[Foundation-l] Fwd: WMF Job Posting - Project Manager

[Sue Gardner]

FYI: please feel free to share this posting widely. It went up
yesterday on the Wikimedia Foundation website.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel Phelps <dphelps at wikimedia.org>
Date: 2009/5/1
Subject: WMF Job Posting - Project Manager
To: Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org>

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Project_Manager_(Strategic_Plan)

Job Title

Project Manager

Employment Duration

June 2009 to July 2010.

This is a one year contract position with the possibility of extension.

Reports To

Executive Director

About the Collaborative Strategy Development Process

In July 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation will kick off a completely
open, collaborative and transparent strategy development process aimed
at maximizing the social impact of the Wikimedia movement world-wide
over the coming years. The project will run from July 2009 until July
2010, and will draw upon the experiences and knowledge of a wide range
of contributors including Wikimedia volunteers, specialists providing
pro bono support, Wikimedia staff and board members, and an external
strategy consulting firm. The strategy will be primarily developed
through wikis and other online tools, and all planning outputs will be
publicly available for review and free re-use.

The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring three positions to support this
process: a Project Manager, a Facilitator, and a Research Analyst.

Job description

The Project Manager is responsible for successfully executing the
Collaborative Strategy Development project: for making sure high
quality outputs are developed on time and inside the project budget.
The Project Manager will need excellent communications skills, a basic
understanding of strategy development and a passion for doing
high-quality work. The Project Manager will need a solid understanding
of project management fundamentals, but will not need to be skilled
with Gantt charts and other tools of high-complexity projects.

Responsibilities

    * Create and get sign-off for the project plan, including
review-and-refine cycles;
    * If possible as per the time of hiring, help to recruit the
dedicated project team (Research Analyst and Facilitator);
    * Lead the creation of the project work framework (e.g., wikis,
mailing lists, newsletters);
    * Ensure that non-English speakers have appropriate means to
participate, and to obtain community translations of project output;
    * Create and execute communications plan (encompassing internal
project team communications, project participant communications,
stakeholder; communications including the steering committee and
non-project participant Wikimedia volunteers, as well as non-Wikimedia
external communications including media);
    * Be the central hub of communications for people working on the
project including the steering committee, project team, working group
heads and external experts;
    * 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;
    * Escalate problems to the project team, and recommend solutions.

Requirements

    * 5+ years of experience managing and leading projects is required;
    * A basic understanding of strategy development fundamentals is required;
    * Experience working on decentralized projects is a major plus;
    * Excellent communications abilities are required, particularly
writing skills;
    * Must be comfortable using a wide variety of
communications/collaboration tools including wikis, mailing lists and
IRC;
    * Must be articulate, persuasive, and tactful, able to
successfully manage stakeholder relationships;
    * Must be able to set priorities and work independently;
    * A passion for moving work forward and achieving high-quality
outcomes is essential;
    * Experience designing simple questionnaires and surveys is a plus;
    * Experience managing translations and/or localization work is a big plus;
    * Must be able to work in a collaborative, consensus-oriented,
highly-diverse environment;
    * International experience or ability to speak multiple languages
is a big plus;
    * Experience with Wikimedia goals, policies and social norms is a plus.

Salary

The salary is in the range of $80,000 to $95,000, commensurate with experience.

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.

To Apply

Please send a CV and cover letter to jobs(at)wikimedia.org, before May
31, 2009. Please put the position title (Project Manager-Strategic
Plan) in your subject line.

Applications that do not include a cover letter will not be
considered. Due to the volume of responses that we anticipate we will
not reply to all applications, so please do not interpret our silence
as a lack of interest.

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 headquarters. If you are
not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, please make that
clear in your cover letter.


-- 
Sue Gardner
Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation

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