👋 Volunteer
Join us if you believe in the possibilities of people who choose to collaborate for a bright and beautiful future 🌱
You can come and join us hands-on or volunteer remotely 💻!
Our Construction Team is the backbone of Noel Homestead Affordable Housing.
🏗️ Construction
Live-In Superintendent 🔥 Urgent
Similar Titles: Live-In Superintendent, Property Manager, Lead Connector, Concierge, The glue of the community, a local hands-on leader, a relationships builder.
Goal: Make Noel homestead an example of sustainable living and hospitality.
Objectives:
1.Build relationships. Inspire people. Manage volunteers and help tenants.
2.Perform Repairs, Maintenance, Cleaning and Odd Jobs.
3.Help create/deliver Programs and Complete Projects at the homestead.
📅 Duration: 3 months (during summer or winter), but ideally a lot longer.
🧠 Experience we value: NGO's, Carpentry, Health Care, Hospitality, Tourism, Teaching, Social Work, Freelancers, Real Estate, Emergency Management.
📚 Minimum Education: Certificate, Diploma or Trade Apprenticeship
🧬 Personality traits: Cultural sensitivity. Social skills. Self-starter. Practical. Go the extra mile. Great at following instructions and completing tasks.
⭐Special Reward: Get 10% rent discount when you move in + 20% rent discount after 3month probationary period + 50% rent discount after 6months (Total 80% monthly rent discount) + Pick any of these REWARDS + Get offered a paid position at Noel homestead once it becomes available. We want you for a long time
EXAMPLES | Nice to have:
ESFJ Personality
Tourism Management Diploma
Tourism Hospitality Certificate
Carpentry Diploma
Cabinetmaking and Woodworking Certificate
Construction Project Management Diploma
Building Engineer
Similar titles: Structural Engineer, Environmental Engineer, Land and Building Engineer, Civil Engineer
Goal: Provide ongoing advice and lead Engineering Projects on your free time.
Objectives:
1. Structural planning (drawings) for new construction and renovations.
2. Provide supervision on construction projects, help calculate costs and timelines.
3. Plan Earthworks, Water management & Septic.
📅 Duration: 6 months, but ideally longer.
🧠Experience we value: Demonstrated real life projects (Portfolio).
📚Minimum Education: Bachelor, Master or PhD Degree
⭐Special Reward: Pick any of these REWARDS + let us know what you want!
EXAMPLES | Nice to have:
ISTJ personality | Or ENTP, INTP or INTJ
LEED Accreditation
✏️How to Apply: Fill the Application Form
Purchasing Estimator
Similar titles: Estimator, Procurement Expert, Supply Chain Professional
Goal: Procure the most sustainable and local products
Objectives:
1. Perform quantity takeoffs.
2. Send bid solicitations, material quote solicitations.
3. Help with logistics and procurement.
📅 Duration: 3 months, but ideally longer.
🧠Experience we value: Demonstrated real life projects.
📚Minimum Education: Certificate, Diploma or Trade Apprenticeship
⭐Special Reward: Pick any of these REWARDS + Let us know what you want!
EXAMPLES | Nice to have:
SCMP Designation
Architectural Engineering Technician
Construction Project Management
✏️How to Apply: Fill the Application Form
Project Manager
Surveyor GIS
QPII & Septic Designer & Installers 🔥 Urgent
Well Driller or Digger
Electricians
Plumbers
Our permaculture team is all about driving ecological balance and food security
🌱 Permaculture
Permaculturists & Ecologists 🔥 Urgent
Goal: Create a regenerative system that supports human life while improving the environment
Objectives:
1. Create a Plan of Permaculture Design for Noel homestead
2. Create Documentation - A Case study, while helping execute the plan
3. Create a Community - Explore joint partnerships to co-deliver programs, courses and services (Theoretical and hands-on)
📅 Duration: 3 months, but ideally longer.
🧠Experience: Practitioner level
📚 Education: A degree + Portfolio
⭐Special Reward: Tell us what you want + Pick any of these REWARDS
EXAMPLES | Nice to have
Permaculture Design Plan on Google Earth Pro
Google Earth Permaculture Tour Plan
Earth Activist Training
5th World
UBC Permaculture Certification
✏️How to Apply
APPLY NOW.
Trail Builders 🔥 Urgent
Surveyor GIS
Horticulturists & Landscapers
Botanists & Agrologists
Earth Movers & Excavators
Bio Constructors
Rammed Earth
Foresters & Orchard Experts
General Helper
Our digital team designs Noel Homestead exciting vision, inspiring the community, the region, and the world
🌎 Digital
Architects & 3D CAD Designers 🔥 Urgent
Goal: Design elements to be constructed in Noel Homestead:
Objectives:
1. Improve the masterplan layout of the property to contribute to the mission..
2. Design 2D floorplans and 3D models of buildings and their components.
3. Prepare documentation that meet building codes
Examples of Projects or Education:
The Venus Project
Zaha Hadid
Bio Construction
Passive House
HR - Headhunters 🔥 Urgent
Goal: To attract and retain the best people, to join our teams
Objectives:
1. Use your networks to attract Volunteers
2. Improve position descriptions (like this one) and create postings
3. Develop a People Ops strategy, considering MBTI types
4. Invite employers to join our Noel Local Employment Program
Accountants or NFP-CPA's
Recreation & Community Lead
Video Editor
Graphic Designers & Animators
Marketers, PR, Tourism & Events
Bloggers, Writers & Social Media
Nonprofit Leader
Environmental Lawyers
Administrative Assistants
Game Developer (Software)
Goal: Develop a game like system where users can:
Objectives:
1. Use any aerial photo or Google Maps location of their property
2. Place 2D elements that can be viewed in 3D
3. Design their own permaculture homestead
Examples of the project:
Floorplan
City building
Real-time strategy (RTS)
Details:
This Free software will be part of the Open Source movement.
This is a project that will take a few years, a freemium pricing model can be explored where revenue will be shared.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.
There is a lot of work to be done