Thank you to those of you who provided feedback about the roles and responsibilities off-list.
The position is now open. More at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2021-March/007489.html Best, Leila On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:55 PM Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I hope this email finds you well. > > We are going to open a position in the Research team [1] at the > Wikimedia Foundation and given the nature of the role (focused on the > research community building aspect of our work), I'd like to offer a > period of two weeks (until 2021-02-21) to hear your ideas about how to > improve specific aspects of the opening. If you would like to provide > optional feedback, please read on. Otherwise, you can safely stop > here. > > ==Background== > Over the past year or so, it has become evident to me that delivering > towards Section 4 of the Foundations whitepaper [2] the Research team > wrote in 2019 requires a dedicated individual in our team to focus on > this direction. We're going to open a position in our team for this > reason. > > ==Why are you asking for my input?== > We normally don't ask for the input from the community on the > specifics of the job descriptions. I'm making an exception in this > case because of the nature of the work for this particular position. > > ==Roles and responsibilities== > These are the roles and responsibilities I currently envision to ask > of the person who joins us in this capacity: > > * Developing, maintaining, and executing a research capacity and > outreach strategy in collaboration with the Head of Research and > rooted in the priority areas identified (Section 4 of the whitepaper > on the Foundations) > > * Maintaining, revamping and expanding the already existing research > community programs including the Formal Collaboration program [3], the > Research Internship program, and the Research Fellow program. > > * Organizing events such as the public Monthly Office Hours [4], > Monthly Research Showcases [5], and the annual Wiki Workshop [6] in > collaboration with the rest of the team > > * Serving as the liaison and facilitating engagement between the > existing Wikimedia research community and the Wikimedia Research team > > * Actively working to expand the existing Wikimedia research community > to include more regions of the world and more diverse disciplines > > * Understanding and triaging the needs of the Wikimedia research > communities and advocating for resources internally to meet them > > * Communicating and promoting the Research team’s work to external and > diverse audiences > > * Discussing, documenting and communicating the process and results of > your work publicly > > ==Who can provide input?== > Everyone on this list should feel welcome to. Given the nature of the > position and the focus on research community building, I expect to > hear the bulk of the feedback from those of you already active in the > research community, as organizers or researchers. > > ==What feedback am I seeking?== > Please focus your feedback on the "Roles and responsibilities" > section. Have I missed a responsibility? Is there a lack of clarity > around one or more of the ones already listed? ... > > ==What happens to your feedback?== > I commit to read all constructive feedback I receive by 2021-02-21 and > take them into account in updating the responsibility section of the > job description that we will post. I want to be clear that I may not > be able to implement particular feedback. My commitment is to > seriously consider them. > > ==What happens in parallel to this opportunity for providing feedback?== > For the sake of full transparency: I will start the process of > finalizing the job description with our Talent and Culture department, > including finalizing the title, experiences we will need for the role, > and the responsibilities. I will not completely finalize the job > description until the feedback period is over, however, so that I can > make the adjustments needed. > > ==Where can you provide feedback?== > You have 2 venues for doing so. On this email thread or in-person in > one of the two time-slots below: > February 11, 21:30-22:00 PST, link to connect: > https://meet.google.com/wrt-zypn-bxs > February 17, 8:00-8:30 PST, link to connect: > https://meet.google.com/igz-xboq-mwx > > ==What if you have questions?== > Feel free to join me in one of the two office hours posted above or > get in touch on this thread, on or off-thread. > > ==Will there be a reminder for this?== > No. If you are interested in engaging, please take a note on your end. > I am not planning to send reminders. :) > > If you have made this far, thank you! :) I'm looking forward to > hearing from you. I also want to share that I'm excited that we are > given the opportunity to bring a dedicated resource in our team to > focus on the community aspect of our work. There is a lot to be done > for you all already in the Wikimedia research community and towards > those who are not part of this community today but they can be. :) > > Best, > Leila > > > [1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foundations_-_Wikimedia_Research_2030.pdf > [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours > [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase > [6] https://wikiworkshop.org/ > > -- > Leila Zia > Head of Research > Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
