Work With Us

About us:

Work On Climate is a leading US-based non-profit on a mission to mobilize humanity’s talent to build a regenerative green economy.

We are most known for building the world’s largest online community for professionals wishing to use their talent for climate (with 32,000+ members). We have helped over 3,000 people find climate jobs, helped a similar number of founders advance their companies, and became de facto “the” climate community in the US.

However, our ambitions go much farther. We see our community as nurturing the seeds of the Climate Work Movement, which transforms each professional field into a force for regeneration through the collective action of individuals and organizations in the field (rather than simply helping individuals find meaningful career opportunities or filling workforce gaps).

Our work has been highlighted in most major business press, from Fast Company to the New York Times. 

Who we’re looking for:

We are looking for a part-time Development Manager to help Work On Climate get better at engaging with our donors and managing our fundraising pipeline. This is the right role for someone exceptionally efficient, organized, independent, excellent at communication, and experienced with interacting with donors.

What we’d ask you to do:

• Maintain the full spectrum of communication with existing donors — mass updates, personal notes, scheduling meetings, sharing follow-up materials, participating in occasional calls, and so on
• Organize in-person fundraising events
• Support the Executive Director with preliminary research to vet potential new donors/grant opportunities or prepare for meetings
• Maintain, improve, or create systems related to managing the donor pipeline and interfacing with the finance team

What would make it a fit for us:

• You have at least 2 years of experience in roles that involve closely working with high-touch relationships, such as philanthropic donors, investors, or business partners.
• You have a track record of at least 5 years of work leveraging the qualities below.
• You are extremely organized, consistent, and detail-oriented — things go smoothly when you’re in charge.
• You can communicate complex information with an angle, level of detail, or tone appropriate to the audience and circumstance.
• You are an efficiency, simplicity, systems nerd — you handle volume and complexity by automating, organizing, and simplifying everything you touch, rather than by working late hours.
• You are very comfortable with data and quantitative thinking, including simple financial data — eg. able to model cash flow scenarios based on the state of our donor pipeline.
• You are comfortable working closely with a founder. This requires a high level of comfort with ambiguity, abstract thinking, and efficient communication when “managing up”.
• You have a warm heart and place great importance on interpersonal relationships, emotional intelligence, kindness, and transparency.

This is a half-time hourly (non-exempt) position at approximately 20 hours per week, paid $33-$43/h (around $35-45k per year) depending on requirement satisfaction, your experience, and location. This position offers sick leave, paid holidays, and 60 hours of PTO accrued per year. Being part-time, this role does not offer medical insurance.

Depending on job performance and the organization’s financial circumstances, this role may offer a path to a full-time role with additional benefits and greater leadership responsibilities.

This is a remote role and we are open to all US-based candidates. We are not able to work with any candidates outside the US or who lack US work authorization. The role may require some minimal travel (up to 1-2 weeks per quarter).

We believe that our mission is best served through the combined strengths of people from a wide variety of backgrounds, and thus we encourage all qualified candidates to apply. We respect the humanity and individual circumstances of all our team members — while our standards for each other are high, we strive for a healthy work-life balance.

About Work on Climate Work On Climate 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 that has helped thousands of people find jobs and start companies, highlighted in most major business press, from Fast Company to New York Times. Check out our latest impact report!

Most of Work On Climate has been created by a nimble team of highly talented and dedicated volunteers. Mobilizing talent is a uniquely impactful climate solution that helps all other climate solutions, and by volunteering with our team, you can be on the leading edge of this critical work.

About the team Simply put, the Research Impact team studies Work on Climate’s impact!

Every single number in the impact report above was this team’s work – this team designed, administered, analyzed, and summarized results of member surveys to produce it. This team is also the reason why we know how exactly we helped these people.

This data is crucial for us in being able to get funding (we report these metrics to funders) and to adjust our programs (we see what is or isn’t working).

Right now the team is mainly operating on morning hours Pacific Time.

Role Summary We are looking to bring experienced Quant Researchers who are skilled at designing, administering, and analyzing results of quantitative research surveys.

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).

Is it a good use of my time?

