Dear fellow Wikimedians,

We are happy to announce our plans to engage Wikimedia communities in the strategic and structural reform discussions of our global movement. The Movement Strategy Process requires input and participation from all of our communities and we are looking for Liaisons for the Movement Strategy Process to engage with some language communities and facilitate their participation in global strategic discussions. Liaisons will ensure that the voices and perspectives of these communities are heard and considered in the Movement Strategy Process and that members of these communities actively engage and participate in the discussions in their own language.

Based on criteria of reach of the language, projects, as well as existing editor base, the Core Team has identified the following language communities for further engagement and will be hiring a Strategy Liaisons for each:[1]: Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

The Liaisons are expected to: engage with the communities in their native language; coordinate and facilitate discussions; support healthy communication; provide details and context when needed, and monitor different communication channels of the communities to surface ideas related to the Strategy Process. Liaisons will be expected to identify opportunities where the ongoing Movement Strategy Process discussions can benefit and solicit ideas from interested community members. Liaisons will also be expected to summarize the most important discussion points, coordinate translations of these summaries to share them with Liaisons Coordinator, Working Groups and wider global community.

Ideal candidates will have  a good connection with the local communities, strong communication skills, fluency in English and one of the nine identified community languages as well as organizational and collaborative skills.

The Liaisons positions will be part time (up to 20 h/week) and will be in place from February to December 2019. If you are interested in the role or would like to have more information, you can find the full description of the role on respective application page [2].

Please note that we are also  recruiting for a full-time Liaisons Coordinator to ensure  engagement of the communities in the Movemement Strategy Process and manage the work of the  Strategy Liaisons. You can find the full description of this role on respective application page [3].

We look forward to collaborating with many of you in the upcoming year and working with the Strategy Liaisons to engage  our communities in the Movement Strategy Process. If you have any questions or specifications regarding the role, please do not hesitate to reach out to our Project Manager Jodi McMurray ( jmcmurray{{at}}wikimedia.org ).

With all the best wishes,

Kaarel and the Core Team

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Participate/Translation

[2] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1478679?gh_src=2a6a8b121

[3] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1460548?gh_src=abf396081