Wikimedia Foundation - Movement Communications Specialist, Africa (Contract)
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Requirements
• Excellent written English and fluency with at least one other African language would be beneficial. • Some knowledge of Wikimedia communities’ dynamics, policies, cultures, and channels. • A natural collaborator, who enjoys working with others and brings a supportive attitude to team efforts • Well organized, skilled at handling logistic tasks (scheduling, organizing, notetaking etc.), efficient and able to meet deadlines. • Ability to engage and facilitate dialogue with volunteers across a range of formats, including virtual meetings, on-wiki discussions, and in-person events. • Experience working in a multilingual and multicultural environment • Additionally we would love: • Experience of contributing to one of Wikimedia's projects. • Familiarity or direct experience with free knowledge communities, the education sector, and/or open source culture. • 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
Responsibilities
• Connections & Dialogue: Support building connection, trust and understanding with our communities through two-way dialogue with our movement in Africa. • Connections & Dialogue: • Deploying software: Work closely with others in the team to help deployment of product and technology features onto relevant Wikis. • Deploying software: • Movement Pulse: Following the movement pulse, through monitoring the relevant community channels for news, incidents, and requests, and understanding the most relevant discussions. • Movement Pulse: • Mapping: Help in mapping the editor communities and Wikimedia movement in the African region, with a special focus on Product and Tech engagement, users with extended rights and the communities’ needs and priorities. • Mapping: • Implementing insights: Help in informing the communities about the Foundation work, in alignment with recommendations from the Movement Communications Insights • Implementing insights: • Support the Movement Communications team by taking up occasional assignments for other organizational priorities as per direct report’s manager's indications.
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