Pilot Sponsorship and Institutional Partnerships Volunteer (remote, world-wide, W1-03-US)

About Crew Scaler

Crew Scaler is a U.S. tax-exempt nonprofit organization (501(c)(3)). The U.S. IRS certified us, and we are committed to U.S. rigorous standards for certified non-profit organizations. Our board brings ~66+ years of U.S. Government & Military Experience and ~20+ years total Private Sector Experience with Apple, IBM, Tesla, and Synact. Our founder runs an AI Upskilling program for the U.S. Government, and we presented at NIST on Security Considerations for Multi-agent AI Systems. We help students, displaced workers, practitioners, and small organizations build useful AI capability with clear safeguards through open learning resources, applied research, small peer learning groups, and partnerships, including other AI research results and award-winning applications. We are exploring opportunities in Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, and Australia, and will launch only where demand, funding, local capacity, and learner protections are credible.

About the opportunity

Crew Scaler is seeking a Pilot Sponsorship and Institutional Partnerships Volunteer to identify and qualify employers, universities, sponsors, and community organizations that could fund, host, recruit for, or support a pilot.

This is relationship development, not high-volume cold sales. You will use approved materials and work from named country priorities. Crew Scaler will provide the partner brief, outreach language, qualification criteria, and a lead for consequential meetings. You may choose a country or partner type that matches your network.

You will receive a written scope, a 45-minute orientation, templates or examples, and a named Crew Scaler contact. Most work is asynchronous. We use short meetings and written progress notes so volunteers in different time zones can contribute. We will not add major duties without discussing the time and scope with you first.

What you will do

• Build and prioritize a list of 20 to 30 plausible organizations using an employer-linked discovery process to identify specific workforce task gaps
• Pitch co-designed charitable educational models—such as employer-hosted learning groups or in-kind technical mentorship—rather than commercial platform sales
• Send personalized outreach, arrange meetings, and prepare a standardized one-page Partner Brief for each qualified conversation
• Document the need, intended learners, possible contribution, decision process, constraints, and next action
• Initiate consultative relationships while adhering to Crew Scaler's policies by escalating pricing quotes, paid client account management, and contract execution strictly to executive leadership

What you will complete

By the end of the initial term, the expected outputs are a qualified partner pipeline, documented meetings, and concrete next steps for the strongest prospects. The normal collaboration pattern is one 30-minute check-in each week or every 2 weeks, depending on meeting volume. If evidence, approvals, or partner timing blocks an output, you will document the blocker and complete the parts within the volunteer team's control.

What you bring

• Professional written communication and dependable follow-up
• Experience in partnerships, business development, fundraising, university relations, workforce programs, or stakeholder engagement
• Comfort using a simple CRM or shared tracker
• Good judgment about authorization, confidentiality, and conflicts of interest

Helpful, but not required:

• Networks in Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Australia, or relevant US funding communities
• Experience with education partnerships, sponsorships, or employer-supported learning

What you can learn and build

• Practice consultative partnership development and stakeholder qualification
• Learn to map interests, authority, resources, and risks across multi-party collaborations
• Build meeting briefs, partner profiles, and pipeline evidence that demonstrate real partnership work for your portfolio
• Gain access to executive mentorship and formal institutional recommendation letters based on observed consultative outreach performance

Support and boundaries

This is an unpaid volunteer opportunity. It does not promise employment, compensation, certification, academic credit, immigration benefits, or future paid work. After successful service, Crew Scaler can confirm your hours and completed outputs, provide public credit with your consent, and consider a reference based on work we directly observed.

How to apply

Include the requested screening answer and a resume, LinkedIn profile, portfolio, or short work sample only where relevant. We review on a rolling basis and aim to reply within 7 days. The next step is a 20- to 30-minute conversation, followed by references or a work sample only when the role's access or professional duties justify them. Questions: volunteer@crewscaler.org. Learn more at https://crewscaler.org.