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About Us
Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. is a survivor-led podcast, YouTube channel, and healing membership organisation. We provide a platform for survivors and whistleblowers to share lived experiences, expose systemic issues, and promote solutions rooted in culturally trauma-informed care.
Our membership supports young people and survivors through healing, education, and digital skills development. Members participate in our Alchemic 369 Book Club, engaging in discussions and critical analysis of African, Caribbean, and world history, Ifa, classics, and political thought. Members also benefit from author discussions, subsidised plant-based retreats, and a supportive community focused on empowerment and growth.
We are a mission-driven organisation combining healing, education, truth-telling, and community empowerment.
Our Content Focuses On:
- Survivor stories (CSA, RSA, CT, CA)
- Whistleblowers and retired experts
- Generational trauma and healing
- Youth empowerment and education
- Community transformation through honest storytelling
Our mission is to challenge harmful cycles, expose hidden truths, fight for justice, and create lasting social change.
Job Purpose
To design and build the digital management systems that will serve as the operational backbone of the IFA Retreat, enabling effective management of procurement, inventory, staffing, suppliers, budgets, projects, maintenance, and reporting through a centralised platform.
About the Role
As a Volunteer Business Systems Developer, you will design and implement the retreat's management infrastructure using platforms such as Airtable, Notion, ClickUp, Monday, Odoo, or similar database solutions.
Working alongside the Operations and Procurement Consultants, you will translate operational requirements into practical digital systems that support the retreat from development through to full operation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build databases and operational dashboards
- Create workflows and automation systems
- Develop reporting and approval processes
- Design supplier directories and inventory registers
- Create staffing and project management systems
- Build operational tracking and performance tools
- Support scalable, transparent, and efficient operations
This role is essential to ensuring accountability, operational excellence, and sustainable growth.
Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who:
- Enjoys building systems that solve real-world problems
- Is organised, analytical, and process-driven
- Can translate complex operations into user-friendly workflows
- Communicates effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Is interested in African cultural development projects
- Is committed to long-term involvement and continuous improvement
- Is open to learning about Yoruba culture and the retreat's mission
Skills & Experience
- Experience with Airtable, Notion, ClickUp, Monday, Odoo, or similar platforms
- Experience creating workflow automation and reporting dashboards
- Strong database design and information architecture skills
- Experience documenting business processes and procedures
- Knowledge of procurement, inventory, project management, and operational reporting systems
- Ability to integrate multiple operational functions into a single platform
Desirable:
- Experience supporting hospitality, tourism, construction, or non-profit projects
- Knowledge of African development, cultural, or heritage initiatives
What You Will Gain
- Practical systems-development experience
- Portfolio-building opportunities
- Leadership mentorship and professional development
- Networking opportunities within a growing organisation
- Experience contributing to a purpose-driven project
- Creative freedom and personal growth
- Potential future paid opportunities
- Direct pathway to future leadership and operational roles
- Opportunity to help build a nationally recognised healing and education platform
- COS opportunities for top-performing team members
This role is designed as a long-term pathway into greater responsibility, professional growth, and potential paid opportunities as the organisation expands.
We believe in collectivism rather than individualism—as the platform grows, so do your opportunities, influence, and impact.
Additional Notes
This role may not be suitable if you:
- Prefer low-responsibility volunteering
- Dislike detailed reporting or systems work
- Are seeking immediate paid employment
- Prefer not to contribute to strategic decision-making
To Apply
Please send:
- Your CV, portfolio, or LinkedIn profile (if available)
- A short introduction about yourself
- Why this mission resonates with you
- Any relevant experience, ideas, or vision you would bring to the role
We welcome people passionate about healing, justice, education, empowerment, and creating lasting community impact.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
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Sensiblue
We disinfect water at the source using salt electrolysis to eliminate plastic waste and waterborne pathogens.
Business Developer
Objective of the Role
You will be the engine behind our sales pipeline. Your main goal is to identify new market opportunities through desk research, execute active outreach, and successfully schedule qualified first meetings for the Sales Director.
Core Responsibilities
Desk Research & Market Mapping: Identify target niches worldwide (e.g., maritime suppliers, independent B2B water distributors, legionella prevention firms, NGO's, agriculture, RV market, hospitality) and map out key decision-makers.
Active Outreach: Reach out to prospective partners via phone (cold calling), LinkedIn, and tailored email campaigns to pitch Sensiblue’s unique value propositions.
Lead Qualification & Scheduling: Qualify leads to ensure they match our ideal customer profile and book them directly into the Sales Director’s calendar.
CRM Management: Keep all lead data and touchpoints meticulously updated in our CRM system (Odoo).
Requirements
Experience: 1–3 years in B2B sales, lead generation, or an SDR role (technical or maritime sector experience is a strong plus).
Mindset: A proactive, resilient "hunter" who thrives on turning cold leads into warm opportunities.
