AT A GLANCE
Scarlet Spark is a small nonprofit on a mission to turn animal advocacy organizations into human-friendly workplaces so they can do their best work for animals.
We are looking for skilled, values-aligned Consultants to advise and coach our clients one-on-one and in small groups about leadership, strategy, and workplace culture. In 2027, we are especially eager to expand our accessibility to clients in the Global South.
THE LOGISTICS
- Location: This is a fully remote role, but we are looking for Consultants who have time zone availability and workplace experience in Asia, Africa, or Latin America.
- Hours: 10 - 15 hours per month (you set your own schedule within an agreed upon range of hours)
- Rate of pay: $100 per hour USD (and $50 for up to 10 onboarding hours)
- Contract type: Independent Contractor
- Start date: December 2026 or January 2027
- Application deadline: October 31, 2026
ABOUT SCARLET SPARK
Our mission: We spark the power and endurance of the animal protection movement by developing leaders and transforming pro-animal organizations into high-impact, human-friendly workplaces.
Our vision: A world without systems that perpetuate animal suffering and a culture of love for all living beings.
Our values:
1. ? Try Sh*t Out: we stay curious, keep learning, and experiment with new solutions.
2. ?️ Engineer Elegance: We seek simple, light-lift, and brain-friendly solutions.
3. ? Foster Abundance: we believe that trust breeds trustworthiness and that all animals are worthy of love — humans included.
4. ? Cultivate Diversity: we bring together people and perspectives and hold space for complexity.
5. ? Commit to Clarity: we go out of our way to get aligned and make the implicit explicit.
6. ? Share Power: we give and take responsibility and build capacity in ourselves and others.
7. ? Drink From the Cup of Joy: we dwell on the positive things (while honoring all emotions).
Our team & culture: We are a small, passionate team (4 full-time staff and 3-5 part-time contractors) who love what we do, why we do it, and who we get to do it with. We are a multicultural team but work together in English. Our clients are global, but we currently mostly provide services in English, and we would love to be able to offer our services in more languages.
We are a great fit for leadership and organizational development nerds who thrive on:
- Self-management
- Direct feedback
- Frequent collaboration
- Disciplined use of internal processes
- Owning complex challenges
- Constant experimentation and iteration
Our clients & work: About 80% of our work is consulting and 20% workshops and office hours. Our one-on-one consulting engagements consist of six to twelve 50-minute sessions. In 2027, we will begin offering group consulting in cohorts of ten to sixteen leaders going through similar org transitions: starting up, scaling up, or winding down.
Our clients are leaders of animal advocacy nonprofits around the world with a variety of strategies from welfare reform to food systems change. Their organizations range from three to three hundred employees (though most have a staff of ten to twenty). The majority focus on farmed animals and a few on wild animals. Our consulting clients are organizational decision-makers: most often Executive Directors and sometimes Board Members or Senior Leadership Team members.
We assign two co-Consultant to complex cases and one Consultant to standard engagements, though new Consultants pair up with a senior Consultant for their first five to ten client engagements. We aim to match clients with Consultants who have a shared language and cultural context, but all Consultants also serve clients around the world in English.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Purpose: Enable advocates to become more effective leaders and to build strategic, healthy organizations with engaged and high-performing teams.
Responsibilities:
1. Consult clients:
- Evaluate each client’s org health and diagnose their needs
- Develop work plans to address the client’s most important needs
- Provide one-on-one and small group coaching and consulting
- Review materials asynchronously and provide feedback
2. Lead group events:
- Facilitate leadership and management workshops on topics such as feedback skills, internal communication, and time effectiveness
- Answer leader and manager questions in small group office hours
3. Collaborate with Consultants:
- Exchange helpful feedback with Co-Consultants
- Share and apply lessons learned with the Consulting Team
- Consistently follow all note-taking and data-tracking processes
Success metrics:
- 90% of clients achieve their engagement goals and find our services useful
- 80% of clients demonstrate lasting change six months following the engagement
- A score of 4 out of 5 from Co-Consultants on meeting all expectations
Decision-making authority: Once Consultants complete onboarding, they make all decisions related to their clients in alignment with Scarlet Spark’s policies, guidelines, and org values.
Consulting topics: Most engagements fall into one or more of these org health categories.
HIRING CRITERIA
Essential criteria:
- Fluency (though not necessarily proficiency) in English
- Alignment with Scarlet Spark’s mission and values
- Consulting skills
- Coaching skills
- Knowledge of organizational health drivers and best practices, particularly for small and quickly-growing orgs
- Leadership and management skills
- A track record of leading or helping others lead organizational change
- Experience working in Latin America, Asia, or Africa
Nice to have but not essential:
- Fluency in a language other than those already represented on our team (English, Russian, Italian, Tagalog, German)
- Familiarity with research methods in psychology
- Understanding of nonprofit challenges
- Experience with grassroots or volunteer-led orgs
- Understanding of the farmed animal advocacy ecosystem
We do NOT require: a certain degree, certification, years of experience, prior nonprofit work, a fully plant-based lifestyle, excellence in every category. There is no “perfect” Consultant — each of us brings something unique to the team. Cultivating Diversity is one of our more treasured values. We welcome people of all identities and backgrounds and celebrate our differences.
OUR HIRING PROCESS & TIMELINE
We use a standardized process to evaluate every candidate the same way — it keeps things consistent, fair, and transparent, and minimizes the impact of bias.
- Apply by October 31, 2026: written application questions (no resume or cover letter needed)
- Nov 1 to Nov 15: written mock consulting session
- Nov 16 to Dec 15: one hour live mock consulting and values-fit interview
- Offer by Dec 20, 2026
We’re happy to make accommodations at any step. Just ask: It will never count against you!
HOW TO APPLY
Apply here by October 31, 2026: https://scarletspark.typeform.com/consultantapp
Questions before applying? Please email our Consulting Lead, Tania Luna at
[email protected] with “Consultant Role” in the subject line.
Application Questions
Want to preview all the application questions in advance? Please see them below:
Logistics:
- What is your name?
- Optional: What are your pronouns?
2. What language(s) do you speak fluently? (Fluent English required)
- How many hours per week are you available between 9am and 1pm US Eastern Time, Tuesday through Friday? Compare your time zone here. (At least 1 hour of overlap needed)
- What time zone do you work in?
- What are your work hours in your time zone?
- About how many hours per week would you be interested in taking on consulting work, Tuesday through Friday?
4. What country are you based in now? What countries have you worked in or lived as an adult?
Written Responses:
NOTE: There is no word limit for the answers below, but we very much value brevity and clarity. You are welcome to use AI so long as your responses show us who you are.
- What drew you to this role?
- Please briefly describe an org health improvement you made or helped someone make. What was your goal? How did you achieve it?
- What is an HR or People Operations practice that you believe needs to change even though it is commonly used and recommended?
- Optional: Is there anything else you’d like to let us know?
NOTE: We will use a data-secure Claude AI account to assess questions 1 through 4 and human reviewers for questions 5 through 8. We look forward to reviewing your application!
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