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VOLUNTEER
WITH ADUD
Bring your expertise, time and perspective to work that connects communities and builds lasting capacity.
ADUD engages volunteers, advisors, project specialists and Board leaders who want to contribute meaningful skills to a growing diaspora-focused institution.
Serve With Purpose
Professional Service That Strengthens the Mission.
ADUD volunteer opportunities range from governance and executive-office support to communications, editorial operations, organizational development, people operations, technology and time-bound professional projects.
We look for people who can contribute reliably, work respectfully across cultures and time zones, protect confidential information and translate expertise into practical results.
Roles have defined scopes, responsible supervisors, deliverables and onboarding requirements. Nonprofit experience is highly desired for many professional and leadership opportunities.
Current Opportunities
Find Where Your Experience Can Make a Difference.
Review the full role description before applying so you can assess the responsibilities, experience and working expectations associated with each opportunity.
Before You Apply
All applicants: submit a current résumé or CV and complete the online application. You may identify one secondary opportunity of interest.
Board and Board Officer applicants: both a résumé/CV and a letter of interest are required. The letter should address your relevant experience, governance perspective and interest in serving ADUD.
Other professional and project-based applicants: the second upload is optional and may be a cover letter, professional bio, portfolio or relevant work sample.
Board & Governance
Fiduciary / Governance ServiceBoard Trustee — Communications, Media & Public Engagement
Provide Board-level oversight and strategic guidance on institutional communications, media relations, public engagement and reputation.
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What you’ll do
- Advise the Board on communications, media and public-engagement strategy.
- Review institutional messaging, reputation and stakeholder-engagement risks at the governance level.
- Support oversight of communications policies, crisis-readiness and public-facing standards.
- Participate in Board meetings, committees and fiduciary decision-making.
What we’re looking for
- Senior experience in communications, media relations, public affairs, journalism, reputation or an adjacent field.
- Sound governance judgment and the ability to distinguish Board oversight from day-to-day management.
- Strong writing, discretion and stakeholder judgment.
- Nonprofit, association, public-interest or mission-driven experience highly desired.
What to know
Board service is unpaid fiduciary service and requires due diligence, formal appointment and compliance with ADUD Board obligations.
Board Trustee — Human Capital & Organizational Effectiveness
Strengthen Board oversight of people systems, organizational development, volunteer strategy, leadership continuity and institutional effectiveness.
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What you’ll do
- Advise on human-capital strategy, organizational effectiveness and leadership continuity.
- Support Board oversight of talent, volunteer systems, succession, culture and people-risk controls.
- Review relevant policies, workforce indicators and organizational-development priorities.
- Participate in Board and committee governance work.
What we’re looking for
- Senior HR, people operations, organizational development, talent, workforce strategy or related experience.
- Ability to operate at governance level rather than as day-to-day HR management.
- Strong judgment on confidentiality, equity, performance and institutional risk.
- Nonprofit or volunteer-workforce experience highly desired.
What to know
Board service is unpaid fiduciary service and requires due diligence, formal appointment and compliance with ADUD Board obligations.
Board Trustee — Technology, Digital Transformation & Information Governance
Provide Board-level stewardship for technology strategy, cybersecurity, information governance, Microsoft 365/AICE and responsible digital transformation.
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What you’ll do
- Advise the Board on technology, cybersecurity, digital transformation and information-governance priorities.
- Support oversight of technology risk, privacy, access control, resilience and digital investments.
- Review strategic alignment of AICE, Microsoft 365, web, data and digital systems.
- Participate in Board and committee governance work.
What we’re looking for
- Senior experience in technology leadership, cybersecurity, enterprise systems, information governance, cloud platforms or digital transformation.
- Ability to translate technical risk into governance-level decisions.
- Strong judgment on security, privacy and institutional continuity.
- Nonprofit, public-sector or regulated-environment experience highly desired.
What to know
Board service is unpaid fiduciary service and requires due diligence, formal appointment and compliance with ADUD Board obligations.
Board Secretary — Governance & Corporate Records
Support the integrity of Board records, minutes, resolutions, notices, governance calendars and official corporate documentation.
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What you’ll do
- Prepare or coordinate accurate Board and committee minutes, resolutions and action records.
- Maintain official governance records, meeting notices, calendars and document-control practices.
- Track approvals, signatures, annual governance actions and required corporate records.
- Support the Chair/President and Board on orderly governance administration.
What we’re looking for
- Strong governance, corporate-secretarial, legal-operations, Board support or records-management experience.
- Excellent writing, precision, discretion and document-control discipline.
- Ability to manage deadlines and formal records consistently.
- Nonprofit governance experience highly desired.
What to know
Officer status is subject to ADUD’s governing documents and formal Board action. This role requires a résumé/CV and letter of interest.
Executive Office
Executive SupportExecutive Assistant / Personal Assistant to the President & CEO
Provide trusted administrative and coordination support to the President & CEO across scheduling, follow-up, correspondence, document preparation and priority tracking.
