→ TL;DR: 10+ years experience in tech, operations and management - please pitch me why and how I can best help your org/project. 😊
Hi everyone,
I have the rare opportunity to spend the next several months on whatever seems to be the most impactful thing for me to do.
So I'm looking for your ideas and help in finding that. The requirements are:
- 100% remote possible from Germany
- Flexible hours, but can be up to 40h/week commitment
- Unpaid(!)
This skilled volunteering/project/opportunity should optimally last more than 1 month, due to logistics/onboarding time cost.
It also should use my skill set in the best/biggest way possible; which mostly lie in Tech Management areas. You can find my English CV here.
Coming from a Tech background, I could e.g. help with planning, designing and testing your software project. Thus also consulting on Tech, Product, Management and Strategy areas. I'm also interested in helping your org with organizational procedures, optimizing and automating processes.
On the other hand however, while I have coding and social media experience, doing that all day would most likely not be very efficient. Most of these skills I have solely for the purpose of being a better manager and consulting in these areas, not for end-use.
Most volunteer opportunities I've seen are intended to help people gain skills and only require little time commitment, meaning others will most likely benefit more from them. Thus also e.g. research work that I don't have experience in, would not be a good fit for me.
I've attended several EAGxConferences, Webinars and other events and have been involved for a while. Taking a break from contributing via E2G, I mean this as a serious offer to focus my time on fitting unpaid skilled volunteering opportunities.
If you need somebody like me - or know somebody who does, please reach out. Thank you 😊
This sounds really cool! I'd love to hear about what you end up doing.
Minor thought - It might be worth changing the title of this post. I initially clicked on this expecting someone looking for career advice, I wasn't expecting someone generously offering so much of their time and expertise. I expect there might be a bunch of orgs or projects that don't click on it because they don't have specific career takes for others, but who would be interested or have ideas of other projects that could benefit from your help.
Hi Charlotte, Do you have any suggestions for a title? I didn't really know what else to call it without sounding like a salesman, too clickbaity or pretentious. ^^" I've received a handful of email with the current text/title.
I think sounding like a salesman is ok here.
Maybe something like "Which orgs would benefit from my unpaid labor?" or "Offer: I can work on your project for free for some months (Tech/Operation/Management)".
Would you consider organising an AI Safety mentorship program? Selecting participants and matching them to mentors sounds like it would match up with your skills. It wouldn’t take a huge amount of work and there’s a decent chance it counterfactually shifts a few people’s careers into AIS and accelerate other people’s careers. PM’s open if interested.
Hi Chris, Thanks for comment - I've sent you a DM.
At ALLFED we are always looking for new volunteers and external collaborators: see the ALLFED research project database.
I know you wrote that new types of research are not really what you are looking for, but I leave the link in case you are interested, and we sometimes also take volunteers to work on areas other than research and policy.
Thanks for the link!