Recruiting Content Specialist (Volunteer)

Note: This is a remote, part-time volunteer position.

We’re looking for someone who enjoys bringing order, clarity, and consistency to written materials — and who is comfortable reaching across teams to help move work forward.

This is a short-term, project-based volunteer opportunity to help us review, refine, and standardize job descriptions across the organization. You’ll work with HR and department leads to strengthen how roles are presented, improve consistency across postings, and help ensure our recruiting materials are clear, useful, and aligned.

For the right person, this is a chance to build experience at the intersection of content, recruiting, and organizational systems — while contributing to work that has visible, practical impact.

Who We Are

WhoWhatWhy is an independent nonprofit investigative news organization producing deep-dive journalism on the most important issues of our time. We’re powered by skilled volunteers and a small core staff — from students to seasoned professionals — who believe in rigorous, ethical reporting free from corporate or political influence.

About the Role

As a Recruiting & Content Specialist, you will help improve how roles are written, organized, and presented across the organization. This work combines content refinement, cross-team coordination, and recruiting support. You will:

• Review existing job descriptions across departments
• Bring job descriptions into a more consistent structure and format
• Standardize shared language such as organization overviews, commitment sections, and application instructions
• Refine wording to improve clarity, tone, readability, and candidate understanding
• Preserve role-specific responsibilities and qualifications while improving surrounding language
• Reach out to HR and department leads to clarify outdated, missing, or unclear information
• Identify inconsistencies across roles and follow up with the appropriate stakeholders to resolve them
• Help prepare and update roles for posting across recruiting platforms as needed
• Suggest improvements that make postings more accurate, more consistent, and more useful to applicants

What We’re Looking For

• Experience writing, editing, revising, or organizing structured written materials such as job descriptions, documents, articles, or similar content
• A strong eye for wording, consistency, and how information is presented to different audiences
• Comfort working across multiple documents while maintaining alignment in tone, structure, and formatting
• Good judgment about what language is unclear, repetitive, outdated, or inconsistent
• Comfort reaching out to team members, asking questions, and following up to keep a project moving
• The ability to balance detail-oriented work with the bigger goal of making roles more useful and effective
• Reliability in managing multiple tasks and following through to completion
• Familiarity with Google Docs or similar collaborative document tools

Bonus

• Experience in HR, recruiting, talent acquisition, or people operations
• Experience working with job descriptions, hiring materials, or candidate-facing content
• Experience standardizing language or formatting across multiple documents, teams, or departments
• Experience maintaining templates, shared documentation, or organizational content systems
• Experience posting roles across job boards, recruiting platforms, or volunteer-matching sites
• Experience in nonprofit, volunteer-based, or mission-driven organizations

Commitment

We value volunteers who can contribute consistently over time and communicate reliably with their teams. Scheduling is flexible and will vary depending on the role, workload, and department needs.

This is a temporary, project-based volunteer role with an expected commitment of approximately 3–5 hours per week for 4–6 weeks. Timing is flexible based on your availability and the pace of collaboration across teams.

How to Apply

Please send:

• Your resume or a brief summary of your relevant experience
• A short note explaining your interest in the role

If you cannot upload your materials, email them to [email protected]. Please check your spam folder for responses.

Reminder

We value thoughtful, genuine applications that reflect your own voice and interest in the role.