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🔥 Ripple’s Hot Opportunity Picks

*We’re Matchmaking on several of these. Make sure your profile is complete and feel free to reach out to us directly if you’re curious, considering applying or have questions.

🎤 UNICEF Australia: Young Ambassador 2026
🌿 _{Starting Out (0 - 2 yrs)}
Aged 16-24? This 18-month leadership role gives you a platform and proper training to speak up. Join 10 other ambassadors advocating for children's rights, speaking at major events (Climate Action Week, COP30, Digital Childhoods Summit) and amplifying youth voices nationally. Advocacy and media training included. 10-15 hours monthly, all costs covered induction week in Sydney. Applications close Feb 22. Step up.

🤖 United Nations: Women in AI Fellowship (Switzerland)
🚀 _{Growing (2 - 5 yrs)}
Intersection of security, tech and policy? This week-long training in Geneva is built for you. The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) is tackling the chronic under-representation of women in international security (only 1 in 3 diplomats in disarmament forums), equipping junior-to-mid-career professionals with AI expertise for multilateral discussions. Education, hands-on exploration, high-level networking. Travel support available. Get involved.

💼 Humans of Purpose: Business Development Lead - Talent Pathways
🚀 _{Growing (2 - 5 yrs)}
Your knack for opening doors and closing deals could unlock digital careers for women rebuilding after domestic violence. Humans of Purpose is looking for someone to bridge Academy Members with employers - owning BD, shaping the offering and making placements stick. Launched talent verticals or driven recruitment growth? 0.6 FTE, remote Syd/Melb preferred, $120K base pro-rata + incentives. Apply now. ⚠️ We’re Matchmaking, reach out to us if you have q’s!

💼 Stone & Chalk: International Women's Day Scholarship
🚀 _{Growing (2 - 5 yrs)}
Aspiring and current female founders, Stone & Chalk's giving you six months of what actually helps: desk access in Adelaide, Melbourne or Sydney, founder community, tailored mentorship, growth programs, and investor connections. Women building startups face funding and network gaps - this scholarship tackles both. Applications close Feb 20. Building something? Throw your hat in.

🌱 Snow Foundation: Program Support
🚀 _{Growing (2 - 5 yrs)}
Ready to learn from one of the best? You'll work directly with Snow's seasoned Head of Partnerships - Our Place, supporting a game-changing program that backs 20+ visionary founders (ReLove, Clean Slate Clinic, Confit Pathways, Foremind, Humans of Purpose and more). Your detail obsession and organisation skills will enable bold ideas to fly - retreat logistics, engagement coordination, systems that hum. Emerging, ambitious, and ready to step up? Check it out. ⚠️ Opened this week - jump in early we’re Matchmaking!

🎯 Australian Progress: Progress 2026 Conference
🌻 _{Open to all experience levels}
Australia's biggest gathering for changemakers is back with 1,500+ activists, campaigners, organisers and policy makers in Melb/Naarm, March 24-25. Scholarships and discounts available. You can also volunteer (free entry!) and gain skills in events, comms, social media or tech while soaking up two days of movement-building brilliance. Sign up now. ⚠️Our team is going - drop us a cheeky DM if you’re attending, we’ll see you there!

✊ Human Rights Law Centre: Manager, Fundraising and Major Gifts
🚀 _{Growing (2 - 5 yrs)}
Know how to turn conversations into commitments and relationships into six or seven-figure gifts? The HRLC is looking for someone who can cultivate high-net-worth donors and foundations to back strategic legal action towards a fairer Australia. Experience with major gifts, pipeline growth, Salesforce. $123K, Syd/Melb. Put your relationship-building prowess behind work that eliminates inequality. Take a look.

🌊 YCAPS: Maritime Governance GENIE Program (Taiwan)
🚀 _{Growing (2 - 5 yrs)}
Ready to make a splash? This global leadership program takes you deep into regional maritime governance challenges. Expert-led webinars, mentorship, overseas immersion at the Taiwan International Ocean Forum + policy workshop, costs covered. You'll develop a publication-ready policy innovation proposal addressing real maritime governance gaps. Designed for emerging professionals ready to shape ocean policy. Dive in.

