the community and maximizing impact

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates will have:

• 3+ years of experience conducting user research, ideally with some mixed-methods and/or quantitative experience
• 3+ years of experience communicating user research findings to a range of audiences
• Dependability. The natural tendency in volunteer projects is for things to slip through the cracks, the buck will stop at you.
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, with the ability to work with people of different work and communication styles
• Impact-mindset, or someone whose mission is to maximize positive impact, stay focused on the outcome, and doesn’t hesitate to roll up their sleeves to make it happen.

🤔 Common Challenges

• Volunteer projects and initiatives move slowly because we can only contribute ~5 per week. User Researchers will need to account for this in their research timelines.
• User Researchers will need to address ambiguity. They’ll be swimming in a lot of uncertainty and will need to ask the right questions in order to drive maximum impact.

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

WoCl is seeking an Event Marketing Coordinator (EMC) Volunteer to join our marketing team. As the EMC, you will play a crucial role in helping us spread the word about our upcoming events to ensure their success. You will bridge the marketing and event teams to create promotion strategies that grab attention across both physical and virtual events. This role requires a minimum of 2-5 years in the field and provides a great opportunity for the climate-engaged and/or climate-job seeker to make a meaningful impact on climate while gaining experience in the space.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

You will learn a lot about community-building, and directly help our 21,000+ members.

Beyond a clear, actionable impact on the climate crisis, you will:

• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
• A great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us.

🛠️ What will I do?

In this role you will:

1. Develop and implement event marketing strategies: Collaborate with both the marketing and event teams to create comprehensive marketing plans for each event and selecting the best marketing channels to distribute these on
2. Social media tactical plans: Advise our social media specialist on the best approach, positioning, and messaging to promote WoCl events in an engaging way. Help leverage social media platforms to build excitement, generate interest, and drive event attendance.
3. Event listing and partnerships: Research and identify relevant event listing websites, community calendars, and partner organizations. Coordinate the submission of event details to these platforms to expand event visibility and reach new audiences.

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

You will need to be highly organized in meeting your deliverables while respecting your time

1. Our volunteer roles are a five hour commitment per week, which includes a 1x weekly all Marketing team meeting.
2. Excellent communication skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential. Ability to effectively convey messages in a clear, concise, and engaging manner.
3. Creativity and attention to detail: Ability to think creatively, generate innovative ideas, and pay meticulous attention to detail when creating event marketing materials.
4. Team player mentality: Willingness to collaborate and work closely with our volunteer marketing team members and event planners.

🤔 Common Challenges

• It can be challenging to:
• Manage time appropriately to hit goals while also respecting your other time commitments (we’re happy to support and advise on strategies for handling this).
• This is a brand new role, so there may be unforeseen challenges while you help us build this position as a bridge between fantastic teams.

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

We’re adding a content editor to our team to help our content creators produce high-quality and informative content across various platforms. As a Volunteer Content Editor, you will be instrumental in maintaining strong content distribution that demonstrates our expertise across long-form and short-form content. This role requires a minimum of 2-5 years in the field and provides a great opportunity for the climate-engaged and/or climate-job seeker to make a meaningful impact on climate while gaining experience in the space.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

Work on Climate is one of the largest and most active climate slack communities helping people around the world work on climate! As a volunteer, you’ll have the opportunity to help your fellow members on their climate journey, as well as network and collaborate with our awesome global team of volunteers. You’ll also:

• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
• Add a great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us.

🛠️ What will I do?

This opportunity has a focus on long-form content editing, however there are opportunities to create a variety of content types at Work on Climate based on your skillset. This includes:

1. Content Review and Editing:
   • Review, edit, and proofread a wide range of content, including articles, blog posts, website copy, social media posts, and marketing materials.
   • Ensure that all content adheres to our brand guidelines, style guides, and editorial standards.
   • Improve readability, clarity, grammar, punctuation, and overall quality of content.
   • Verify facts, data, and sources to ensure accuracy and credibility.
   • Collaborate with writers to enhance their work, providing constructive feedback and guidance.
2. Content Development and Strategy:
   • Collaborate with the content team to develop and implement content strategies that align with business objectives and target audience preferences.
   • Participate in brainstorming sessions to generate new content ideas and angles.
   • Conduct research on industry trends, competitors, and relevant topics to stay informed and create compelling, engaging content.
3. Quality Control:
   • Conduct regular content audits to identify areas for improvement and maintain consistency.
   • Ensure compliance with SEO best practices and optimize content for search engine visibility.
   • Monitor content performance metrics and make data-driven recommendations for optimization.

