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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, through regional chapters of issue-focused work. (Read more about this transition in our announcement post).

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, through regional chapters of issue-focused work. (Read more about this transition in our announcement post).

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 Impact Research team studies the impact Work on Climate makes in its community, directly informing organizational programming strategy, funder narrative, and understanding of its 40,000+ member community. The team’s anchor deliverable is the organization’s annual Impact Report, supplemented by 1-2 additional community surveys throughout the year addressing emerging strategic and programmatic questions.

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 provide evidence of WoCl’s impact to allies and funders.

Our research helps support data-driven deliverables for the 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

We’re looking for a volunteer Team Lead to co-lead the Impact Research Team and guide its trajectory. This is one of WoCl’s most strategic volunteer roles. You will be the primary bridge between a team of 5-8 skilled research analysts and WoCl’s executive leadership — translating organizational strategy into research design, managing parallel workstreams, and ensuring the team produces rigorous, decision-useful outputs.

We are looking for someone with significant experience in mixed-methods research, survey design, project management, and leading teams. This team provides the methodological expertise for the organization; you’ll need strong working knowledge and fluency in research methodology (survey design, qualitative interviewing, sampling, analysis approaches) that will be essential to coaching analysts, deciding on methodological choices, and making the final call when trade-offs arise.

That said, this is fundamentally a strategic thought partnership and project management role vs. an analytical research role. You won’t be running analyses yourself — you’ll be setting direction, managing people and timelines, and acting as the connective tissue between what leadership needs to know and what the team can produce.

⏰ Time commitment

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

• 8-12 hours/week consistently and commitment to WoCl a long-term volunteer position*
• Regular availability for team meetings, including the team weekly meeting

Please note that the team currently meets weekly on Mondays at 11:30am PT.

*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. However, the time and energy to manage a volunteer team is ideally 12 months or longer, as gaining institutional knowledge is key to success in this role.

💚 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:

• Strengthen your program and people leadership skills, setting direction and managing ambiguity in a fast-moving org
• Build real experience advising on research methodology and quality control without being the one in the weeds
• Get practice translating organizational strategy into structured, executable research priorities
• Become experienced evaluating impact across an entire organization (vs. a single team or function)
• Get a strong leadership line for your resume — much of the team’s work will be publicly visible (see our most recent Impact Report here)

🛠️ What will I do?

When program staff has a question about studying Work on Climate’s impact, you’ll be leading the design of research projects to answer it. You’ll collaborate across Work on Climate teams to help gather the data we need and evaluate the data we have, in order to generate data-driven deliverables for Work on Climate. You will be in charge of directing research projects that uncover key insights in the data, and helping to communicate those insights to maximize impact for our programs.

In short, you will lead a successful team of research analysts. In practice, this means you will:

• Work with stakeholders (WoCl staff and other volunteer teams) to determine relevant, impact-related research questions
• Lead your team through conducting research to answer these questions, pitching in where additional hands are needed
• Lead your team through presenting the research findings in a way that maximizes the impact of those findings for Work on Climate
• Maintain an impact-oriented culture on your team that makes your team members feel fulfilled
• Foster a supportive team culture and manage the lifecycle of volunteers, including recruiting, onboarding, and off-boarding

A week in the life:

• Translate leadership strategy into actionable research tasks for the team
• Make and communicate methodological decisions for research projects (survey design, question framing, analysis approach)
• Review and synthesize team outputs into deliverables for leadership
• Create and maintain project tracking in Asana; documentation in Notion and Google Drive
• Facilitate a weekly 60-minute team meeting with 6–8 research analysts
• Follow-up throughout the week with assigned tasks for the week
• Hold a bi-weekly meeting with WoCl’s Director of Programs

✅ 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!).

