Welcome Jennifer. We look forward to work with you. /Lennart
2009/4/15 Mike.lifeguard <[email protected]> > Welcome, Jennifer! > > Congratulations to the hiring committee as well for carrying out a > successful hiring process. While the Foundation is expanding, I think > this and other recent hirings show there's no loss of focus on the power > behind the projects, which is the massive base of volunteer > contributors, and that enabling them is key to continued success. > > Thanks, > -Mike > > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 19:17 -0700, Sue Gardner wrote: > > > Hello folks, > > > > I am delighted to announce that this week, Jennifer Riggs begins work > > as the Wikimedia Foundation's first-ever Chief Program Officer. She > > will report to me. Frank Schulenburg, Jay Walsh and Cary Bass now > > report to Jennifer: as CPO, she is responsible for all non-technical > > program activities such as volunteer recruitment and public outreach. > > > > As you probably know, we've been searching for a CPO since last fall. > > Because this is a new and important position for us, we deliberately > > decided to allow a large pool of candidates to accumulate over several > > months. We wanted to build in time to think seriously about our needs > > while meeting with a wide range of people. > > > > Since October, we received applications from more than 150 people with > > a diverse array of backgrounds including media, academia, the public > > school system, non-profits, the free software movement and the > > business world. As we carried out the interviewing process, the > > hiring committee came to the understanding that Wikimedia is, at its > > heart, a volunteer-centred organization -- and that what we need most > > in a CPO is a rich background in facilitating, structuring and > > supporting the work of volunteers. Enter, Jennifer! > > > > Jennifer comes to Wikimedia from the American Red Cross Bay Area > > chapter, where, as Manager of Volunteer Resources, she managed the > > work of more than a thousand volunteers. Prior to the Red Cross, she > > was Project Director at the non-profit California School-Age > > Consortium, where she ran a program of train-the-trainer workshops. > > Before that, she worked for six years in program administration at the > > Peace Corps, as a Country Desk Office on the Central America Desk, a > > Country Desk Assistant on the Pacific Islands Desk, and a Training and > > Technical Coordinator in Togo, West Africa. > > > > Jennifer speaks French, Sango and some Spanish. She has a B.A. in > > History with minors in Education and Political Science from New York > > University. > > > > We know that the success of the Wikimedia projects depends upon the > > 150,000 active volunteers who are our core contributors. Jennifer's > > wealth of experience recruiting, motivating and retaining volunteers > > will be enormously useful to us as we aim to better support the > > volunteers we currently have, and also reach out to new people. > > > > Please join me in warmly welcoming her to the Wikimedia Foundation. > > > > I want to take a moment also to thank Erik Moeller, Michael Snow and > > Kat Walsh for participating on the hiring committee. This was an > > important decision, and their experiences and advice were really > > helpful throughout the process. > > > > Thanks, > > Sue > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Lennart Guldbrandsson, chair of Wikimedia Sverige and press contact for Swedish Wikipedia // ordförande för Wikimedia Sverige och presskontakt för svenskspråkiga Wikipedia _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
