At Advocates Who Thrive we empower current or aspiring advocates to become more influential in their fight for social and environmental justice.
We do so by offering them training and coaching ...
Lead Community Manager
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Volunteer vacancy • Organisation role (Long-term)
Contact person
Hannah Dilday
Ask Hannah a question or contact the organiser directly at [email protected] or +31 6 000 000 000.
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We are seeking a thoughtful and proactive Lead Community Manager to join our team and shape our digital community space.
📌 Job Title: Lead Community Manager
🏢 Department: Marketing
🧭 Location: Remote (The Netherlands)
🕒 Employment Type: Volunteer, 4-8 hours per week
👤 Reports to: Rob (temporarily)
🧠 About Advocates Who Thrive
Across Europe, many people work tirelessly to advance social and environmental justice. This work is deeply meaningful but incredibly demanding. Over time, many face a heavy personal toll: losing energy, struggling to involve others, doubting themselves, or feeling entirely isolated. Far less attention often goes to supporting the actual people behind the change work: the advocates themselves.
Advocates Who Thrive is a learning & development organization dedicated to changing that. Our mission is to strengthen the resilience, confidence, and effectiveness of people who advance social and environmental justice by offering world-class coaching, group learning, and peer support. Our approach is experiential, practical, and human. We help changemakers work directly on their real-life challenges so they can stay emotionally balanced, stand strong against resistance, and communicate in ways that bring their communities along with them.
🎯 Role Overview
We are seeking a thoughtful and proactive Lead Community Manager to join our team and shape our digital community space. In this role, you will take the lead in building and activating our WhatsApp-based community, which serves as a vital low-threshold space for young advocates across the Netherlands navigating social and environmental justice projects.
You will act as the lead host of this space, creating a high-value "Brave Space" where change-makers can counter isolation, access bite-sized tools for confidence, communication, and resilience, and get a weekly mental fuel-up for the long haul. This community is a critical bridge to our deeper learning activities: it allows for far more personal interaction, real connection, and peer learning than standard social media channels. You will work closely with our social media content creator to cross-feed ideas, and as the group grows, you will guide a secondary community manager to expand our impact.
📋 Key Responsibilities
- Manage a consistent rhythm of WhatsApp-friendly posts on a weekly basis. E.g. Tuesday "Pulse Checks" (on energy levels, establishing boundaries, etc.) and Thursday "Fuel Stations" (short quotes, hacks, or resources with an explicit "how-to-use" tip).
- Translate insights from books, podcasts, and articles into short, punchy, jargon-free tips that advocates can easily apply in their daily lives.
- Actively welcome new members and cultivate a safe, low-pressure culture where passive reading and "lurking" are fully accepted.
- Foster organic peer support by responding warmly to member inputs within a few hours and actively bridging connections.
- Ensure interactions stay aligned with community guidelines, keeping the focus on human resilience and leadership rather than political debates or self-promotion spam.
- Track what content & formats do well and use this to improve the community space’s strategy and as input for our coaches.
🌱 Qualifications & Skills
- Deep interest in social and environmental justice, with genuine empathy for the advocate's journey.
- Strong affinity for community building, online facilitation, or peer learning spaces.
- Exceptional ability to write clear, short, and engaging human messages without corporate speak.
- Curious mindset, excellent listening skills, and a proactive drive to spark interaction.
- Highly organized and reliable, capable of managing scheduling and coordination independently in a remote setting.
📈 Preferred (but not required)
- Experience managing online groups (e.g., WhatsApp, Slack, Discord).
- Experience with practical content curation or storytelling.
- Intercultural fluency or experience working in diverse, international settings.
- Lived experience with the activist, advocate, or changemaker communities we serve.
💼 What We Offer
- A supportive and values-aligned team environment
- Flexibility and autonomy
- A platform to contribute to meaningful, global impact
🎁 Volunteer Perks
As a token of our appreciation for your dedication, we offer the following:
- Travel Compensation: Reimbursement for travel expenses related to events or activities conducted on behalf of AWT.
- Learning & Development: Priority access to internal coaching, training, and development opportunities — plus possible access to partner programs.
- Monthly Community Meetings: Join us for mission-focused discussions and delicious vegan snacks & drinks with fellow team members.
- Written Reference: Receive a personalized letter of recommendation to support your future professional or educational pursuits.
📌 What to Expect in the Recruitment Process
We believe in transparency and respect for every candidate’s time. Here’s what you can expect:
- CV Screening – We review your background for mission and skills alignment.
- One Virtual Interview (with HR & Hiring Manager) – A friendly and focused conversation about your motivation, experience, and alignment with our work.
- Feedback – After the process completion, we will send you an email with feedback within 7 business days..
We value every application and ensure a respectful and timely process.
✨ How to Apply
Please send your CV to:
Kindly keep in mind that all the volunteers work on a part-time basis hence the response time can be longer than usual (up to 7 working days).
💬 Questions?
Reach out to our People Team via email ([email protected])
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About Advocates Who Thrive
At Advocates Who Thrive we empower current or aspiring advocates to become more influential in their fight for social and environmental justice.
We do so by offering them training and coaching opportunities that build their confidence, capacity and competences to speak up, lobby & campaign for the environment, animal rights, human rights and inclusion.
In order to successfully address these urgent societal challenges, we need all kinds of angles and viewpoints to be on board. That’s where our main activities – the intensive, multi-day training courses that we organize – come in. Where international youth from all kinds of backgrounds come together. The training setup in combination with their passion and collective drive allows them to fully focus on the topic and on each other. As a result, participants develop themselves and each other in ways they never imagined before.
Fully in line with these values, in our organization we welcome and involve youth from all walks of life. No matter their background, religion, education, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation, everyone is welcome to join!
Get in touch with us through hello <at> advocateswhothrive <dot> com.
