Come Build Something Real with Wevise
We’re a small, all-volunteer team working to connect underrepresented people — women, first-gen students, people of color — with mentors and opportunities in tech. The work is real, the roles carry actual responsibility, and the people doing this alongside you are good at what they do.
None of these positions are resume padding. If that’s what you’re looking for, we’re probably not the right fit. But if you want to contribute something that matters and work with people who take execution seriously, read on.
All roles are remote and volunteer. We’ll talk through time expectations in our first conversation — they vary by role and we try to be realistic about it.
Volunteer Positions Available
Volunteer: Chief of Staff
Here’s the honest version of this role: we’re a distributed volunteer team, which means things can fall through the cracks if nobody’s watching. Meetings don’t always have clear outcomes. Projects drift. Priorities blur. The Chief of Staff is the person who prevents all of that.
You’d be working directly with our CEO — tracking what’s in motion, flagging what’s stalled, making sure decisions actually get made and followed up on. It’s less glamorous than it sounds and more important than most people realize.
You don’t need a specific background, but you do need to be someone who genuinely cannot stand loose ends. If you’ve worked in operations, project management, or as an EA or chief of staff before, great. If you’ve just always been the person who keeps everyone else organized, that works too.
This role makes every other role function better.
Volunteer: Chief Technology Officer
Our mentorship platform is how we deliver the program. It’s not a side project or a marketing tool — it’s the thing. Which means the person leading our technology decisions carries real weight here.
We need someone who’s been in the room before. You’ve made architecture calls, managed engineers, shipped things that actually worked in production. You know how to lead a team that doesn’t report to you on an org chart, because that’s what a volunteer engineering team is.
You’d set our technical direction, own decisions around infrastructure and security, and work with leadership on what we build and when. There’s a blank canvas here in some good ways and some hard ways — we don’t have unlimited resources or a full-time team, so judgment matters more than ambition.
If you’re a senior engineer or engineering leader who wants to do something meaningful with that experience, this is worth a conversation.
Volunteer: Head of Engineering
Think of this as the execution layer beneath the CTO. Where the CTO sets direction, the Head of Engineering makes sure the team is actually shipping — consistently, cleanly, and without accumulating technical debt that bites us later.
You’d own the development workflow, set standards for code quality and review, keep the team coordinated across time zones and varying availability, and make the day-to-day calls on how we build things. Volunteer engineering teams are genuinely hard to lead — people have day jobs, bandwidth fluctuates, and you can’t manage through authority. If you’ve navigated that kind of environment before, or something close to it, you’ll recognize the challenge quickly.
Solid engineering judgment, strong communication, and a low tolerance for things being half-done. That’s the profile.
Volunteer: Full-Stack Developer
We’re building a mentorship platform and we need people who can write code that works. Not people who want to learn on the job (nothing wrong with that, just not what we need right now), but developers who’ve shipped full-stack features before and know what a real development workflow looks like.
You’d join a team of six to eight other developers, work within an established architecture, and own real features — not toy tasks. We do code reviews. We do standups. We take the craft seriously even though nobody’s getting paid.
The biggest thing we ask for beyond technical ability is reliability. Showing up consistently matters more here than it does at a job. We’re counting on each other.
We’re recruiting for multiple spots on this team right now.
Volunteer: Wevise Mentor
This one’s different from the other roles. It’s not operational — it’s personal.
Right now, 28% of our mentees are women or non-binary, 26% are from marginalized racial or ethnic groups, and 39% are first-generation college students. These are people who are capable and motivated and trying to break into an industry that wasn’t built with them in mind. What they often lack isn’t talent. It’s someone in their corner who’s been there.
That’s what you’d be. Not a coach, not a program participant — just someone who shows up regularly, tells the truth, shares what you know, and helps a younger version of yourself navigate something you’ve already figured out.
We’re not looking for perfect mentors. We’re looking for people with relevant experience in tech who can commit to showing up consistently. The consistency is what makes it work.
If you’ve ever had someone make a real difference for you at an early stage in your career, you already know what this is worth to the person on the other end.
Volunteer: Corporate Partnerships Manager
Wevise runs lean. Grants help, individual donors help, but corporate partnerships are how we access a different tier of support — financial sponsorships, in-kind resources, tech credits, hiring connections. One good partnership can change what we’re able to do in a given year.
We need someone who knows how to find those opportunities and close them. If you’ve worked in sales, business development, or partnership management — especially in tech — you know the motion: identify the right targets, build the relationship, put together a proposal that makes the value clear on both sides, and follow through.
There’s no established playbook here. You’d be building it. That’s either exciting or exhausting depending on who you are, and it’s worth being honest with yourself about which one.
What you’d get out of it is real ownership over a function that matters, and the experience of building something from scratch inside an organization that’s trying to do good work.
Volunteer: Grant Writer
Grant writing is one of those roles that looks like it’s about writing but is really about research, discipline, and deadline management. The writing matters, but so does knowing where to look, understanding what funders actually want, and getting submissions in on time with everything they asked for.
You’d own the full cycle — prospecting, drafting, submitting, reporting. You’d work with leadership to make sure proposals reflect what we’re actually doing and where we’re actually headed, not just what sounds good. Funders notice the difference.
If you’ve done this before in a nonprofit context, you already know the terrain. If you’re newer to grant writing but have strong research and writing skills and can manage your own workflow, we’d still like to talk.
A missed deadline here isn’t just a lost opportunity — it’s a direct hit to our operating budget. That context is worth having going in.
Volunteer: Fundraising & Development Specialist
Most of fundraising is unglamorous operational work — and this role owns a big chunk of it. Keeping donor records accurate, tracking contributions, making sure outreach happens on schedule, preparing materials, researching new prospects. It’s the infrastructure that makes everything else in development function.
If you’re someone who’s detail-oriented, comfortable in a CRM, and genuinely satisfied by the work of keeping things organized and running smoothly — this is a good fit. It’s also a solid entry point into nonprofit development if you’re trying to build experience in that direction.
You won’t be the face of fundraising. You’ll be the reason it actually works.
Volunteer: Chief Marketing Officer / Head of Marketing
We have programs worth talking about and we’re not always great at talking about them. That’s the honest gap this role is meant to close.
You’d own strategy and execution across social, email, and web — deciding what we say, where we say it, and how often. You’d also build and manage a small volunteer marketing team, which is its own challenge given that everyone’s part-time and has a day job.
This isn’t a role where you execute someone else’s plan. You’d build the plan and be accountable for whether it works. Experience leading a marketing function matters more to us than experience in any specific channel.
If you’re someone who cares about how organizations present themselves to the world and you want to apply that to something meaningful, this is open.
Volunteer: Graphic Designer
Honest truth: good design makes people take you seriously, and mediocre design undermines work that deserves better. We want Wevise to look like an organization that knows what it’s doing — because it does.
You’d handle assets across social, email, presentations, program materials — whatever the team needs. You’d work within our brand guidelines but bring your own judgment to new formats and contexts. And you’d manage your own queue, because nobody’s going to be assigning you tasks on a daily basis.
If you have a portfolio and you can hit deadlines, let’s talk.
Last Updated: April 1, 2026