The following volunteer positions are open and ready to be rocked. Directors and other volunteers are ready to help you get started and support you throughout your term.

• Venue Coordinator
• Sponsorship Manager

Send us email if you’d like to be considered. Put “Volunteer” and the name of the position that interests you in the subject line. Take a few sentences to tell us why you’re interested and a bit about your background. Thank you!

Venue Coordinator

The venue coordinator works with bars, schools, cafes, restaurants, and other San Francisco establishments for finding great places to hold our events. You will be augmenting an existing list of venues, and maintaining it, keeping in mind the different types of events SF WoW puts on: either casual or more professional networking events, large capacity panel events, and more intimate hands-on workshops. You would be the type of person that enjoys getting to know the manager and owners of various hotspots around the area, and feel comfortable negotiating non-profit rates. The final bit is to aggregate this information– such as venue contact name, price, capacity and type of venue (coffee house= suitable for casual networking, Women’s Building= suitable for workshop, etc.) into an online spreadsheet. This commitment would be for approximately one year, but if you like it, by all means stay on for longer. You’ll report to Volunteer Coordinator and/or Events Manager, depending on needs of project. It is a combination of emailing and on-site visiting. Either know the area really well before coming on or learn as you go- both are fine. All locations should be accessible by public transit, so no car required. Usually this is intense at first, then is only a few hours a month to maintain. Lately, online tools such as Yelp and Bay Area Citysearch have made most of the information readily available- requiring a quick on-site visit, and reviews from events after they’ve occurred, to keep the spreadsheet up to date.

Panel Coordinator

Ever wonder what being a talent scout would be like? This role is the SF WoW version- finding interesting speakers and powerful mavens around the Internet and Tech space to present for our membership. You would help coordinate the panel participants for various SF WoW career and skills development workshops. You would liaise between potential panel member and the Events Manager. Discovering and proposing panel opportunities to potential speakers is key to this role. You may want to leverage your personal network- or build one in the process- to help SF WoW locate qualified speakers for events. You will work closely with the Events Manager and/or Volunteer Coordinator. The commitment would be for one year, but of course staying as long as you like. The job is mainly online emailing and researching specialists in key areas that our members have expressed interest. You may get leads from members or from associates, and you are comfortable discussing scheduling, and on-site requirements, reviewing speaker guidelines, and informing speakers about SF WoW and representing the organization in general. If you are outgoing and would like to broaden your personal acquaintance base in an exciting new area- this may be a great fit for you. There are many opportunities to design new programs within SF WoW and learn event management skills, if you don’t already have them.

Sponsorship Manager

The Sponsorship Manager targets organizations and individuals that would be interested in offering single event financial support to SF WoW’s many activities. Currently we are aiming for donations for CANWOW, SF WoW’s networking series. If you enjoy meeting new people, helping a great organization and getting to know some of the powerful decision makers in SF and high tech, this position will definitely do that. This is for approximately two month’s time period initially, with opportunities to extend if you are interested. You would call or email an existing list of sponsors, as well as research and brainstorm for others that may be interested. Mostly online work - emailing and calling potential donors- and a knowledge of the high tech industry space and non-profit donation structure is a plus. You will work closely with the Event Manager.