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What you’ll do
- Manage calendar coordination, meeting preparation, reminders and executive follow-up.
- Draft, organize and track correspondence, briefing materials and action items.
- Coordinate confidential Board, partner, donor, volunteer and internal matters as assigned.
- Maintain organized records and help protect the CEO’s time and priorities.
What we’re looking for
- Excellent organization, discretion, written communication and follow-through.
- Comfort supporting a senior executive across multiple workstreams and time-sensitive priorities.
- Strong Microsoft 365, scheduling and document-management capability.
- Prior executive-assistant, chief-of-staff support, administrative or similar experience preferred.
What to know
This is a high-trust volunteer role involving confidential information. Responsiveness and dependable availability are essential.
Communications, Media & VOAD
Public Engagement / EditorialCommunications & Media Relations Coordinator — ADUD
Support media readiness, communications coordination, press materials, outreach workflows and institutional messaging.
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What you’ll do
- Maintain media-facing materials, message files, boilerplate and press-kit content.
- Support media-list development, outreach tracking and press-response coordination.
- Help prepare spokesperson materials, briefing notes and communications calendars.
- Coordinate approvals and maintain organized communications records.
What we’re looking for
- Experience in communications, media relations, PR, journalism, public affairs or related work.
- Strong writing, editing and research skills.
- Professional judgment with sensitive or time-sensitive information.
- Nonprofit or mission-driven communications experience highly desired.
Social Media & Digital Engagement Coordinator — ADUD & VOAD
Help plan, coordinate and strengthen social content, digital engagement and channel consistency across ADUD and The Voice of the African Diaspora®.
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What you’ll do
- Maintain content calendars and coordinate approved posts across channels.
- Draft and adapt copy for institutional and editorial audiences.
- Track engagement patterns and support campaign, event and publication promotion.
- Protect brand consistency, permissions and content-approval workflows.
What we’re looking for
- Hands-on social media or digital communications experience.
- Strong writing, scheduling and audience-engagement skills.
- Ability to work across institutional and editorial brands without blurring their roles.
- Experience with nonprofit, media or community-engagement accounts is helpful.
Managing Editor & Editorial Operations Coordinator — VOAD
Coordinate editorial workflow, assignments, deadlines, review, contributor communication and issue-production readiness for The Voice of the African Diaspora®.
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What you’ll do
- Maintain editorial calendar, assignments, status tracking and production deadlines.
- Coordinate contributors, editors and review checkpoints.
- Support fact-checking, permissions, copy flow and archive organization.
- Prepare content for issue and web publication in coordination with VOAD leadership.
What we’re looking for
- Editorial-management, newsroom, magazine, publishing or content-operations experience.
- Strong editing, organization and deadline-management ability.
- Excellent judgment around sourcing, rights, attribution and editorial quality.
- Experience coordinating distributed contributors strongly preferred.
Publication Production & Layout Assistant — VOAD
Support issue production, page assembly, formatting, visual consistency and publication preparation under VOAD editorial direction.
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What you’ll do
- Assist with page assembly, article placement, formatting and production checks.
- Maintain consistency in typography, image placement and issue structure.
- Prepare production-ready files and help resolve layout corrections.
- Coordinate closely with editorial operations on deadlines and revisions.
What we’re looking for
- Experience with publication layout, graphic production, editorial design or comparable tools.
- Excellent visual-detail and file-management discipline.
- Ability to work within established templates and brand standards.
- Magazine, newsletter or report-production experience preferred.
Investigative & Travel Journalism Writer — VOAD
Develop deeply reported stories, field-based features and travel journalism exploring African and diaspora communities, institutions, culture, development, people and places.
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What you’ll do
- Pitch and develop original investigative, field-reporting and travel features.
- Conduct interviews, document research and source verification.
- Produce accurate, engaging long-form or feature reporting suitable for VOAD web and issue publication.
- Maintain notes, source records, permissions and required supporting documentation.
What we’re looking for
- Strong reporting, interviewing and narrative-writing ability.
- Demonstrated commitment to verification, fairness, sourcing and original work.
- Ability to report sensitively across cultures and communities.
- Travel, investigative, international, diaspora or regional reporting experience is highly desirable.
What to know
Travel is not guaranteed or automatically funded. Any assignment involving travel requires prior scope, budget, risk and editorial approval.
VOAD Contributors — Writers, Analysts & Creatives
Contribute original reporting, features, commentary, cultural work, analysis, photography or other approved editorial content.
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What you’ll do
- Pitch or accept assignments within approved VOAD editorial channels.
- Produce original content to agreed scope, format and deadline.
- Respond to editorial review and provide source/rights information where required.
What we’re looking for
- Strong subject-matter credibility or demonstrated creative/editorial ability.
- Original work and respect for VOAD editorial standards.
- Reliable communication and deadline discipline.
Strategy, Governance & Organizational Development
Institutional CapacityStrategic Planning & Organizational Development Advisor — ADUD Relaunch
Help ADUD assess priorities, sequencing, dependencies and organizational-development needs as the institution strengthens its operating model.
