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 potential position within the Wikimedia movement. As such, he was
> not part of the recruiting committee who suggested the creation of a CSO
> position and did not participate to the board discussion that approved
> this position. He did not participate either to any of the discussions
> that took place afterwards during the hiring process for both positions,
> until the final choice made by the rest of the board, and resigned
> immediately after being told he was chosen. During the process, we
> received the advice of Dominique Freymond, a widely-recognized Swiss
> expert in governance (http://www.mas-ltd.ch/index.php?page=97), who
> helped us eliminate possible conflicts of interests. In particular, it
> was determined that our president did not have to resign during the
> selection process.
>
> The main people taking part in the recruiting committee were Chantal
> Ebongué, Ilario Valdelli and Frédéric Schütz, who followed the entire
> process. Several other people from the board, the staff, our members and
> external people were involved at one step or another, commenting on the
> process or the applications and participating to the interviews.
>
>
> ----------------
> Board transition
>
> The board has chosen current board member Patrick Kenel as president of
> the board ad interim, and Frédéric Schütz as vice-president ad interim.
> The current priority goes to the upcoming FDC application and the annual
> fundraiser; the organization of these activities does not depend on the
> transition, and so will not be affected in any way.
>
> The next general assembly is planned on 22 March 2014, and a new
> president will be elected at that time.
>
> Before finishing this long email, I would like to thank Chantal Ebongué
> again for the huge work she did while working with us, and for her
> collaboration within the hiring committee.
>
> Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!
>
> Frédéric
> Board member of Wikimedia CH, in the name of the core of the recruiting
> committee: Chantal Ebongué, Ilario Valdelli and Frédéric Schütz
>
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