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Remote Geospatial Data Engineer Volunteer

15 days ago

Watford

Are you a Geospatial Data Engineer Volunteer wanting to use your skills to help people in a humanitarian crisis and ultimately help save lives? MapAction can enable you to volunteer to do just that. Volunteers have been the heart of the MapAction for over 20 years but the range of skills needed continually evolves. Now we are looking for a enthusiastic Geospatial Data Engineer professional who has a desire to commit to a great team, and to help MapAction make a difference that has a lasting effect on vulnerable communities. MapAction works with a range of humanitarian partners, from local organisations who are closest to the ground to a range of global UN partners. Come and be part of something that is exciting and impactful! Why MapAction? MapAction is a leading humanitarian mapping charity, delivering information services and products to enhance decision making in disasters and conflicts. In collaboration with our partners, this mapped information helps responders understand vulnerabilities and target their response effectively, contributing to saving lives and minimising suffering. We work through a team of skilled volunteer professionals and a small paid staff team. We have built a strong reputation in the humanitarian sector, and are a technical partner of the United Nations, Non-Government Organisations and Civil Society Organisations, the Red Cross, Red Crescent Movement, regional entities and national authorities. The humanitarian sector is evolving, and technical expertise such as GIS, mapping, information management, data processing and visualisation are becoming increasingly utilised for improving decision making in complex humanitarian response. MapAction and our partners are uniquely positioned to provide technical expertise in support of this. As a volunteer, we will be able to work with technical staff and volunteers on different opportunities. Once your onboarding is complete, you will be able to choose the tasks and projects that best fit your skillset and interests. Here below some activities that our data engineer volunteers can support with: • MapAction external projects that require a Data Engineer skillset (e.g.: data pipeline automation, hazard exposure platforms, multi-risk models, conflict incident reporting, etc…), • Work with external partners such as UN agencies, International NGOs and Academic Institutions, • Conduct and automate data collection and processing scripts, • Create and maintain optimal, performant data pipeline architectures, both internally and externally, • Propose improvements to infrastructure, schemas, platforms, toolchains and configurations, • Assist in the automation, provision and management of development environments, source-code, build-tools, pipelines and deployments, • Support ad-hoc Data Processing during MapAction’s Emergency Responses in collaboration with MapAction’s GIS team, • Support internal systems maintenance in collaboration with MapAction’s IT Support Engineer, • Attend and / or represent MapAction on technical conferences, • Train other volunteers or external organizations on Data Engineer tools and processes What are we looking for? If you feel you are a good match but do not feel like you meet all the requirements, we are still happy to receive your application! The core skills we look for in all of our team members are the following: • A desire to use their skills, experience and dedication in the cause of humanitarian ends, • Good team player with leadership and/or project management experience or ambition wherever possible, • Exceptional communication skills, to explain your work to people who don't understand the mechanics behind data analysis, and experience in understanding partner needs and requirements, in particular working with non-technical clients, • Adaptable, resilient and solution-oriented, • Self-motivated and organised, • Time to commit to MapAction, for more details on the time commitment, please refer to the “What does it mean to be part of the MapAction team?” Essential: • Degree or equivalent experience in the field of Data Science, Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Development, Information Technology or a related field, • Three or more years of professional experience working in a data or information management team, as a data engineer, data scientist, developer or other similar role, • Experience and proficiency working with Python and Jupyter Notebooks, • Data pipeline design skills, • Knowledge of cloud platforms like GCP, AWS or Azure, • Experience and understanding of CI/CD