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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.

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 here: https://workonclimate.org/2025/12/17/where-work-on-climate-is-headed/).

About the team

Today, our community activities team is geo-located internationally and meets once weekly on Tuesdays at 10am PT. We are upgrading all our events to truly connect people who can help each other move ideas into action, and to build durable work relationships and collaborations that continue beyond the session.

Role Summary

Event coordinators are responsible for leading about one online event every 4-6 weeks. These might be co-hosted with partner organizations or part of an ongoing Work on Climate program, but they always involve coordinating with external guests, delegating tasks across the volunteer team, and handling the needed technical setup and support.

⏰ 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). Ability to commit to some specific events at specific times.
• 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:

• Work directly with inspiring community members, partner organizations, and guest speakers across the climate space
• Grow practical skills in community building, facilitation, and running engaging group experiences, plus the technical ops that make them run smoothly (event tech setup, tools/workflows, and troubleshooting).
• Build a strong climate network in your area of interest
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
• Add a strong line to your resume that employers recognize and respect

🛠️ What will I do?

You will collaborate with other WoCl volunteer teams to design and deliver online community activities such as events and workshops. These activities support members in their climate career and leadership journey, while creating the time and space for people to build real relationships and collaborate with other climate professionals. You may do some or all of the following:

• As a Community Activities volunteer, your focus will be on planning and running end-to-end experiences. This includes shaping the topic and format, coordinating speakers or participants, and working with teammates on outreach, audience development, and communications.
• You will also support live delivery, including managing the run-of-show, handling logistics and event tech, troubleshooting issues as they arise, and keeping the experience smooth and welcoming. (Activities typically align with US and European time zones.)
• You should be comfortable facilitating groups, for example moderating discussions, guiding workshops or breakout sessions, managing Q&A, and keeping participants engaged, included, and on track.
• You will support the behind-the-scenes technical and operational work, including setting up registration and comms, managing event tools and links, preparing materials (slides/docs), and handling post-event follow-ups (feedback, notes, recordings, and a simple wrap-up).

✅ 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 organization and project management (planning, prioritizing, and follow-through).
• Experience designing and coordinating virtual community activities end-to-end (topic, audience, format, guests/partners).
• Confident logistics + task coordination, including delegating and closing out pre- and post-activity tasks (Asana or similar).
• Technical ops comfort: Zoom setup, registration/comms tools, and post-event follow-up (recordings, notes, feedback).
• Reliable weekly participation and clear communication across different work and communication styles.

🤔 Common Challenges

• Event management involves many moving parts across multiple tools and teammates, so it can take time to keep everything aligned.
• Coordination with guest speakers or partner organizations can create delays or miscommunication that blocks key steps (timing, format, materials, permissions).
• Things change quickly, and you often need to adapt in real time. A guest may cancel, a key detail may shift late, or participants may run into access or tech issues.
• Working across time zones and doing a lot of work asynchronously can make collaboration more challenging, and requires clear expectations around updates and response times.

✋🏽 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’re excited about the role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. 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 or 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.

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 Data Integration team (formerly Metrics & Data) builds the data infrastructure that enables Work on Climate’s programs to measure impact and make strategic decisions.

The team has two active workstreams: data engineering (pipeline architecture, ingestion, infrastructure) and data analysis (Hex dashboards, semantic views, self-serve tooling). Our goal is for program teams to self-serve answers to their strategic questions without needing engineering help each time.

Right now, these workstreams are tightly coupled — improving what analysts can do in Hex depends directly on getting the underlying architecture right. The team has identified a need to move from the current JavaScript framework to a more scalable Python-based architecture.

The current friction: Whilst work moves forward on individual pipelines, the overarching infrastructure of Work on Climate’s data remains unresolved. The incoming lead will set the technical direction for what comes next and manage volunteers through building and documenting this architecture.

We are geo-located across Canada, US, and Europe. Our standard meeting schedule is once a week on Tuesdays @ 9am PST (UTC-8).

Role Summary

We’re looking for a Data Integration Team Lead to architect the technical foundation for Work on Climate’s next chapter. As we move away from reactive data requests toward a “shift-left” approach—where data is designed into our programs from the start—you will lead the engineering team to build a scalable, Python-based data infrastructure. You will be the technical partner to our Director of Community & Operations and the data team’s analysts, ensuring that the “pipes” the data engineers build directly enable systems change through organizing and collective action.

