Below is a non-exhaustive list of resources for volunteers or prospective volunteers at MapAction.

Current roles:

• Geospatial volunteer
• Geospatial training content developer
• Data scientist
• Data visualiser
• Software developer
• Data engineer

Deadline for applications: November 14th, 2023.

Our LinkedIn Group for prospective volunteers

What is it like to volunteer at MapAction?

MapAction is a hub of 80 data, geospatial and geography professionals who volunteer as humanitarian mappers for disaster relief.

Here from our volunteers in the video below.

Our head of communications shared his views below of a 2023 training weekend, providing an insight into how and why volunteers at MapAction do what they do.

READ MORE: A volunteer-driven disaster relief model

You can also read about our annual training and disaster simulation event – dubbed Gilded internally – which this year was held on the the Isle of Cumbrae and envisaged a nearby volcanic eruption.

READ ALSO (in The Herald Scotland): Isle of Cumbrae becomes training ground for disaster response

IN PHOTOS: MapAction conducts simulated volcanic eruption response exercise on Isle of Cumbrae

Sample past literature about our community of practice

May 2023: PHOTO ESSAY: MapAction conducts simulated volcanic eruption response exercise on Isle of Cumbrae

March 2023: A volunteer-driven disaster relief model: a glimpse into a MapAction training weekend

Dec 2022: MapAction’s Volunteer recruitment drive is open – and it’s the most extensive ever! 

September 2022: London Marathon caps ‘year of endurance’ for MapAction volunteer, Alice