Dear all, Wikimedia CH is looking for a French Community Liaison
French-Community Liaison - 50% Reporting directly to the Chief Science Officer (CSO), the FCL works actively with the Swiss French Wikimedia community in order to support it accomplishing projects and get in touch with Wikimedia entities and officials. It helps the community by gathering requests and ideas, communicating them to all relevant parties and translating information wherever needed. This includes support to bring formal requests and motions to WMCH by helping to prepare them, translate them and present them to the board. In the same manner the FCL communicates activities of the Wikimedia entities to the community by writing reports, blog posts and mails, translating information from WMCH to the community's language. It's her/his responsibility to make sure the community voices are heard inside the association and that activities and communications of Wikimedia movement entities are also replicated into the communities. The FCL will also manage outreach project like editing or photo contest. Qualifications The ideal candidate will have: *Experience in a similar position for at least 1 year; *Fluency (speaking and writing) in English and French; *Good computer skills (office software suite, ticketing system), comfort and familiarity with technology systems *Familiar with online media (mailing lists, Drupal, Twitter, Facebook); *Excellent communication skills; *Familiar with Wikipedia / Wikimedia French speaking community, if possible active in the French speaking wikis. This position is mainly based in our office in Lausanne, but requires to be flexible in terms of working hours. This is a one year renewable contract. Dead-Line: July 15th Candidatures Please apply in English at i...@wikimedia.ch or by postal mail: Ms Anh Chung – CAO Wikimedia CH Escaliers-du-Marché 2 1003 Lausanne with a cover letter, a resume and other documents such as certificates, etc. A short summary on how you imagine the job will be appreciated. Please add English translations of your resume and short summary. Sincerely Hiring process: The hiring comittee is made of : *One board member *One or two community member(s) *The CAO and the CSO *One community manager The hiring committee will make a recommandation to the Wikimedia CH board who will utlimately take the decision. For the hiring committee, Charles ___________________________________________________________ Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Office +41 (0)21 340 66 21 Mobile +41 (0)78 910 00 97 Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch http://prezi.com/user/Andrescharles/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