⏰ Time commitment

This role is highly impactful and rewarding, but we want to be upfront that success requires sustained commitment:

• ~8-10 hours/week consistently for a minimum of 6 months, including the ability to join our weekly meeting on Tuesdays @ 9am PST (UTC-8).
• Being consistently available and responsive to your teammates and leadership on a daily basis, so that coordination isn’t bottlenecked by the lead’s absence.

🛠️ What will I do?

You will lead the data integration workstream and ensure the entire data ecosystem (Engineering → Analysis → Insights and improvements) works harmoniously — bringing a “Penultimate Question” mindset: will this piece of architecture enable analysts to help the programs teams answer their questions?

• Enable the analyst bridge: You ensure that when a programmatic need surfaces, analysts can quickly determine if the existing data can support it and — in the case existing data cannot — guide the engineering team to build the necessary ingestion/transformation. This work will lay the groundwork for a robust semantic layer to be used in Hex.
• Guide technical direction of the work, serving as the team’s technical expert and guiding judgement calls on feature development vs. technical debt in an early-stage, volunteer-capacity environment.
• Serve as the technical sense check – you’ll help the Director and Analysts understand the trade-offs between the “ideal” data model and what is maintainable given the constraints of volunteer time and current maturation of our data and environment — and what meets programmatic needs.
• Create conditions for autonomous, quality work – you’ll empower the volunteer engineers to confidently assess when work is ready to ship via decision frameworks, clear guidelines, and transparente processes.
• Manage the team – you’ll coordinate work, motivate volunteers, and hold people accountable to their commitments. You’ll recruit when needed and track the team’s progress towards goals, keeping technical direction aligned with organizational evolution.

✅ What skills and qualities do I need?

You should be a collaborative architect — more than building the pipes, you like understanding what goes through them. You enjoy working with non-engineers to ensure technical decisions serve human goals.

• 5+ years data engineering experience, including data modeling and semantic layer design with DBT or equivalent data transformation tools (such as an orchestrator, like Dagster)
• Systems Thinker: Ability to look across various program teams and identify the common data needs, building generalized infrastructure that serves the whole organization rather than one-off silos.
• Understanding of how LLMs work with structured data – “AI-native” in your own development workflow; sufficient technical knowledge of LLM capabilities and limitations to design data infrastructure that works reliably with AI-assisted analysis tools
• Comfort working across the stack – our stack includes GCP, Python, DBT, Hex, MySQL, and evolves over time (you’ll need to be comfortable reading/understanding JavaScript/TypeScript to understand where we’re working from); ability to learn new tools quickly with minimal guidance is critical
• Big plus: Experience with volunteer or nonprofit technical teams, and understanding how limited capacity shapes technical decisions

Personal qualities – among your peers, you have a reputation for:

• Being extremely dependable with a track record of sustaining multi-month commitments based on internal motivation rather than external accountability
• Being pragmatic and resourceful – you’re comfortable with “the simplest thing that works” whilst keeping a eye on long-term goals. You understand that in a volunteer-driven environment, maintainability is a feature.
• Making data accessible, not just available – designing systems where people can find what they need without deep institutional knowledge or extensive hand-holding
• Clear, kind, direct communication – very comfortable with feedback, accountability, and disagreement (both giving and receiving) across leadership, peers, and team members
• Getting to the most important point – able to explain complex topics concisely and learn from people who aren’t great explainers

🤔 Common Challenges

• Volunteer availability is the biggest challenge for any team lead. Your own availability matters, but so does navigating when teammates’ circumstances change or they bite off more than they can chew. Success requires mastering the full management toolkit: clear communication, careful recruiting, delegation, motivation, accountability, letting people go when needed.
• You’ll be designing data architecture while requirements are still emerging. Our programs are evolving as we shift from job placement to sector transformation. You’ll need comfort with building infrastructure that adapts to strategic pivots, not just optimizes for known use cases.
• Making “most important thing” calls with incomplete information. Program teams may not know what data can answer their questions or what’s feasible to collect. You’ll translate between their vague needs and specific data solutions, often with limited synchronous time to clarify.
• Balancing what’s buildable vs. what’s ideal in volunteer constraints. We need the simplest thing that works, not the most elegant solution. That requires high technical judgment about what’s maintainable with our resources while not creating unfixable technical debt.