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

• Prior experience in content editing, copy editing, blogging, and/or journalism (examples of work are helpful!)
• Strong written communication skills
• Be reliable and collaborative

🤔 Common Challenges

• Like any new industry, it can take time to learn the brand voice and purpose of our content
• There is minimal oversight in this role. You will carry content assignments forward and own success for your projects. You will have support from your team lead along the way, but we look forward to working with someone who is already comfortable in their role as a content creator.

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome marketing team. We will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

Work On Climate has sub-communities for people in different roles, geographies, or industries.

We’re adding content creators to our team to help us generate high-quality, informative, and engaging content across various platforms. As a Volunteer Content Creator, you will play a crucial role in helping us spread awareness about our mission to make climate work mainstream while building a portfolio of content in the climate space.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

Work on Climate is one of the largest and most active climate slack communities helping people around the world work on climate! As a volunteer, you’ll have the opportunity to help your fellow members on their climate journey, as well as network and collaborate with our awesome global team of volunteers. You’ll also:

• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
• Add a great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us.

🛠️ What will I do?

This opportunity has a focus on long-form content, however there are opportunities to create a variety of content types at Work on Climate based on your skillset. This includes:

1. Content Creation: Develop and create compelling, informative content
2. Research: Partner with our research team on relevant topics and our organization’s initiatives to ensure accurate and up-to-date content.
3. Storytelling: Craft engaging narratives that effectively convey our organization’s message, values, and impact to inspire and connect with our audiences.
4. Collaboration: Collaborate with the marketing volunteer team to align content creation with overall marketing strategies and campaigns.
5. Brand Consistency: Maintain consistency in tone, style, and messaging to ensure a cohesive brand identity across all content.

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

• Prior experience in content creation, blogging, and journalism (examples of work are helpful!)
• Strong written communication skills
• Be reliable and collaborative

🤔 Common Challenges

• Like any new industry, it can take time to learn the brand voice and purpose of our content
• There is minimal oversight in this role. You will carry content assignments forward and own success for your projects. You will have support from your team lead along the way, but we look forward to working with someone who is already comfortable in their role as a content creator.

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome marketing team. We will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

Help us grow Work on Climate’s social media community! We’re a global community of people working on climate – help us grow on social media and keep our members up to date on all events and updates in the community! 🌎

Time commitment

1-5 hours/week

What’s in it for me?

Work on Climate is one of the biggest and most active climate slack communities helping people around the world work on climate! As a volunteer, you’ll have the chance to help your fellow members on their climate journey, as well as network and collaborate with our awesome global team of volunteers.

What will I do?

• Develop, implement and manage our social media strategy
• Social media content creation including copywriting, graphics, video editing, etc.
• Monitor and oversee Linkedin and Twitter engagement.
• Track and analyze the performance of social media campaigns.
• Collaborate with Research and Events teams to create content.

Common Challenges

• Create content that is within the WoCl voice + brand
• Minimal oversight and management – we need someone who is deeply familiar with social media who can see gaps and push initiatives to address those gaps

What skills and commitment do I need?

• Previous experience building a following on LinkedIn and Twitter, experience with Instagram is a plus.
• Be reliable and collaborative!

I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

We are looking for a volunteer experienced Data Engineer to help shape the data infrastructure that supports WoCl teams in delivering on their mission of making climate work mainstream.

The data infrastructure is important for our ability to understand how our programs are performing, so we can make them better. You’ll design, create and transform data pipelines, schemas and data sets from varying sources to build performant, reliable, and maintainable data products. You will play a central role in shaping and scaling Work on Climate’s data capabilities to help our teams make strategic decisions.

Time commitment

5 hours / week

Q: What’s in it for me?

• Work with an experienced, friendly, & diverse set of data engineers, data analysts, and product managers and learn from them
• As a data engineer, you’ll gain experience constructing and scaling the foundations of a world-class data infrastructure. Additionally, we encourage you to pick up new skills and learn from your teammates (ever wanted to dabble in data viz? Now is your chance!).
• Taking a community leadership position exposes you to a ton of motivated climate folks and organizations which will help build your network and career.
• You’ll also have significant impact on the climate journey of the 15,000+ members of the Work On Climate community, as well as our larger mission of making climate work mainstream in the entire talent ecosystem!

Q: What will I do?

• Own, maintain and grow WoCl’s data pipelines
• Connect data from WoCl’s software/tools to our database, Google Cloud SQL, through JavaScript, Python, DBT, Jupyter Notebooks and nbdev
• Optimize scripts so they run efficiently, on time, and without failure
• Review code of other data engineers
• Work on a small, creative, Agile metrics and data team
• Contribute to key decision-making as to the role of Metrics and Data team at Work on Climate, ensuring our tools, code, documentation and team scales effectively as WoCl does

Q: What skills and commitment do I need?