🤝 GoFundMe: Engagement, Partnerships & Communications Manager
_{⭐️ Levelling Up (5 - 10 yrs)}
One in three Australians have used GoFundMe’s platform. Now they’re looking for someone to lead end-to-end partnerships with charities, creators and organisations while amplifying campaigns to drive donations. Love building collaborations, steering comms or driving engagement? Sydney-based, high autonomy, with a global team backing community giving. Check it out.

🌿 Greenpeace: General Assembly Member
🚀 _{Growing (2 - 5 yrs)}
Curious about governance and board roles? Greenpeace's General Assembly is your entry point - think shareholders for one of Australia's boldest environmental organisations. Vote on strategic decisions, elect board members, and oversee performance. Expand your financial literacy, strategic thinking or governance chops. Four-year term. Applications close March 1. Apply now.

⚡ GRIDSIGHT: Strategy and Operations Lead
🚀 _{Growing (2 - 5 yrs)}
Generalists, this climate-tech startup is calling you. GRIDSIGHT's helping utilities manage the energy transition, and they’re searching for someone to power their commercial engine. Think: finops, compliance, enterprise implementations, building playbooks from scratch. Bring your high-pace energy, stellar project management, customer-facing confidence. This isn't a support role, it's shaping the operating backbone of a company riding the grid modernisation wave. Remote first, Australia. Step up and apply.

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• 🚀 Social Enterprise Accelerator (Funding): Ready to start or scale a social enterprise? 12-month Aus-based program with $110K funding, mentorship, workshops, and network access. For-profit + purpose model. EOI process closing tomorrow, Feb 16!

• 📊 Gov Relations Adviser (Mental Health): 5-10 years in policy, comms, or engagement? Produce high-quality reports, manage government partnerships, and translate complex insights for policymakers. Melb-based.

• 🌍 Volunteer Non-Exec Director: Senior NFP/NGO experience? Join the board of a well-known environmental org. Governance, strategy, and oversight. National, 15-20hrs/month, travel expenses covered.

• ✨ Youth Passion Project Grants: 18-25 in AU/NZ with a creative, quirky, or ambitious project? Get $1K funding + join an 8-week cohort of creators. Art, tech, film, innovation - anything goes. Apps close March 1.

• 💼 Executive Assistant (Conservation Org): Support the CEO & Exec team. Think tech-powered workflows, diary management, strategic coordination. Sydney-based, salary-packaging, mission-driven workplace.

• ⚖️ Regional Graduate Solicitor Program: Build your legal experience with intensive training, mentoring, and a 12-month regional placement in NSW. 2.5-year contract, $95-100K + super.

• 🎮 Youth Advisory Council (Tech & Digital): 12-18? Share bold ideas, influence real projects, and shape how tech impacts young people. Paid role with national reach. Apps close Feb 23.

• 🎬 Performance Creative (Health-tech): 2-5 years creating high-converting video ads for Meta, TikTok, YouTube? Concept, shoot, edit, and iterate fast for a health tech startup. Contract to perm, hybrid Melbourne/Sydney.

• 🌏 Global Internship (Development): Masters/PhD student or grad? Gain hands-on experience at an Asia multilateral development bank focused on sustainable infrastructure. Project and research tracks. Paid stipend + flights.

• 💚 Philanthropy Manager (Climate): Develop donor engagement plans, build international relationships, drive strategic fundraising for a climate research-to-action org. Contract, Melbourne, $120-132K + 17% super.

• ⚡ Future Energy Leaders Programme: 3+ years in the energy sector, under 35? Join a global cohort shaping long-term energy transitions through collaboration and policy insight. Closes Feb 20.

• 💼 Senior Investment Manager (Ethical): 10+ years investment and strategy background? Develop active asset allocation strategies, manage risk, drive returns for an ethical super fund and investment manager. B Corp, hybrid/national role, values-driven team.

• 💚 Rural Mental Health Grants: Building a community group in rural/regional Australia? Access up to $20K to reduce mental health stigma, foster connection, support community. Closes Feb 19.

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