Posted:2 hours ago
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
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Leading the design and co-creation of best practices for organizers looking to grow their skills, capacity and impact in efforts to reach new and established contributors to work on-Wiki.
- Assisting organizers in building alignment between their work and that of other cohorts of contributors, including on-wiki community facilitators and moderators working on-Wiki.
- Developing tested workflows in tool adoption and programme design for key organizer processes that improve newcomer retention and quality edits during organized activities.
- Helping existing organizers using data-informed decision-making to enhance the impact of their campaigns, events and collaborations.
- Facilitating cross-team alignment and support for organizers in the Wikimedia movement, ensuring that the Foundation has knowledge of their work and provides access to relevant support mechanisms.
- Contributing to enhanced learning across the Foundation and the movement on the impact of organizers specifically, and contributors more broadly.
Skills and experience:
- Bachelor’s + 5 yrs related exp; Master’s + 3 years related experience; or equivalent work experience;
- Familiarity with the Wikimedia movement, including experience in organizing campaigns and/or using Wikimedia product tools and/or contributing on Wikimedia projects;
- Experience developing workflows using online tools for project management, monitoring, evaluation and other organizing practices;
- Experience designing learning materials, workshops and processes in multicultural settings;
- Experience bringing an equity first approach to helping multidisciplinary teams meet their goals, especially in partnership with communities in the Global South
- Experience working with a distributed and remote team with people of diverse skill sets and backgrounds.
- Strong written and spoken English. Non-native English speakers are welcomed.
Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time