About Protect Our Winters UK
Protect Our Winters UK is a charity formed to inspire and equip UK outdoor sports communities to mobilise and take positive action on climate change, starting with snowsports.
We do this by engaging individuals and organisations through their snowsports livelihoods and passions. We educate them on the risks of climate change and support them to take effective action.
Role Tasks & Responsibilities
Work with our POW University Partners to encourage and support with events and fundraising activities
Process Uni partner’s merch requests in a timely manner
Keeping our Uni Partners up to date with all things POW
Ensure appropriate marketing materials are available
Provide support to ensure effective delivery of the POW message
Who we’re looking for
The ideal University Co-ordinator will have experienced of University societies, events and fundraising
They will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills and be confident delivering the POW message
They will have experience working on their own initiative and taking ownership of a project or task
They will have a personal commitment to the mission and values of Protect Our Winters and a drive to support others to take effective action
What you’ll get in return
Access to POW UK volunteer discounts/perks
References and valuable experience within the third sector
Support from a passionate team and access to POW events
Time Commitment
Time commitment for this role is expected to fluctuate depending on the events calendar, however peak season will be Autumn/Winter and planning/working towards events will require a weekly commitment of around 2 hours.
How to Apply
Sound like the role for you? Please click "Fill in an application" to the right. If your skills match what we need to succeed in the role, you’ll then be asked to complete a phone interview to find out more.
Working closely with other POW web team volunteers and staff to implement improvements to our digital infrastructure including a rebrand and the expansion of our POW Climate Pledge.
We are seeking an experienced QA Lead responsible for for ensuring the quality of our digital infrastructure as move to a new JAMstack architecture.
You will be a detail orientated, organised and bring solid practical experience of implementing QA best practices on digital delivery.
Mostly importantly you will have experience working on your own initiative, of taking ownership of a project or task as part of a team and a hunger to learn & share knowledge.
Obviously a personal commitment to the mission and values of Protect Our Winters and a drive to support others to take effective action is also really important.
JAMstack
JavaScript / ES6
Typescript
React
Next.js
TailwindCSS
Storybook
Chromatic / Applitools / Checkly
Jest / Cypress / Jest / Pupeteer / Playwright
Node.js
Docker
Headless CMS like Sanity.io
Snipcart / Shopify / Big Commerce
Stripe & Paypal
Circle CI
Vercel / Netlify / Heroku / Azure
HTML
CSS3
Headless CMS / Wordpress / Github
Salesforce API
MailChimp / eSputnik / Amazon SES
Agile / Lean / Lean UX
JIRA
XRAY
Zapier
We have a fairly big backlog. It's really up to you and what you are able to provide. We will work with you to prioritise workloads JIRA to fit the team's availability.
Thanks for your time and we hope to hear from you soon! Apply with the link to the right.
Working closely with other POW web team volunteers and staff to implement improvements to our digital infrastructure including a rebrand and the expansion of our POW Climate Pledge.
We are seeking an experienced automated test engineer to help ensure the quality of our digital infrastructure as move to a new JAMstack architecture. You will be a detail orientated, organised and bring solid practical experience of implementing automated test frameworks.
Mostly importantly you will have experience working on your own initiative, of taking ownership of a project or task as part of a team and a hunger to learn & share knowledge.
Obviously a personal commitment to the mission and values of Protect Our Winters and a drive to support others to take effective action is also really important.
JAMstack
JavaScript / ES6
Typescript
React
Next.js
TailwindCSS
Storybook
Chromatic / Applitools / Checkly
Jest / Cypress / Jest / Pupeteer / Playwright
Node.js
Docker
Headless CMS like Sanity.io
Snipcart / Shopify / Big Commerce
Stripe & Paypal
Circle CI
Vercel / Netlify / Heroku / Azure
HTML
CSS3
Headless CMS / Wordpress / Github
Salesforce API
MailChimp / eSputnik / Amazon SES
Agile / Lean / Lean UX
JIRA
XRAY
Zapier
We have a fairly big backlog. It's really up to you and what you are able to provide. We will work with you to prioritise workloads JIRA to fit the team's availability.
Use the link to the right.
If your skills match what we need to succeed in the role, you’ll then be asked to complete a phone / zoom interview to find out more.
Thanks for your time and we hope to hear from you soon!
Working closely with other POW web team volunteers and staff to implement improvements to our digital infrastructure including a rebrand, the expansion of our POW Climate Pledge and a move onto a new JAMstack architecture.
We are seeking an experienced frontend engineer. This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5 & CSS3) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the colour and font choices, and so on).
You should have a good understanding of industry trends, headless content management and ecommerce. Experience with UX, accessibility, responsive and adaptive design is essential. Also, an understanding of the entire modern web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.