The most effective candidates will have:

• 5-7+ years of experience in mixed-methods research (survey design, qualitative interviewing, sampling, logic models, analysis approaches), with experience designing organizational research projects and supporting teams throughout each phase of a project
  • Experience with analytical tools and/or coding software (e.g., Excel, Stata, R, Hex, PowerBI, AtlasTI) also desired
• 3-5+ years of experience in program or organizational leadership, project management, or strategy/consulting roles. Experience leading cross-functional initiatives in a nonprofit, strategy consulting, or similarly ambiguous, fast-moving environment desired.
• Experience leading and collaborating with team members & project stakeholders, gathering project needs, and communicating findings to diverse audiences. Ability to translate between organizational strategy and research priorities.
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, with the ability to lead and work with people of different work and communication styles from around the world.
• The time and energy to manage a volunteer team for a substantial period of time (6 months at a minimum, ideally 12 months or longer — gaining institutional knowledge is key to success in this role).
• Fluency in the English language.
• Prior experience with volunteer teams or nonprofit research is a plus.

The most effective candidates will also be:

• Trustworthy and dependable. WoCl values autonomy and allowing people to get their work done at their own pace, so follow-through is big for us. The organization depends on your team 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? No problem. You flag it to work through it.
• 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

• Your team is made of volunteers across multiple time zones with their own external obligations, so showing up consistently and reliably for weekly calls is critical to building relationships and carrying project work forward.
• WoCl’s strategic direction shifts as the org learns, which means research priorities and project scope can shift too. You’ll need to recalibrate plans with deftness and clarity.
• You’re advising on research design and methodology, which means knowing when to let your analysts make the call and when to step in, especially when data is messy, samples are small, or response rates are low.
• Research questions or hypotheses may need refinement as the work evolves. The team regularly reviews and adjusts focus, and you will contribute your perspective to ensure we’re asking the right questions to meaningfully support our goals.
• Volunteer capacity fluctuates (breaks, leaves, departures), so keeping projects moving and institutional knowledge intact through team transitions is an ongoing responsibility.

✋🏽 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, through regional chapters of issue-focused work. (Read more about this transition in our announcement post).

About the team

Currently, our Marketing team is 5 total members geo located across Europe and North America. Our standard meeting schedule is on Thursdays, 11:00am PT.

Role Summary

As the Marketing Team Co-Lead, you will play a crucial role in marketing the Work on Climate’s core initiatives and programs. It will be your responsibility to ensure that all messaging is high quality and consistent in terms of voice, tone, and branding. If you have a passion for our mission and experience leading teams and marketing projects, we want to hear from you!

⏰ Time commitment

5-8 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?

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

• 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 short, you will help co-lead the Marketing team to success! Though each Team Lead will bring their own unique flair to the role, the core responsibilities of the Marketing Team Lead are:

• Managing the volunteer team members needed to accomplish your team’s quarterly objectives at a high bar of excellence
• Overseeing all Marketing efforts for events/programs and ecosystem initiatives (such as Working Groups and the Climate Work Coalition) for WoCl
• Collaborating with other teams to produce marketing assets
• Own and run our social media accounts (mainly LinkedIn)
• Ensures that all WoCl messaging is excellent and consistently follows established branding guidelines

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

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

• 5 years experience managing projects and/or people with a marketing focus – this is a management role
• An understanding of how to prioritize marketing initiatives for a small organization
• 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
• Good intuition for group dynamics and how people might respond to different kinds of programs, events, and messaging
• Ability to show up consistently and lead weekly calls to build relationships, assign tasks and carry project work forward

🤔 Common Challenges

• Finding the right volunteers on an adequate timeline to reach success.
• Creating consistent, quality messaging that is on brand can be a challenge with an ever-changing volunteer team, it requires a lot of oversight
• Measuring key outcomes and determining what success looks like using data analytics and trackable data

✋🏽 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, through regional chapters of issue-focused work. (Read more about this transition in our announcement post).

About the team

Join the Marketing team and help us grow Work on Climate’s library of content! We’re creating climate thought leadership pieces, research insights, event summaries, search engine-optimized content and more to help more people work on climate.

Our meetings happen on Thursdays, 11AM PT.

Role Summary

Work on Climate is in the middle of a major strategic shift — moving from primarily supporting individuals in career transitions to cultivating leaders and action networks that can transform entire fields. This role is for volunteers who want to help shape and implement the communications strategy that brings our 35,000+ community members along on this journey.

