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    Senior Program Officer

    Wikimedia
    Remote
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    3 days ago
    💰$94,094 - $142,196
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    Requirements

    • 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

    What You'll Do

    • Securing new partnerships with organizations that facilitate structured volunteering programs
    • Supporting Wikimedia communities and volunteers to offer training and content challenges through structured volunteering programs
    • Developing understanding of Wikipedia editing practices and policies and guidelines to effectively communicate the proposition to partners
    • Using readership data and community insights to identify knowledge gaps that match volunteering organizations’ capacities and interests
    • Understanding and communicating the needs of volunteering programs to the Product Managers delivering the Contributor Experience strategy

    Nice to Have

    • A passion for open access to knowledge and/or experience contributing to Wikipedia
    • Fluency or proficiency in a language other than English

    Benefits

    • Competitive and equitable salary consistent with values and culture
    • Remote-first organization
    • U.S. Benefits & Perks (link provided)

    About Wikimedia

    Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.

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