Mostly importantly you will have experience working on your own initiative, of taking ownership of a project or task as part of a team and a hunger to learn & share knowledge.
Obviously a personal commitment to the mission and values of Protect Our Winters and a drive to support others to take effective action is also really important.
JAMstack
JavaScript / ES6
Typescript
React
Next.js
HTML5
CSS3
TailwindCSS
Storybook
Chromatic / Applitools / Checkly
Jest / Cypress / Jest / Pupeteer / Playwright
Node.js
Docker
Headless CMS like Sanity.io
Snipcart / Shopify / Big Commerce
Stripe & Paypal
Circle CI
Vercel / Netlify / Heroku / Azure
HTML
CSS3
Headless CMS / Wordpress / Github
Salesforce API
MailChimp / eSputnik / Amazon SES
Agile / Lean / Lean UX
JIRA
XRAY
Zapier
We have a big backlog some of which is pretty urgent, we have a great team but could really do with a little more experienced help. It's really up to you and what you are able to provide. We will work with you to prioritise the backlog in JIRA to fit your availability.
Sound like the role for you? Please complete the application on this form (click "fill in an application" on right hand side)
If your skills match what we need to succeed in the role, you’ll then be asked to complete a phone / zoom interview to find out more.
Thanks for your time and we hope to hear from you soon!
Role Tasks & Responsibilities
1. Reconciling the charity’s Triodos bank account in Xero in order to produce quarterly VAT returns and monthly updates to the Trustees on income and expenses.
2) Set-up and manage monthly PAYE for our staff - currently one staff member, likely to be two in near future.
3) Prepare quarterly VAT returns for the charity - we are now VAT registered and have our first submission due at the end of October.
About Protect Our Winters UK
Protect Our Winters UK is a charity formed to educate and support UK outdoor sports communities to mobilise and take positive action on climate change, starting with snowsports.
We do this by engaging individuals and organisations through their snowsports livelihoods and passions. We educate them on the risks of climate change and support them to take effective action.
Who we’re looking for
The POW Accounts Manager will have recent and relevant work managing accounts for a small business or charity.
Ideally experience of working with Xero and HMRC’s PAYE and VAT systems.
They will have experience working on their own initiative and taking ownership of a project or task but happy to ask for help when required
A personal commitment to the mission and values of Protect Our Winters and a drive to support others to take effective action
What you’ll get in return
Access to POW UK volunteer discounts/perks
References and valuable experience within the third sector
Support from a passionate team and access to POW events
Time Commitment
Time commitment for this role is expected to be around 2-3 hours per week, however this can fluctuate depending on the season and upcoming events.
How to Apply
Sound like the role for you? Please click "Fill in an application" to the right. If your skills match what we need to succeed in the role, you’ll then be asked to complete a phone interview to find out more.
Thanks for your time and we hope to hear from you soon.
We are seeking an experienced full stack engineer to support the expansion of our POW Climate Pledge that helps businesses take climate action, on Drupal, and also to help implement improvements and maintenance of our main website on JAMstack & Strapi.
We are seeking an experienced frontend / backend engineer. This role requires a combination of programming skills (namely JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5 & CSS3) and (for FE) aesthetics - understanding element arrangements on the screen, the colour and font choices, and so on.
You should have a good understanding of industry trends, headless content management and ecommerce. Experience with UX, accessibility, responsive and adaptive design is essential. Also, an understanding of the entire modern web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.
Mostly importantly you will have experience working on your own initiative, of taking ownership of a project or task as part of a team and a hunger to learn & share knowledge.
Obviously a personal commitment to the mission and values of Protect Our Winters and a drive to support others to take effective action is also really important.
Responsibilities
Skills and Qualifications
Mostly importantly you will have experience working on your own initiative, of taking ownership of a project or task as part of a team and a hunger to learn & share knowledge, be that mentoring others or researching and suggesting new ideas.
Obviously a personal commitment to the mission and values of Protect Our Winters UK and a drive to support others to take effective action is also really important.
You'll enable us to relaunch a high quality version of our climate pledge as soon as possible, to empower SMEs (and potentially individuals) to reach net zero carbon faster.
You'll enable us to to delivery a more cohesive brand consistent message both in the UK and globally. The global charity chapters are fairly disjointed so we are looking at this as an opportunity to build a solid open source design system and platform backed by an evolving digital strategy to enable other countries to come on board faster and in a less labour intensive manner.
What you’ll get in return
We'll generally arrange a video call very quickly and have a chat to see if we are all happy. If so we'll ask you to sign up to our volunteer agrement, introduce you to your fellow volunteers and get you setup asap.
We have our main website on Strapi CMS, JAMstack based
We are creating a new support portal for businesses which may not be on this but is not decided where.
We inspire and equip UK based outdoor communities to take positive action to address the climate crisis and to accelerate the transition to a carbon neutral society.