Contribute Your Expertise. Build What the Profession Still Lacks.
The International Association of Dive Professionals is looking for capable contributors who can support the development of meaningful structures, services, and projects. We are not building a casual volunteer pool. We are looking for people who can bring real skills, sound judgement, and continuity to defined functions that help strengthen the profession.
Not general volunteering. Functional contribution.
The IADP is being built as an independent professional structure for those working in and around the underwater world. That requires more than good intentions. It requires people who can contribute specialist knowledge, practical support, and consistent involvement in clearly defined areas.
We are therefore looking for volunteers who can help develop quality assurance, legal and para-legal support, educational resources, online community activity, fundraising approaches, and professional outreach. These are not symbolic roles. They are practical functions that help build the backbone of a serious international association.
Contributions are primarily remote, structured, and tied to real development needs across the association and its projects.
Roles we are actively looking to fill
These are the priority support functions we are currently seeking to strengthen.
Volunteer Research, Legal / Para-Legal Consultants
Support the Quality Assurance and Legal Department with research, legal review support, documentation, framework development, and policy-oriented groundwork. This role helps reinforce credibility, consistency, and accountability across the association’s internal and external structures.
Work may include background research, document review, support material for procedures, ethics-related structures, governance support documentation, and professional protection mechanisms.
Volunteer Course Developers
Help shape educational and professional development materials for future deployment across the IADP ecosystem. This function supports the creation of meaningful learning tools, structured course content, reference materials, and member-oriented development resources.
The aim is not to produce generic content, but to help build educational material that serves the real needs of professionals and contributes to higher standards across the sector.
Volunteer Online Community Managers
Support the development and management of IADP’s online communities by helping structure discussions, maintain engagement, guide interaction, and encourage a professional and constructive environment across digital spaces.
This role is important for turning an audience into a functioning community and helping create a more active, connected, and useful network around the association’s mission.
Volunteer Fundraising Specialists
Help identify and structure funding opportunities that can strengthen the long-term independence and capacity of the association and its projects. This may include donor development, sponsorship research, campaign thinking, partnership outreach, and support in framing funding approaches.
The objective is to help create sustainable support mechanisms rather than short-term opportunistic fundraising.
Volunteer Sales and Marketing Specialists
Support the visibility, positioning, and outreach of the IADP and its projects. This includes helping refine messaging, attract attention to relevant initiatives, support campaign development, and strengthen communication toward potential partners, supporters, and stakeholders.
The focus is on professional growth and visibility, not superficial promotion.
Building a profession requires more than opinion. It requires people willing to contribute expertise, structure, and follow-through.
The IADP is developing independent support structures for professionals across the diving industry. Volunteers contribute directly to that build-out by helping create systems, resources, safeguards, and engagement channels the profession has lacked for far too long.
Why join this effort
Volunteering with the IADP is an opportunity to contribute to something with long-term professional value. Rather than joining a loose support list, you become part of the practical work needed to help shape a stronger and more independent future for the sector.
- Contribute to the development of real professional structures
- Work on active initiatives rather than abstract concepts
- Apply your expertise in a serious international context
- Help strengthen standards, support systems, and visibility
- Build a track record within a credible professional environment
- Create pathways for deeper long-term involvement as the structure matures
How involvement begins
- Initial contact through the platform
- Review of background and potential fit
- Short alignment discussion if relevant
- Assignment to a suitable function or support stream
Not every enquiry will lead to immediate onboarding. Roles are matched according to actual needs, relevance, and available capacity.
Bring useful skills. Help build something that matters.
If you have relevant experience in research, legal support, education, online community management, fundraising, or professional outreach, and you want to contribute to a serious structure in development, we would like to hear from you.