Last updated 1.8.25.
Introduction
Job One for Humanity is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization, which is rare these days. All positions and projects are managed and executed by our many volunteers.
All Job One volunteers work online and remotely unless they live in the San Francisco Bay Area. All positions are part-time, and you pick when and as little or as much as you want to work on various volunteer actions. We also encourage all volunteers to recruit other volunteers they may know to help them and make the volunteer experience more enjoyable.
Because we do not micro-manage our volunteers, they are naturally independent, self-organizing individuals who are passionate about addressing the climate and global heating emergency before it is too late.
Our volunteers coordinate, with guidance from senior volunteer team members, to handle our social media, marketing, research, events, and even accounting. Our volunteers also handle most of our blog posts, as they have for years.
All our volunteers work in teams with some of today's brightest and most passionate climate educators and activists.
If you think of our organization as a media platform (like Facebook) where passionate climate activists meet electronically to collaborate and coordinate, and then independently act on self-chosen, self-organized projects or positions within our organization, you would have a good idea of how we get everything done with only volunteers.
Being selected and joining our all-volunteer team is an honor. We attract the best, brightest, and most dedicated individuals who understand the collective crisis we face and have the time to volunteer. It is considered a privilege to serve humanity's collective well-being and survival at Job One for Humanity.
As a volunteer, you will make a real difference in helping slow and lessen the worst consequences of our global heating emergency.
Below are opportunities for you to play a vital role in protecting humanity's future from climate change and global heating. You can work entirely online or locally. If you are local to the San Francisco Bay Area, you can join us at our office occasionally.
We do have a realistic plan for a safe and sustainable future that will work. We need your time and expertise to complete that plan.
Please help us build new, sustainable, and equitable models for the future.
Our Current Volunteer Openings in Order of Priority
The following positions are listed in order of importance for our organization to continue thriving and speaking the uncensored climate change truth to power. All positions below are part-time and conducted online unless you are in the San Francisco Bay area and choose to come to our offices. If you do not see an administrative position below that you would like, please visit our volunteer projects page for additional volunteer opportunities now available.
Our current positions
1. URGENT: Volunteer Administrative Manager Needed (Part-Time)
All-Volunteer Nonprofit Think Tank
We urgently need a Volunteer Administrative Manager so our organization can continue critical work without interruption.
This role is essential. Without it, our lead analysts are pulled away from advanced research that directly supports long-term protection of the cycle of life for future generations.
If you are a retired or semi-retired professional who values meaningful contribution over recognition, this may be one of the most impactful volunteer roles you will ever take on.
Why This Role Matters Now
Our nonprofit think tank conducts advanced, systems-level research on global risks and solutions. To keep that work moving forward, we need an experienced, steady administrative hand immediately.
This role is especially well-suited to someone who enjoys being indispensable without being in the spotlight.
Your experience will be respected—this is not an entry-level volunteer role.
We value competence, kindness, and follow-through more than speed or flash.
Who We’re Looking For
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Retired or semi-retired professionals preferred
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Organized, dependable, and comfortable working independently
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Someone who takes quiet pride in keeping complex operations running smoothly
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This is a part-time, flexible, remote-friendly volunteer position.
Key Responsibilities
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Website administration and coordination
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Managing organizational email accounts
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Assisting with email newsletters to members and donors
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Supporting other online administrative and operational needs
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Desired Experience
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Prior website administration experience
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Managing organizational email systems
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Assisting with newsletters or donor/member communications
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Nonprofit or volunteer organization experience is helpful but not required
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What You’ll Be Supporting
You will work with an exceptional group of talented, principled people who are deeply committed to safeguarding future generations through rigorous, fact-based research.
Your contribution directly enables advanced analysis by freeing senior researchers to focus on what they do best.
The websites you will be managing at the administrative level, along with their email flows, member and donor newsletters, are joboneforhumanity.org, universeinstitute.org, and universe spirit.org.
How to Respond
Please contact:
A short introduction describing your background and availability is perfect.
No formal resume required.
Timing matters. We are looking to fill this role as soon as possible.
