Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH has just hired two new directors
Congratulations to everybody involved in this recruitment process. The following pages need to be updated: * https://www.wikimedia.ch/who-are-we/board-members * https://www.wikimedia.ch/who-we-are/employees Emmanuel Le 05/09/2013 16:18, Frédéric Schütz a écrit : Dear all, I'm very glad to tell you that Wikimedia CH has just hired two new directors. Duc-Ahn Chung will be our new Chief Administrative Officer, starting in November, and Charles Andrès, our former president of the board, will be our new Chief Science Officer. Read on for more details! When Chantal Ebongué, our CAO and first employee, told us she was planning to leave, we set a recruiting committee to replace her. One of the reasons she was leaving was that it was difficult to take care of both administrative work and project work -- both because of the high workload, and because these two tasks require very different competences. Thus, while drafting the job description, the recruiting committee proposed to the board to hire two people. This was accepted, and we now have filled these positions. Duc-Anh (Anh) Chung, our new CAO, originally studied hotel management, and worked as project manager in different hotels around the world. She then worked as an executive assistant in a start-up company in Geneva, in charge of all administrative matters. Since May 2012, she is assistant director in a large non-profit organization in Geneva. In this position, she is responsible for all administrative matters, and has a wide experience helping a purely volunteer organization transform itself into a professional structure. Among other tasks, Ahn will be in charge of the human resources and the finances of our association, including the annual fundraiser and the financial side of the FDC application, and will report directly to the board. She will start working for Wikimedia CH on 1 November -- just in time for the fundraiser :-) Charles Andrès, our new CSO, was originally trained as a biologist; he received a Master in Genetics followed by a PhD in Cellular Biology in France. Since 2007, he has worked as a senior scientist at the University of Neuchâtel, where he is a researcher and lecturer in biology. He is a Wikipedian since 2007, board member of Wikimedia CH since 2010 and the chairman of the board since June 2012. Charles will be responsible for all the projects conducted inside our association, including both support of individual initiatives (members projects) and institutional partnerships, and will be responsible for the annual FDC application. Among other projects, he will oversee our GLAM activities, as well as the development of our education program. He will report directly to the board. Charles has started working part-time as CSO on 1 September (just in time for the preparation of the FDC application :-), and will join us full time in early October. The choice of a Chief Science Officer (CSO) position The decision to create a CSO position stems from the fact that many of our efforts (current and planned) are focused on scientific projects; by this we mean not only that we have established many collaborations with academic institutions, but also that we intend to drive our projects using a scientific approach, as a tool to improve quality. We have received very good feedback on this from many people in the Wikimedia community. -- The choice of two directors rather than one executive director In our current structure and given our level of development, the board still takes care of many tasks traditionally in the hands of an executive director. The choice of hiring two directors, each with well-defined areas of competences, working closely together and with the board, was deemed the best solution (note that despite the title of directors, they will not simply delegate the day-to-day work to other employees, but will actually perform most of it). This solution fits well with the Swiss culture, as even the Federal government is organized following such a collegial structure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_%28Switzerland%29 ). We are also glad to have been able to make a balanced hiring: not only have we hired one man and one woman, but we have one director who knows the Wikimedia movement very well, and another one who will bring a fresh pair of eyes. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find a balance between the different languages spoken in Switzerland, as we hired two native French speakers, but we have made sure that our staff can cover adequately the different language communities in the country. - Governance and management of potential conflicts of interests At the time when Chantal left, Charles Andrès had indicated an interest in a
Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH has just hired two new directors
Congratulations to all the new officers and office-holders! I wish you plenty of success with your new tasks/roles! Beat -Original Message- From: wikimediach-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediach-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Frédéric Schütz Sent: Donnerstag, 5. September 2013 16:19 To: Mailing list for Wikimedia CH; Wikimedia Chapters general discussions; wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH has just hired two new directors Dear all, I'm very glad to tell you that Wikimedia CH has just hired two new directors. Duc-Ahn Chung will be our new Chief Administrative Officer, starting in November, and Charles Andrès, our former president of the board, will be our new Chief Science Officer. Read on for more details! When Chantal Ebongué, our CAO and first employee, told us she was planning to leave, we set a recruiting committee to replace her. One of the reasons she was leaving was that it was difficult to take care of both administrative work and project work -- both because of the high workload, and because these two tasks require very different competences. Thus, while drafting the job description, the recruiting committee proposed to the board to hire two people. This was accepted, and we now have filled these positions. Duc-Anh (Anh) Chung, our new CAO, originally studied hotel management, and worked as project manager in different hotels around the world. She then worked as an executive assistant in a start-up company in Geneva, in charge of all administrative matters. Since May 2012, she is assistant director in a large non-profit organization in Geneva. In this position, she is responsible for all administrative matters, and has a wide experience helping a purely volunteer organization transform itself into a professional structure. Among other tasks, Ahn will be in charge of the human resources and the finances of our association, including the annual fundraiser and the financial side of the FDC application, and will report directly to the board. She will start working for Wikimedia CH on 1 November -- just in time for the fundraiser :-) Charles Andrès, our new CSO, was originally trained as a biologist; he received a Master in Genetics followed by a PhD in Cellular Biology in France. Since 2007, he has worked as a senior scientist at the University of Neuchâtel, where he is a researcher and lecturer in biology. He is a Wikipedian since 2007, board member of Wikimedia CH since 2010 and the chairman of the board since June 2012. Charles will be responsible for all the projects conducted inside our association, including both support of individual initiatives (members projects) and institutional partnerships, and will be responsible for the annual FDC application. Among other projects, he will oversee our GLAM activities, as well as the development of our education program. He will report directly to the board. Charles has started working part-time as CSO on 1 September (just in time for the preparation of the FDC application :-), and will join us full time in early October. The choice of a Chief Science Officer (CSO) position The decision to create a CSO position stems from the fact that many of our efforts (current and planned) are focused on scientific projects; by this we mean not only that we have established many collaborations with academic institutions, but also that we intend to drive our projects using a scientific approach, as a tool to improve quality. We have received very good feedback on this from many people in the Wikimedia community. -- The choice of two directors rather than one executive director In our current structure and given our level of development, the board still takes care of many tasks traditionally in the hands of an executive director. The choice of hiring two directors, each with well-defined areas of competences, working closely together and with the board, was deemed the best solution (note that despite the title of directors, they will not simply delegate the day-to-day work to other employees, but will actually perform most of it). This solution fits well with the Swiss culture, as even the Federal government is organized following such a collegial structure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_%28Switzerland%29 ). We are also glad to have been able to make a balanced hiring: not only have we hired one man and one woman, but we have one director who knows the Wikimedia movement very well, and another one who will bring a fresh pair of eyes. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find a balance between the different languages spoken in Switzerland, as we hired two native French speakers, but we have made sure that our staff can cover adequately the different language communities in the country.