Yes, if you want the following:

• To work on interesting and challenging quantitative research that actually matters
• To get a great line on your resume and portfolio – the results of your work will be public!
• To learn a lot – our team is super smart, passionate, emotionally intelligent people who know what they’re doing

What will I do?

You will contribute to some or all parts of the lifecycle of a trustworthy quantitative survey:

• Setting research goals in collaboration with our Executive Director and our program staff
• Design, test, code surveys that can meet these goals
• Crafting survey samples, administering and distributing surveys, coordinating the distribution process
• Performing quantitative analysis of survey data to answer research questions, including data cleanup, summarization, de-biasing, and so on
• Translate your findings into clear and compelling narratives, both internal and external
• Work with our Marketing team to publish your findings

What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates tend to be like this:

• 3+ years of experience conducting quant research, ideally in a setting with human subjects (e.g. polling, surveys, A/B testing, etc.)
• 3+ years analyzing quant research data, ideally in a programming language like Python or R
• 3+ years of experience communicating research findings to a range of audiences
• Dependable and communicative. We appreciate your help and know that we’re not entitled to your time – but others on our team need to be able to count on you when you commit.
• High-agency. There will be many times when you need to learn something, talk to somebody in order to get “unstuck”, or roll up your sleeves and do something you didn’t realize was needed. Our most successful volunteers enjoy “doing whatever it takes”.

Common Challenges

Some of the hardest parts about quantitative survey research in our setting are:

• Crafting surveys that capture the complexity of people’s career paths and our impact on them. For example, if we want to measure how many founders we helped: who counts as a founder? (do people exploring an idea count?) And what counts as “helping”? How do we know that different respondents understood our questions in the same way?
• Low response rates – even in a community of 30,000+ people, we usually get only 400-600 responses
• Sampling bias – what if the responses mainly come from people who are happy with our work? What if it’s the opposite?

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. It would be most helpful if you submit a portfolio showing your previous quantitative research/data analytics experience in addition to your resume/CV! If you are selected for an interview, our team will be in touch in 1-2 weeks.

[About Work on Climate] At Work on Climate, our mission goes beyond job matchmaking. We’re building a platform to propel meaningful climate action, concentrating on one of the most critical yet overlooked aspects—nurturing a robust climate work ecosystem.

Being a part of our volunteer team isn’t merely about being a member of a community. It’s an invitation to immerse yourself in real-world impact, to tackle pressing climate sub-problems that demand skilled minds to bridge the talent gap, essential for the climate-centric economy we envision.

[About the team] Today our Marketing team is 10 total members geo-located across North America and Europe. Our standard meeting schedule is on Thursday from 11:00-12:00pm PT.

⏰ 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?

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.

Through this work, you will gain the following:

• 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?

This opportunity has a focus on writing and thought leadership! Whether that’s short form writing for our social media, or long form writing for our blog, there are opportunities to create a variety of content types at Work on Climate.

This includes:

1. Social Media Strategy: Content creation including copywriting, graphics (we have Canva templates), video editing, etc. for our LinkedIn; monitor and oversee engagement, updating the team with reports at the end of the month.
2. Storytelling: Craft engaging narratives [thought leadership!] that effectively convey our organization’s message, values, and impact to inspire and connect with our audiences.
3. Collaboration: Collaborate with the marketing team as well as adjacent teams (Events, Subco, Impact Research, etc.) to align with overall marketing strategies and campaigns.
4. Research: Partner with our research team on relevant topics and our organization’s initiatives to ensure accurate and up-to-date content.
5. Brand Consistency: Maintain consistency in tone, style, and messaging to ensure a cohesive brand identity across all content. (This one is super important! We have established Brand Guidelines to help with this.)

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

• Prior professional experience in writing, content creation, social media strategy, and/or journalism (examples of work are necessary + helpful!)
• Strong written communication skills, as well as 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, being able to commit to Expectations for a WoCl volunteer for the next 6 months.
• Be reliable and collaborative!

🤔 Common Challenges

• Create content that is within the WoCl voice + brand.
• Minimal oversight and management – we need someone who is deeply familiar with writing + social media who can see gaps and push initiatives to address those gaps.
• 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. If you are selected for an interview, our team will be in touch in 1-2 weeks.

