Recruiting Content Specialist (Volunteer)

WhoWhatWhy • New York, NY

25d • Remote

About The Position

This is a remote, part-time volunteer position for someone who enjoys bringing order, clarity, and consistency to written materials and is comfortable reaching across teams to help move work forward. This short-term, project-based volunteer opportunity involves reviewing, refining, and standardizing job descriptions across the organization. The specialist will work with HR and department leads to strengthen how roles are presented, improve consistency across postings, and help ensure recruiting materials are clear, useful, and aligned. For the right person, this is a chance to build experience at the intersection of content, recruiting, and organizational systems, while contributing to work that has visible, practical impact. As a Recruiting & Content Specialist, you will help improve how roles are written, organized, and presented across the organization, combining content refinement, cross-team coordination, and recruiting support. WhoWhatWhy is an independent nonprofit investigative news organization producing deep-dive journalism on the most important issues of our time, powered by skilled volunteers and a small core staff who believe in rigorous, ethical reporting free from corporate or political influence.

Requirements

• Experience writing, editing, revising, or organizing structured written materials such as job descriptions, documents, articles, or similar content
• A strong eye for wording, consistency, and how information is presented to different audiences
• Comfort working across multiple documents while maintaining alignment in tone, structure, and formatting
• Good judgment about what language is unclear, repetitive, outdated, or inconsistent
• Comfort reaching out to team members, asking questions, and following up to keep a project moving
• The ability to balance detail-oriented work with the bigger goal of making roles more useful and effective
• Reliability in managing multiple tasks and following through to completion
• Familiarity with Google Docs or similar collaborative document tools

Nice To Haves

• Experience in HR, recruiting, talent acquisition, or people operations
• Experience working with job descriptions, hiring materials, or candidate-facing content
• Experience standardizing language or formatting across multiple documents, teams, or departments
• Experience maintaining templates, shared documentation, or organizational content systems
• Experience posting roles across job boards, recruiting platforms, or volunteer-matching sites
• Experience in nonprofit, volunteer-based, or mission-driven organizations

Responsibilities

• Review existing job descriptions across departments
• Bring job descriptions into a more consistent structure and format
• Standardize shared language such as organization overviews, commitment sections, and application instructions
• Refine wording to improve clarity, tone, readability, and candidate understanding
• Preserve role-specific responsibilities and qualifications while improving surrounding language
• Reach out to HR and department leads to clarify outdated, missing, or unclear information
• Identify inconsistencies across roles and follow up with the appropriate stakeholders to resolve them
• Help prepare and update roles for posting across recruiting platforms as needed
• Suggest improvements that make postings more accurate, more consistent, and more useful to applicants

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees