Posted:Mon at 10:19 AM
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Non-Profit Organization Management
Description:
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects.
Job Description
Brand stewardship
- You will maintain a library of brand assets and materials and guidelines for Foundation staff, volunteers and partners around the world to use
- You will coach, educate and inspire volunteers, partners, and collaborators on the correct usage of brand materials
- You will work with insights analysts to maintain and improve tools for measuring brand health around the world
Brand development
- You will extend and refine the Wikimedia brand guidelines in order to meet new needs of Foundation staff, teams, and users.
- You will review and respond to requests to make use of the brand from Foundation teams, partners, and volunteers
Brand Strategy
- You will be a strategic thinking partner to Foundation teams, partners, and volunteers grappling with a brand challenge or wanting to realise a brand opportunity
- You will collaborate with data teams across the Foundation to unearth powerful insights to inform brand positioning, planning, architecture, marketing
- You will co-develop deceptively simple future focussed strategies to answer complex questions posed by Foundation teams, partners, and volunteers
- You will draft data informed, actionable brand communications, creative and design briefs
- You will act as a brand guardian, providing focused feedback to creatives on brand application, ensuring consistency across tone, language, personality, visuals, and messaging.
Experience and skills that are important to us:
- Brand Strategy: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience, with a strong understanding of core brand strategy frameworks (research, data analysis, brief writing, brand positioning). Proven ability to conduct research across audiences, competitors, and the market, translating data into actionable insights for marketing strategies.
- Community Experience: Experience working with brands that have community stakeholders
- Global Experience: Experience working on global brands in non-US or EU markets. You've partnered with diverse vendors and engaged international audiences.
- Collaborative: You thrive in collaborative environments, working effectively in group project scenarios and teams with shared decision-making. You have a proven record of working well across a wide range of disciplines from PR to Product, Design to Donor Relations.
- Inspiring: Ready to guide and support WMF staff, Wikipedia Volunteers and partners through brand development. You provide constructive feedback to agencies and creatives to deliver work in line with our brand guidelines and vision.
- Data-Driven: You are a data-driven performance measurement planner. You can recommend measurement approaches to our data teams, track results, analyse data, and use these findings to optimise future brand efforts.
Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time