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or related roles
  • Our tech stack comprises JavaScript and Python, Jupyter Notebooks, DBT, nbdev, SQL (MySQL in particular), Google Cloud SQL.
• Be reliable (volunteering can be hard!)
• Nice to have: experience with long-term volunteering

Common challenges with this role (pick three to address in your application)

• We are a start-up in our data maturity—we are still figuring out how to use data and how best to model and transform it to meet wider team needs. Some things we do might not make sense to you—we’ll welcome your suggestions on how to improve things!
• We have a number of data feeds and serve all the various volunteer teams’ needs. At the same time, we may not have developed documentation or onboarding processes, and our volunteer team is based in all sorts of timezones. You may need to have some patience and proactivity in getting up to speed.
• Our teams are expanding their programs and tools they use to serve the community. Helping them track adoption, engagement and success means advising them on their tool selection so that we can ensure we can extract and leverage the data they need to keep a pulse on community health and growth.
• Our data tech stack has grown “organically”. To ensure we can maintain and scale a robust and efficient data and development infrastructure, we need to strike a healthy balance of building on top of what we have to move fast and deliver incremental value but also know when the time is to refactor or rethink our stack.

Q: I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.

We are looking for a volunteer Analytics Developer to help create the data infrastructure that supports WoCl teams in delivering on their mission of making climate work mainstream.

The data infrastructure is important for our ability to understand how our programs are performing, so we can make them better.

You will leverage our product data sets to drive strategic decisions and processes, as well as deepen our analytics infrastructure. You’ll interpret and transform data schemas and data sets from varying sources to build performant, reliable and maintainable data products. You will play a central role in shaping and scaling Work on Climate’s analytics capabilities.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours / week for a minimum of 6 months

🎁 What’s in it for me?

• Work with an experienced, friendly, & diverse set of data analysts, data engineers, and product managers and learn from them
• Meet and network with a much larger team of volunteers across several continents, skillsets, and backgrounds
• Develop your experience in SaaS-style analytics
• You’ll also have significant impact on the climate journey of the 15,000+ members of the Work On Climate community, as well as our larger mission of making climate work mainstream in the entire talent ecosystem!

🛠️ What will I do?

• Create Tableau dashboards and reports for WoCl teams and organizers based on data from WoCl’s softwares/tools
• Own and maintain WoCl’s Tableau ecosystem
• Work on a small, creative, Agile metrics and data team
• Meet with other WoCl teams as necessary to ensure their data needs are met through our dashboards
• Advise on continuing evolution of our dashboarding system, including possible migrations to other platforms
• Contribute to key decision-making as to the role of Metrics and Data team at Work on Climate, ensuring our tools, code, documentation and team scales effectively as WoCl does

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

• 2+ years of experience developing on BI / data visualization platforms, especially Tableau (others could be Looker, PowerBI, Mode, Data Studio, Domo, QlikView, Grafana etc.).
• 2+ years of experience collaborating with stakeholders to deliver data products
• 3+ years of work experience
• Aptitude for data visualization—telling stories with data in clear and easy-to-understand ways
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Be reliable (volunteering can be hard!)
• Bonus qualities:
  • experience or interest in data analysis or data engineering
  • experience with long-term volunteering

🤔 Common Challenges

• Our goal is to enable decision-making with data, that means ensuring the dashboards we produce are useful and used – what does the end user need? You will be tasked with creating usable dashboards for various team members, but might have difficulty setting up meetings due to limited volunteer time on both ends or time zone differences. Feedback loops on requirements gathering and dashboard design can be slow.
• Our Tableau dashboards have grown “organically,” which means they could use some pruning and gardening! You may find it difficult to know the best place to add a metric, and may have to do some re-organization or re-structuring to make things usable.
• We are a start-up in our data maturity—we are still figuring out how to use data, how best to visualize it, and what metrics to use. Some things we do might not make sense to you—we’ll welcome your suggestions on how to improve things!
• We have a number of data feeds and serve all the various volunteer teams’ needs through data visualizations. At the same time, we may not have developed documentation or onboarding processes, so you may need to have some patience and proactivity in getting up to speed.
• There is a difference between data availability and data accessibility. In a volunteer organization, we need to ensure new team members can find the data they need to unlock data insights. How can we ensure our work is accessible across teams and the wider org?

✋🏽 I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. Our team will be in touch within a week or so after your submission.