Open Positions
In order to apply to one of our open positions, you need to meet two fundamental requirements:
- you must be between 18 and 35;
- you must reside in Europe.
Operations Team
Are you interested in the renewable energy transition and passionate about sustainability? Do you want to contribute to raising youth voices & perspectives in this field?
If this resonates with you, apply to lead our Podcast project!
What is the YES-Europe Podcast? The podcast “Talk Energy With YES-Europe” is a series of audio episodes where YES-Europe volunteers interview invited guests. We are in the middle of Season 3, which can be found on Spotify. Each episode raises various aspects of the renewable energy transition and sustainable development.
We publish one episode a month. The making of each episode requires work behind the scenes by a team of volunteers. People volunteering with YES-Europe are mainly young professionals or students in the energy and sustainability sector, 18-35 years old and based in Europe. The Project Lead’s role is to lead the Podcast Team together with one other Project Lead – it consist of an engaged team of our two hosts, our audio editor, our two podcast communicators, and our research support.
Being the Project Lead of the Podcast project means:
- Being the main person in charge of coordinating the activities within the project ● Practicing optimism and seeking constant progress.
Coordination and management of the team:
- Leading a team of YES-Europe volunteers who together produce the episodes of the podcast; supporting and motivating the team to complete their tasks.
- Organising team meetings, keeping track of project timeline and milestones. Supporting the production of the episodes:
- Proposing guests and topics for the episodes.
- Representing the podcast teams expertise and quality
- Contacting potential guests, and organizing the recording.
- Giving feedback e.g., to the team for interview questions and later the editing process
- Ensuring follow-up of production and with guests.
Coordination with the Organisation:
- Reporting project status to YES-Europe leadership.
- Being the main point of contact to other teams in YES-Europe.
What’s in it for you?
- Gaining project management and international knowledge exchange experience
- Create interesting podcast episodes that not only allow you to be creative but share knowledge and inspire the young generation
- A chance to develop your team-working skills in a dynamic (and fun) group of international young professionals and students.
- Build connections with industry experts, CEOs of startups, policymakers, and stakeholders in the energy sector, expanding your professional network.
- Opportunity to gain deeper insight on energy and sustainability topics, NGO operations, media production and youth engagement through hands-on work.
Required qualifications:
- The successful candidate should have previous experience from working with podcasts, webinars or other such experience that can be considered equivalent.
- A genuine interest in energy and sustainability is essential.
- Previous volunteering experience in a youth organisation is a plus.
- Familiarity with project management tools, particularly Jira, is a plus, experience tracking tasks, managing workflows, and monitoring team progress within such platforms is highly valued.
- Proactively following up on team members’ tasks and deadlines, ensuring accountability and timely delivery with a strong sense of ownership over day-to-day operations
- Ideally, the candidate has a PhD or other high-level experience
Please note that YES-Europe’s working language is English, so the successful candidate should have sufficient knowledge in the English language to be able to work in English. Please also note that the position is unpaid. YES-Europe conducts all work virtually.
If you want to be part of this inspiring journey, reach out to us at operations@yeseurope.org
Interviews for the position will be conducted on a rolling basis as applications are received
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Local Teams
Are you interested in the renewable energy transition and passionate about sustainability? Do you want to contribute to raising youth voices & perspectives in your own local community?
If this resonates with you, apply to be a Country Representative (CR) in your Local Country Team!
What is a Country Representative (CR) at YES-Europe?
Since our foundation in 2016, YES-Europe has believed in the importance of local communities to take action and engage within the energy field. Strengthened by our international network, our local teams play a fundamental role within the ongoing impact of our network by implementing YES-Europe’s vision locally and shaping the future of their cities, regions and communities
The Country Representative is responsible for organising and leading their Local Country Team, by making sure that the team is being active in line with the mission and vision of YES-Europe and is channelling information from the central organisation to the local teams and vice-versa. With Country Representatives coordinating projects and activities across various European countries, Local Teams are organising events and publishing content to develop national programmes based on their field of interests.
