Dear friends and colleagues,
Many of who have already heard from Jessie in multiple ways, but for those
who haven't: Jessie Wild, who currently heads the Learning and Evaluation
team in the Grantmaking department at WMF, is leaving for a year's
fellowship with Ideo.[1] Her last day at the Foundation is tomorrow.
We are going to miss her. Jessie has been an extraordinary and integral
part of WMF for the last four years, and demonstrated her initiative,
insight and leadership in each of the positions she’s ably held here. For
many of you, you may remember Jessie's first role was part of the
consultant team working on the 5 year strategy. Most recently and
importantly, she’s led the Learning and Evaluation team in the past year to
do some significant baseline research and impact analyses of our grants and
programs across the movement. This is work that lays the foundation for a
great deal of our strategic vision and direction going forward. Thank you
so much, Jessie, for all your strategic leadership, but even more: thank
you for who you are, and the heart you’ve always brought to your team, WMF
and the communities we support.
We are hoping that Jessie will rejoin us when she’s completed this
brilliant opportunity at IDEO (she’s one of four chosen from over 450
applicants!). However, the work we are doing with all of you on impact and
strategic outcomes for the movement is urgent and will need to be ramped up
even further over this year. We will be opening up this position to lead
the L&E team soon, and keep you posted on it.
Jessie, thank you again for all your manifold contributions.
Warmly,
Anasuya
[1]
http://www.ideo.org/fellows
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*Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation*
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