The Foundation is pleased to announce the full hiring of Carolyn Doran to the current team in St Petersbourg office.

Carolyn is not new ! She has been our part time accountant in the past few months, but was working through an interim agency.

Carolyn is now a full time employee, and has seen her role evolve toward new responsabilities. She now holds the role of the COO - please see job description below. In short, the chief operations officer (COO) is responsible for the overall administration and business operations. Areas of responsibility include administration, personnel and fiscal management. For now, she will be the person in charge of Barbara and Danny (for his administrative role), and in the future, any new employee working in the administrative area. The WMF board looks forward working with her in this new capacity :-)

This position will be re-evaluated upon hiring our future permanent Executive Director. I take the opportunity to mention we are moving nicely in the direction of finding our new ED, with the recent decision to hire a search firm to help us find the best candidate.

Carolyn may be found on irc under the pseudonym Carolyn. Please say hello if you run into her online :-)

Florence Devouard Chair of Wikimedia Foundation

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The board agreed upon the following job description.

I. Position summary The chief operations officer (COO) is responsible for the overall administration and business operations. Areas of responsibility include administration, personnel and fiscal management. This is a full-time position, hired by and directly accountable to the Executive Director, or to the board of directors through its elected board chair in absence of an Executive Director.

II. Responsibilities 1. Management and administration a. Develop and administer operational administrative policies. b. Provide information for evaluation of the organization's activities.

III. Fiscal a. Ensure effective audit trails. b. Approve expenditures. c. Provide for proper fiscal record-keeping and reporting. d. Submit monthly financial statements to the board of directors.

IV. Personnel a. Administer board-approved personnel polices. b. Provide for adequate supervision and evaluation of staff with administrative role.

V. Board relations a. Assist the board chair in planning the agenda and materials for board meetings. b. Initiate and assist in developing policy recommendations and in setting priorities.

VI. Public relations a. Ensure appropriate representation of WMF by all employees.