Here we list the latest job & volunteer openings for you. As making social impact starts here!

Open volunteer positions | Upcoming Paid Consultancies | Interns

More info per position below.

Interested? Send us a short email about what you like about iMPACT direct and what you would like to do. And add a link to your LinkedIn account, and a link of a piece of work that shows your expertise.

Volunteer positions

1. Board Member based in West Africa

We are looking for a Board Member representing West Africa, preferably based in Ghana or Ivory Coast. Together with the chair, secretary, treasurer and Board Member representing East Africa our board will be complete!

Tasks Board Member

• Participate and vote in 6 online annual board meetings.
• Brings in additional expertise that adds-on in the board and in a dedicated committee on finance, fundraising, governance or marketing.

Board roles: 

• Monitors the performance of the organisation upon vision, purpose, and strategy.
• Guides and supervise/evaluate the performance and compensation of the management.
• Review and approve overall strategy and policies, such as annual budgets. 

We offer: 

• Working in an international and dedicated team. These are the colleague board members: www.impactdirect.eu/about
• Contributing to social impact: Shift of Power in the aid sector, strengthening civil society organisations (50% women-led), and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (1,2 and 4): No Poverty, Zero Hunger &Climate and Quality Education.
• This is a volunteer position.

Interested?   We send you the full (Advisory) Board Policy on request.

2. Expert(s) for Financial Committee

We are looking for an expert with experience in developing a Social Business and/or a Financial Expert.

Tasks:

• To co-develop and/or advises on financial planning / forecasts and financial risks, twice a year.
• And advise on small financial requests during the year, upon needs when it comes to financial administration, budgets or social business plans.

The work for the financial committee, could coincide with the role of Chair of the Board or Advisory Board Member.

We offer: 

• Working in an international and dedicated team. Colleagues of the Financial Committee are the Treasurer, Martha Mwangi, and Karen Kammeraat: www.impactdirect.eu/about
• Contributing to social impact: Shift of Power in the aid sector, strengthening civil society organisations (50% women-led), and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (1,2 and 4): No Poverty, Zero Hunger &Climate and Quality Education.
• This is a volunteer position.

Upcoming paid consultancies

We expect to have these vacancies open later this year. Do you feel your expertise matches? Let us already know!

1. Consultant Text Editor (French and English)

We are looking for a text editor for:

• Translating English texts into French (website texts and training tools); and
• Editing French texts (project texts and reports); and
• Translating French texts into English. 

We offer:

• Consultancy fee per final page.
• Your work contributes to social impact.
• Working in an international and passionate team. 

We request:

• A professional text editor who can show past results.
• Fluency in both English and French writing.
• Based in Africa (preferably West Africa).

If the collaboration is satisfying for both parties, the assignment could also add English text editing.

2. NGO-Relations Manager Ivory Coast 

We are looking for a consultant NGO-relations in Ivory Coast for:

• Selecting, visiting and building trust-based partnerships with >3 Ivorian NGOs from end 2023.

We offer:

• Consultancy fee for 1 day /week.
• Your work contributes to social impact.
• Working in an international and passionate team. See: www.impactdirect.eu/about

We request:

• Has experience in working for civil society organisations in Côte d’Ivoire.
• Fluency in both English and French. French for in-country communications, and English for teamwork within iMPACT direct.
• Based in Côte d’Ivoire.

Interns/ Research Questions

We’re also looking for student- or volunteer researchers who like to go in-depth on the following:

1. Mapping open training sources for NGOs

Underfunded locally-led NGOs face multiple obstacles to grow their organisation professionally. iMPACT direct aims to support locally-led NGOs in that with visibility, access to grants and capacity strengthening. A more thorough mapping of all open (online) training resources for civil society organisation is needed to be able to build on what is already there.

Find more info on our mission here.

2. Mapping best practices from partner-NGOs

Looking at the projects already funded through iMPACT direct and their results, what can we and our partner NGOs learn from it to improve future approaches.

Is it better to train a large group of people, or support a small group to an actual job or business? What are best practices of approaches that many of our NGOs take in vocational training, teaching eco-farming or VSLA (saving) schemes? And what are best approaches from the partnering NGOs when it comes to engaging project participants in designing and budgeting for the upcoming project?

Find more info on project results here.

3. (further) Exploring Giving Circles

If you have an interest in fundraising: Explore what is known about Middle Donors or Giving Circles. And plan and test how we can improve.

Find more info on what we did in 2021.

What we offer

• Contribute to social impact in terms of lifting people out of poverty, climate and food security, and education.
• Work in an international and dedicated team
• An opportunity to independently explore, develop and learn while doing. And work as a team, and with feedback or mentoring if you like or need.

Future prospective; If we both love our collaboration, there is a chance to become our future team member.

Interested?

Send us a short email about what you like about iMPACT direct and what you would like to do. And add a link to your LinkedIn account, and a link of a piece of work that shows your expertise.