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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. Together, we can make a significant impact on building a sustainable future.

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 The Subcommunities (subco for short) team is currently seeking 3 volunteers with a passion for people and community management! With 30k people in the Work on Climate (WoCl) Slack community, curating a navigable, useful, and helpful digital ecosystem for members is critical to our mission to make climate work mainstream. Subcommunities refers to Slack channels within WoCl, which are broken out by topic and categories like “learn” “role” and “geo.” Volunteers create programming and opportunities to help members make meaningful interactions, connect to valuable resources, and realize their full potential in the climate workforce transition.

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.

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: The Marketing Team at Work On Climate (WoCl) makes sure that we are able to reach and engage our key audiences at the right time, in the right place, and with the right message. Today our team has 7 total members geo located across the US and Europe, and our weekly team meeting is currently Thursdays at 10.30am PT.

Role Summary: We’re looking for an Outreach Program Manager to help us reach the right people and build a strong, engaged community in our Slack channels. In this role, you will work closely with both the marketing and SubCo (subcommunity) teams to create and implement outreach campaigns that attract individuals who are actively working on climate solutions and want to help others learn and build. Your work will be instrumental in creating a vibrant, supportive, and action-oriented climate community.

Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 6 months.

What’s in it for me?

Work On Climate is one of the largest, most active communities for climate-focused professionals and enthusiasts worldwide. Volunteering as an Outreach Program Manager will give you the chance to:

• Build and expand your professional network in the climate space
• Collaborate with passionate, mission-driven teammates around the world
• Gain practical experience in community outreach, campaign planning, and engagement
• Add a great line to your resume! Employers know and respect us.

What will I do?

This opportunity focuses on outreach and community building, including:

• Campaign Development: Work with the team to design and execute outreach campaigns aimed at growing specific channels within our Slack community, such as #learn-workplace-climate-action.
• Subcommunity Support: Partner with the Subco team to ensure new members are effectively integrated and engaged in our community.
• Audience Research: Identify and reach out to key audiences aligned with our mission and values to bring the right people into our community.
• Data Insights: Collaborate with the team to track and analyze outreach efforts, helping refine our strategies and improve engagement.

What skills and commitment do I need?

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

• Prior experience in outreach and community building is very helpful — as well as a proactive approach!
• Good intuition for group dynamics and how people might respond to different kinds of messaging, programs, and events
• 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

• 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.
• There is minimal oversight in this role: You will 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 managing outreach campaigns.

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: The Marketing Team at Work On Climate (WoCl) makes sure that we are able to reach and engage our key audiences at the right time, in the right place, and with the right message. Today our team has 7 total members geo located across the US and Europe, and our weekly team meeting is currently Thursdays at 10.30am PT.

Role Summary: We’re adding content creators to our team to help us generate high-quality, informative, and engaging content across various platforms. As a Volunteer Content Creator, you will play a crucial role in helping us spread awareness about our mission to make climate work mainstream while building a portfolio of content in the climate space.

Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 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:

1. Content Creation: Develop and create compelling, informative content
2. Research: Partner with our research team on relevant topics and our organization’s initiatives to ensure accurate and up-to-date content.
3. Storytelling: Craft engaging narratives that effectively convey our organization’s message, values, and impact to inspire and connect with our audiences.
4. Collaboration: Collaborate with the marketing volunteer team to align content creation with overall marketing strategies and campaigns.
5. 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.

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 Simply put, the Research Impact team studies Work on Climate’s impact! Our team serves as the compass to guide Work on Climate’s programs, events, and initiatives to make climate work mainstream. Today, the team is located throughout the United States.

Role Summary Climate change isn’t waiting, and so we can’t either. Our programs and initiatives need to be as good as possible as soon as possible. So, we are looking for experienced Qualitative Researchers to shepherd other teams on this path of rapid feedback gathering and product iteration to maximize the impact of our programs and initiatives.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours/week consistently for the next 3-6 months (or longer!).

🎁 What’s in it for me?

In order to truly address climate change at scale, Work on Climate’s Impact Research Team needs to consistently produce high-quality findings that enable our volunteers to make the most impact possible. As a Researcher (Qual or User), you will play a critical role in collaborating with other teams directly, enabling them to optimize their projects and initiatives to make the most impact possible.

