World Health Innovation Summit are building a sustainable platform for our children's future and their children's future.  

We're always looking for volunteers to join the global team and help us scale our impact.

Remote volunteer

• Focus Area:
  Volunteering
• What you'll get:
  Contribute your skills to the SDGs
• What you'll need:
  Passion, willingness to learn, and ability to volunteer with different cultures
• Time Involvement:
  12-month volunteer term

Join our team!

Types of volunteer roles we have: SDG Student Program, Global Membership Team, Global Networks etc 

Administration 

Operational roles are essential to keeping things run smoothly. 

Example Responsibilities:

• Financial modelling and budgeting; 
• Managing processes or designing new ones; 
• Ensuring the teams meet any compliance needs such as auditing or reporting; 
• Or co-designing the operating model

Communications, Marketing and PR

Your role is to ensure our message is actually communicated to the end audience.

Example Responsibilities:

• Graphic or poster design; 
• Video creation; 
• Web design or development; 
• Creating slide decks or proposals; 
• Branding or marketing strategy; 
• Or social media.

Community, SDG Cities, SDG Hub Engagement

Your role aims to understand the needs, challenges and goals of your community, and provide support to address them - in order to engage the program community.

Example Responsibilities:

• Community interviews/surveys to understand their needs; 
• Mapping out needs to activities; 
• Running community webinars or workshops; 
• Running social events; 
• Or collating resources.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Team is pivotal to expanding SDSN Youth. 

Example Responsibilities:

• Grant and donor research; 
• Profiling investors; 
• Creating fundraising collatoral such as pitch decks; 
• Investor outreach and engagement; 
• Or donor reporting

Learning & Development

Learning & Development team members aim to upksill volunteers so that they are best equipped to grow professionally and personally.

Example Responsibilities:

• Create their own training material; 
• Partner with external parties or find external individuals to run training; 
• Conduct surveys to understand learning needs; 
• Or run workshops/webinars to deliver them

Partnerships

Working together is important for us to achieve the SDGs - the goal is to identify how we can effectively collaborate.

Example Responsibilities:

• Skill, gap and market mapping for potential partners; 
• Engaging with potential partners via scoping calls; 
• Managing stakeholder relationships; 
• Working closely with Strategy & Ops to identify what new partners are needed; 
• Or ensuring we are always delivering on our agreements.

Growth, New Ideas, New Ventures

The Strategy Team and Growth Teams identify New Ventures that may help increase SDSN Youth's impact or ability to fundraise. 

Example Responsibilities:

• Assess the feasibility and value of a pilot project and implements it, before it can be considered as a WHIS program.

Recruitment

The Recruitment/HR team is in charge of finding new volunteers to join the team, and engage current ones. 

Example Responsibilities:

• Interviewing and shortlisting candidates; 
• Running social events or building HR capabilities; 
• Running town hall events; 
• Recruitment marketing; 
• Or managing HR policies

Strategic Advisor

You would support the CEO in addressing strategic challenge statements in the teams, and working with the Team Leads to solve them. 

Example Responsibilities:

• Running discovery workshops; 
• Market research; 
• Co-creating journey maps, personas or service blueprints; 
• Or helping the Team Leads put together a strategic framework or short/med/long term strategy.

Team Management

Create a opportunity, Drive a vision. Leadership roles that manage our team of volunteers. 

Example Responsibilities:

• Keeping track of team KPIs & metrics;
• Connecting team goals to organizational goals; 
• Coordinating the team, and empowering the team; 
• Unblocking and helping problem solve with the team; 
• Or ensuring there is visibility to leadership and the public on your impact.

HOW TO APPLY?

We have a 5-step process for positions our positions.

1. Written application + CV

This section shows us a glimpse of your skills and motivations for the role. Focus on a few examples that demonstrate the role's required skills. Show us that you understand our mission.

2. Online Assessment

The online assessments will vary per role. Typical assessment types are:

Video questionnaire
Being a remote network, open communication is critical to the network. We don't always get to meet our team in person - so we want to see how you communicate over video.All about how you solve a problem
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Portfolio
If you've picked a design or marketing role, we'll ask you to show us your style of design (via sample work) or ask you to walk us through a recent project you've worked on. We want to understand how you designed a solution for the target audience.

Example case interview
Typically for strategic roles. We'll give you a hypothetical scenario, and ask you how you would go about approaching it. We want to understand how you would seek inputs and work with other people, in order to solve a problem.

