Dear all,

After my decision to resign, the board of WMCH decided to create an hiring committee (Ilario Valdelli, Frederic Schutz and me) for hiring two staff, CAO and CSO.

· The CAO will take care of the RH, administrative and financial management of the chapter.

· The so-called Chief Scientific Officer will take care of the relationships with the GLAMs (or scientific partners). In Switzerland, our reality is that most of our projects are connected with GLAMs, education and academic institutions. Scientific involves hard and soft sciences in this case. It means somebody that can manage projects and be accepted in the academic and educational field and who knows well the wikimedian tools and culture.

We want to have a complementary team that can manage together our chapter, and let the board… be a board and not waste his tame in operational tasks.

The relationships with the community and WMF as well as the reporting to WMF will be done by both, but the CSO will coordinate it.

Hope it answers to your questions, and please ask me if there are others !

Chantal Ebongué

Wikimedia CH - http://www.wikimedia.ch/ www.wikimedia.ch

Escaliers-du-Marché 2 - 1003 Lausanne - Switzerland

Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 - cell phone +41 (0)78 744 21 82

Skype : chantal.ebongue - chantal.ebongue@wikimedia.ch

De : Ilario Valdelli < mailto:valdelli@gmail.com valdelli@gmail.com>

Objet : Rép : [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH is hiring two new staff

Date : 12 juin 2013 23:02:44 UTC+02:00

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I don't know exactly the selection of this definition, but I suppose that it has been due to the "choice" to don't be project manager because any project has its own project manager.

He is project manager in some cases but for other projects is mainly a supervisor.

About the projects I would say that WM CH is focusing the efforts mainly in "scientific" projects. "Scientific" means not only "science" but is connected with the approach had in the projects (also a project in the literature may be "scientific").

I think that his effort is mainly focused to give to the projects a "scientific" approach in order to give to the projects more quality.

Regards

On 12.06.2013 22:47, Mike Peel wrote:

Isn't that more program/project management rather than science?

Thanks, Mike

On 12 Jun 2013, at 10:53, Ilario Valdelli wrote:

https://www.wikimedia.ch/scientific-director

Reporting directly to the board and working in close collaboration with the Chief Administrative Officer, the CSO will be responsible for all the free knowledge related projects conducted inside the association. He/she will work with the community, the Wikimedia movement and other partners in order to achieve our goals. He/she will actively search and promote collaborations with external partners (cultural institutions in particular). He/she will search for external funding, and will be in particular responsible for the annual grant request to the Wikimedia Foundation. He/she will manage the annual call for projects, making recommendations to the board with regards to the annual plan. He/she will directly manage staff and contractors working on projects, will lead some of the projects, will be responsible for the delivery of reports and will manage the communication. He/she will also participate in the strategic management of the association

Regards .