2. Part-Time Social Media Manager and Coordinator
Are you familiar with and good with most social media, like Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube? We are seeking a social media manager and additional volunteers in this area to help expand our social media reach. Our social media manager will create and manage our overall social media message and social media volunteer team. Volunteers must have excellent online computer skills. Our website software is nationbuilder.com, and they have many social media tools for you to use to help spread our messages.
Please provide any information about your social media skills and prior experience in this area that would be helpful. Experience with website backend software with extensive social media features is helpful, but not critical, as we can train you on how those tools work.
3. Part-Time Fundraising Specialist (Currently a top priority.)
In this position, you will join a partnership of engaged professionals working to educate and organize people, both internationally and locally, to fund profound changes to mitigate the threat of accelerating climate change. Your experience working with this team on online appeals, with major donors, and in donor development projects will be welcome. The most exciting current fundraising project is to help fund the building of our new global warming-safer eco-community model.
4. Part-Time Alliance and Partnership Coordinator
We seek your expertise to evaluate and initiate partnerships with compatible organizations to further our mission to end global warming. Particular focus will be on collaborations in executing the action steps of our comprehensive Job One for Humanity Plan to end global warming. Click here to see some of the organizational alliances we have participated in.
5. Part-Time Marketing Manager
Your marketing expertise will be used to further our mission to promote global warming solutions, using our comprehensive plan to end global warming.
6. Part-Time Celebrity and High Net Worth Coordinator
Our celebrity coordinator will work directly and indirectly with celebrities and high-net-worth individuals who support climate action, as well as their staff, to advance the Job One for Humanity Plan. This individual should have excellent public relations and communication skills. Experience in dealing with celebrities and high-net-worth individuals is a plus. Please also provide any information about your skill sets and previous experience that would be helpful.
7. Part-time Deputy Universe One and ClimateSafe Villages Manager, helping our existing manager oversee the creation and initial member selection for our new rural, urban, hybrid, or online virtual eco-communities (Currently our highest priority.)
Job One for Humanity is to create new "survive and thrive" global-warming-safe rural, urban, and online Universe One ClimateSafe eco-communities, as described on this page and its subpages. You will be working with other volunteers who want to co-create our ClimateSafe Village model, as well as external partners from other intentional communities or those creating independent new eco-communities using parts of our model.
We urgently need to appoint a deputy manager for Universe One ClimateSafe Villages and several ClimateSafe Village sub-project managers across various areas. The most critical initial areas where volunteer subproject managers are needed are in the areas of law, fund-raising, finance, eco-friendly architectural community design, online and offline education, sustainable (energy efficient) construction, administrative management, recruiting and human resources, medical services, wellness services, psychological support and therapeutic services, internet security, software design, permaculture, organic gardening, animal husbandry, and community and public relations. We will also need other sub-project managers for things not on this list.
Our new eco-community project managers and subproject managers will not personally do the project work described on these community project description pages. They will manage, communicate, and coordinate with other skilled eco-community volunteers, who will be organized into self-running sub-projects, each with its own sub-project manager. For these project or subproject manager positions, you will need good people and project management skills.
We are looking for volunteers who:
1. understand why building these new rural, urban, or online ClimateSafe Villages is critical to our future, or
2. are committed to helping us finish our four current eco-community models or,
3. can help oversee the many subprojects involving recruiting other volunteers and members to physically build these new global warming-safer eco-communities, because we are also running out of time to stay ahead of our accelerating global warming consequences.
We invite everyone interested in advancing our evolving ClimateSafe Villages project to volunteer and help us enhance and complete our four eco-community models with your ideas, expertise, and effort.
If you're looking for an exciting volunteer position where you can make a major difference in what many acknowledge as the most important mission on the planet right now, let us know if you are interested. If you want to help co-create these new eco-communities as the project director or as a sub-project manager, email [email protected] and put "New ClimateSafe Villages Project Manager or Sub-project Manager " in the subject line. Please also provide any information on your people skills, project management experience, and other relevant experience or skills.
