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At the moment, we do not have any open positions available. However, our mission at Work on Climate is ever-evolving, and new opportunities may arise as we continue to grow and expand our impact. If you’re passionate about building the climate workforce and interested in contributing to our work, we’d love to hear from you! While we might not have the right opportunity now, your skills and enthusiasm could be just what we need in the future.

Please reach out to us at support@workonclimate.org to express your interest, share a bit about yourself, and let us know how you’d like to contribute. By staying in touch, you’ll be among the first to know when new roles become available that match your expertise and passions. Thank you for your interest in Work on Climate.

Work on Climate (WoCl) is a leading non-profit focused on mobilizing humanity’s talent to build a regenerative, climate-positive economy.

You probably know us for our online community — the world’s largest climate career and action community — which has helped thousands of people find climate jobs, start companies, and build impactful networks. We’ve been featured in Fast Company, the New York Times, Wired, and more.

But our work is entering a new chapter.

We are shifting beyond helping individuals find climate jobs. We are now supporting professionals to organize, mobilize, and transform whole sectors and regions toward regenerative futures. A core part of this shift is building a dynamic slate of catalytic community activities that inspire action, strengthen relationships, and surface new organizers and chapter leaders.

About the team

Our purpose: design and run whole-community activities that spark inspiration, build relationships, and help members see themselves as change agents.

These activities—events, workshops, stories, experiments, founder support moments, community dialogues—are the connective tissue that powers our new chapter model.

• Team size: ~6 volunteers (starting team; growing in 2026)
• Location: Fully distributed across time zones
• Weekly meeting: Mondays @ 9am PT (although this can change based on availability)

Role Summary

We’re seeking volunteers who want to help shape the future of the Work on Climate community by designing and delivering community activities that support our members’ journey from awareness → inspiration → action.

This role is open because we are reorganizing WoCl’s programs around chapter development and decentralized leadership. The Community Activities Team is the heart of this transition.

Top priorities for this volunteer role:

1. Manage a team that designs and runs high-quality community activities (events, workshops, founder gatherings, community conversations) that inspire climate-motivated professionals and help them connect around shared purpose.
2. Ensure these activities become “catalytic” — meaning they help members take a next step toward action, leadership, or local organizing.
3. Support the health and vibrancy of the broader community, surfacing potential organizers and strengthening cross-sector relationships.

⏰ Time commitment

• 10 hours/week consistently for at least the next 6 months (we’d love you to stay longer!)
• Weekly meeting attendance is required (See meeting time above in the “About the team” section)

🎁 What’s in it for me?

In addition to playing a critical role in building the climate work movement, you will get to:

• Develop leadership and people-management experience in a movement-building context
• Shape the cultural and strategic heart of the world’s largest climate action community
• Collaborate with highly dedicated volunteers and experts in climate, tech, startups, and regenerative fields
• Learn community leadership, organizing strategy, and climate-sector insights
• Gain experience running programs with global reach and real-world impact

🛠️ What will I do?

As Team Lead, you will:

People & Team Leadership

• Manage, motivate, and support a team of 6-10 volunteers
• Run weekly team meetings with clear agendas and follow-through
• Facilitate volunteer onboarding, role clarity, and capacity planning
• Provide guidance, unblock challenges, and ensure work is moving

Program Strategy & Direction

• Translate WoCl’s community strategy into a practical programming roadmap
• Ensure activities are designed to spark next steps toward organizing, chapter participation, or leadership
• Decide which activities to run, test, pause, or scale

Project & Program Management

• Oversee planning, execution, and quality of community activities
• Ensure activities have clear goals, runbooks, and follow-up pathways
• Track and report on progress toward OKRs

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

You will need to be highly self-motivated and capable of breaking down large tasks into smaller components, prioritizing your work, and identifying when you need help (and asking for it!).

• Experience leading teams (formal or informal)
• Strong project or program management skills
• Ability to break down ambiguity into actionable plans
• Excellent communication and facilitation of groups
• [Nice to have] background in community building, event design, or movement building
• [Nice to have] systems thinking or regenerative mindset

🤔 Common Challenges

• Managing a diverse volunteer team with variable availability
• Designing activities that do more than inform – they help mobilize
• Operating with limited staff capacity and imperfect information

✋🏽 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. We strive to reach out to applicants within 1 to 2 weeks. Generally, our recruitment process includes a 30-minute screening with a recruiter and a 30-minute interview with the Team Lead.

Work on Climate (WoCl) is a leading non-profit focused on mobilizing humanity’s talent to build a regenerative, climate-positive economy.

