[Wikimedia-l] Chief Communications Officer search & job description

We are please to announce the upcoming launch of the recruiting process for the Chief Communications Officer. As part of the process, we wanted to share the job description (below). A big thank you to the Communications team for their collaboration, support and guidance in creating it. We also wanted to out put a call, if you have any nominations or recommendations, we'd love to hear from you. Just email me directly over the next few days. Thanks! Joady Job Title: Chief Communications Officer Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a creative, collaborative, forward-thinking Chief Communications Officer to join our executive team in San Francisco, California. We’re looking for a leader who is mission-driven, transparent by default, has a truly global worldview, and can champion our values and voice in the world. You will lead a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary team of eleven storytellers, media strategists, marketers, and designers. Together, you will share our story and vision with the world, with the purpose of raising awareness of and increasing engagement in our work. The Wikimedia Foundation is an open and transparent organization operating within a decentralized global network of volunteers. We tend to speak openly rather than aiming to control or restrict access to information about us. We seek to inspire, engage, and bring people along in our free knowledge vision. As CCO, we’d like you to do these things: - Work with the executive team to think and act in service of the future of our projects (e.g. How does our story and message advance our strategic objectives? What kind of communications, marketing, or engagement strategy will we need to grow our work in the world? How will we better define and position our brand? Which stories do we want told about us? To what end?). - Lead the collaborative definition of long-term strategies to increase awareness and relevance of our brand, meeting priorities in audience growth and development (including contributors, readers, and donors), international language growth, open culture advocacy, and media relations. - Develop and lead messaging campaigns that achieve global impact in support of the Wikimedia movement’s strategic needs. - Lead a strong, diverse communications team guided by a clear vision. - Co-create the vision and direction for the team - Clarify and / or delegate the planning to work toward that vision: the roles, the responsibilities, the tools, the budget - Counsel and mentor the team across a broad range of disciplines (e.g., brand, identity, digital and social media, PR, messaging, marketing, audience growth and development) - Build a sustainable system and culture for team members’ continued professional growth and advancement - Create clear workflows for Foundation staff and Wikimedia volunteers to collaborate with the Communications team - Develop succession planning. - Serve the Wikimedia vision by working collaboratively with and empowering people to tell our story and narrate the movement. - Support the Foundation, Executive Director, and leadership in public messaging, issue management, and internal communications. - Be a compelling advocate for the Wikimedia movement and Foundation. - Oversee and guide the work of staff and volunteers in the continued development of communications systems that utilize contemporary publishing practices and reach diverse audiences with engaging content. We’d like you to have this experience and these skills: - 10+ years in strategic-level communications and marketing (or marcom) roles - Proven track-record of leading high-impact global marketing and communications initiatives with measurable results - Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, developing talent, and creating systems for creative and sustainable workflows - A clear, effective communications style, including experience guiding messaging for major organizations, political candidates, or movements - Significant experience navigating complex international organizations, movements, or networks - Experience and comfort in a highly collaborative, transparent environment - A track record of building consensus among large, dispersed stakeholder groups. Must have informed cultural sensitivities, intellectual curiosity, and a deep passion for the Wikimedia mission And it would be even more awesome if you had the following: - Experience with the internet industry including comfort with concepts and vocabulary related to product development and engineering - Familiarity with internet-related issues: laws limiting freedom of expression, open culture/free culture, the free and open source software movement, and online surveillance, privacy and security - Significant skilled personal use of communications, creative, and social technologies - The ability to work in a fast-moving, highly-diverse grassroots environment, while effectively prioritizing and leading a variety of activities - Experience working with nonprofit organizations is a plus - Fluency or familiarity with languages in addition to English are a plus. - Having lived or worked outside your country of origin is a plus - Experience as a member of a volunteer community is a plus About the Wikimedia Foundation: The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports and hosts Wikipedia and several other Wikimedia free knowledge sites. Every month, the Wikimedia sites are accessed by more than a billion unique devices. Wikipedia consists of more than 40 million articles across hundreds of languages. Every month, more than 70,000 volunteer editors contribute to Wikipedia. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) non-profit that is funded primarily through donations and grants. It currently employs over 240 staff members. At the Foundation, we build technology to help people everywhere access Wikipedia, across devices and in nearly 300 languages. We engineer privacy for our readers and editors so they can safely and securely explore Wikipedia. We create programs <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero> and initiatives to make Wikipedia freely available to more people in more parts of the world. We build new tools <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation> for the community of editors so they can continue to improve and grow Wikipedia. Roughly a quarter of our budget goes to supporting the community that make the site possible, including through grantmaking programs <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start> that enable volunteers and enrich the information on the sites. The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. Benefits & Perks*: - Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!) - The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, massages, cooking classes and much more - The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary - Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 19 paid holidays - including the last week of the year. - Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room - For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program - Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses - Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available - Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax - Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people * for benefits eligible staff, benefits may vary by location More Information: http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org/> -- Joady Lohr Chief Talent & Culture Officer Wikimedia Foundation p. 415.839.6885 x6824 www.wikimediafoundation.org Please Note: If I am emailing after hours or on the weekend, I am naughty. 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