Theoretically, you can find Experteers with any type of business or technical skills.
If you are looking for a skill that's much rarer to find, we're always excited to go out our way to help you find and reach out to the person you might be looking for. As we believe in long-term impact and sustainable teams, we like to make sure that there's always a focus on knowledge transfer in our Experteering projects.
Having said that, the skills we match most fall into the following skills categories:
- Business Strategy & Operations
- Marketing & Campaigns
- StoryTelling (copywriters & videographers)
- Finance & Reporting
- Product Development
You can view examples of different types of projects, plus the complete category breakdown here.
In terms of the type of project (project period, role in the team), we distinguish the following 4 types of Experteers - here's a description of each type, with links to some sample projects:
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PROJECT TYPE |
LENGTH |
SUMMARY |
STORY |
|
TRAINER |
1–4 weeks |
Engage with an organization to help teach a specific skill or resource (like training Excel skills, accounting best practices, git methodology, HR best practices, or marketing analytics to name a few). See samples. |
Liz, a marketing manager, went to support Mercy Corps-affiliated Gaza Sky Geeks in the Middle East to provide training on marketing tools and process improvements to female entrepreneurs in an accelerator program. |
|
DOER |
1–24 weeks |
Support a team with a specific task that has a clear deliverable, like designing a new website, setting up an accounting system, developing a marketing plan, creating an engineering schematic, or other skills-based project. See samples. |
Deana, a senior UX design from Amazon, went to support Maya Traditions develop an online strategy and revised mobile design for its new e-retail website (featured in HBR). Eduardo, a lead program manager from Microsoft, supported M-KOPA through our MySkills4Afrika program, helping it harness data visualization to make more efficient business decisions. |
|
CONSULTANT |
2–24 weeks |
Immerse yourself around a specific opportunity or challenge area. Give yourself enough time to learn community and cultural contexts, and then propose (and potentially implement) a plan to accelerate impact. See samples. |
Rossella, the Director of CSR for Gucci, went to support Jolkona-affiliated Makarios in Indonesia to help it achieve international sustainability standards for fair-trade fashion and products. |
|
TEAM MEMBER |
6+ months |
Become a core team member for a specific length of time, like a contractor. See samples. |
Nicole, a sales manager from Intel, went to support Endeavor-backed Ebanx in Brazil to help develop an international sales strategy and team. Ebanx grew from 8 people to 100+ in her year-long Experteering engagement. |
To help uncover the highest priority areas in your organization where an Experteer could potentially have the most impact, we’d suggest that you complete our proprietary Skills Gap Assessment, which you can access in English here or in Spanish here.
Independent of the type of skills or the type of project you are looking for , here’s a helpful breakdown of 6 things we look for when scoping your project.
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