Dear all,
Wikimedia CH is looking for a French Community Liaison
French-Community Liaison - 50%
Reporting directly to the Chief Science Officer (CSO), the FCL works actively with the
Swiss French Wikimedia community in order to support it accomplishing projects and get in
touch with Wikimedia entities and officials. It helps the community by gathering requests
and ideas, communicating them to all relevant parties and translating information wherever
needed. This includes support to bring formal requests and motions to WMCH by helping to
prepare them, translate them and present them to the board.
In the same manner the FCL communicates activities of the Wikimedia entities to the
community by writing reports, blog posts and mails, translating information from WMCH to
the community's language.
It's her/his responsibility to make sure the community voices are heard inside the
association and that activities and communications of Wikimedia movement entities are also
replicated into the communities.
The FCL will also manage outreach project like editing or photo contest.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have:
*Experience in a similar position for at least 1 year;
*Fluency (speaking and writing) in English and French;
*Good computer skills (office software suite, ticketing system), comfort and familiarity
with technology systems
*Familiar with online media (mailing lists, Drupal, Twitter, Facebook);
*Excellent communication skills;
*Familiar with Wikipedia / Wikimedia French speaking community, if possible active in the
French speaking wikis.
This position is mainly based in our office in Lausanne, but requires to be flexible in
terms of
working hours.
This is a one year renewable contract.
Dead-Line: July 15th
Candidatures
Please apply in English at info(a)wikimedia.ch or by postal mail:
Ms Anh Chung – CAO
Wikimedia CH
Escaliers-du-Marché 2
1003 Lausanne
with a cover letter, a resume and other documents such as certificates, etc. A short
summary on how you imagine the job will be appreciated. Please add English translations of
your resume and short summary.
Sincerely
Hiring process:
The hiring comittee is made of :
*One board member
*One or two community member(s)
*The CAO and the CSO
*One community manager
The hiring committee will make a recommandation to the Wikimedia CH board who will
utlimately take the decision.
For the hiring committee,
Charles
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Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer
"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –
www.wikimedia.ch
Office +41 (0)21 340 66 21
Mobile +41 (0)78 910 00 97
Skype: charles.andres.wmch
IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch
http://prezi.com/user/Andrescharles/