Strategy Coordinator

Overview

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Contract MetaWiki Strategy Contractor.  This position will work to build a network of volunteers, increasing collaboration within the movement strategy process.  This role requires Wikimedia Community experience.  This position is a contract role.  Duration is up to three months at up to 20 hours per week.

We’d like you to do these things: 

Cross-wiki coordination of our current movement strategy development works, in particular:

• Building up a network of volunteers from multilingual wikis (including English), increasing the number of projects we can meaningfully interact with;
• Collaborating closely with other coordinators, volunteers and Foundation staff to ensure an inclusive process;
• Designing and distributing invitations to participate in the movement strategy process;
• Engaging the community in the strategy development process by acting as a conduit for community ideas, questions, and change requests, talking to editors about the ongoing work and how they can participate in it effectively, and recruiting them for workgroups to be hosted by the facilitators under the direction of the Core Strategy Team;
• Being available to provide expertise and knowledge about our projects, including but not limited to training externally-sourced staff in the way our projects work, answering their questions, and providing expert advice on an ad-hoc basis (in writing or in remote meetings);
• Monitoring Wikimedia projects and other areas determined to be relevant (potentially to include mailing lists and social media) for discussions of major strategic questions, feedback relevant to the strategic process, and emerging issues that have an impact on the movement;
• Summarizing input, feedback, and insights relevant to the process comprehensively in the pre-defined formats;
• Collaborate to produce a final summary report of engagement, and
• Other duties as needed.

We’d like you to have these skills: 

• Experienced users of Wikimedia projects, capable of neutrally representing our community within the Foundation and vice-versa without promoting own perspective.
• Strong communicators (both verbally and with the written word), able to explain the ongoing work to different groups of users with different levels of involvement in the movement.
• Able to focus on the larger picture, understanding and able to express which concerns and views are widespread and which are marginal or individual.
• Approachable, as both users and staff must be able to trust the facilitators for the relationship to function to the benefit of the movement.
• Self-motivated – they will be given important projects and expected to execute with little supervision, although with access other facilitators for information exchange and support.
• Strongly empathetic – they excel at understanding the perspectives of others and bridging the gap between different approaches to the world.

And it would be even more awesome if you have this: 

• Diverse language skills is a major plus. The Wikimedia movement is multilingual, so we aim to be able to talk to our different communities natively.
• Familiarity with multiple Wikimedia projects and the movement in general is a major plus; we are about more than just Wikipedia.
• Experience with complex strategy process, especially previous movement strategy processes (global, regional). You will be the main contact point for many communities and other stakeholders not deeply familiar with the subject and looking for help in orientating themselves.