Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Conversa Corps is a nonprofit dedicated to transforming multi-team crisis response through digital collaboration. The volunteer Slack Platform Engineer will architect and maintain the Aid Arena Slack ecosystem, building custom apps, automations, and MCP-based integrations with Airtable and Monday.com while documenting technical decisions and supporting workspace members.
Responsibilities
- Be responsive to the Slack tool needs of Conversa Corps team members and all members of the Aid Arena Slack workspace. You aren’t just waiting for tickets, you’re living in the channels to find ways to make Slack better, or to help members
- Architect and maintain our Slack workspace's technical backbone: channel structures, permission models, app integrations, and admin configuration at scale
- Build and maintain custom Slack apps, bots, AI Agents and workflows using the Slack API (Web API, Events API, Bolt framework)
- Monitor data integrity, security, and AI or App data access permissions
- Design and implement MCP-based integrations connecting Slack to Airtable, Monday.com, and other internal tools
- Work with workspace members to assist with building skills and agents via Slackbot AI or external AI integrated Agents
- Own Slack Workflow Builder builds and Slack Lists and Canvases
- Build drip/onboarding automations that connect Slack to Airtable-backed data flows
- Evaluate and stand up new Slack connectors/apps as our tech stack matures
- Document technical decisions and hand off institutional knowledge clearly
Skills
- Deep hands-on experience administering Slack at the workspace/org level (not just using it)
- Real experience with the Slack API - Bolt SDK, Events API, Slackbot AI, AI Agents and Skills, OAuth scopes, Block Kit
- Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and connecting AI/agent tools to real business systems
- Experience integrating Slack with other platforms (Airtable, Monday.com, Zapier/native APIs, etc.)
- Comfort working independently with incomplete documentation and evolving requirements building infrastructure as we go
- Ability to explain technical tradeoffs in plain language to non-technical stakeholders (Executive Officer, workspace members, board members, program staff)
- Direct interaction experience as a personable, pleasant, helpful aid to end users
- Experience in nonprofit or disaster relief / emergency coordination tech
- Familiarity with Airtable's API/automation layer and Monday.com's workflow builder
- Experience standing up tech stacks
Benefits
- Fully remote volunteer role
- Roughly 6 hours a week
- Put real skills toward disaster relief coordination without a full-time commitment
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