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Data & Metrics Team Lead

Data & Metrics

⏰ Time commitment

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

🏆 What’s in it for me?

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

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.
You will gain a breadth of hands-on data/research and team leadership experience while working with our all-star team (50+ volunteers total, about 40% of whom are themselves founders or executives) and learning from each other
You will be instrumental in helping us focus our efforts towards solving the climate talent bottleneck via the right interventions.
We will support you – both in this role and on your personal path to working in climate – and will provide the necessary resources for you to succeed!

👷🏼 What will I do?

Partner with WoCl internal stakeholders to identify and expand on critical data questions

Determine which data questions are most actionable in the context of WoCl’s priorities and turn those into direction for your team.
Motivate and coordinate your team of talented volunteer engineers and analysts to drive implementation.
Evangelize and drive adoption of your team’s products by other teams.
Chip in as a generalist IC where needed as suits your background, skills and interests.

✅ What skills and experience do I need?

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

Product management: You will work closely with a modest number of internal stakeholders to identify the metrics they need to unlock strategic decisions or measure operational progress for their teams, and then design products that addresses those needs – which may be different from the features they initially request.
- You must have the ability to rapidly help others clarify their own thinking and to synthesize patterns of needs into a solution.
- This is more likely to be a fit for you if you have PM experience in the early stage of searching for product-market fit, rather than moving metrics at a more mature org.
Data fluency: You have a strong intuition for the types of metrics that make sense in a given complex business context, and are able to propose, scrutinize, and refine metrics to help the team arrive at something both actionable and feasible to collect/display with given tools.
- This is likely to be a fit for you if you are consistently the nerdiest, yet most helpful person in any discussion involving data.
Demonstrated experience with both team leadership and project management.
Creativity, critical thinking, pragmatism, so you can put all of the above to work to make progress on the right things in a very nimble environment.

🤔 Common Challenges

It can be challenging to coordinate team members and stakeholders across multiple time zones and various external obligations, so the ability to show up consistently and reliably for weekly calls to build relationships, carry project work forward, and brainstorm with the MD team and internal stakeholders is critical.
The Metrics and Data team requires good intuition for group dynamics and how people might respond to different approaches. The Team Lead will need excellent individual and group communication skills, and the ability to work with people of different work and communication styles.
Our volunteer teams need data to answer strategic, impact-related questions and to measure progress against their objectives, but they may not have experience leveraging data for decision-making, might not understand what is required to collect, store and make sense of certain data, and might not have an intuition for the correlation between precise metrics and the insights that lead to action. Our team must translate between data and decision-making, and determine when a scrappy data solution is sufficient, and when a more scalable one is required.
As a new and growing organization, we often “don’t know what we don’t know,” and that can result in requests that may not be feasible. This team works with all our other teams to help them define and refine their actual needs, which requires patience and understanding.
We are a start-up in our data maturity – we are still figuring out how to use data, how best to visualize it, where and how to store it and what metrics to use. We may not have developed documentation or onboarding processes for everything, so you will need to be proactive in getting up to speed. We’ll welcome your suggestions on how to improve things!

✋🏽 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.

Events Coordinator/Facilitator

Events

Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 6 months. Ability to commit to some specific events at specific times.

What’s in it for me?

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

Engage directly with influential organizations and speakers in the climate space
Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
Expand your event management and public speaking skillset
Add a great line to your resume! Employers know and respect us.

What will I do?

Our events typically align to US and European time zones. Bring your passion for driving climate change and your experience in managing virtual events and help us keep driving change in the climate work ecosystem!

As a Volunteer Event Coordinator/Facilitator, your primary focus will be on planning, coordinating, and managing logistics for events, including providing input on topics, structure, identifying speakers or participants, and helping with audience development and event marketing.
You will also be involved in live events, addressing challenges as they arise, and troubleshooting issues. (Events typically align to US and European time zones)
Ideally this person will be comfortable occasionally leading activities during events, such as moderating panel discussions, facilitating workshops or breakout sessions, managing Q&A sessions, and keeping participants engaged and on track.

What skills and commitment do I need?