pipelines, • Project management experience. Experience in understanding partner needs and requirements, in particular working with non-technical clients., • Collaborative code management using Git & GitHub Desirable: • Experience of participating in a volunteer organisation or open source projects., • Experience with QGIS or ArcGIS, • Experience working with geospatial data (raster and vector), • Databases (NoSQL, SQL, Graph Dbs, Principles of RDBs), • Experience with Systems Engineering, • Understanding of the Software Development Life cycle, • Thorough grounding in containerisation e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, • Shell scripting, • An interest in software-engineering or data-science e.g. ML / DL / AI / Statistics, • Humanitarian knowledge/experience What does it mean to be part of the MapAction team? Being part of MapAction means entering a close-knit community of highly skilled and committed and experienced professionals in different sectors. It means using your unique skills to help prepare for, anticipate, or respond to humanitarian emergencies, enabling our partners to provide life-saving support. At MapAction, training and team building are at the heart of our organisational culture. We have frequent meet-ups online and in person where paid staff and volunteers get together for training opportunities and skill-sharing, to strengthen our service offer. As a volunteer, you can participate in all levels and areas of the organisation, working alongside our colleagues at various UN agencies and/or other humanitarian partners. Volunteers also steer the organisation's strategic direction and are involved with designing and implementing our operational capacity. You will have the opportunity to travel, whether that’s at training events, project work abroad, missions or representing MapAction at a conference. Availability for projects, including in-person deployments • MapAction expects a high level of commitment by volunteers to make themselves available to deliver projects, whether these projects are planned or emergency missions, remote or in-person, one-off tasks or longer term commitments., • Deployable volunteers are expected to seek a commitment from their employer (if applicable) to permit time off (paid or not) for deployments when necessary., • For emergency deployable volunteers, there must be arrangements in place for a quick decision to be taken on availability, including agreement from employers/family if required, in the event of all alerts. This should normally be within 12 hours of the issue of the alert, depending on time-zone., • For non-emergency deployments and projects logged on the tasking grid, volunteers must respond to a request for assistance (whether yes or no) by the deadline specified on the grid., • Volunteers are expected to put themselves forward for at least three substantive (i.e. at least two days work) tasks every year, and are normally expected to contribute at least 10 days of voluntary effort (excluding training) to MapAction every year., • It is the duty of all volunteers to do their best to make themselves available for any opportunity relevant to their volunteer role, and avoid perceptions of volunteers selecting only more ‘attractive’ tasks or missions. It is essential that MapAction is able to deliver on all tasks it commits to, and it relies on volunteers to be prepared to step up for a wide range of activities. As a member of the team, you will be expected to participate in at least 6 internal weekend training events. This must include our annual simulation exercise, which all volunteers are required to attend. Other weekend training events include 6 annual training weekends where we get together in person at various locations around the UK, and 4 online development days. Volunteers should live either within the UK or within reasonably easy and affordable reach of the UK in order to be able to attend face to face training events. Equal Opportunities Statement We are committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, communities, and experiences. We value diversity and are dedicated to providing equal opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Selection for volunteer roles is based solely on an individual's skills, experience, suitability for the role, and commitment to our values. Notable Dates for volunteer process: Closing date - 19th July 2026 If successful after evaluation - test - week of the 27th July 2026 Attendance for Interviews online - week of the 12th August 2026 Attendance for final round in person - 12th September 2026 Unfortunately we are unable to accommodate anyone who can not meet these dates.

