Wikimedia Foundation - Manager, Community Partnerships

• Leadership & Strategy • Contribute to the leadership, strategic decision-making, and culture-building of the Community Investment and Partnerships team. • Drive the development, implementation, review, and continuous adaptation of regional and local partnership strategies, ensuring they remain responsive and aligned with the Foundation’s priorities, Movement Strategy, and global trends. • Provide thought partnership to the Senior Director of Community Investment and Partnerships on long-term strategy and overall program direction, as part of the leadership circle of the wider team. • Partnership Management • Oversees all aspects of strategic partnership scoping, establishment,  implementation and reporting. • Support the development and implementation of partnership systems and mechanisms of measurement, evaluation, and learning to track impact and guide ongoing improvement of programs. • Standardize core practices across regions while respecting autonomy and contextual needs, ensuring balance between systemization and flexibility. • Build and maintain strong relationships with mission-aligned strategic partners, Wikimedia movement organizations and volunteer communities, while collaborating cross-teams to enable collaboration and mutual learning. • Creating and maintaining clear, accessible documentation for all aspects of partnership operations. This includes decision-making guidelines, workflows, meeting notes, and retrospectives to support learning, transparency, and consistency. • Operational Excellence • Identify, design, and implement improvements that increase operational effectiveness and efficiency across regional and local partnerships. • Promote a learning culture that embraces iteration, adaptation, and continuous improvement. • Ensure alignment of team practices with organizational values of trust, equity, participation, and knowledge sharing. • Team Management & Development • Lead, manage, and support a geographically distributed team of 5 Regional Community Partnership Managers, ranging time zones from UTC-8 to UTC+8 (from California to Singapore). • Coordinates with partnership managers to periodically review and report on their goals and objectives. • Provide clear direction, coaching, and professional development opportunities, ensuring alignment of individual work with broader strategic goals. • Foster inclusive and collaborative ways of working, rooted in Wikimedia’s values and supportive of cross-organisational learning. • Develop team capacity to effectively manage programs, deliver quality outputs, and contribute to the broader goals of the Community Investment and Partnerships team and Community Growth division.