You probably know us for our online community — the world’s largest climate career and action community — which has helped thousands of people find climate jobs, start companies, and build impactful networks. We’ve been featured in Fast Company, the New York Times, Wired, and more.

But our work is entering a new chapter.

We are shifting beyond helping individuals find climate jobs. We are now supporting professionals to organize, mobilize, and transform whole sectors and regions toward regenerative futures.

And to do that, we think mentorship is critical. This team runs the Expert Office Hours and SME programs. The goal of these programs is to help people achieve their goals, and help them build regenerative work – to share knowledge, to foster interpersonal connections, and to demystify the idea of working in climate and the people in it.

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

⏰ 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. If you are selected for an interview, our team will be in touch in 1-2 weeks.

About Work on Climate

Work on Climate (WoCl) is a leading non-profit focused on mobilizing humanity’s talent to build a regenerative green economy.

You probably know us for our online community, the largest in the world of its sort, that has helped thousands of people find jobs and start companies, highlighted in most major business press, from Fast Company to New York Times.

However, our work goes far beyond helping people find jobs: we believe that professionals have the power to transform their companies, industries, and communities.

About the team

Our Metrics & Data team builds the data infrastructure for Work On Climate.

That means collecting, organizing, and analyzing data about our members, community activity, and programs. Program teams use this data both for understanding program performance and for implementing effective programs for our members.

We are geo located across Canada, US, Europe, and our standard meeting schedule is once a week, currently on Tuesday @ 9am PST (UTC-8).

Role Summary

We’re looking for an experienced, dependable, highly technical volunteer Data Engineering Team Lead to steer this team’s technical direction and coordinate implementation.

⏰ Time commitment

This role is highly impactful and rewarding, but we want to be upfront that success in this role requires a high level of sustained commitment:

• 10 hours/week consistently for a minimum of 6 months, including the ability to join our weekly meeting on Tuesdays @ 9am PST (UTC-8).
• Being consistently available and responsive to your teammates and leadership on a daily basis, so that the team’s coordination is not bottlenecked by the lead’s absence.

👷🏼 What will I do?

You will be leading an all-volunteer data engineering team that implements and maintains our data infrastructure.

• Manage the team: Coordinate work, motivate volunteers, keep people accountable to their commitments, recruit new volunteers when needed, pitch in with hands-on work as needed to keep the work progressing
• Guide technical direction of the work, serve as a technical expert whose architectural guidance (and decisions, where needed) the team can trust
• Champion adoption of new tools, practices, and ways of working, including AI-assisted engineering and data science workflows
• Work with our founder Eugene to keep the team’s direction responsive to the organization’s evolution

✅ What skills and personal qualities make for a fit?

Skills and track record:

• 5+ years professional experience in data engineering, including team management, project management, and individual coding work.
• Experience with several of: GCP, Typescript, python, dbt, Hex, dagster – or tools serving an equivalent purpose.
• “AI-native” in your own development workflow, actively following emerging AI tools and frameworks
• Big plus: Experience with implementing systems that include ML serving and evaluation workflows, or LLM-powered systems such as chatbots and search tools
• A track record of being the driving force of adoption of new tools, practices, and ways of working on teams you’ve been part of
• Previous experience leading all-volunteer teams strongly preferred

Personal qualities – among your peers, you have a reputation for:

• Being extremely dependable, with a track record of sustaining multi-month commitments based purely on internal motivation (rather than external accountability).
• Being extremely pragmatic and able to translate a high-level vision into nimble practical steps.
• Being very comfortable with direct but kind feedback/accountability/disagreement – both giving and receiving; with leadership, peers, and team members alike; with people of different working styles.
• Being someone who has mastered “the art of getting to the most important point”: being able to explain a complex topic to someone, and learn something complex even from someone who is less good at explaining.

🤔 Common Challenges

• By far the biggest challenge for any team lead is their own availability and the availability of volunteers on their team. Many people bite off more than they can chew, and circumstances change. It is extremely important that you are able to navigate these situations through the full management toolkit: clear and timely communication, careful recruiting, clear expectations, delegation, motivation, accountability, etc.
• Given that this team is all-volunteer, we have to build the simplest thing that can possibly work. That requires a high level of technical judgment about what is high-leverage AND what is buildable and maintainable with our resources.
• Our stack includes a variety of tools that change from time to time (e.g. right now we are adopting AI-assisted engineering + data science tools and moving from Javascript to Python). It is unlikely that any given person has extensive experience with all of them. Ability to learn new tools exceptionally quickly, and with minimal/no guidance, is a disproportionately important factor for success on this team.

🏆 What’s in it for me?

Our most impactful volunteers are internally motivated, and help this work because they believe in our mission and see how their work makes a difference.

