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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.

Our work is entering a new chapter beyond helping individuals find climate jobs.

We’re now supporting professionals to engage in climate leadership – organizing, mobilizing, and transforming whole sectors and regions toward regenerative futures using the skills they have invested in throughout their careers. (Read more about this transition in our latest learning blog!).

It’s important work, and we’re looking for a Team Lead on our Impact Research Team to help us do it!

About the team

The Community Cultivation Team is responsible for creating a relational community* for our members—enabling career transitions into climate work, sharing crucial industry knowledge, and fostering the connections that help members find jobs, launch climate ventures, or incorporate sustainability into their current roles.

*In a relational community, as defined in Relationality by David Jay, relationships form when people change one another in ways that persist over time. Unlike transactional environments, relational spaces facilitate deeper connections, creative collaboration, and resilient support networks. Your role will help foster this environment where meaningful change can occur between members.

Our current meeting schedule is weekly on Fridays at 9am PT/12pm ET/6pm CET, with additional asynchronous collaboration throughout the week.

Role summary

We’re seeking community cultivators who can help members feel genuinely at home in the Work on Climate community — not just oriented to the Slack workspace, but connected to the broader climate movement and the professional peers working within it. As WoCl moves from a job-search community toward a field transformation movement, cultivators play a critical role in shaping the culture that makes that shift possible.

During your volunteer term, you’ll steward member interactions, uphold community guidelines, and — more importantly — model the kind of relational, reciprocal behaviour that turns a large online community into a place where people begin to see themselves in a movement.

⏰ Time commitment

This role is highly impactful and rewarding, but we want to be upfront that our most successful volunteers dedicate:

• 5 hours/week consistently and consider this a long-term volunteer position
• Attendance at the required weekly team meetings

💚 Why volunteer with Work on Climate?

Our most impactful volunteers are internally motivated, and contribute to this work because they believe in our mission and see how their work makes a difference. However, if you are choosing between several impactful opportunities, consider that you’ll get to:

• Apply your skills to climate by managing a 30K+ Slack community dedicated to working on climate
• Hone your conflict resolution and communication skills in a professional setting
• Experience supporting a long-term strategic project in community engagement
• Opportunities to pursue new methods of addressing community needs

🛠️ What will I do?

We see our community moderators as cultivators, because your primary job will be to create a nourishing and caring environment. You’ll be a relationship builder, a resource-finder, and community host.

Your work will directly impact our goal of building a community where members develop a genuine sense of belonging — not just to this Slack workspace, but to the broader climate movement and the professional field they’re working to transform. A cultivator’s role is to help members feel that this place is for them, that their presence here matters, and that they are part of something larger than their individual job search or career transition.

Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as a culture carrier: meeting members where they are, modelling relational alternatives to transactional behaviour, and opening pathways to deeper participation without pressure
• Daily review of most active WoCl channels to spot where members need support or redirection in order embody our community culture
• Observing and analysing community behaviour and trends to surface emerging member needs and inform culture cultivation strategy
• Serving as a community connector who helps members find others with complementary interests or skills and implementing strategies to strengthen connections
• Attending to member form responses (violation reports and requests for help)

✅ 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!).

You should be meticulous and have a knack for understanding different perspectives. The most effective candidates will have:

• Interest in leading both day-to-day moderation and supporting long-term improvements to the community guidelines and the team’s cultivation policies
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, with the ability to work with people of different work and communication styles
• Superior critical thinking skills to make nuanced judgments about what content is appropriate in specific contexts
• Empathetic communication style that can translate member needs into concrete solutions
• Ability to identify and implement automation opportunities to streamline processes is a plus

🤔 Common Challenges

• Being empathetic, firm, and kind in managing community interactions
• Maintaining consistency between team members’ moderation decisions, even when there isn’t a clear “right” action
• Balancing urgent moderation tasks with long-term community engagement strategies
• Finding the right level of structure requires careful testing and iteration, as too much or too little guidance can both be problematic.

✋🏽 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.

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.

Our work is entering a new chapter beyond helping individuals find climate jobs.

We’re now supporting professionals to engage in climate leadership – organizing, mobilizing, and transforming whole sectors and regions toward regenerative futures using the skills they have invested in throughout their careers. (Read more about this transition in our latest learning blog!).

It’s important work, and we’re looking for a Research Analyst on our Impact Research Team to help us do it!