The application process allows us to better understand you as a person. We want to learn about your goals, your experience and motivations - and give you a peek into our team culture, aspirations, and vision as well.

Interviewing is simply a way for our teams to understand 1) whether you are a good fit for the role, and 2) whether you would fit the team culture - nothing more! Just be your authentic self and have a clear idea of why you are the best person for the role.

3. Phone screen

Phone screens help us understand logistical information i.e. your availiability, professional goals, location or whether you are interested in multiple teams/roles.

4. Team Interview

Typically run with your future team members or team lead - could be combination of skills-related questions and behavioural, this is a last check for us to see whether you have the right experience/values. This interview allows you to ask questions about the projects you'll be working on, the team culture, etc.

5. Offer!

If we both agree that you would be a great fit (and you are interested in the team), we'll extend an informal offer and onboard you into the team.

Current opportunities - we are seeking expressions of interest from volunteers interested in community engagement and communications from around the world. 

World Health Innovation Summit - Worldwide remote, Volunteer. -

At WHIS, we empower people to take meaningful action on the Sustainable Development Goals. By joining our global team, you will be working with a diverse and exceptional group of individuals with a variety of cultural, religious and political backgrounds, committed to sustainable development.

Please note that we have remote volunteer positions:

• Volunteer, Remote.
  Volunteer positions have 12-month terms and can be done anywhere, remotely.

*Please note that we will not be reviewing any applications without a cover letter.

To learn more about us, and to prepare for interviews, we recommend you look at our website, and blog. We look forward to your application. 

Role: World Health Innovation Summit has networks across the globe. Our networks localise SDG action in their respective countries. Our team, the Networks sub-team, supports our Network Coordinators, through helping them solve challenges, to drive the growth and scaling of their networks, aligning execution approach with our goals, and drive new initiatives via a regional strategy.

The role involves planning, partnerships, and strategy. This would be an ideal position for someone who has a strong network of connections or knowledge of their region, is unafraid to take initiative, enjoys problem-solving with people, and wants to dive deep into how different countries/cultures implement the SDGs.

Responsibilities

• Support the WHIS Network in communications efforts
  • Oversees content production
  • Posts publishings across social media and any other platforms
  • Develops updates for the website, working to optimise SEO 

An example of your day-to-day responsibilities could include:

• Review and edit weekly content related to UK news and one or more SDGs
• Work with the WHIS team to optimize website content 
• Communicate with members in the WHIS community for collaboration on certain content.

Job Qualifications

The candidate will be someone who has experience or wants to learn about communications and has a deep interest in the SDGs. They will be someone who possesses the organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, working in a team in order to maximize WHIS performance.

Minimum qualifications:

• Candidate possesses an excellent command of the English language, including writing, speaking, and listening.
• Candidate has an understanding of the SDGs
• Candidate has experience in creating and executing strategy.
• Candidate has a strong understanding of the region they are applying to.
• Candidate MUST feel comfortable working with different cultures and diverse perspectives.
• Candidate MUST have excellent organisational and leadership skills.
• Candidate MUST be a proven team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to coordinate and manage workload across several projects/teams.
• Candidate MUST demonstrate their ability to communicate effectively and report consistently. In a network, which operates across several time zones, reporting and communicating proactively is crucial.
• Candidate MUST be responsive and able to manage regular communication with the team - including after-hours conference calls, as the network spans different time zones.
• The candidate is able to demonstrate that they have the time and resources to commit to this role – candidates with too many overlapping commitments will be exempt from running for this position.

Nice to haves

• Candidate has experience in partnerships or fundraising
• Ability to draft project proposals 
• Candidate has a strong network of connections with youth-related or SDG related organizations in their region

Commitment

Total Weekly Hours:

• 10 hours per week

Conditions

• Duration of Position: The first term is 12 months in total, with a 2 months trial period in the beginning. However, subject to review of work performance, this position may be extended on a 12-month basis.
• Reporting: This position reports to the Finance Director, WHIS
• Compensation: Voluntary

APPLY - applications will close Friday 14th January 2022 @5pm GMT - with phone screen, team interview and offers made by the end of February 2022. 

At WHIS we empower people to take meaningful action on the Sustainable Development Goals. By joining our global team, you will be working with a diverse and exceptional group of individuals with a variety of cultural, religious and political backgrounds, committed to sustainable development.

You'll have opportunities to co-create solutions and work with global leaders implementing the SDGs. 

We will be expanding our volunteer opportunities in 2022 and to revisit the site regularly for more opportunities. 

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