This data infrastructure helps our program teams understand what works and enables new types of data-driven programs. Your work will help more of our members make a difference for climate through their work, and find the right invaluable work relationships.

However, if you are choosing between several impactful opportunities, consider that:

• You will get to lead and be part of a team different from teams you’ve led before, and deepen your leadership skills.
• You will learn a lot from your teammates and the way we do things, and teach us a lot, too. Our volunteers note that the way we run things here is exceptional for a mostly-volunteer organization. It’s a lot of fun.
• You will be part of a work culture that several of our volunteers have described as “a healing experience”, compared to the culture they are part of in their day jobs.
• We have each other’s back. We will support you – both in this role and on your personal path to working in climate.

✋🏽 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 interest in volunteering with our awesome team. If you are selected for an interview, our team will be in touch in 1-2 weeks.

About Work on Climate

Work on Climate (WoCl) is a leading non-profit focused on mobilizing humanity’s talent to build a regenerative green economy.

You probably know us for our online community, the largest in the world of its sort, that has helped thousands of people find jobs and start companies, highlighted in most major business press, from Fast Company to New York Times.

However, our work goes far beyond helping people find jobs: we believe that professionals have the power to transform their companies, industries, and communities.

What We Need: We’re currently looking for a Co-Team Lead to join the People and Operations team and work closely with the current Team Lead for a few months before transitioning into the primary Team Lead role. This co-lead model ensures a smooth handoff of responsibilities, shared decision-making, and long-term continuity. When the time comes for you to step away, you’ll follow the same model—bringing on a new co-lead and mentoring them into the role. If you’re energized by team leadership, people-centered systems, and building a strong, inclusive volunteer culture, we’d love to hear from you.

About the team The People Operations team focuses on putting the volunteers first by humanizing impersonal systems and continuously improving volunteer engagement, development, and retention. We are responsible for creating a culture and environment that makes volunteers feel happy and proud to contribute to our organization. We are all very passionate about climate and making a difference at Work on Climate! Today, our team is 11 total members geo-located in the USA and the UK. Our standard meeting schedule time is on Tuesdays at 11:30 am PST.

Role Summary A volunteer recruiter is responsible for identifying and engaging potential volunteers and matching them with suitable opportunities within our organization.

⏰ Time Commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 6+ months (We’d like a minimum of 6 months, and love it when volunteers stay on longer)

🎁 What’s In It For Me?

• A unique pivotal role in directly impacting talented individuals that are eager to jump into climate.
• Networking with tons of qualified people interested in taking climate action.
• A source of encouragement for new members to join our talented 50+ volunteer team
• Identify as a provider of a highly-valued service to every team lead.
• Be influential in the development of the world’s largest community of its sort, on a high-powered team of professionals.
• You will be inspired by the visibility into the wealth of knowledge, incredible individuals and opportunities in the climate space.

🛠️ What Will I Do?

Develop and implement a volunteer recruitment strategy that supports the organization’s mission and goals.

1. Identify new volunteer recruitment sources and maintain relationships with existing ones.
2. Promote volunteer opportunities through various channels, including social media, community events, and partnerships with local organizations.
3. Screen and interview potential volunteers to assess their skills, interests, and availability.
4. Match volunteers with suitable opportunities based on their skills, interests, and organization needs.
5. Provide support for the orientation and training for new volunteers and be their liaison throughout their volunteer experience.
6. Maintain accurate records of volunteer applications, placements, availability, hours, and feedback.
7. Evaluate the effectiveness of the volunteer recruitment program and make recommendations for improvement.
8. Collaborate with other departments to ensure that volunteer recruitment supports the overall goals of the organization.
9. Stay current on best practices and developments in volunteer recruitment and engagement.

✅ What Skills & Commitment Do I Need?

In addition to these responsibilities, our volunteer recruiter should have:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, as well as a commitment to the WoCl mission of helping people find jobs and networks in Climate.
• Be able to work effectively with a diverse group of people and be able to think creatively to develop new recruitment strategies.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over a project and work asynchronously as part of our leadership team.
• Advanced Asana skills are a plus

🤔 Common Challenges

• It can be challenging to gauge commitment from volunteers. We are looking for a 6 month commitment for most roles, and reducing turnover.
• Scheduling interview calls requires a flexible schedule, and ability to handle communications across various time zones.
• As this role evolves, we may need additional help, so leadership skills and being able to manage other volunteers would be a plus.
• In addition to vetting applicants, we are looking for a resourceful person who is tied in with a strong network and creative thinking on how to attract the most qualified volunteers.
• While you work on a team and have 3 other recruiters to guide you, you are often left to your own devices to make sure your work is getting done.

✋🏽 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.