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The [[Wikimedia Foundation]], with around fifty paid employees, is largely a volunteer organization. The Volunteer Coordinator leads the way in opening up new opportunities for volunteers to contribute to the [[mission]] and day-to-day work of the Foundation, and typically works in the Wikimedia Office in [[w:San Francisco|San Francisco]], [[w:California|California]]. |
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Volunteer Coordinator responsibilities include: |
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* Maintaining a global, public list of tasks across different work areas, through communicating with committees/officers, indicating which areas need volunteer work the most critically at any given time. |
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* Advising the [[Board]] and [[Executive Director]] during the setup of new volunteer groups and committees. |
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* Ensuring that all volunteer groups in the [[Wikimedia Foundation|WMF]] are operational and reporting their activities on a regular basis and evaluating performance. |
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* Being the first personal point of contact for people who wish to do volunteer work for the organization, but don't know where to start. |
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* Organizing and advertising regular online events and tutorials to educate people about different areas of volunteering |
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* Identifying and reporting when existing volunteer groups such as committees or workgroups may have challenges, and recommending structural changes where needed. |
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* Collecting and documenting best practices for volunteer management, partially based on communicating with other non-profits and by research on the topic. |
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* Representing Wikimedia at events where we might find useful volunteers from a specific background. |
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In short, the Volunteer Coordinator is responsible for achieving what is absolutely critical for the long term sustainability of the Foundation: involving volunteers in every part of our mission. |
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Our current Volunteer Coordinator is [[User:Cary Bass|Cary Bass]], who, as a long time community member, adminstrator, bureaucrat and steward, has good familiarity with the Wikimedia Foundation, its processes, and [[Our projects|its projects]] (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, and others). |
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Latest revision as of 02:04, 19 September 2018
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