(cache) Job Application for Contract Japanese Language Specialist Strategy Coordinator at Wikimedia Foundation

Status: Contract

Duration: Up to 3 months

Hours: Up to 20 hours per week

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Contract Japanese Language Specialist Coordinator. This role will require English and Japanese language fluency in addition to hands-on experience within our Wikimedia communities. The position is contract with an estimated duration of up to three months and up to 20 hours per week.

We'd like you to do these things:

International coordination of our current movement strategy development works, in particular:

Build up and document network of volunteers from non-English language wikis, increasing the number of projects we can meaningfully interact with;
Collaborate closely with other coordinators, volunteers and Foundation staff to ensure an inclusive process;
Engage deeply the non-English communities assigned to the role in the strategy development process in their native languages by acting as a conduit for community ideas, questions, and change requests, talking to editors about the ongoing work and how they can participate in it effectively, and recruiting them for workgroups in their native language or English to be hosted by the facilitators under the direction of the Core Strategy Team;
Design, translate, and distribute invitations to participate in the movement strategy process;
Be available to provide expertise and knowledge about our projects, including but not limited to training externally-sourced staff in the way our projects work, answering their questions, and providing expert advice on an ad-hoc basis;
Monitor Wikimedia projects, with the assistance of a network of volunteers, for discussions of major strategic questions, feedback relevant to the strategic process, and emerging issues that have an impact on the movement;
Summarize input, feedback, and insights relevant to the process comprehensively in the pre-defined formats;
Produce a summary report of engagement in assigned language communities, and
Other duties as needed.

We'd like you to have these skills:

Experienced user of Wikimedia projects, capable of representing our community within the Foundation and vice-versa.
Strong communicators (both verbally and with the written word), able to explain the ongoing work to different groups of users with different levels of involvement in the movement.
Native or near-native language speakers in a target language (see above) and will have excellent English language skills.
Able to focus on the larger picture, understanding and being able to express which concerns and views are widespread and which are marginal or individual.
Approachable, as both users and staff must be able to trust the coordinators for the relationship to function to the benefit of the movement.
Self-motivated - they will be given important projects and expected to execute with little to no direct supervision, although with access to other facilitators for information exchange and support.
Strongly empathetic - they will excel at understanding the perspectives of others and bridging the gap between different approaches to the world.

And it would be even more awesome if you have this:

Familiarity with multiple Wikimedia projects is a major plus; we are about more than just Wikipedia.
Experience with strategy processes and especially prior Wikimedia strategy process. You will be the main contact point for your communities and other stakeholders not deeply familiar with the subject and looking for help in orientating themselves.
Additional fluency in diverse languages, especially in Dravidian languages like Tamil or Telugu and Bantu languages.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports and hosts Wikipedia and several other Wikimedia free knowledge sites. Wikipedia consists of more than 40 million articles across hundreds of languages. Every month, more than 70,000 volunteer editors contribute to Wikipedia. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) non-profit that is funded primarily through donations and grants. It currently employs over 240 staff members.

At the Foundation, we build technology to help people everywhere access Wikipedia, across devices and in nearly 300 languages. We engineer privacy for our readers and editors so they can safely and securely explore Wikipedia. We create programs and initiatives to make Wikipedia freely available to more people in more parts of the world. We build new tools for the community of editors so they can continue to improve and grow Wikipedia. Roughly a quarter of our budget goes to supporting the community that make the site possible, including through grantmaking programs that enable volunteers and enrich the information on the sites.

The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.

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