Website Lead Volunteer — Help Strengthen OURF’s Online Presence for Orangutan Conservation

The Orang Utan Republik Foundation is based in Santa Monica, California and conducts outreach and fundraising events in the United States. Its major impact takes place in Indonesia where local organizations implement OURF’s education and conservation programs.

Domestic Outreach involves participating in events including Earthday as well as Orangutan Caring Week in November. Other activities are planned and conducted by volunteers. OURF works with schools to enroll and inspire students to learn about orangutans and take action to conserve the species.

OURF works with the Sustainable Green Sumatra Foundation (YSHL) to implement the Community Education and Conservation Program (CECP). The CECP program delivers education to villages near Gunung Leuser National Park to reduce conflict between the villagers and orangutans. The CECP program also provides training and assistance in organic farming and waste management at the village level as well as providing ways to improve livelihood as an alternative to destructive practices.

OURF works with the Orangutan Information Center in Medan, Sumatra, Yayasan Palung in West Kalimantan, and Borneo Nature Foundation in Central Kalimantan in implementing the Orangutan Caring Scholarship program. OURF raises and aggregates funds contributed by donors to provide multi-year tuition for Indonesian college and university students in the fields of Biology, Forestry and Veterinary Science. The scholarships are given in a competitive manner by the implementing organizations.

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The Orang Utan Republik Foundation is seeking a skilled and reliable Website Lead Volunteer to help improve and maintain our official website, orangutanrepublik.org, which serves as OURF’s primary public-facing entry point for supporters, donors, partners, volunteers, students, journalists, and the general public.

OURF’s mission is to save wild orangutans through education, conservation partnerships, scholarships, public engagement, and support for Indonesian conservation leadership. Our website plays a central role in telling that story clearly, inspiring trust, and helping visitors take meaningful action.

The Website Lead Volunteer will help coordinate improvements to the website’s structure, landing pages, donation pathways, program pages, event pages, volunteer information, and search visibility. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to use digital, communications, UX, content, or nonprofit web skills to support orangutan conservation and rainforest protection.

This is a volunteer leadership role, not a technical staff position. The ideal person will be comfortable helping organize website priorities, coordinating with other volunteers or interns, and translating website improvement ideas into practical tasks.

Key Responsibilities The Website Lead Volunteer may help with

• Reviewing key website pages for clarity, usability, accuracy, and donor readiness.
• Helping improve homepage structure, navigation, calls-to-action, and donation pathways.
• Coordinating updates to program pages, including scholarships, conservation education, ecotours, volunteer opportunities, and special campaigns.
• Helping ensure donation buttons and giving pages are easy to find, clear, and consistent.
• Supporting development of landing pages for campaigns, events, and donor appeals.
• Maintaining a simple website improvement task list for volunteers or interns.
• Checking for broken links, outdated information, duplicate content, and confusing user pathways.
• Recommending improvements for mobile readability, accessibility, SEO, and user experience.
• Helping organize content updates in collaboration with OURF leadership.
• Supporting periodic website reports or summaries for internal review.

Current Website Priorities The first priorities for this role will include

• Improving the donor journey from homepage to donation form.
• Strengthening landing pages for major programs and campaigns.
• Making donation buttons clearer and more consistent.
• Helping organize website tasks for volunteers.
• Improving trust signals, such as transparency, annual reports, nonprofit ratings, and program impact.
• Supporting a draft-status approach for future conference pages until content is formally approved.

Desired Skills Helpful skills include one or more of the following

• WordPress or nonprofit website management.
• Website content editing.
• User…