About Work on Climate

Work On Climate is a leading non-profit focused on building the workforce to solve climate change equitably and justly. You probably know us for our online community 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 even farther: we are creating change in systems that produce the workforce in the first place – learn more about our approach in this deck.

Most of Work On Climate has been created by a nimble team of highly talented and dedicated volunteers. Supporting the workforce is a uniquely impactful climate solution that helps all other climate solutions, and by volunteering with our team, you can be on the leading edge of this critical work.

About the team

Today our Metrics & Data team is 7 total members from data engineering, data analyst, data visualization, and product backgrounds. We are geo located across Canada, US, Europe. Our standard meeting schedule is once a week, currently on Thursday @8:45am PST.

Our purpose

Our team is responsible for maintaining and evolving the data infrastructure and data products that provide data in a variety of formats used by WoCl teams for operational performance reporting, impact research, ad-hoc inquiries, and new emerging data-enabled pathways to understand and improve community impact.

Role Summary

As part of the Data Analysts group within the Metrics & Data (MD) team, we are growing the team with this new role you will help our community grow and thrive through data-driven insights. You will collaborate with the MD team lead and our other MD data analysts.

This role will focus on helping the Membership Experience (MX) team to uncover meaningful patterns in member journeys, design impactful metrics, and build analytics solutions that directly enhance our climate community’s engagement, retention, and impact potential. Your work will be part of the foundation for strategic decisions that scale our climate action network effectively and inclusively.

⏰ 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)

Additional time during the first 2-4 weeks to complete the onboarding process (setting up tools and access, meeting the team, diving into the data) will set you up for success as a team member.

🎁 What’s in it for me?

• Work with and learn from an experienced, friendly, & diverse group of data analysts, data engineers, and product managers
• Meet and network with a much larger team of volunteers across several continents, skillsets, and backgrounds
• Develop your experience in SaaS-style analytics and Google Cloud GCP hosted data architecture
• Own the design and development of data products
• Have a significant impact on a community of 30,000+ members of climate action-oriented professionals

🛠️ What will I do?

• Understand the wider organizational and team level objectives
• Meet with other teams, with primary focus on Membership Experience team, to understand their data needs and challenges, and how these needs can be met with our data products
• Work within a small, creative, and agile metrics and data team to analyze data and help create data products including reports and self-serve data sets for WoCl teams and organizers
• Understand the data generated through WoCl community activity on Slack, Mailchimp segmentation, and Typeform survey responses
• Work with the Metrics and Data team developers/engineers to design and test new API endpoints required to meet MX team data needs
• Hands-on data audit and analysis using SQL and Looker Studio for data visualization.
• Evolve our current limited documentation to make our data products more accessible and useful to technical and non-technical users
• Contribute to key team decision-making to ensure our tools, code, documentation and team will scale effectively with WoCl data needs.

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

• Be reliable and tenacious (volunteering can be hard and feel a little different with a globally distributed team across time zones !)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. We use Slack, Asana, Notion for async communication. Attend weekly team meetings on Thursday at 8:45am PST on Google meet.
• 4+ years of data analytics experience working with a variety of data sets. Able to understand the complex data and workflows that may not be well documented.
• Where there are gaps in your data skills, willingness and additional time commitment beyond the 5 hrs/week for self-education.
• 3+ years of experience collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver data products
• Strong hands-on experience with our core tools: SQL and MySQL or similar in a cloud environment. Github experience or interest to self-learn is a bonus.
• Experience with data visualization in Looker Studio or similar, data-informed decision making, data product documentation.
• Resourcefulness. Team members own the challenge. We work mostly independently across time zones using our resource tool kits. Team members provide updates regularly on their assigned tasks in Asana. We commit to posting async Slack weekly standup on Wednesday. Each team member provides sync and contributes to forward direction during our weekly team call. We each understand when to reach out for knowledge sharing and problem solving ideas when blocked.
• Bonus qualities: long-term volunteering, working in a virtual team

🤔 Common Challenges

• Our goal is to enable decision-making with data, that means ensuring the data products we produce are useful and used. In working with other volunteer teams, you will need patience to sync with their availability, recognize their other priorities, and be creative to understand user needs that may not be evolving.
• Feedback loops on requirements gathering and dashboard design can be slow. We work in agile approach to cycle between tasks based on wider community priorities, volunteer availability across timezones, other data user priorities, and adhoc requests.
• You will need to be flexible and adaptable. Tasks you will be assigned may already be in progress with the status not entirely known due to volunteer turnover and shifting priorities. But as a team we support each other to remove blocks and check our priorities.
• We are a start-up in our data maturity—we are building out how to use data, how best to ingest, transform, 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 while still being productive when our data and processes are a work in progress!
• We have a number of data feeds and serve all the various volunteer teams’ needs through direct data access and 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.