You will help us:

1. Draft the communications plan that explains our strategy shift to members and partners.
2. Execute that plan across multiple channels (Slack, website, newsletters, events).
3. Gather and analyze member feedback to refine how we tell our story.

⏰ Time commitment

• 5 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 enabling the climate talent transition, you will get to:

• Apply strategic communications, change management, and storytelling skills in a real-world nonprofit setting.
• Gain hands-on experience designing and rolling out organizational change communications.
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest.
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate.

🛠️ What will I do?

As a Strategic Communications Volunteer, you will:

• Help develop a clear communications roadmap for explaining WoCl’s new strategy to members.
• Design messaging frameworks that articulate the differences between “finding a climate job” and “turning your field into a force for regeneration.”
• Translate high-level strategy into compelling stories, examples, and content for different channels.
• Execute the plan by drafting Slack updates, newsletters, and onboarding material revisions.

Your work will directly determine how well our members understand and embrace the changes, which in turn will shape their ability to self-organize into effective chapters and action networks.

✅ 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!).

• Strong strategic thinking skills (ability to map out a communication plan, not just write content).
• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• Experience with change communications, marketing, or storytelling preferred.
• Ability to analyze feedback and adjust strategy accordingly.
• Bonus: background in organizational change, community organizing, or design thinking

🤔 Common Challenges

• Translating complex strategy into simple, motivating language.
• Balancing strategic planning with the urgency of day-to-day content needs.
• Working across multiple channels while keeping a consistent voice and message.

✋🏽 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.

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, through regional chapters of issue-focused work. (Read more about this transition in our announcement post).

About the team

On the Mentorship Team, we’re revamping the expert office hours mentorship program to reflect our focus on our common goal of helping everyone bring their whole talent to foster the regenerative economy. This program enables people to book time with experts in climate and get learn how you can spark systemic change, build collective power and amplify the work of others on the same path. We have provided 600+ hours of mentorship through this program – both the experts and the mentees get lots from the conversations.

We currently have only 2 of us in the team located in Europe, so we are looking to grow to to at least a couple more in different time zones preferably. Overall our mission is to make the Mentorship program a pivotal experience for Mentees and ensure our Mentors are also learning and feel valued.

Role summary

This is about creating a meaningful and powerful experience for Mentors and Mentees at a pivotal moment in their careers or engagement with climate action. We want people who are focused on the quality of experience, as well as reaching as many people as possible.

As a team we look after:

• Mentors / Experts providing their time, expertise, advice and support for free
• Mentees who book time with Mentors directly
• The program overall including marketing, feedback, quality of experience, and overall effectiveness for the WoCl mission

With support from the Mentorship Team Leader and other team members the role could be varied with tasks broken down into manageable elements. We would aim to be a highly collaborative and learning team, deciding together what we work on, and adapt to the time and skills we can offer.

⏰ 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 commitment to this role as a long-term volunteer position
• Attendance at the required weekly team meetings

💚 Why volunteer with Work on Climate?

In addition to playing a critical role in enabling the climate talent transition, you will be a part of an excellent, connected team focused on helping the Work on Climate core Expert Office Hours (EOH) program supporting our Mentor community of climate professionals and Mentees looking to move into climate work.

• Make a significant impact on the EOH experience for Mentors and Mentees in a key Work on Climate program
• Opportunity to work with a passionate team dedicated to providing vital support at key moments in people’s work on climate change personal journey
• A great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us.

🛠️ What will I do?

You will help coordinate all aspects of mentorship programs that provide a space for our members to connect. Example tasks include:

• Mentors/ Experts – recruiting, liaising, compiling feedback, supporting, on-and off-boarding
• Mentees – ensuring the marketing, booking and feedback processes work well
• Mentorship Program overall – running marketing campaigns, collating and reviewing feedback, improving quality of experience, and overall effectiveness of EOH

✅ 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!).

