[Foundation-l] Head of Communications position open?

[Brian]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> sfmammamia writes:
> >
> >
> > A bit of a mystery -- in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, page E-8,
> > there's
> > an ad for the Wikimedia Foundation Head of Communications position. This
> ad
> > does not appear online, at least I could not find a companion posting,
> > either on the foundation site or on Yahoo (the Chronicle's online ad
> > partner). Perhaps once the staff is back from the Labor Day holiday there
> > will be clarification? Or did I just miss something?
> >
>
> Hi, sfmammamia.  Here's the nutshell answer to your question:  because the
> Wikimedia Foundation is an international organization that hires staff from
> around the world and yet must with all relevant US employment law, we
> sometimes need to adhere to specific legal and administrative requirements.
> In other words, sometimes we must run employment ads, such as the posting
> of
> this position, in a newspaper like the SF Chronicle or elsewhere.
>
> This shouldn't be interpreted as a sign of any shakeup.  Jay, for example,
> is not leaving the Wikimedia Foundation -- he's doing a great job, and we
> expect and hope he will stay with us, doing the same great work, for a long
> time.
>
>
> --Mike Godwin
> General Counsel
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
I don't know what these laws are, but my first guess is that the foundation
doesn't plan to actually hire anyone who responds to the ad, but must post
the ad in order to conform to equal opportunity employment laws?