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    Lead Program Manager, Community Wishlist

    Wikimedia
    Remote
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    7 days ago
    💰$130,198 - $198,422
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    Requirements

    • 8+ years experience in community management and community service ownership, including a portfolio of past projects led
    • 8+ years experience managing multi-stakeholder groups with staff, partner organizations, and volunteers
    • Proven track record of having positive impact on large teams and complex projects, effectively balancing competing priorities, and delivering results
    • Strong program management skills: prioritization, organization, planning, time management, facilitation, problem solving, and decision-making
    • Excellent English written and verbal communication skills and executive presentation experience
    • Ability to build rapport and influence with distributed teams representing various cultures, featuring different communication and learning styles
    • A commitment to and experience in creating a culture of equity, inclusion, and diversity
    • Ability to engage with a large amount of complexity and move from ambiguity to action
    • Ability to communicate and collaborate with both deeply technical and non-technical stakeholders
    • Detail oriented with an ability to keep big picture in mind

    What You'll Do

    • Lead all aspects of planning, coordination, and execution of request intake programs across teams and departments
    • Track, support, and enable teams to deliver meaningful impact; establish clear metrics and/or milestones to measure success
    • Facilitate and improve team practices, workflows, and processes at a wishlist program level
    • Support community organizations to implement related programming to expand reach with target audiences
    • Manage budgets and resources for intake activities, including contracting and managing external vendors and consultants
    • Manage teams across functional boundaries, both internal and external
    • Maintain strong documentation and transparent reporting structures, ensuring visibility across all stakeholders
    • Communicate overall vision and direction of the portfolio to various stakeholder audiences
    • Lead capacity planning exercises, identify gaps and make recommendations for resource allocation or escalation
    • Partner with Product and Technology leadership and program stakeholders to align priorities with strategic objectives and operational realities
    • Build and maintain relationships with community members, community leaders, movement organizations, and other diverse stakeholders
    • Identify relevant stakeholders, develop a shared understanding of program goals among them, keep them aligned, and ensure they understand their commitments to program goals and other stakeholders
    • Design program evaluation plans
    • Develop and report upon relevant qualitative and quantitative project metrics
    • Evaluate success against metrics and milestones, and ensure clear communication of that in reporting
    • Prepare reports and presentations to communicate program outcomes and progress toward strategic goals, to both internal and external stakeholders

    Nice to Have

    • Experience working in an international organization that has a distributed workforce
    • Experience working with the Wikimedia community or within a movement with strong culture and values

    Benefits

    • Competitive and equitable salary
    • Remote-first organization
    • Inclusive and equitable workplace culture

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