Job openings/Head of Community Giving

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JOB TITLE

Head of Community Giving, Wikimedia Foundation

JOB PURPOSE

As head of community giving, your job is to execute the Wikimedia Foundation's community gifts strategy in the context of its overall mission, vision, values and goals. This position reports to the Chief Financial and Operating Officer.

JOB SUMMARY

This position will execute the community giving strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation in the context of its overall mission, vision, values and goals. This is a critical role: 96% of the Foundation's revenue is derived from individual donations.

Responsibilities:

  • Optimize and maintain the Wikimedia Foundation's single largest revenue source, its online donation pages;
  • Develop and implement strategy to solicit recurring donations;
  • Develop other donation streams, such as corporate matching programs, blog campaigns, social networking campaigns;
  • Develop and maintain communications with donors and prospective donors, including on-site messaging, newsletters, blog entries, etc.
  • Achieve annual financial targets, as established during the financial planning process.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent required; advanced degree preferred
  • The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of work experience, including some fundraising experience; however we will also consider applications from people with backgrounds that include usability and user interface/interaction design, and/or website project management
  • Good general understanding of donation streams including emerging trends
  • Mission-driven non-profit or open source / free culture experience
  • Excellent writing skills including the ability to explain, summarize, persuade and motivate
  • Experience with A/B testing, website usability testing and/or market research
  • Ability to evaluate, analyze and prioritize; self-motivated and independent
  • Good technical literacy from a user perspective: able to search a database and use various tools such as wikis, groups and blogging software, good general understanding of how websites are designed and constructed
  • The ability to speak multiple languages is a major plus;
  • Experience living or working outside the United States is a major plus.

ABOUT WMF

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable corporation. It is fully audited and has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 10 most-visited websites in the world.

TO APPLY

Please send a CV and cover letter to jobs@wikimedia.org, before May 15, 2008. Please put “Community Giving” in your subjectline.

In your cover letter, please lay out some opening thoughts about how, in your view, the Foundation might best implement a community giving strategy. Please also be aware that applications which do not include a cover letter will not be considered.

Please copy and paste the text of your CV into the e-mail, in addition to attaching the file.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we regret that only people selected for an interview will be contacted. Regardless of whether you are interviewed, we thank you for your application.

This position is based in our San Francisco headquarters. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, please make that clear in your cover letter.