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

Experience designing, scheduling and managing logistics for virtual events, including helping to identify appropriate topics, audience and speakers or vendors.
Good intuition for group dynamics and how people might respond to different kinds of programs, events, and messaging.
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.
A “founder mindset” – doing whatever it takes, and learning whatever skills are needed to accomplish the goal of the sub-community. Today you might craft a highly actionable message, tomorrow you might run an event or organize information on a Notion page.

Common Challenges

It can be challenging to determine the best speakers for any given event to serve the needs of the community.
Executing events requires thinking on your feet, attention to detail and being flexible/adaptable to change. For example: a speaker may cancel, the zoom microphone might not work, or someone might not be able to find the zoom link.
As this role evolves, we may need to develop and implement new event/workshop formats with new partners, so leadership skills and the ability to manage other volunteers would be a plus.
Because of the nature of events, volunteers sometimes need to be available on specific days at specific times, which requires coordination between team members to ensure smooth event execution
Operating within a globally distributed team and navigating asynchronous work can often be challenging for team collaboration. Asynchronous work requires the ability to adjust expectations for collaboration and response time.

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.

Subcommunity Organizer

Subcommunities (Subco)

Time commitment

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

What’s in it for me?

By helping others on their journey to work on climate, you will increase your own chances of doing the same! You will also get hands on experience with community organizing, change management, and helping WoCl transition to communities of practice (CoP). The skills you develop and relationships you build can help you in your career, especially you are looking for a climate job. By volunteering, you can:

Collaborate with thought leaders and experts in the space, including a diverse group of climate founders, ESG professionals and community organizers from companies like Microsoft
Get a chance to support climate founders working across sectors on potentially world-changing solutions.
Build an expansive network in your area of interest for climate work
Work with our amazing team of volunteers on things you’re good at or skills you’d like to improve
Develop a reputation and brand to help differentiate yourself from other job seekers
And a great line on your Linkedin! Employers know and respect us
Have fun, make new friends, and develop a sense of agency in the climate crisis

What will I do?

Our volunteers manage three subcos directly (running events and curating experiences for members) and look after the overall structure and organization of WoCl. Our three CoPs are:

#role-founders is a subcommunity focused on helping founders in this community build the climate-specific founder skills needed for success.
#learn-finance, where we focus on supporting members who seek to build climate-specific finance skills needed for roles such as carbon accounting, ESG reporting, project finance, sustainable investment analysis, climate risk, and others
#learn-workplace-climate-action is a subco focused on helping professionals build the skills needed to take climate action and improve sustainability in their workplace (learn more here), no matter the industry they work in.

If you have a passion for at least one of this areas, you’ll enjoy this work! We are also running some new experiments with #role and #learn communities to create a deeper level of engagement and value for members through evolving a subco to become a true community of practice

Currently, volunteers on this team are doing work like:

Experimenting with new programs and initiatives to increase community engagement
Organizing events, hosting or moderating them
Coordinating networking sessions for community members to make meaningful connections
Working with our Subject Matter Experts to coordinate drop-in sessions, workshops and upskilling programs
Research
Data Analytics
Project & Process management

What skills and commitment do I need?

You should be comfortable with some ambiguity, be willing to think outside the box and try experimental things. Past experience with community organizing/management, and especially with communities of practice, preferred!

Ability to show up consistently and reliably for weekly calls to build relationships, carry project work forward, and brainstorm with the Subco team required (currently meeting at 8am PST on Tuesdays)
Good intuition for group dynamics and how people might respond to different kinds of programs, events, and messaging
Excellent individual and group communication skills, ability to work with people of different work and communication styles across time zones and cultures
A “founder mindset” – doing whatever it takes, and learning whatever skills are needed to accomplish the goal of the subco. Today you might craft a highly actionable message, tomorrow you might run an event or organize information on a Notion page.

Common Challenges

It can be challenging to follow through on community work, as it tends to be ambiguous and expansive
Difficult to measure the output or impact of our work
As the subco team evolves, your focus areas and priorities may shift accordingly

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.

