[Foundation-l] [Announcement] Welcome to Carolyn Doran

[Anthere]

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.