Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Remote Movement Communications Specialist, Africa: Apply Now
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Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Remote Movement Communications Specialist, Africa: Apply Now
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Movement Communications Specialist, Africa (Contract), the ideal candidate is an experienced communicator, campaigner or community organizer with extensive experience connecting, convening and collaborating across Africa; someone who is passionate about bringing people together around a common cause.
Reporting to the Manager, Global Movement Communications, the Movement Communications Specialist will be part of the Movement Communications team and the wider Communications Department. You will help Wikimedia Foundation build bridges and a shared understanding across its movement with a particular focus on the Africa region.
Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced communicator, campaigner or community organizer with extensive experience working across Africa. The Movement Communications team, part of the Communications Department is uniquely skilled at bringing people together – whether through moments to celebrate or workshops to collaborate, and while working with other departments as strategic partners and problem solvers. Wikimedia Foundation works to build bridges and understanding in the movement; to help people understand its mission and celebrate their role in its success.
Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a person based in the Sub Saharan Africa region.
Your Responsibilities:
- Connections & Dialogue: Support building connection, trust and understanding with Wikimedia Foundation communities through two-way dialogue with its movement in Africa.
- Deploying software: Work closely with others in the team to help deployment of product and technology features onto relevant Wikis.
- Movement Pulse: Following the movement pulse, through monitoring the relevant community channels for news, incidents, and requests, and understanding the most relevant discussions.
- 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.
- Implementing insights: Help in informing the communities about the Foundation work, in alignment with recommendations from the Movement Communications Insights
- Support the Movement Communications team by taking up occasional assignments for other organizational priorities as per direct report’s manager’s indications.
Skills & Experience:
- 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 Wikimedia Foundation 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.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Its vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Wikimedia Foundation believes that everyone has the potential to contribute something to its shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. Wikimedia Foundation hosts 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. Wikimedia Foundation receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. Wikimedia Foundation also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with its values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 76,765 to US$117,457 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay.
For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. Wikimedia Foundation neither asks for nor takes into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
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