💚 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 from exceptional teammates and culture – our volunteers consistently note that how we run things is different from their day jobs, in ways that feel like “a healing experience” compared to typical work cultures
• Be part of the forefront of the climate work movement — help build a new model for climate leadership and quickly see your contribution translate into real-world impact
• Deepen leadership skills in a unique context – leading volunteers requires different approaches than managing paid employees; you’ll build capabilities that transfer everywhere

✋🏽 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.

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.

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 here: https://workonclimate.org/2025/12/17/where-work-on-climate-is-headed/).

About the team

Today our team is 7 total members geo located across North America and the UK. Our weekly meeting takes place on Tuesdays at 11:30AM PST.

Role Summary

The Volunteer Engagement Coordinator is essentially our internal “Chief Vibes Officer” and ultimate connector of people. With direction and support from the People and Culture Manager, this role focuses on creating meaningful touchpoints with volunteers, helping them feel welcomed, supported, and connected to the broader mission. You will be the friendly face that welcomes new talent and the behind-the-scenes champion who brings our teams together for authentic connection

⏰ 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:

• Make a significant impact on the volunteer experience by developing engagement and retention strategies
• Opportunity to work with a passionate team dedicated to addressing climate change
• You will be the ultimate “connector of people.” Because you welcome every new volunteer, you will naturally build a massive network of talented, senior professionals who are giving back to the climate space. This is the perfect role for someone looking to rapidly expand their climate network while helping others do the same.
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate
• A great line on your resume! Employers know and respect us

✅ 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 collaborate with the People and Culture Manager and the rest of the People Ops team to create a strong volunteer experience.

Responsibilities may include:

• The Humanity Huddle is our monthly 45-min virtual volunteer gathering where we casually come together to connect, recharge, and inspire each other. Each WoCl internal team rotates with the hosting responsibility each month but you’ll act as the behind-the-scenes coordinator to make this happen.
• You will support the hosting team by setting up the calendar invites, promoting the event in Slack, helping them brainstorm, and attending the Huddle to cheer them on. Your goal is to get the community hyped and psyched to attend!
• Act as a friendly, welcoming face for new volunteers when they first join. Get to know them, learn about their interests, and “connect the dots” by introducing them to other folks across the organization.
• Be a vibrant presence in Slack. Creatively facilitate connections and build community between different siloed teams to foster a deeper, more unified culture
• Help gather and share feedback to inform strategies for deeper volunteer engagement
• Assist with internal documentation, messaging, or creative ways to build team culture

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

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

• Strong People/HR background with an interest in culture and engagement (minimum 2 years in People/HR-related roles)
• You bring a naturally enthusiastic and positive vibe to the spaces you enter.
• We lead with being ourselves. You are comfortable being vulnerable and encouraging others to show up authentically.
• Openness to feedback, collaboration, and participating in our Tuesday team meetings.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to hype up events, write engaging Slack messages, and chat with new volunteers.
• Interest in growing your experience in people ops, engagement, or culture-focused roles
• Comfort using tools like Slack, Notion, Canva, and Zoom to handle the backend admin work that makes our community events run smoothly.

🤔 Common Challenges

• Some teams (like those who are more technical or introverted) might feel intimidated by the idea of hosting a community event. A key challenge will be coaching them through this, reassuring them that it’s not a “heavy lift,” and helping them avoid over-engineering their huddle
• Because our volunteers are spread across the globe, you will need to think flexibly and help hosting teams experiment with different days and times to maximize turnout and inclusivity.
• Keeping different, often siloed teams organized and on track for their assigned month requires highly proactive communication and consistent follow-up.
• Ensuring that all volunteers, regardless of background or experience, feel included and valued can be an ongoing challenge. Striving for diversity and inclusion requires consistent effort and awareness.
• Ensuring that all volunteers feel included and valued requires consistent effort, awareness, and really strong teamwork alongside the rest of the People Ops team.

✋🏽 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.