Being a Country Representative for your Local Country Team involves:
- Organising your Local team, by:
- Recruiting more members through the membership form
- Onboarding new members, by informing the Board
- Building your team and creating a team feeling
- Organising regular meetings
- Making sure the team has activities and are organising events, by:
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- Engaging your team members to organise activities
- “Keeping the ball rolling”
- Being connected with the central organisation of YES-Europe, by
- Keeping yourself updated on what’s happening in the organisation (through Discord, emails, General Assemblies, communication with our Governance Team and International Teams)
- Having exchanges and collaboration with the Country Coordination Team and other CRs (through Discord, emails and monthly CR Meetings)
- Channeling information from YES-Europe centrally to your team,
- Enabling sharing of national events in the broader YES-Europe channels
- Asking the CR Lead and Country Coordination Team for support
What’s in it for you?
- A chance to develop your team-working skills and core soft-skills in a dynamic and fun group of international young professionals and students.
- An opportunity to expand your professional network European-wide.
- An opportunity to gain deeper insight on energy and sustainability topics, NGO operations, leadership skills and youth engagement through hands-on work.
- A great opportunity for you to interact with a broad community of like-minded people with expertise on all aspects of sustainability.
Required qualifications:
- Being strategic/forward-looking, in order to engage and motivate other people, coordinate, create a team feeling and delegate work to team members.=
- Good communication and team coordination skills
- Contacts within (a) local university/ies, (an)other NGO(s) or local energy, innovation, eco or policy companies/agencies will help you grow your network and team membership
- Knowledge of local energy, sustainability, policy and research topics in your city/country is seen as a plus, but not required
- Basic understanding of social media management, fundraising/financial management and administration is a plus, but not required
- Previous volunteering experience in a youth organisation is a plus, but not required
- Previous leadership experience is a plus, but not required.
Please note that YES-Europe’s working language is English, so the successful candidate should have sufficient knowledge in the English language to be able to work in English. However, within your internal team and when speaking to local partners or people to network, you may communicate in your local language
Please also note that the position is unpaid. YES-Europe conducts all work virtually. People volunteering with YES-Europe are mainly young professionals or students in the energy and sustainability sector, 18-35 years old and based in Europe.
If you want to be part of this inspiring journey, reach out to our CR Lead at evi.makri@yeseurope.org
Interviews for the position will be conducted on a rolling basis as applications are received.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Finance Team
Are you interested in the renewable energy transition and passionate about sustainability? Do you want to contribute to advancing youth-led projects in this field?
If this resonates with you, apply to be part of our Finance Team!
What does a Finance Manager do? YES-Europe conducts various projects that empower young leadership in the renewable energy transition and sustainable development. These include policy reports, trainings, events, podcast episodes, and delegations to conferences such as COP and EUSEW (EU Sustainable Energy Week). The Finance Team works closely with all project teams, supporting them with fundraising, financial partnerships and budget planning. The team supports both ongoing projects and future initiatives of YES-Europe through long-term fundraising strategies, which the Finance Managers will actively get to shape.
New joiners will get to work closely with the COP29 and POWERYOUTH project teams as well as with the teams who are organising the main events in YES-Europe’s annual calendar. The successful candidate should be able to dedicate 2-5 hours per week to their tasks.
Being a Finance Manager in YES-Europe means:
- Coordinating fundraising activities for YES-Europe’s projects.
- Being in charge of financial partnerships and relations with sponsors.
- Liaising with the Country Teams of YES-Europe to ensure that they have adequate funding opportunities.
- Keeping track of fundraising timeline and milestones.
- Shaping the long-term fundraising plans of YES-Europe.
- Being the main point of contact between the Finance Team and any project team to which the Finance Manager is assigned.
- Practicing optimism and seeking constant progress.
What’s in it for you?
- Developing your fundraising and project management skills, as well as gaining international knowledge exchange experience.
- A chance to develop your team-working skills in a dynamic (and fun) group of international young professionals and students.
- Networking opportunities.
- Opportunity to gain deeper insight on energy and sustainability topics, NGO operations and youth engagement through hands-on work.
Required qualifications:
- The successful candidate should have previous experience from working with fundraising or partnerships, or other experience that can be considered equivalent.
- A genuine interest in energy and sustainability is essential.
- Previous volunteering experience in a youth organisation is a plus.
- Previous experience working with project budgets is a plus.
Please note that YES-Europe’s working language is English, so the successful candidate should have sufficient knowledge in the English language to be able to work in English. Please also note that the position is unpaid. YES-Europe conducts all work virtually.
If you want to be part of this inspiring journey, reach out to arnav.agarwal@yeseurope.org
Interviews for the position will be conducted on a rolling basis as applications are received.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
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