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What you’ll do
- Assess strategic priorities, institutional gaps and sequencing needs.
- Help translate strategy into an actionable relaunch roadmap and operating priorities.
- Identify dependencies, decision points and capacity constraints.
- Support executive leadership with structured recommendations and implementation planning.
What we’re looking for
- Senior strategy, organizational development, nonprofit management, management consulting or operating-model experience.
- Ability to synthesize complex institutional issues into practical recommendations.
- Strong facilitation, documentation and executive-communication skills.
- Experience with growing or rebuilding mission-driven organizations is highly desirable.
Governance & Compliance Advisor
Support ADUD in strengthening governance controls, compliance calendars, policy administration, Board documentation and institutional readiness.
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What you’ll do
- Review governance and compliance workflows and identify control gaps.
- Help maintain compliance calendars, policy registers, approval records and governance checklists.
- Support development of practical procedures for Board, corporate, grant and institutional compliance.
- Organize evidence and documentation needed for due diligence, audits, funders or governance review.
What we’re looking for
- Experience in nonprofit governance, corporate compliance, legal operations, risk, internal controls or a related field.
- Strong documentation and policy-administration skills.
- Ability to distinguish legal advice from operational compliance support.
- Experience with U.S. nonprofit organizations or regulated institutional environments strongly preferred.
What to know
This volunteer role supports governance and compliance administration and does not substitute for licensed legal counsel when legal advice is required.
People & Operations
HR / Operational SupportHR Operations Coordinator
Support practical HR and volunteer operations, recruitment administration, onboarding coordination, records and people-process follow-through.
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What you’ll do
- Coordinate recruitment records, interview scheduling, candidate follow-up and onboarding checklists.
- Maintain organized volunteer/people files, status trackers and required acknowledgments.
- Support service-hour verification, separations, access-change coordination and recurring HR administration.
- Help keep templates, forms and people-process documentation current.
What we’re looking for
- HR operations, recruiting coordination, people operations, administration or related experience.
- Excellent confidentiality, organization and follow-through.
- Comfort working with structured forms, trackers, Microsoft 365 and sensitive records.
- Nonprofit or volunteer-workforce experience highly desired.
Documentation & Project Support Coordinator
Strengthen documentation, project tracking, meeting follow-up and cross-workstream administrative support.
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What you’ll do
- Maintain project trackers, action logs, document registers and status updates.
- Prepare meeting notes, follow-up items and organized project records.
- Support document formatting, version control and coordination across workstreams.
- Help project leads keep deliverables, decisions and dependencies visible.
What we’re looking for
- Strong documentation, project coordination or administrative experience.
- Excellent attention to detail and written communication.
- Comfort with Microsoft 365, spreadsheets, trackers and document organization.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams without losing follow-through.
Technology & Digital
Project-Based / Professional SkillsAICE — SharePoint Current-State Assessment & Target Architecture Planning
Assess ADUD’s existing SharePoint-based AICE environment and define a practical target architecture for governance, information structure, permissions, search, lifecycle and secure collaboration.
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What you’ll do
- Review current SharePoint/AICE structure, sites, navigation, permissions, sharing and document-management practices.
- Identify governance, information-architecture, metadata, search, lifecycle and security gaps.
- Define target architecture, priorities, dependencies and recommended implementation sequence.
- Produce findings and an implementation-ready roadmap rather than rebuilding the environment during this phase.
What we’re looking for
- Strong Microsoft SharePoint / Microsoft 365 architecture and governance experience.
- Experience with permissions, external sharing, information architecture, search, metadata and lifecycle controls.
- Ability to document current state and target state clearly for nontechnical leadership.
- Security and information-governance experience strongly preferred.
Website Developer — ADUD Website Redesign & Build
Support the technical implementation of ADUD’s website redesign following approved architecture, UX direction and brand standards.
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What you’ll do
- Implement approved WordPress page designs, templates and reusable components.
- Maintain responsive behavior, accessibility, performance and clean content structure.
- Follow approved information architecture, brand rules and media assets.
- Test pages thoroughly and document maintainable implementation decisions.
What we’re looking for
- Strong WordPress, front-end HTML/CSS and practical web-development experience.
- Ability to work with existing themes/builders without introducing unnecessary lock-in or generator artifacts.
- Responsive, accessible and maintainable implementation discipline.
- Experience with nonprofit/institutional sites is helpful.
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What to Expect
Professional Standards From the Start.
Confidentiality & Trust
Many roles require a Volunteer Service Agreement, NDA/Confidentiality acknowledgment, information-security requirements and appropriate handling of internal information.
Work Product & Accountability
Assignments have clear deliverables and supervision. Applicable roles also require IP/work-product assignment and conflict-of-interest disclosure.
Service-Hour Verification
Where appropriate, ADUD can validate eligible student, school or community-service hours based on verified participation and completed service.