About the team

The Impact Research team studies the impact of Work on Climate’s community through data on the usage of our programs. We gather data from mixed-methods research, including light surveying, targeted interviews, case studies, and usage metrics. Our team’s findings guide program design and prove impact to our allies and funders.

Our research helps support data-driven deliverables for our Work on Climate leadership team, including:

• Funding Narratives: stories of how change actually happens through our members’ and chapters’ climate leadership
• Leadership Readiness Frameworks: which members or chapters are ready for climate leadership
• Leader Transition Maps: ****key moments, blockers, and interventions in climate leadership
• Chapter Design Principles: ****how to structure chapters for real-world feasibility

Role summary

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 Research Analyst, you will play a critical role in uncovering key insights and helping us communicate them effectively to maximize impact.

We are looking for an experienced Research Analyst to help us gather data and sift through our research findings (e.g., from surveys, interviews, case studies, datasets) — answering questions, investigating hypotheses, and uncovering trends that help us drive the most impact in supporting our climate leaders and teams. You’ll have support and oversight in this role, but we’re looking for someone who can take the first pass and conduct individual work confidently, with minimal support and oversight after provided direction and training.

The role will be include both individual and collaborative work with teammates and leads on the Impact Research Team. Our team is based globally, and we welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds.

⏰ Time commitment

This role is highly impactful and rewarding, but we want to be upfront that our most successful volunteers dedicate:

• 5 hours/week consistently and consider this a long-term volunteer position*
• Regular availability for team meetings, including the weekly team meetings

*(Note: we kindly request a commitment of 6 months to ensure we’re able to onboard you onto our work and so you can get the most out of your time here. We love it when volunteers stay on longer, and we want you to get the best experience possible!)

💚 Why volunteer with Work on Climate?

Our most impactful volunteers are internally motivated, and contribute to this work because they believe in our mission and see how their work makes a difference. However, if you are choosing between several impactful opportunities, consider that you’ll get to:

• Improve your ability to gather data and conduct qualitative interviews.
• Deepen your skills in mixed-methods research and data analysis.
• Become experienced in evaluating data across an organization (vs. a single department or function).
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about research and working in climate.
• Build a strong network of climate professionals in your area of interest.
• Get a great line on your resume and addition to your portfolio, as the results of your work will be public!

🛠️ What will I do?

If someone has a question about the data, you’ll be helping answer it. You’ll collaborate across Work on Climate teams to help gather the data we need and/or evaluate the data we have so that we can generate data-driven deliverables for Work on Climate. You will be in charge of uncovering key insights in the data using analytical tools, and helping to communicate those insights to maximize impact for our programs.

This will look like:

• Gathering data using qualitative interviewing and surveying methods.
• Helping craft, administer, and distribute surveys.
• Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, using statistical and/or coding software (e.g., Hex, Excel).
• Creating basic data visualizations and graphs for communications and reports.
• Drafting insights and takeaways from the data based on your findings and analyses.
• Communicating your findings using established tools and workflows (e.g., reporting templates, dashboards, presentation formats).
• Collaborating with other teams and team members at Work on Climate, to understand their goals, target members, KPIs, and questions.
• Working closely with other team members to refine research questions, test hypotheses, and develop research plans, using data from our surveys and internal datasets.

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates will have:

• 2-4+ years of experience collecting and analyzing data using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods research, ideally with analytical tools and/or coding software (e.g., Excel, Stata, R, Hex, PowerBI, AtlasTI). Experience drafting qualitative surveys, logic models, and independent analysis plans a plus.
• Experience collaborating with team members & project stakeholders, gathering project needs, and communicating findings to diverse audiences.
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, with the ability to work with people of different work and communication styles from around the world.
• Fluency in the English language.

The most effective candidates will also be:

• Trustworthy and dependable. We value autonomy and allowing people to get their work done at their own pace, so follow-through is big for us. We depend on you to do what you say you’ll do!
• Proactive and action-oriented. You think ahead and don’t hesitate to take the first step or roll up your sleeves to make things happen.
• Communicative. You flag risks and communicate them early. Not sure about a dataset? Need help working through a research question? Know you’ll be on vacation next month? Have an exam in a few weeks? No problem. Just let us know!
• Impactful. You think about the big picture and you stay focused on the impact.
• Curious and growth-minded. You have a natural curiosity and a desire to further your skills and knowledge.