Community Moderator

Member Experience

Time commitment

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

What’s in it for me?

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

Through this work, you will gain the following:

Experience applying your skills to climate work by managing a 30K+ Slack community
Collaborate with top-notch teammates who are passionate about climate
Increase your climate literacy and 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 role will split weekly volunteer hours between Moderation (70%) and supporting quarterly Member Experience Projects (30%).

Moderation (70%)
Moderators are closely exposed to what goes on on Slack, empathize with member experience, and are uniquely equipped to identify ways to improve the community guidelines, the moderation process, and overall Slack structure. Tasks could look like:

Daily moderation to ensure all posts follow community guidelines.
Coordinate timing with other Moderators to avoid reviewing the same posts.

Member Experience Projects (30%)
Each quarter the Member Experience Team defines new projects and goals. Depending on the project topic, Moderators can either support or lead a project.

What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates will have:

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

Common Challenges

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

I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. If you are selected for an interview, our team will be in touch in 1-2 weeks.

Web Designer

Marketing

Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 6 months. We meet at 10.30am PT every week, which is the only non-flexible time commitment!

What’s in it for me?

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

Gain experience applying your skills to climate work
Build an expansive network in your area of interest for climate work
Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
Develop a reputation and brand to help differentiate yourself from other job seekers
Add a great line to your LinkedIn! Employers know and respect us

What will I do?

You will support the marketing team, thus the entire org, by creating and implementing visual assets for our website and occasionally other social channels. This includes:

Designing wireframes and mock-ups of new pages for WoCl’s website that are in line with our brand guidelines — these are currently drafted in Figma
Testing and improving the design of the website (that lives in WordPress)
Developing graphics for the WoCl website (we have a template library in Canva), and occasionally blogs, articles, and email newsletters – this includes infographics!
Additional design support as needed

What skills and commitment do I need?

Proven visual storytelling experience, with a particular focus on content for websites
Experience designing and managing templates and brand systems in Figma, Canva, and WordPress
Working knowledge of content management systems (Asana would be a plus)
The ability to make complex technical matters easy-to understand even for non-technical people
Any motion graphic or video editing experience is a plus
Excellent individual and group communication skills
Be reliable and collaborative!

Common Challenges

Balancing the work to do with the amount of time you (and others) have to do it: Volunteers can commit ~5 hours per week. You’ll need to be thoughtful about how to make the best use of scarce time (yourself and others’)
Asynchronous work: Our team usually works asynchronously, and coordinates work primarily through Slack and Asana. You’ll need to be comfortable proactively communicating progress and asking for help when you need it
Cross-functional collaboration: Essential in order to create consistent brand assets and visuals that are on brand for Work on Climate

I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. If you are selected for an interview, our team will be in touch in 1-2 weeks.

Content Creator

Marketing

Time commitment

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

What’s in it for me?

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

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

What will I do?

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

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

What skills and commitment do I need?

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

Common Challenges

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

I’m interested! What do I do?

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

Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

Subcommunities (Subco)

Time commitment

2-3 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months.

What’s in it for me?

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

Through this work, you will gain the following:

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

What will I do?

Be frequent and visible members of the community, posting weekly in the subco. This may involve providing answers to questions, asking questions to stimulate conversations, or sharing pertinent resources to educate members. (We may want to consider some kind of visual marker for SMEs (emoji in name, graphic in avatar) that helps visually distinguish them to community members.)
Occasionally run technical upskilling calls to help educate members (Events team will organize, SME would be responsible for creating the content of the call and showing up as the expert).
Potentially curate learning paths for members, pulling together useful resources from across the internet (books, articles, instructional videos, linkedin learning courses etc.) to help people on their upskilling journey
Work closely with the Community Manager and broader Subco team to ensure we are meeting needs of members with comprehensive, consistent opportunities to learn.

What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates will have:

Deep experience in one of the following areas: community building, influencing corporate decision makers, and driving change in the workplace
A willingness to share that knowledge virtually!

Common Challenges

It can be challenging to follow through on community work, as it tends to be ambiguous and expansive

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.

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Marketing

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