What are the responsibilities and job description for the Volunteer: UX Researcher & User Interview Volunteer position at The Chamber of Us?
TCUS was founded in 2024 by Kevin Schmidt and a dedicated team of changemakers who saw the need for bold, systemic solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. With backgrounds in engineering, medicine, and construction, our team combines technical expertise with a passion for human-centered impact. From supporting classrooms in Ethiopia to exploring sustainable housing solutions, we aim to create real, measurable change where it’s needed most.
Why Volunteer with TCUS?
TCUS is more than just a nonprofit-it’s a movement to rethink how change happens. Volunteers are essential to helping us expand our reach, refine our programs, and make a bigger impact. Whether you have skills in content creation, fundraising, research, or community engagement, there’s a place for you here. Join us in building a world where innovation meets compassion in action.
Get Involved!
We’re looking for dedicated volunteers who are passionate about making a difference. Whether you’re interested in helping with social media, writing, outreach, or graphic design, we’d love to have you on board. Reach out today and be part of a team that’s working to create sustainable, systemic change!
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Are you a UX researcher, digital anthropologist, or curious, structured listener who knows how to turn real user feedback into product insights?
We’re looking for a UX Researcher & User Interview Volunteer to help us better understand the needs, behaviors, and challenges of our future users as we build Recipe Empire - an experimental web platform focused on sustainable food and climate action.
What We’re Building
Food systems account for nearly one-third of global emissions. The IPCC and leading climate bodies have identified shifting to sustainable, healthy diets as one of the fastest, most cost-effective ways to mitigate climate change. Recipe Empire is a platform designed to support that shift - by making sustainable, plant-forward, culturally diverse recipes and food knowledge accessible and community-driven.
We’re still in the early stages of development. We need to understand what people actually want, need, and struggle with - so we can design the right experience.
What You’ll Do
We’re looking for a volunteer who can
Recipe Empire is a project of The Chamber of Us (TCUS), a nonprofit using technology, data, and collaboration to address global challenges in sustainability, education, and health. Recipe Empire is specifically aligned with IPCC-recommended climate solutions to support the global shift toward sustainable diets.
This is a volunteer opportunity provided by VolunteerMatch, in partnership with LinkedIn for Good.
Why Volunteer with TCUS?
TCUS is more than just a nonprofit-it’s a movement to rethink how change happens. Volunteers are essential to helping us expand our reach, refine our programs, and make a bigger impact. Whether you have skills in content creation, fundraising, research, or community engagement, there’s a place for you here. Join us in building a world where innovation meets compassion in action.
Get Involved!
We’re looking for dedicated volunteers who are passionate about making a difference. Whether you’re interested in helping with social media, writing, outreach, or graphic design, we’d love to have you on board. Reach out today and be part of a team that’s working to create sustainable, systemic change!
,
Are you a UX researcher, digital anthropologist, or curious, structured listener who knows how to turn real user feedback into product insights?
We’re looking for a UX Researcher & User Interview Volunteer to help us better understand the needs, behaviors, and challenges of our future users as we build Recipe Empire - an experimental web platform focused on sustainable food and climate action.
What We’re Building
Food systems account for nearly one-third of global emissions. The IPCC and leading climate bodies have identified shifting to sustainable, healthy diets as one of the fastest, most cost-effective ways to mitigate climate change. Recipe Empire is a platform designed to support that shift - by making sustainable, plant-forward, culturally diverse recipes and food knowledge accessible and community-driven.
We’re still in the early stages of development. We need to understand what people actually want, need, and struggle with - so we can design the right experience.
What You’ll Do
We’re looking for a volunteer who can
- Design and conduct early-stage user interviews and usability research
- Help us identify key user groups and recruitment strategies
- Gather and synthesize user insights and needs
- Translate qualitative feedback into actionable product recommendations
- Create user personas, journey maps, and pain point summaries
- Collaborate with our product and development teams to inform platform structure
- Document findings clearly for an evolving, distributed team
- Experienced in UX research, user interviews, or human-centered design
- Skilled at structuring and facilitating conversations to gather real insights
- Comfortable working in early-stage, lean environments
- Clear communicator, able to translate qualitative findings into product insights
- Organized and collaborative
- Bonus Interested in food systems, sustainability, or social impact tech
- Help shape an experimental platform aligned with climate action goals
- Apply your UX research skills to a mission-driven project
- Influence product direction based on real user needs
- Flexible, remote contribution - no rigid time commitment
- Be part of a small, hands-on team building something meaningful
Recipe Empire is a project of The Chamber of Us (TCUS), a nonprofit using technology, data, and collaboration to address global challenges in sustainability, education, and health. Recipe Empire is specifically aligned with IPCC-recommended climate solutions to support the global shift toward sustainable diets.
This is a volunteer opportunity provided by VolunteerMatch, in partnership with LinkedIn for Good.