✋🏽 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 Metrics & Data team. We are actively looking to fill this role, so will be in touch within 2 weeks after your submission.

About Work on Climate

Work on Climate (WoCl) is a leading non-profit focused on building the workforce to solve climate change equitably and justly. You probably know us for our online community 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 even farther, seeking to mobilize the entire workforce as a force for system-wide change.

Being part of our volunteer team means more than just joining a community. It’s an invitation to create real-world impact by confronting urgent climate challenges with the skilled minds ready to solve them. Together, we’re bridging the talent gap to build the climate-focused economy we envision.

About the team

The People Operations team focuses on putting the volunteers first by humanizing impersonal systems and continuously improving volunteer engagement, recruitment, 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 passionate about climate and making a difference at Work on Climate! Today, our team totals 7 members geo-located in the USA and the UK. Our standard meeting schedule time is on Tuesdays at 11:30am PST.

Role Summary

As an Operations Specialist at Work on Climate, you’ll work closely with our Community Programs Manager to use automations to optimize systems and processes for the entire organization as well as individual teams. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong analytical thinking with a passion for creating scalable solutions that enhance volunteer and member experiences.

⏰ Time commitment

• 5 hours/week consistently for at least 6 to 12 months (Volunteers with longer tenures reduce disruptions to the team’s flow, so staying for longer is totally welcome!)
• Weekly meeting attendance may be required (Tuesdays at 11:30am PST)

🎁 What’s in it for me?

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

• Apply your automation expertise to create impactful workflows that scale our operations
• Optimize systems that directly support climate workforce development
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate

🛠️ What will I do?

As our Operations Specialist, you’ll be the systems champion for the entire organization, designing and implementing workflows that streamline processes for individual teams as well the organization as a whole. You’ll create Zapier automations to connect our various platforms, refine standardized Asana templates, strategically connect Notion databases, and create documentation for fellow volunteers on effective tool usage.

Your work will directly support our OKRs around volunteer retention by reducing friction in our processes, connecting people to the resources they need, and enabling our teams to focus on their goals and tangible outcomes.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Working with teams to identify new opportunities for improvement or introducing automation into their existing workflows to facilitate frictionless experiences
• Developing and maintaining comprehensive documentation for our systems and processes
• Creating multi-step workflows in Zapier, including building custom actions
• Providing one-on-one and/or small group training on Asana best practices

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

You will need to be highly organized and have basic management skills;

• Experience creating and troubleshooting multi-step Zapier workflows (bonus if you’re experienced with Notion automations, formulas, and databases)
• Proficiency with Asana as a platform administrator
• Strong documentation skills with attention to detail
• Experience training and supporting users on technical platforms
• Ability to translate complex systems into user-friendly processes
• Comfort working in remote, asynchronous environments
• Super bonus if you have basic coding skills to supplement readily available automations

🤔 Common Challenges

• Balancing the need for standardized processes with the flexibility required in a volunteer-driven organization, where commitment levels and availability vary significantly.
• Maintaining sustainable processes that can reliably continue even during volunteer transitions or periods of reduced capacity – ensuring systems don’t depend on any single person.
• Coordinating documentation and process improvements across multiple teams, each with their own established workflows and preferences.
• Ensuring new systems and processes are simple enough to be easily adopted while still being comprehensive enough to be effective.

✋🏽 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 building the workforce to solve climate change equitably and justly. You probably know us for our online community 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 even farther, seeking to mobilize the entire workforce as a force for system-wide change.

Being part of our volunteer team means more than just joining a community. It’s an invitation to create real-world impact by confronting urgent climate challenges with the skilled minds ready to solve them. Together, we’re bridging the talent gap to build the climate-focused economy we envision.

