# Tech fellow at the Rainmatter foundation (Closed - Candidates shortlisted)
**URL:** https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/tech-fellow-at-the-rainmatter-foundation-closed-candidates-shortlisted/420
**Category:** Green Jobs
**Created:** [April 9, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/tech-fellow-at-the-rainmatter-foundation-closed-candidates-shortlisted/420 "2021-04-09T07:36:38Z")
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### Author:  [@knadh](https://grove.rainmatter.org/u/knadh)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/tech-fellow-at-the-rainmatter-foundation-closed-candidates-shortlisted/420/1 "2021-04-09T07:36:38Z")
We are offering a (12 months, paid) fellowship position at the Rainmatter Foundation for a person with decent technical know-how who can advice and guide non-profit organisations working in the environmental space on tech matters.
The role involves:
- Helping non-profit organisations make broad technical decisions, eg: suggesting FOSS alternatives to solve problems at hand instead of proprietary solutions.
- Connect organisations to vendors, freelancers, consultants who can help them with implementations.
- Non-profits that do have some in-house technical capacity and are interested in open sourcing their work, help them with the process (introduce version control, source code repositories, basics of project hosting and README conventions etc.)
- Introduce such organisations and their projects to FOSS communities (eg: [@fossunited](https://t.me/fossunited))
- Speak to organisations and understand their requirements and enable collaboration and sharing of tech solutions amongst organisations. For instance, organisations working on agriculture may need very similar farm management CRMs.
- Some hands-on fullstack dev experience would be a great asset in assessing these scenarios and giving targeted technical advice.
- Attempt to expand this activity into a structure program to the point that where this can be scaled into a fulltime process as a team.
- Attempt to gradually small ecosystem or community of freelancers/consultants/entrepreneurs who can provide technical services to non-profit orgs with expertise in some of their focus areas.
This is an experimental project aimed at helping non-technical non-profit orgs save immense amount of money and time that generally ends up getting wasted on wrong tech solutions and the re-invention of wheels. Based on the success of this experiment, the fellowship can turn into a full time role with the goal of establishing a technical advisory/thinktank that can take on bigger activities and projects.
Location: Remote / online.
If you are interested, please reply on this thread or e-mail us at **[info@rainmatter.org](mailto:info@rainmatter.org)**
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### Author:  [@piyush](https://grove.rainmatter.org/u/piyush)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/tech-fellow-at-the-rainmatter-foundation-closed-candidates-shortlisted/420/2 "2021-04-10T16:09:32Z")
Hi Kailash!
This sounds like a good experiment.
What kind of time commitment are you looking for?
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### Author:  [@knadh](https://grove.rainmatter.org/u/knadh)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2021, 6:39am UTC](https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/tech-fellow-at-the-rainmatter-foundation-closed-candidates-shortlisted/420/3 "2021-04-11T06:39:12Z")
Hi @piyush,
As it’s an experiment, it’s unclear to be honest. To begin with, I’m guessing it would just be a handful of hours per week, mostly just communicating with orgs.
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### Author:  [@Pai](https://grove.rainmatter.org/u/Pai)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/tech-fellow-at-the-rainmatter-foundation-closed-candidates-shortlisted/420/4 "2021-04-27T04:30:23Z")
We have shortlisted candidates for this role and will not be accepting any more fresh applications. Thank you so much everyone for the interest in joining Rainmatter Foundation. 🙂