Minimum Hours per Week:
7-9 hours per week
Duration:
1-2 months
Non Charity Employer
6 - 10
We connect professionals with impact startups matching their causes, skills & schedule.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
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African Development Choices (ADC) is a UK-registered charity on a mission to reduce poverty by empowering communities to make more informed choices in the management of public resources.
ADC’s purpose is to enable communities to independently meet their needs for essential services, such as clean water and safe sanitation, and improve lives in Africa.
At ADC we encourage a working culture of seeking and giving input, showing and taking initiative, and commitment to the organisation and its purpose.
We now have an exciting opportunity for a volunteer Senior AI Agent Architect to join ADC and help build a live prototype of MajiGuard AI.
Main purpose of job:
To lead the technical design and hands-on development of MajiGuard AI, an agentic AI prototype that helps ADC identify underused WASH resources, structure recovery and reallocation cases, and verify that recovered value reaches facility upgrades and operations and maintenance.
Division: Technology / AI Innovation
Department: Product & Engineering
Position reports to: Head of AI Innovation
Direct reports for the position: Volunteer AI engineers, developers and technical contributors
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end architecture of MajiGuard AI, including the selection and integration of models, agent workflows, orchestration tools, retrieval systems, data structures and human-in-the-loop controls appropriate for a live prototype.
- Translate ADC’s operational goals into practical AI workflows, especially for identifying underused WASH resources, standardising evidence and case preparation, supporting recovery and reallocation decisions, and verifying delivery of value to facility improvements and ongoing operations and maintenance.
- Build and iterate a live prototype using pragmatic, cost-effective tooling, with strong attention to reliability, traceability, security, maintainability and ease of future scaling.
- Design structured inputs, prompts, evaluation criteria and decision logic so that outputs are useful to non-technical ADC teams working across programmes, research, partnerships and leadership.
- Establish a technical roadmap for the prototype, including architecture choices, milestone planning, testing priorities, deployment options and documentation for future funders, partners and developers.
- Work closely with ADC leadership to shape the product vision and ensure the prototype aligns with ADC’s wider governance and public service innovation model.
- Advise on suitable approaches for data governance, privacy, model risk, hallucination control, auditability and responsible AI use in the context of public-resource management and service delivery.
- Define and monitor prototype success metrics, including usefulness, accuracy, turnaround time, workflow fit, and operational learning that can strengthen grant applications, partnerships and future product development.
- Support the transition from local experimentation to a live prototype environment, including basic cloud or hosted deployment thinking, version control practices and engineering handover readiness.
- Mentor and coordinate other volunteer technical contributors where relevant, helping ADC build a small but high-quality AI capability around MajiGuard AI.
Knowledge, skills, and experience:
Essential
- 8+ years of relevant experience in AI, machine learning, applied NLP, intelligent automation, agentic systems, or modern software engineering for production-grade data or AI products
- Strong hands-on experience designing and building AI systems, including LLM-based applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agent workflows, orchestration frameworks, evaluation pipelines and API integrations
- Experience taking ideas from concept or prototype stage into a usable live product, pilot or production-like environment
- Excellent technical judgement on model selection, system design trade-offs, latency, reliability, observability and cost-conscious engineering
- Strong programming ability, ideally including Python and modern backend tooling, with the ability to work across architecture, implementation and troubleshooting
- Experience designing structured workflows where AI outputs must be reviewable, auditable and useful for operational decision-making
- Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and translate mission goals into practical product choices
- Interest in using AI to strengthen public service delivery, accountability, governance, resource allocation, or adjacent social impact problems
- Ability to actively take initiative and help set things up in a start-up environment
- Ability to actively seek and give input in a collaborative team environment
- A committed team player with good communication skills
- Available to volunteer at least 8-12 hours a week
Desirable
- Experience with agentic AI products involving workflow automation, task routing, multi-step reasoning, document intelligence or evidence-based case management
- Experience with cloud deployment, containerisation, CI/CD, databases, vector stores, authentication and production monitoring for AI systems
- Experience working on civic tech, govtech, development, WASH, infrastructure, audit, compliance or public-finance-related products
- Experience working in an early-stage start-up or mission-driven organisation and comfortable operating with ambiguity
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading small technical teams across different locations and time zones
What ADC Offers You
This is a volunteer, remote and unpaid position with the following benefits:
- A chance to play a foundational role in shaping MajiGuard AI from concept into a live prototype with real strategic relevance to ADC’s mission
- An opportunity to apply advanced AI and product-building skills to a meaningful public-interest challenge connected to WASH, accountability and service delivery in Africa
- An opportunity to work with a diverse global team and contribute to an organisation seeking systemic social change
- Professional learning, leadership and portfolio-building opportunities through high-ownership work
- Work reference provided
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Here at African Development Choices, we celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our teams are made up of people from all over the world and we welcome all applications. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition, and you require any reasonable adjustments for your application with us, please let us know by contacting recruitment(at)africandevelopmentchoices(dot)org.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.