About the team

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.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Software Engineer volunteer to help maintain and improve current tools supporting community moderation and member experience. You’ll work with other software engineers to implement new features, fix bugs, and contribute technical expertise to the team’s strategies for facilitating a great experience for our community of 30,000+ climate professionals.

⏰ Time commitment

• 5 hours/week consistently for at least 3 to 6 months – but we’d love if you stayed longer!
• Weekly meeting attendance is required (Fridays at 9am PST)

🎁 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. Not only will you work with and enable your fellow team members to focus on engaging community members, you’ll have a direct impact on improving the community experience. You’ll get to:

• Apply your software engineering skills within a climate-focused organization
• Contribute to strategies surrounding community engagement and product development (as it pertains to the WoCl Slack Bot)
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates from different backgrounds who are passionate about climate
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest

🛠️ What will I do?

You will work with other Member Experience team members, primarily moderators and other software engineers, to build and refine WoCl’s custom Slack bot. 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 to 6 months may look like:

• Developing and/or improving methods for automating moderation of common community guideline violations, such as mass DMs, survey requests, or excessive cross-posting.
• Architecting and implementing 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 1-2 years of experience in software development
• Experience overseeing and implementing projects
• Experience with node.js, Typescript, and Google Cloud (logs), 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 help us collate and update any existing documentation, as well as develop best 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, asking for help when you need it, and being responsive to team messages.

✋🏽 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 is a leading non-profit focused on building the workforce to solve climate change equitably and justly. You probably know us for our online community 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 even farther: we are creating change in systems that produce the workforce in the first place – learn more about our approach in this deck.

Most of Work On Climate has been created by a nimble team of highly talented and dedicated volunteers. Supporting the workforce is a uniquely impactful climate solution that helps all other climate solutions, and by volunteering with our team, you can be on the leading edge of this critical work.

About the team

Today our Metrics & Data team is 7 total members from data engineering, data analyst, data visualization, and product backgrounds. We are geo located across Canada, US, Europe. Our standard meeting schedule is once a week, currently on Thursday @8:45am PST.

Our purpose

Our team is responsible for maintaining and evolving the data infrastructure and data products that provide data in a variety of formats used by WoCl teams for operational performance reporting, impact research, ad-hoc inquiries, and new emerging data-enabled pathways to understand and improve community impact.

Role Summary

Our team is growing so that we have the capacity and skills to meet the emerging data needs and mature our data architecture. This new role on the data engineering side of our team will bring hands on developer/data engineering experience to the team.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 6 months (or longer!).

🎁 What’s in it for me?

In addition to playing a critical role in enabling the WoCl community, you will get to:

• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
• Add a great line to your resume! Employers know and respect us.
• Work with an experienced, friendly, and diverse set of data engineers, data analysts, and product managers and learn from them.
• Gain experience constructing and scaling the foundations of our data infrastructure. Additionally, we encourage you to pick up new skills and learn from your teammates.

🛠️ What will I do?

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

You’ll help the team 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 other teams make data informed decisions.

• With other team engineers – own, maintain and evolve WoCl’s data pipelines
• Connect data from WoCl’s software/tools to our database, Google Cloud SQL, through JavaScript (legacy), Python, Jupyter notebooks, and dbt
• Optimize scripts so they run efficiently, on time, and without failure
• With other engineers on the team, pilot emerging opportunities to leverage ML/AI for data analytics
• 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

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or related roles (experienced data generalists welcome!)
  • Our current tech stack comprises JavaScript and Python for ingestion, Jupyter notebooks, dbt for transformations, MySQL for storage, and Looker Data Studio for dashboards (all running on Google Cloud with code in GitHub and a dash of GitHub Actions).
  • In 2025 data engineering team members are migrating away from JavaScript for ingestion towards automating ingestion and transformations via jupyter notebooks (using Python). In the future we may look to Mage as our orchestration framework, and transition data warehousing loads from MySQL to BigQuery.
• Ability to show up consistently and reliably for weekly calls to build relationships, carry project work forward, and brainstorm with the team required
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, ability to work with people of different work and communication styles

🤔 Common Challenges

• 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 crosses multiple time-zones. You will need to have 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.

✋🏽 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.