commit 005a13eccaed89b95456bcc5b4ee84f97781f2fa
Author: Nick Mathewson <ni...@torproject.org>
Date: Thu May 14 11:47:05 2015 -0400
Add Executive Admin posting
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+## translation metadata
+# Revision: $Revision: 25666 $
+# Translation-Priority: 3-low
+
+#include "head.wmi" TITLE="Tor Project: Jobs (executive administrator)"
CHARSET="UTF-8"
+<div id="content" class="clearfix">
+ <div id="breadcrumbs">
+ <a href="<page index>">Home » </a>
+ <a href="<page about/overview>">About » </a>
+ <a href="<page about/jobs>">Jobs</a>
+ </div>
+ <div id="maincol">
+
+
+<h2>Executive Administrator (contract; 20 hours per week, to start)</h2>
+
+<p>The Tor Project, Inc. ("Tor") is accepting applications for an Executive
Administrator! This
+new role is designed to improve processes and drive execution as the hub
+of our diverse and driven global community. Tor has dramatically
+expanded the software products and services that it provides since it
+became a non-profit organization in 2006, and the executive team needs
+help in coordinating efforts to efficiently support and scale its
+operations.</p>
+
+<p>Reporting to a small executive management team, the Executive
Administrator's primary focus is to promote organizational effectiveness by
improving core administrative and managerial processes, systems and functions.
We seek an intuitive problem solver who is able to tailor organizational
responses to the diverse needs of our global community. We seek a problem
solver who will improve the flow of information within the leadership team and
among those it serves, including end users, volunteers, contractors, employees,
the Board of Directors, funders and the greater community.</p>
+
+<p>Responsibilities include performing a wide variety of complex and
confidential tasks, including:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Perform day-to-day administrative tasks as directed by the executive team.
+
+<li>Maintain calendar, schedule meetings and appointments, and make necessary
travel arrangements; manage the business calendar for the Executive Director
and 5-6 team members.
+
+<li>Establish and maintain office files and company documents, both physically
and virtually; make recommendations for better information management practices
and tools in a free and open source software environment.
+
+<li>Assist the Executive Director in managing, re-directing, prioritizing and
responding to large volumes of email and other correspondence.
+
+<li>Screen and respond to a variety of routine inquiries by developing
knowledge and understanding of the organization, projects and procedures
related to the work of the Executive Director and Tor. Coordinate future
responses to recurring issues/requests.
+
+<li>Prepare meeting materials, formalize agendas, and record and share minutes
to promote exchange of actionable information and timely decision-making.
+
+<li>Translate executive level direction into working level operations,
ensuring roadmap and plans are successfully implemented.
+
+<li>Establish and build relationships with key stakeholders inside and outside
the community.
+
+<li>Serve as liaison with finance and accounting on diverse issues, including
contract management, project planning and budgeting, report writing, expense
management, external funding, event planning and human resources paperwork.
+
+<li>Coordinate with Tor's Project Manager and team leaders in supporting needs
and objectives of diverse developers and teams.
+
+<li>Identify and articulate a daily and weekly leadership agenda of macro
tasks, clearly defining milestones and deliverables with deadlines.
Continuously seek out a mutual understanding from executive management
regarding how to resolve.
+
+<li>Other tasks as mutually identified, and as assigned.
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Qualifications<h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Shares the non-profit, free and open software culture, as well as Tor's
privacy values within a security environment.
+<li>Strong project management skills plus ability to broadly support managers,
including experience with facilitating communications, scheduling, information
management, human resources and accounting.
+<li>Accessible and engaging with diverse global community. Capable of
moderating among diverse communication styles, from less formal developers to
more formal Board and funder communications.
+<li>Knowledge of office and communication practices and procedures, especially
within the non-profit and/or open source community. Comfort level with common
open source and encrypted communication technology strongly preferred.
+<li>Experience with the advanced features of email and chat clients,
spreadsheets, calendars, shared documents, etc., especially in a
security-focused, open source environment.
+<li>Ability to act on own initiative to identify needs and to enhance Tor's
overall administrative/management functioning.
+<li>Exceptional communication skills, sophisticated understanding of
professional standards, practices and relations. Knowledge of correct English
usage, knowledge of other language(s) prevalent within the community is
preferred.
+<li>Willingness to learn how to interact with journalists interested in
covering Tor and its work.
+<li>Experience within non-profit organizations preferred, as is experience
within free and open source software communities.
+<li>High levels of integrity, autonomy, self-motivation, diplomacy, humor,
common sense and attention to detail.
+<li>Ability to work in a fast-paced, fluid and often ambiguous environment.
+<li>Background check required.
+</ul>
+
+
+<h3>About the role:</h3>
+<p>
+This position will be based in Tor's offices in Cambridge, MA. Initially, we
anticipate the need for 20-24 hours per week during flex business hours in
Cambridge, with the potential for increasing the number of hours, some of which
may be off-site. We coordinate our global community via IRC, instant messaging,
email, phone and video chats, and TRAC, as well as bi-annual meetings.
+<p>We only write free and open source software, and we don't believe in
software patents.
+
+
+<h3>How to apply:</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Provide a CV explaining your background, experience, skills, and other
relevant qualifications.
+<li>Include a cover letter that describes how your skills and background
qualify you to meet the challenges of this role for this unique organization.
Please supply a writing sample (blog post, article, etc.).
+<li>Provide at least three references who can tell us more about you.
+<li>Email the above to jobs @ torproject.org, specifying the "Executive
Administrator" position.
+</ul>
+
+
+
+<h4>About the company:</h4>
+ The Tor Project is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to research,
+ development, and education about online anonymity and privacy. The Tor
+ network's 6000 volunteer relays carry 48 Gbps for several
+ million daily users, including ordinary citizens who want protection
+ from identity theft and prying corporations, corporations who want
+ to look at a competitor's website in private, people around the world
+ whose Internet connections are censored, and even governments and law
+ enforcement. Tor has a staff of 30 paid developers, researchers, and
+ advocates, plus many dozen volunteers who help out on a daily basis. Tor
+ is funded in part by government research and development grants, and
+ in part by individual and corporate donations.
+</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <!-- END MAINCOL -->
+ <div id = "sidecol">
+#include "side.wmi"
+#include "info.wmi"
+ </div>
+ <!-- END SIDECOL -->
+</div>
+<!-- END CONTENT -->
+#include <foot.wmi>
+
diff --git a/about/en/jobs.wml b/about/en/jobs.wml
index 5ffc56b..42761c9 100644
--- a/about/en/jobs.wml
+++ b/about/en/jobs.wml
@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@
<div id="maincol">
<h1>The Tor Project is always looking for more great people to join our
team!</h1>
-<p>At the moment, we don't have any official open positions. Please check back
-soon, though! In the meantime, you may want to glance at our
-<a href="<page getinvolved/volunteer>">volunteers</a> page.
+#<p>At the moment, we don't have any official open positions. Please check back
+#soon, though! In the meantime, you may want to glance at our
+#<a href="<page getinvolved/volunteer>">volunteers</a> page.
-#<p>Specifically, we're looking for the following people currently:
-#</p>
+<p>Specifically, we're looking for the following people currently:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<a href="<a href="<page about/jobs-execadmin>">Executive
Administrator</a></li>"
+</li>
<p>In the past, we looked for the following people:</p>
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