Wikimedia Foundation

Senior Program Officer, Content Enablement

Wikimedia Foundation

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: ArizonaCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $94,094 - $142,196 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Securing new partnerships with organizations that facilitate structured volunteering programs.
  • Supporting Wikimedia communities and volunteers to offer training and content challenges through structured volunteering programs.
  • Developing your understanding of Wikipedia editing practices and policies and guidelines in order to effectively communicate the proposition to partners.
  • Using readership data and community insights to identify knowledge gaps that match volunteering organizations’ capacities and interests.
  • Understanding and communicating the needs of volunteering programs to the Product Managers delivering the Contributor Experience strategy.

Requirements

  • Professional experience in education, youth, and/or volunteer management programs.
  • Strong facilitation skills and demonstrated ability to build community trust and alignment for both short-term experiments and longer-term collaborations.
  • Proven flair for communicating ideas, with excellent written and spoken English.
  • A proactive and flexible approach to working across departments, in a distributed and cross-cultural environment.
  • Able to connect with partners who are typically based in UTC+2 to UTC-5 timezones and make 3 international trips each year.
  • Typically requires 5+ years professional experience in addition to a Bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years experience with a Master’s degree; or equivalent work experience.
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