Remote Head of Sales: Selling What the World Has Never Bought Before

2 days ago

Watford

There are very few moments in a career when you get to sell something genuinely new. This is one of them. You’ve spent your career placing rare, considered propositions in front of the most discerning buyers — and you know the best deals are won on trust, provenance and story, not on discounting. We’re going to ask you to do exactly that, with something the market has never seen. Natural capital is emerging as one of the world’s most significant new asset classes, and the commercial market for it is being built in real time. Oxygen Conservation is at the forefront. We’re a fast-scaling business on a mission to protect and restore the natural environment at an institutional scale, aiming for £1 billion of assets under management by 2030 — and we’ll get there by bringing real commercial discipline to conservation. We’ve developed the highest-quality nature-based carbon credits in the world, at record prices, and this is just the beginning. We’re now bringing our portfolio of 2 million premium natural capital credits to market, and this role was created specifically to lead that. You don’t need to come from natural capital — we’ll make you fluent. What we can’t teach is the instinct for a premium sale, the discipline to hold a price, and the relationships that follow you from one deal to the next. Do that here, and you won’t just close landmark deals — you’ll help define how nature is commercialised globally, delivering genuine environmental and social impact alongside financial returns. About You You’ve built your career selling premium — luxury, high-end services or sophisticated B2B environments, partnering with FTSE 100, S&P 500, hyperscalers, infrastructure operators or comparable institutions, where commitment is earned on scarcity, provenance and trust. You understand how procurement and investment committees actually make decisions. You move comfortably across boardrooms and high-trust commercial environments, and you know instinctively that the best outcomes come from genuine relationships, sharp judgement, and the discipline to walk away from the wrong deal. You care passionately about quality, you have an unrelenting commitment to delivery, and you love building relationships with people. Here, you’ll be selling things that have rarely been sold before — helping create the market as you go. Mindset Quality over quick wins: you care about the outcome, not just the deal. The developing natural capital market ruthlessly tests anyone who doesn’t. You’re radically transparent with partners (and with us) when something doesn’t add up, and you walk away when the shape of a deal would compromise quality or integrity. You’re here to make a market, not just hit a target. Pace and patience: OC moves quickly, especially when our market doesn’t. You bring the urgency to operate at our speed and the resilience for the long term — because deals in this developing market don’t close in a quarter, and the work between “yes in principle” and signed contract is where most people fall away. A builder, comfortable in ambiguity: when there’s no playbook, no comparable benchmark and no obvious next move, you’re the person who keeps moving forward. You treat the zero-to-one nature of this role as the appeal, not the risk — and you treat collaboration as the way you build, not friction along the way. The team’s success matters more than your personal pipeline; we have a very rigid “No Dickheads” policy. A learner by instinct: you’ll become genuinely bilingual in the rapidly evolving carbon and biodiversity credit markets — and just as comfortable with the technology that underpins how we make decisions and the products you take to market. Over time, you’ll become the leading commercial figure in the domain. Craft Deal-making as a creative discipline: when a partner says “this doesn’t work for us,” you’ve already prepared alternative shapes — different tenor, volume, commitment — and can walk through them confidently. A translator and a storyteller: you move between conservation science, investor narrative and corporate procurement language without losing fluency in any of them — and you understand that premium propositions are won on story as much as substance, crafting narratives that partners want to be part of. Unreasonable hospitality: your mindset is to solve with generosity. You think about relationships the way Will Guidara writes about them in Unreasonable Hospitality — going beyond competent service to make people feel genuinely seen, anticipating what partners need before they ask, and treating every relationship, not just the biggest, with the same genuine care. Skillset Financial literacy to model your own deals: you can appraise how a credit sale affects an investment return, how pricing decisions ripple through a business model, and articulate both to a board. Technology as leverage: you understand that the right systems, AI tools and data platforms multiply a commercial leader’s impact. You’ll know how to use our proprietary tech to inform pricing, identify the right partners and stay close to a long pipeline — and how to bring AI into your daily workflow as leverage, not novelty. About the Role This role exists to bring our premium natural capital portfolio to market — leading the sale of 2 million high-integrity carbon, biodiversity and wider nature credits to corporate partners and private investors, at prices that align with the uniqueness of our offering. Your primary focus is securing offtake agreements, premium credit sales and long-term strategic partnerships for OC’s natural capital portfolio. Over time, you’ll build on this foundation to extend the commercial model across the wider Oxygen platform — our proprietary data and analytics capability, our talent network and our content engine — maximising the commercial opportunities across the business. The routes to market you build matter beyond revenue. By establishing credible, scalable partnerships, you’ll directly strengthen our investment case — helping demonstrate to capital markets that high-integrity natural capital is not only impactful but genuinely commercially viable at scale. Internally, this role sits at the heart of our business. You’ll work across our three divisions — Conservation, Capital and Intelligence — bringing together our natural capital, data and analytics, investment, legal, finance and marketing capabilities to create commercial propositions that define the market. You’ll work directly with our CEO and alongside teams that have spent years building expertise across carbon markets, biodiversity net gain and peatland restoration — they’ll be your most important resource, and we’ll invest in your literacy across the landscape. Externally, your relationships will span global corporates, hyperscalers, high net worth individuals and other strategic partners who want exposure to high-quality, high-integrity natural capital. This role builds OC’s brand as a premium developer as much as its revenue. Key Responsibilities Own the number: carry responsibility for bringing 2 million premium credits to market — landing the offtake agreements, premium sales and long-term partnerships that define OC’s commercial future. Sell at the top of the market: position our credits at the premium end and defend the pricing that quality deserves. Land landmark partnerships: secure long-term relationships with corporates, investors and strategic buyers that shape the future of the market. Structure category-defining deals: create commercial structures where no established template yet exists. Turn relationships into revenue: build deep, trusted partnerships that compound over years, not quarters. Make the investment case undeniable: ensure every deal strengthens confidence in natural capital as a scalable institutional asset class. Build the market: help define how premium natural capital is bought, sold and valued globally. Commercialise the wider Oxygen platform: unlock new opportunities across our data, analytics and intelligence capabilities over time. Represent Oxygen at the highest level: build our reputation in boardrooms, investment committees and the conversations that move markets. Use AI as leverage: bring AI into your daily workflow to move faster, spot opportunities earlier, and operate at a level traditional commercial teams cannot match. Key Information • Location: Remote within the UK, with regular travel to our estates and to partner meetings as required., • Employment type: Permanent, full-time., • Compensation: A strong base salary and benefits reflecting the seniority of the role. This isn’t a commission-based position — because we never want a reason to push the wrong deal — but we reward the people who help build this market generously. [Reward detail to confirm — e.g. equity / LTIP / recognition — pending group decision], • Closing date: Until we find someone awesome. Your application has been successfully submitted! _ We appreciate your interest in this position. Unfortunately, you have already applied for this job.

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