Remote Work Europe Country Leaders

Help shape the future of remote work in your country

Remote Work Europe began as Remote Work Spain - with this Facebook group, which Maya started in summer 2021, to help people who didn't want to go back to the office as the world unlocked.

But we quickly found that people were joining and asking questions from outside Spain, and there was equal hunger for high-quality information and well-run communities across our region - and beyond (though we're sticking to Europe for now, taking a flexible and non-political view to embrace the whole area.)

Remote work is - or should - be without boundaries. But in reality, it's often constrained by local employment law, regulation, tax codes, and more. Much of the breakthrough service provision work today is focussing on compliance and making cross border hiring a reality, and as such, orienting all content and community growth on one country is limiting.

So that's why we've grown and expanded, to create this website, a thriving newsletter, and a range of products and services to support remote workers, right across Europe.

And it's also why, in addition to this website, we're growing Remote Work Europe with individual country-level English-language Facebook groups, managed in collaboration with local administrators.

The growth of remote work continues to accelerate, and while the digital nomad community is increasingly well served globally, there is less focus on the settled remote worker/immigrant/expat audience. This audience is more likely to be higher paid and employed, at a family life-stage, and seeking longer-term solutions to their work-life planning.

Our country admins are usually people living in the place they represent, and who share our values, of making real remote work accessible to all. Many are immigrants to their chosen home, who can relate to the challenges and concerns of new arrivals, and be an informative source of support and advice.

This is not a 'job' - we cannot pay you for your time that you commit to Remote Work Europe. This is not for everyone, especially those who prefer a strictly linear relationship with time spent and earning money. This is an opportunity to grow with Remote Work Europe, and to grow and develop your personal leadership and authority as a remote work expert in your region.

Business upside for both parties:

Remote Work Europe

Ownership and control of Europe-wide mailing list and community
Cross-European audience to promote non-geographical offers and deals

Country Admins:

Be part of a thriving network, in a movement whose time has come!
Build your personal authority and reputation for remote work expertise
Advertise your own offers to cross-Europe network
Negotiate your own deals and events locally in-country
Create and share your own aligned content

Remote Work Europe provides:

Templates and admin support for Facebook groups. We set it all up for you, ready to start inviting people in and helping them.
Newsletter editorial and advertising space per country - promote your relevant event, project, startup etc., to the whole RWE community, not just your country.
Your country homepage here on Remote Work Europe (such as this one for Remote Work UK)
Cross-European content posting in local groups - we'll share your stuff, if you create content or events which would be of interest to other regions
Management and hosting of this website and mailing list, including unique job and content feeds.
Negotiation of cross-Europe deals and partnerships for members, collaboration with all our partners.
Support and guidance in best practice in group/community management, in a friendly team, containing some highly knowledgeable community leaders and remote work advocates. (We have training manuals etc available too, we all really want to help you grow your community successfully.)
Free access to Connected, our members' job club – the board monitors our tracked employers' careers pages and ATS feeds, rebuilding every weekday with the latest vacancies open to people living in Europe, and Maya and Diana add roles that have caught their eye at least once a week. This is new since we last recruited admins, and it is the benefit our current moderators use most. It costs members €15 a month.
Complimentary membership and access to everything else we sell, including all our training and products
Premium affiliate rates for all our products and services
All of the above runs for as long as you are actively running your group. It is how we say thank you for the work, so it goes with the work rather than with the title.

Country Admins provide:

Daily(ish) moderation of the Facebook group, to agreed standards and policies. Any single day is usually only a few minutes – the thing that matters is that those few minutes happen most days rather than in occasional bursts.
Active effort to grow the community. This is the part we care most about, and the part we have not always been clear enough about before. We are looking for someone with ideas about where their members will come from and the appetite to go and find them – not simply someone willing to hold the keys. A group that is tended but never grows is not what this role is for.
Local content and news for Facebook group. The country admin will need to have some local knowledge of things like taxes and self-employment requirements, at least to the extent of an informed local resident, and they are likely to be permanently resident in their 'patch'.
Scoping of local remote jobs leads for newsletter (and occasional group sharing, per moderation guide)
Negotiation of local deals with specialist providers (such as tax, immigration, accommodation, relocation, etc.) Such local deals would create 100% revenue to local moderator, and the potential is unlimited.
Monthly (or more often) website content articles (may include local deals and own offers) (50/50 revenue split with Remote Work Europe)
Content for newsletter, for local interest and visibility (50/50 revenue split with Remote Work Europe on any country-specific deals)
A legal way to invoice/remit to Remote Work Europe for commissions, such as local self employed status or a limited company

Would you be a great country admin to represent Remote Work Europe where you live?

Then please get in touch, and tell us why!

We have an urgent need for replacement admins in established communities, presently including Germany, Greece and Cyprus, Italy and the Netherlands.

We are equally keen to hear from people who want to start something new. If your country is not in our menu above, that is an opportunity rather than a closed door – several of our strongest communities began with one person who wanted their own country represented and was prepared to build it.

When you write, please tell us how you would grow the group. Not in principle, but in practice: what you would do in the first month, where you think new members would come from, and how much time you realistically have. We would far rather read a plan somebody has thought about for ten minutes than a paragraph of enthusiasm.