We're seeking experienced fundraisers with management skills. You will recruit, train, and oversee a volunteer team of fundraisers. Responsibilities will also include assisting in the development and implementation of a fundraising strategy. It is an ongoing position requiring 5 to 10 hours per week with a 6-month minimum commitment.

Minimum commitment: 5-10 hours per week for a period of at least 6 months.

As a non-profit organization, Native Planet needs the generous donations of our members and supporters. As a member of this team, you'll help develop creative fundraising plans that will bring us the funds that keep our mission alive. This team will help to implement a year-long fundraising plan which will include but is not limited to 1) creating fundraising ideas that our members and supporters can do locally in their hometowns and 2) helping to implement a global fundraising campaign. If you have a creative mind and some fundraising experience, share your talents with us!

Minimum commitment: 5 hours per week for a period of at least 3 months.

Native Planet is currently seeking enthusiastic individuals to organize local fundraising drives in their own area. Promote community awareness and empower indigenous cultures!

Required Skills: No experience necessary.
Minimum commitment: 5 hours per week for a period of at least 3 months.

Native Planet is seeking only experienced and committed volunteers for this crucial job. Responsibilities will include research to find grants that Native Planet may qualify for and writing the grant proposals.

Become a virtual volunteer and be a part of Native Planet's promotional team! A terrific opportunity to help indigenous people while gaining valuable training and job experience.

Required Skills: No experience necessary. Prefer strong English writing skills. Experience in PR, sales, promotion, and knowledge of indigenous peoples’ issues a definite plus.

This team will play a key role in bringing new members to our organization. Together, you will help to create and implement a membership development plan. Your creative ideas could be just what we're looking for! View our Membership Page

Required Skills: No experience necessary. Prefer strong English writing skills. Experience in PR, sales, promotion, and knowledge of indigenous people's issues a definite plus.

Native Planet is seeking new members for its team of English editors and writers. Opportunities include a newsletter, feature articles, business correspondence and editing/proofreading of a variety of written formats for Internet and hard-copy publishing.

Required Skills: Native English speaker, outstanding writing/editing skills. Experience preferred (published writers or editors).

Native Planet is seeking a volunteer with experience in the publishing world to help us pitch our articles and photos to magazines and book publishers.

Required Skills: Native English speaker, outstanding writing/editing skills and experience as an agent.

Native Planet is seeking professionals with publishing credentials to join our advisory publishing/editing board.

Required Skills: Professional publisher, writer or editor.

Native Planet is seeking team leaders for our new indigenous database project. We are gathering information on traditional cultures worldwide and need enthusiastic, committed people with good interpersonal and communication skills to coordinate and review the work of our volunteer researchers.
Responsibilities include replying to new volunteer enquiries and helping them get started, coordinating the research team and reviewing their work.

Requirements: Good communication skills. Access to (and basic knowledge of) an html editor and project and/or team management experience a plus.
Minimum commitment: 1 hr/day for at least 3 months. Dedicated people only please.

Native Planet is seeking internet researchers for an indigenous database and a news feature covering traditional peoples the world over. Gain valuable experience and training while helping us preserve indigenous cultures!
Responsibilities include researching all indigenous groups in a specified country, completing our template of required information including geographical location, languages, population, NGOs, URLs, etc. and the completion and sending of a weekly status report to the leads/managers.

Required Skills: Internet access, interest in indigenous cultures, curiosity and a desire to learn enthusiasm definitely preferred.
Minimum commitment: 5 hours per week for a period of at least 3 months.

Native Planet is always looking for dedicated individuals to be Project Managers. Being a Project Manager involves: choosing an indigenous group with an intact distinct culture, documenting that culture, creating public awareness of its needs and problems, developing an assistance and empowerment strategy and beginning work on its implementation. For an example of an assistance and empowerment project, see what we are doing with the Mentawai. It is our goal to extend this type of work to other indigenous groups who still retain many of their traditions, but we need more project managers to do so effectively. If you’re inspired, read more about what becoming a Project Manager involves.

vRequired Skills: At Native Planet, we believe that dedication to your cause is more important than experience or skills. Both experience and skills can be gained if you care about helping indigenous people. However some skills would be particularly useful: basic computer/internet/email use, at least basic English writing skills, basic project and/or people management skills, social/communication skills (it is especially important to establish a good rapport and bond of trust with the indigenous group you will work with). Basic experience/knowledge in one of the following fields would also be of additional benefit: ecotourism, social work, indigenous cultures and issues, local laws, documentary production (text and photos), fundraising and/or previous NGO work experience.

As we expand and our budget and expenses grow we will need professional accounting services.  Experience with non-profits is a plus.

Are you a specialist in Flash design and/or Action Script? Our cultural documentary photos are stunning and we'd like a Flash montage as powerful as the pictures are to showcase on our well-visited web site. We already have the layout ready, now we need some technical assistance with Action Scripting hand-coding. If you have relevant experience and could commit to 5 or more hours a week for a few months, please contact us to join the Native Planet team and make help us prevent the vanishing of the last Mentawai shamans!

Required Skills: Proven Flash design skills and experience, Action Script knowledge preferred.
Minimum commitment: 5-10 hours per week for a period of at least 3 months.

Native Planet is seeking experienced, creative graphic artists to design the new layout of our websites and later banners, pamphlets, postcards, logos, etc. Contact us for more information when you are ready to join our design team!

Required Skills: Graphic design, creativity
Minimum commitment: 5-10 hours per week for a period of at least 3 months.

Native Planet is seeking volunteers with extensive experience in website development with the following qualities:

- knowledge and experience of EZ-Publish or excellent technical skills and a strong interest in learning new technologies (EZ-Publish)
- good organizational and communication skills
- ability to commit now until the production of a site concept, if not longer
- desire to be a part of a vital and rapidly expanding NGO
- interest in indigenous peoples' issues

Required Skills: Extensive experience in website design concepts and/or development.
Minimum commitment: 5-10 hours per week for a period of at least 3 months.

Do you have good organization and communication skills, an eye for details, good understanding of HTML and at least one HTML editing software i.e. FrontPage or Dreamweaver? Additional skills such as php, asp or Java are a plus but not necessary for the volunteers who oversee the function of our website.

Required Skills: Proven Web and graphic design skills and experience.
Minimum commitment: 5-10 hours per week for a period of at least 6 months.

Native Planet is looking for volunteers to join our new French Team. We would like to translate our English cultural and educational website, www.nativeplanet.org, into French, and subsequently open new branches in France and Canada.

Required Skills:

Translators: Volunteers should be native speakers of French with strong writing skills, and should have good English reading/comprehension skills. Experienced preferred
Proofreaders: Should be masters of French grammar, and have excellent writing style. Professional experience preferred.

French Webmaster

Required Skills: Same as for English Webmaster, but must be fluent in both French and English.

Native Planet is currently seeking a volunteer coordinator with the following qualities:

-good organizational skills.
-able to commit to at least three months though we would prefer longer
-one half to one hour per day availability.
-interest in indigenous peoples' issues.

Duties will include screening and answering volunteer inquiries via email and keeping our team leaders up-to-date on volunteer-related matters. Enthusiasm and dedication are more important than experience!

Minimum commitment: 5 hours per week (1 hour per day with internet access) for a period of at least 3 months.

Volunteer Data Entry

Required Skills: Good organization and communication skills, detail-oriented, understanding of HTML and at least one HTML editing software i.e. FrontPage or Dreamweaver.

Minimum commitment: Must be able to update information from volunteer enquiries on daily basis for a period of at least 3 months