I completely agree with Maggie that promoting Katy Love was the smart decision. We need someone who can step in and quickly provide strong leadership.
Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Maggie Dennis mdennis@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, Ruslan.
Yes, Katy is stepping into the role in a permanent, full-time basis.
Determining HR direction is not my role. :) Stating how the Board feels about open hiring is also not my place (and I don't know). But I am happy to share my own opinion.
While some roles will and should be filled in an open, public search, some roles may be appropriately filled by promoting existing staff with a proven track record. The costs of hiring are not small, both in the amount of time it takes to recruit and fill a position and the amount of time it takes to onboard a new person. The leadership of our resources team needs to be filled quickly. Stability is important in the work they do. And we have a person at hand who has been well trained for the role and successfully worked with community on this basis for years. She is not being hired, but promoted - a promotion she has amply earned.
That said, the role Katy had previously filled will be an open new hire, with opportunities for all to apply. It'll just take a little bit of time to put the hiring packet together. We are also getting ready to open the search for the replacement for the leadership of Community Engagement, which I have taken in the interim - and for which I hope to see many community applicants.
Best,
Maggie
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Ruslan Takayev ruslan.takayev@gmail.com wrote:
Maggie, et al
Is Katy "stepping into" the role on a full-time, permanent basis?
I ask this question, as questions I asked relating to the "new, open approach" towards recruitment at the WMF are yet to be answered[1] and I don't recall there being any advertisements as a call for applications to fill Siko's position.
TBH, this doesn't sound like a "new, open approach" towards recruitment
at
the WMF, but more of the same..."jobs for the boys".
Comment would be welcome Maggie.
Warm regards,
Ruslan Takayev
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-February/081677.html
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:02 AM, Maggie Dennis mdennis@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, all.
I am delighted to announce that Katy Love has agreed to step into the
role
of Director of Resources in the Community Engagement department,
picking
up
the baton so ably carried by Siko Bouterse before her. Katy has been
with
the Wikimedia Foundation since January 2013, beginning as the first
program
officer to work with the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC). I’m
grateful
to her for moving into this role and am looking forward to
collaborating
with her closely in WMF’s Community Engagement department.
We will be hiring her replacement to oversee the FDC/full annual plan grants program in the weeks ahead.
Best regards,
Maggie
P.S. Their page! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources
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