🤔 Common Challenges

• At times, research questions or hypotheses will need refinement as the work evolves. As a team, we regularly review and adjust our focus, and you will contribute your perspective to these discussions to help ensure we’re asking questions that meaningfully support our goals.
• There will be moments when existing data doesn’t fully answer the questions we are exploring. In those cases, you will work with the team to improve or shape evaluations, surveys, or data collection approaches so future analyses better support the questions we want to answer.

✋🏽 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.

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.

Our work is entering a new chapter beyond helping individuals find climate jobs.

We’re now supporting professionals to engage in climate leadership – organizing, mobilizing, and transforming whole sectors and regions toward regenerative futures using the skills they have invested in throughout their careers. (Read more about this transition in our latest learning blog!).

About the team

The Impact Research team studies the impact of Work on Climate’s community through data on the usage of our programs. We gather data from mixed-methods research, including surveying, interviews, case studies, and usage metrics. Our team’s findings guide program design and prove impact to our allies and funders.
Our research helps support data-driven deliverables for our Work on Climate leadership team, including:

• Funding Narratives: stories of how change actually happens through our members’ and chapters’ climate leadership
• Leadership Readiness Frameworks: which members or chapters are ready for climate leadership
• Leader Transition Maps: key moments, blockers, and interventions in climate leadership
• Chapter Design Principles: how to structure chapters for real-world feasibility

Role summary

This is a new role that opened because our research needs are growing faster than our operational backbone. Right now, researchers are spending time on recruiting, tooling, and process work that pulls them away from the actual research. We need someone to own that layer so the team can focus on doing research.

The top priorities for this term:

• Build a real participant recruitment and panel management system, outreach templates, best practices, tracking who we’re reaching, and closing known gaps
• Create library of reusable templates so the team isn’t rebuilding process from scratch every project

⏰ Time commitment

This role is highly impactful and rewarding, but we want to be upfront that our most successful volunteers dedicate:

• 5 hours/week consistently for the next 6+ months
• Regular availability for team meetings, including the team weekly meeting on Mondays at 11:30am Pacific Time

💚 Why volunteer with Work on Climate?

Our most impactful volunteers are internally motivated, and contribute to this work because they believe in our mission and see how their work makes a difference. However, if you are choosing between several impactful opportunities, consider that you’ll get to:

• Build and own a research operations system from close to scratch, not just maintain someone else’s
• See your work plug directly into a live, high-stakes study feeding into WoCl’s leadership and funder strategy
• Build a concrete, resume-worthy track record of operational impact
• Work closely with a small, global, tight-knit group of researchers
• Learn the operational side of research (recruiting, tooling, repository design) in a real, evolving environment rather than a textbook one

🛠️ What will I do?

You’ll be the person who greases the wheels and makes sure the research machine has what it needs to run – the right participants, the right tools, the right templates, so researchers can spend their time on research. This looks like:

• Designing and executing participant recruitment strategy: new channels, tracking panel composition against project needs, flagging where we need to oversample
• Building and maintaining a research repository and reusable templates so process doesn’t live only in people’s heads
• Supporting researchers day-to-day: troubleshooting tools, unblocking recruiting challenges, jumping in when something breaks.
• Tracking team capacity and flagging risk early – our team runs lean, and knowing where the gaps are matters
• Coordinating projects day-to-day (tracking timelines, following up on open items, making sure work doesn’t stall between meetings).

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates will have:

• Experience in a research operations or research coordination role, ideally supporting a research or UX team
• Hands-on experience with participant recruitment or panel management
• Comfort with tools like Asana, Notion, Google suite, or genuine eagerness to pick them up fast
• Strong organizational skills and a track record of building process where none existed
• Excellent written communication, able to work with people across different working styles and time zones
• Fluency in English

The most effective candidates will also be:

• Trustworthy and dependable. We value autonomy, so follow-through matters a lot here. We depend on you to do what you say you’ll do.
• Proactive. You don’t wait for a fully-specified task before starting; you take the first step.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. Some of our process decisions are still being settled by leadership – you’ll sometimes be building for a target that’s still moving.
• Communicative about risk. If something’s blocked, unclear, or you’re going to be out for two weeks, just tell us early.
• Curious and growth-minded, with a genuine interest in how research operations support real research.

🤔 Common Challenges

• Our research practice is growing – systems you build need to flex, not lock in around today’s plan.
• The team is currently running thin, so you may occasionally get pulled into unblocking researchers directly, helping recruit, troubleshoot tools, be flexible.
• We work with lightweight tools and creative solutions, so comfort building pragmatic processes is more valuable than relying on expensive platforms.

✋🏽 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.