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Community Coodinator
Location: Palo Alto
Responsibilities:
- Conceptualize, foster and galvanize a Community of Volunteers to work on various life cycle stages of CK12 Content Lifecycle
- Propose, drive, and manage Community Programs that include working with authors, editors, reviewers, teachers, and parents
- Advise the organization on volunteer recruitment planning and coordination efforts
- Closely work with community to devise, recruit and formulate Local Chapters along with Policy Guidelines
- Help prioritize community activities aligned with overall mission of CK-12 and calibrate with tangible results oriented metrics
- Compile best practices and scaffold a framework to engage volunteers with ranging spectrum of skill sets and time availability
- Conduct focus group studies for community interaction and report volunteer involvement on a regular basis
- Help understand the volunteers, why it is important to volunteer by establishing the importance of long term sustainability
- Act as a catalyst to identify dormant chapters and evolve them in a constructive basis to be operational
- Be hands-on in organizing and conducting regular online events and tutorials to educate users about volunteer opportunities
- Periodically promote incentive programs with various units of currencies of interests for the volunteers, which will not involve huge cost expenses
Requirements:
- Experience in leading technical workshops for volunteers, and ability to work around technical constraints
- Thorough understanding of wikis, collaborative authoring, and desktop productivity tools
- Appreciation towards crowd sourcing, and open source movement�s guiding principles
- Understanding of content maturity life cycle, and conviction for quality of the educational materials
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to innovate and pioneer creative solutions within given constraints
Preferred:
- Experience in K-12 Teaching
- Experience with Open Source or Open Educational Resources Movement
- Passionate about and envision solutions to drive volunteer generated content
- Been a technical writer or a text book author with computing science background