As of 5.22.23, we are accelerating our new eco-communities project forward faster to better adjust to, prepare for, and manage the risks of the accelerating global heating extinction emergency and our 11 other most critical global challenges.
We have completed a substantial portion of the new community model design for the first of what we hope will be many new sustainable eco-communities. A small group of individuals and families have already said they want to participate in this project, and all we need now is someone with the skill and commitment to volunteer as the project manager to take us to the next level, as described on this page and its subpages.
In addition to the list of sub-project managers in the paragraph above, we will also need individuals with skills in law, fundraising, finance, online education, eco-friendly architectural design for communities, sustainable (energy efficient) construction, recruiting, human resources, wellness, internet security, software design, animal husbandry, and community and public relations.
You do not have to volunteer for this part-time project manager position if you and your family only want to join us and volunteer to help create these new eco-communities from a different position.
These new ClimateSave Villages are described on this guide and index page and its sub-pages.
If you still need to know more about current volunteer projects, positions, or volunteering at Job One before you volunteer
Please see the three links below:
a. our volunteer projects listings.
b. our guide for all new volunteers to help get them started.
c. if you have not signed up yet to be a volunteer, click here and go to the bottom of the page.
Please never forget why you are so important as a volunteer!
As a nonprofit educational climate think tank, we provide unbiased, uncensored, and accurate climate research and analysis. We are not information marketing people, in-the-street climate protestors, activists, or for-profit business managers. We are climate researchers, analysts, and educators only.
Our limited climate research and analysis role means that ALL website visitors, members, and volunteers must share the climate information and analysis they discover on our website for us! If they do not, our uncensored climate information will not reach enough people to make a difference before it is too late.
Without the hundreds of thousands of our annual visitors taking up their critical role in distributing our climate information and analysis, humanity has little hope of avoiding future extinction-level climate catastrophes. So please do your part!
Actively and aggressively share and spread the climate information and analysis found oil our website and, where appropriate, become climate activists helping us to create honest climate solutions.
The Steps to Become a Job One for Humanity Volunteer:
1. Click here and take the climate change action pledge. It is super short, easy, and fast.
2. Choose a volunteer position above.
3. If you are not seeking an organizational position, please review the newest volunteer projects on this page.
4. Unless otherwise specified in the listing, contact us at [email protected] and include the project or administrative area in which you are interested in volunteering! Provide information on your skills and experience in that area.
5. While waiting for us to get back to you, read our guide for new volunteers, which contains everything you need to know to have a great time volunteering with us. Click here for that guide.
(Please Note: Volunteers are not authorized agents or legal representatives of the Job One Organization. Only our board of directors may make policy and issue written position statements, take action, or publish information that officially represents our non-profit organization. At some point while volunteering, be sure to read our volunteer policy on the urgency of emergency climate action here.)
If you have not already done so, sign up to become a Job One for Humanity volunteer here.
Please note that some senior-level administrative positions listed below also require high-level, secure access to our Internet tools, websites, member and donor lists, etc., and will require a brief background check before you can start.
Special update:
I have something special to share with you.
If you are or are not doing anything now, something extraordinary has occurred, and the winds of positive change and personal growth have presented themselves.
I don't know if you have heard about our new ClimateSafe Villages project described here. When you review it, you will understand why it is growing quickly.
Because of this rapid growth, the managing executive for ClimateSafe Villages needs to find additional willing volunteers.
You can volunteer part-time and remotely. Still, you will need to be reliable and consistent, and ready to dedicate some time. You also need to believe in the value of the ClimateSafe Villages exciting and critical new vision.
ClimateSafe Villages is in the dynamic start-up stage. This volunteer, unpaid position could grow into a paid position over time, with your volunteering success and our future fundraising targets for this project being met.
You will work directly with a long-time successful social advocate and manager, Leonora.
If you have any website administration experience, that is a real plus.
We do anticipate numerous individuals seeking this powerful, personal growth supporting, and fun volunteer position.
Send Leonora at [email protected] an email describing yourself and any people or computer skills you might have.
Sincerely,
Lawrence Wollersheim
Executive Director
Job One for Humanity & Universe Spirit