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JOB TITLE

Communications Officer

REPORTS TO

Head of Communication

JOB PURPOSE

The communications officer supports the Head of Communications in all of the Foundations key communications activities, including media relations/ analysis, management and design of communications products, marketing and promotion, and project management.

The communications officer will work closely with all staff in the Foundation, providing a broad range of communications support. The communications officer will also be immersed in a diverse, international volunteer community, providing direction for volunteer-led public outreach and fundraising activities.

JOB SUMMARY

  • Track and analyze international Wikimedia media exposure, including development of a web/print clips archive
  • Develop communications support products, including speaking points, issues briefs, press releases, social media posts, Q&As, and reports/summaries
  • Assist in the development of systems to manage incoming data, including user stories, supporting quotes, and best practices
  • Maintain the Wikimedia Foundation stakeholders database
  • Update and maintain several information wikis
  • Support external marketing efforts, specifically relating to ongoing international fundraising efforts
  • Research prospective media or speaking opportunities
  • Support the Foundation or volunteers at public events
  • Act as back-up media relations contact as required
  • Lead product creation activities alongside outsider contractors and volunteers
  • Coordinate speaking events for Wikimedia staff and volunteers

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Three to five years experience in a communications, marketing, or public relations role, preferably within the non-profit, on-line, media, or technology sector
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills are a must
  • Experience working with or as part of large volunteer communities is a major plus
  • Understanding of the free culture and open source movement
  • Comfort with a wide variety of communications tools is a must: for example, mailing lists, IRC, instant messaging
  • Comfortable responding to or reaching out to international media
  • Awareness and interest in supporting the Foundation's mission to support the expansion of free knowledge globally
  • High degree of comfort with communications technologies, including office software, web applications, design/illustration software, databases
  • Experience in HTML, wiki markup, or CSS is a major asset
  • Experience living or working internationally is a major plus, as is the ability to speak languages in addition to English
  • Must be able to work well with people with a very wide diversity of demographic and cultural characteristics
  • Must flourish in an environment that is highly transparent and collaborative
  • Experience working with AP style guides, other style guide familiarity would be an asset

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a US-registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit charity dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most visited websites, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews and the Wikimedia Commons media repository. The organization has received numerous honors for its work, among them the Webby Award, the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, the Japan Advertisers Association's Web Creation Award and the World Technology Award in Communications Technology.

The Wikimedia Foundation was created in 2003 to manage the operation of Wikipedia and its sister projects and is based in San Francisco, California. It currently employs 33 staff members. Wikimedia is supported by local chapter organizations in 27 countries or regions.

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To Apply

Please send cover letter (including availability), resume and two short writing samples to jobs(at)wikimedia.org before September 4, 2009. Please put the position title (Communications Officer) in your subject line.

Applications that do not include writing samples will not be considered.

This position will be filled in October 2009.

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 those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Based in San Francisco, CA. office.

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