The proven structure that gets quality applications from skilled volunteers. Copy this template, customize it for your needs, and start building your team.
This template is based on 199+ successful opportunity postings. It includes everything volunteers need to make informed decisions and everything you need to filter quality candidates.
Clear expectations and detailed descriptions help skilled volunteers self-select based on fit, saving you time reviewing applications.
Specific requirements and screening questions filter out casual browsers and surface genuinely interested, qualified candidates.
Structured applications make it easy to compare candidates and make decisions quickly without endless back-and-forth.
Transparency about time commitment, responsibilities, and what volunteers gain prevents misalignment and dropouts.
Eight essential sections that make your opportunity irresistible to the right candidates.
Clear, specific role name that includes seniority level and primary function
Brief introduction to your startup, mission, and current stage
Detailed explanation of responsibilities and day-to-day activities
Bulleted list of 5-8 primary tasks and deliverables
Must-have technical skills, tools, and experience level
Clear expectations about hours per day/week and duration
Specific benefits: skills development, portfolio pieces, references
Screening questions and application requirements
Copy this entire template, replace the bracketed placeholders with your specific details, and post your opportunity.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OPPORTUNITY TITLE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Volunteer [Role Title] | [Key Technologies/Focus Area] Example: Volunteer Full-Stack Developer | React, Node.js & AWS Example: Volunteer Product Manager | SaaS B2B Healthcare Platform Example: Volunteer UX/UI Designer | Mobile App Design & User Research ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT [COMPANY NAME] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [2-3 paragraphs about your startup] What we're building: [One clear sentence about your product/service and the problem it solves] Our mission: [Why this matters and who you're helping] Current stage: [Pre-launch / MVP built / Early traction / Generating revenue] [Any relevant metrics, users, or achievements] Market & opportunity: [Brief context about your industry and why now is the right time] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE ROLE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [2-3 paragraphs describing what this person will actually do] We're looking for a [role title] who will [primary objective]. You'll be responsible for [high-level responsibility] and work closely with [team members/founder] to [outcome]. In this role, you'll [specific activity]. This is a hands-on position where you'll [concrete examples of work]. You'll have the opportunity to [unique aspect of the role]. This role is perfect for someone who [ideal candidate profile] and wants to [what they'll achieve or build]. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • [Action verb] [specific task] to [expected outcome] • [Action verb] [specific task] to [expected outcome] • [Action verb] [specific task] to [expected outcome] • [Action verb] [specific task] to [expected outcome] • [Action verb] [specific task] to [expected outcome] • [Action verb] [specific task] to [expected outcome] • [Action verb] [specific task] to [expected outcome] Examples: • Design and develop responsive web interfaces using React and TailwindCSS • Build RESTful APIs and backend services using Node.js and PostgreSQL • Conduct user interviews and usability testing sessions to validate designs • Create and maintain product roadmaps based on user feedback and business goals • Develop and execute social media campaigns across LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Experience in [specific area] • Strong proficiency in [technology/tool/skill] • Demonstrated experience with [specific methodology/process] • [Specific technical requirement] • [Specific soft skill requirement] • Portfolio or examples of [relevant work] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIME COMMITMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Duration: 60 volunteer days (approximately 3 months) Daily commitment: 3 hours per day (flexible scheduling) Schedule flexibility: Work on your own schedule, with [X] team sync meetings per week Start date: [Flexible / Specific date / ASAP] Time zone preference: [Any / Must overlap with X timezone / None] Note: We understand you have other commitments. We're looking for consistent contribution within your available hours, not strict 9-5 availability. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU'LL GAIN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 Real Experience: • Build [specific deliverables] from scratch • Work on a production application serving [user base] • Contribute to a startup in [industry/stage] • [Specific project or achievement they'll complete] 📚 Skills Development: • Master [specific skills you'll help them develop] • Learn [technologies/methodologies they'll be exposed to] • Gain experience in [process/framework they'll use] 💼 Career Growth: • Portfolio-worthy project: [specific output they can showcase] • Reference letter from founder/team lead upon successful completion • LinkedIn recommendation highlighting your contributions • Network with experienced [industry] professionals 🌍 Work Environment: • Fully remote and flexible • Collaborative, supportive team culture • Direct access to founder(s) and decision-making • [Any unique aspect of your work environment] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO APPLY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ To apply for this opportunity Click the APPLY button. Selection Process: 1. Application review (2-3 days) 2. Initial video interview (30 minutes) 3. [Technical assessment / Design challenge / Case study] (if applicable) 4. Final interview with founder/team (45 minutes) 5. Decision and volunteer agreement We review applications on a rolling basis and will respond to all qualified candidates within one week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IMPORTANT NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • This is a volunteer opportunity through SkilledUp Life. • No salary or equity is provided. • There are no promises or assurances of future paid work as a result of volunteering with us. • You will sign a volunteer agreement before starting. • All work will be under [Company Name] brand/ownership. • We're committed to providing mentorship and career support. • [Any other important details about the arrangement]. We're excited to meet talented individuals who want to grow while building something meaningful together!
Here are three complete examples using this template for different roles. Notice how each is customized for the specific position while maintaining the proven structure.
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View Full ExampleInstead of "manage social media," write "create and schedule 15 LinkedIn posts per month targeting B2B SaaS founders, analyze engagement metrics, and optimize content strategy."
People want portfolio pieces. Say exactly what they'll create: "You'll design and ship our mobile app's onboarding flow, checkout experience, and user dashboard."
Your screening questions should require thoughtful answers that reveal capability. Avoid yes/no questions. Ask them to explain approaches or share specific examples.
Be honest about your stage. Volunteers appreciate transparency about whether you're pre-launch, have users, or are generating revenue. Don't oversell.
Skilled volunteers want growth. Be explicit about what skills they'll develop and what technologies they'll master through this work.
The best candidates often apply to multiple opportunities. Review applications within 2-3 days and keep candidates updated throughout your process.
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