The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a term-limited (one year) full-time Project Manager for its new "Bookshelf" Project (text below). Feel free to share.

Link to WMF jobs: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Project_Manager_Bookshelf

Job Title: Project Manager

Employment Duration: August 2009 to September 2010.

Reports to: Head of Public Outreach

About the “Bookshelf Project”

In 2009–2010, the Wikimedia Foundation will be developing a slate of basic educational materials –print, online and video– to attract new authors and editors to Wikipedia. The collective set of these resources is internally being called “The Bookshelf.”

As a collaborative project, Wikipedia's success is based on the steady contributions of a global volunteer community of active contributors. The more people share their knowledge with others, the better and more diverse Wikipedia's content gets. We believe that raising and broadening participation is one of the keys to improve Wikipedia's overall quality and to eliminate cultural perspective gaps.

Currently, there are limited resources to attract new contributors and to teach them how to get involved. Most of them lack consistency and are often out of date. There are therefore still many basic educational resources that need to be developed. These materials will teach people about Wikipedia and how to edit Wikipedia; provide teachers with lesson plans (to use Wikipedia in the classroom); provide volunteers and local Wikimedia chapters with training resources to do their own outreach; and to enable people to be skillful and responsible creators and producers of encyclopedic content.

Job Summary

The Project Manager is responsible for successfully executing the Bookshelf project: for ensuring high quality outputs are developed on time and inside the project budget. The Project Manager will need a prior demonstrated experience in managing a complex print and media project, excellent communications skills, and a passion for doing high-quality work. Part of this job will include actively moderating volunteer and external expert discussions to help them be focused and productive.

Responsibilities

* Create and get sign-off for the project plan, including review-and-refine cycles * Recruit and manage the dedicated project team and identify suitable outside contractors for video production * Plan and execute internal project communication (encompassing the project team, senior management, other departments, external expert groups, outside contractors and community stakeholders) * Keep the project on track: on time and on budget * Ensure all deliverables are of appropriate quality level, and success measures are met or exceeded

Required Qualifications

* 5+ years of project management experience * Ability to work in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented, highly-diverse environment * Ability to work effectively within Wikimedia's values and mission. Must be emotionally committed to free knowledge and willing to attune oneself to the larger Wikimedia community's norms and expectations * Passion for doing high-quality work * Ability to work effectively with graphic designers, writers, and outside contractors to ensure deadlines are met * Experience prioritizing and creating accountability towards critical milestones and deadlines * Ability to assess and report project status, and escalating risks to senior management * Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to interpret and translate information to teams and individuals and to report effectively to senior management

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience in education * Experience with non-profit * Prior demonstrated experience working in print and media production * Experience working with translations and/or international clientele

Salary

The salary is in the range of $74,000 to $85,000, commensurate with experience. Generous benefits are included.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a US-registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit charity dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most visited websites, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews and the Wikimedia Commons media repository. The organization has received numerous honors for its work, among them the Webby Award, the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, the Japan Advertisers Association's Web Creation Award and the World Technology Award in Communications Technology.

The Wikimedia Foundation was created in 2003 to manage the operation of Wikipedia and its sister projects and is based in San Francisco, California. It currently employs 27 staff members. Wikimedia is supported by local chapter organizations in 21 countries or regions.

To Apply

Please send a CV and cover letter to jobs(at)wikimedia.org, before July 20, 2009. Please put the position title (Project Manager "Bookshelf") in your subject line.

Applications that do not include a cover letter will not be considered. This position will be filled in June 2009. In your cover letter, please address:

* Why the Wikimedia Foundation would benefit from your skills at this position * What factors have been important to project success in your previous experience

Please copy and paste the text of your CV into the e-mail, in addition to attaching the file.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we regret that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

This position is based in our San Francisco, CA. office.