Wikimedia Foundation - Senior Program Officer

• Professional experience in education, youth, and/or volunteer management programs. • Strong facilitation skills and demonstrated ability to build community trust and alignment for both short-term experiments and longer-term collaborations. • Proven flair for communicating ideas, with excellent written and spoken English. • A proactive and flexible approach to working across departments, in a distributed and cross-cultural environment. • Able to connect with partners who are typically based in UTC+2 to UTC-5 timezones and make 3 international trips each year. • Typically requires 5+ years professional experience in addition to a Bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years experience with a Master’s degree; or equivalent work experience. • Qualities that are important to us: • You build trust and foster collaboration across complex and cross-cultural environments, especially where shared ownership and influence without authority are key to success. • You are a thoughtful communicator who believes in genuine, inclusive, and equitable engagement with communities and volunteers. • A passion for open access to knowledge and/or experience contributing to Wikipedia • Fluency or proficiency in a language other than English. • The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. • The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. • News from across the Wikimedia movement • Wikimedia Blog • Wikimedia 2030