This means that you’ll gain the following:

• Gain experience applying your researching skills to climate-specific work
• Getting to stretch your skills and try out the best and latest research methods
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• A great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us.
• 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?

Simply put, you will be the compass guiding the direction of projects and initiatives across Work on Climate.

This will look like:

• Collaborate with others to understand their goals, target members, and KPIs, and help them generate research goals to measure and amplify their impact
• Conduct research according to the goals outlined in the step above
• Compile data from research studies and communicate it in a compelling way to ensure projects and initiatives are evolving to best fit the needs of the community and maximizing impact

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

The most effective candidates will have:

• 3+ years of experience conducting qual or user research
• 3+ years of experience communicating research findings to a range of audiences
• Dependability. The natural tendency in volunteer projects is for things to slip through the cracks. We are counting on you to be the expert.
• Excellent individual and group communication skills, with the ability to work with people of different work and communication styles
• Impact-mindset, or someone whose mission is to maximize positive impact, stay focused on the outcome, and doesn’t hesitate to roll up their sleeves to make it happen.

🤔 Common Challenges

• Volunteer projects and initiatives move slowly because we can only contribute ~5 per week. Researchers will need to account for this in their research timelines.
• Researchers will need to address ambiguity. They’ll be swimming in a lot of uncertainty and will need to ask the right questions in order to drive maximum impact.

✋🏽 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 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 (WoCl), 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 Metrics & Data team is 5 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 @9am PST.

Our purpose Our team is responsible for maintaining and evolving the data infrastructure that provides 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 impact.

Role Summary You will collaborate with the other team members to execute and scale Work on Climate’s analytics capabilities. In this role, you will meet with other teams to understand their data needs, work hands-on with our product data sets, and support building out our GCP data pipeline infrastructure. You bring data analytics experience to building performant, reliable and maintainable data products.

⏰ Time commitment

5 hours / week for a minimum of 6 months. 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 an experienced, friendly, & diverse set of data analysts, data engineers, and product managers and learn from them
• Meet and network with a much larger team of volunteers across several continents, skillsets, and backgrounds
• Develop your experience in SaaS-style analytics, Google Cloud GCP hosted data architecture, Mage/dbt/ML data tools
• You’ll also have significant impact on the climate journey of the 28,000+ members of the Work On Climate community, as well as our larger mission of making climate work mainstream in the entire talent ecosystem!

🛠️ What will I do?

• Work within a small, creative, and agile metrics and data team to create data products including reports and self-serve data sets for WoCl teams and organizers based on data from WoCl’s data warehouse, and use of software and tools (including Slack, Zoom, Mailchimp)
• Understand the wider organizational and team level objectives, and analyze how data can help make these happen.
• Meet with other teams to understand their data needs and challenges, and how these needs are met with our data products
• Writing SQL scripts to audit data sets
• Work with other team members on interpreting and transforming data schemas and data sets within our data pipeline
• Evolve our current limited documentation to make our data products more accessible and useful to technical and non-technical users
• Help evolve our analytics development environments and tools, including enhancing our use of GCP data pipeline using DBT, and BI tools (Looker Studio) that sit on top of our data.
• Contribute to key 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 (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. Google meet for weekly team meetings on Thursday at 9am PST.
• 4+ years of data analytics experience working with a variety of data sets. Bonus if you are familiar with Slack, Zoom, Mailchimp data.
• 2+ 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 preferably, github
• Bonus useful experience: Building data pipelines in Google GCP (our direction is migration from javascript to Mage for data ingestion, and building out dbt for data transformation)
• Aptitude for data visualization (we use Looker Studio), data-informed decision making, data product documentation
• Bonus qualities: data engineering, 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.
• 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 still figuring out how to use data, how best to ingest, transform, visualize it, where and how to store 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!
• 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.
• There is a difference between data availability and data accessibility. In a volunteer organization, we need to ensure new team members can find the data they need to unlock data insights. How can we ensure our work is accurate, accessible, understood across teams and the wider org?

✋🏽 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 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 team is 8-10 members geo located across multiple international time zones. Our standard meeting schedule is currently 1x/week. We are upgrading all our events to truly connect people who can help each other, and build lasting work relationships and collaborations.

Role Summary The Event Coordinator/Facilitator will project manage and execute a variety of virtual events in partnership with other volunteer teams and external partners.

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.