Approach & Mindset

• Be a team player and focused on making the Mentorship program even better together
• Ability to contribute reliably each week and participate in Tuesday team meetings
• Be extremely independent and dependable, “manage up” rather than expect to be managed
• Interest in growing your experience in making a key program even more impactful

Skills & Experience

• We need a variety of skills: project management, marketing, self-management, reviewing feedback and data, interviewing, listening and engaging etc. Tell us what you can bring
• Have experience with coordinating and implementing programs that connect or engage people or managing a community – or want to learn how to
• Experience in building community programs like ours is a plus
• Be able to quickly learn new tools and tasks. Comfort using tools like Slack, Notion, Canva, and Zoom (or a willingness to learn)
• Have great verbal and written communication skills (we are working in English). Be professional and polished when communicating with experts

🤔 Common Challenges

• Sourcing experts that fit our model and culture.
• Managing expectations that EOH is focused on jobs. WoCl is now focused on supporting work into climate (but not specifically jobs).
• Digging through dispersed data to understand which improvements are worth pursuing in a lean team.
• This role can evolve around the team, so it’s adaptable but also requires collaboration and flexibility.

✋🏽 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.

But 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, through regional chapters of issue-focused work. (Read more about this transition in our announcement post).

About the team

The Organizer Support team makes chapter-based coordination scalable; this team will support the organizers by getting to know them, learning what their needs are, and figuring out the best ways to meet them. This team is integral to helping organisers learn from each other’s challenges and successes, identifying patterns across chapters that build and sustain collective power, and ensuring that organising knowledge compounds and transfers across sectors to other chapters.

Our team meets weekly on Wednesdays at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm BST

Role summary

You’ll provide direct support to chapter organizers in the community through regular check-ins, resource development, and pattern identification. This role directly impacts the success and scalability of chapters by creating conditions where community leaders feel connected and supported.

In collaboration with the team and organizers on the ground, we’ll develop toolkits and other resources that will become scalable frameworks to support the climate work movement.

We’re building an organizer support infrastructure to help chapter leads and program coordinators succeed in their volunteer roles. This position is open as we scale from supporting individual organizers to coordinating multi-chapter best practices. During your term, we need you to create support resources, conduct 1:1 check-ins with organizers, and identify patterns that inform systemic improvements to volunteer infrastructure.

⏰ 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
• ~1 hour of that time in weekly team meetings to build team connections and keep work on-track (see “about the team” section above for 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:

• Learn organizational development practices in a real-world context
• Work with community organizers on the ground to solve immediate problems
• Build a strong climate network across multiple regions and sectors
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate

🛠️ What will I do?

The following are some of the responsibilities of the role; you may lean into some more than others, depending on your interest, skill set, and current team needs.

• Building and sustaining relationships with chapter leaders, including managing contact and accountability.
• Identifying and documenting patterns across organizers, flagging common needs, blockers, and emerging successes that should inform program development
• Bringing organizers’ needs and context back to the Organizer Support team so we can problem-solve together and coordinate support
• Fostering engagement, trust, and mutual support in the organizer community
• Working alongside the team to develop tools and systems based on organizer needs, then deconstructing them into replicable templates for chapter deployment
• Using our tools to document and manage organizer relationships and resources
• Creating comprehensive documentation, training, and toolkits that enable chapters to rebuild and adapt systems (onboarding workflows, meeting coordination processes, member outreach frameworks)
• Contributing to shared documentation and infrastructure design

✅ 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 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 facilitating 1:1 conversations or coaching (peer mentoring, management, teaching, facilitation)
• Strong documentation skills – ability to synthesize conversations into clear takeaways
• Systems thinking – can identify patterns across multiple conversations
• Comfortable with asynchronous communication tools (Slack, Loom)
• Project management experience or ability to track multiple organizers’ needs simultaneously
• Emotional intelligence and active listening skills
• Experience with community organizing is a plus but not required

🤔 Common Challenges

• Organizers often surface needs during high-stress periods, requiring you to triage between immediate support and longer-term infrastructure development.
• As the program matures, you’ll need to identify when chapters are strong enough for us to step back versus when to provide hands-on support.
• We’ll be co-creating with organizers from different regions and sectors – you’ll be designing infrastructure whilst simultaneously deploying it, which means systems may need rapid iteration based on live feedback.

✋🏽 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 members from the existing team.