Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia South Africa/2019/staffingplan
This page describes the staffing plan for 2019 of Wikimedia South Africa(WMZA). This staffing plan is created to clarify and better execute the first hiring process of Wikimedia South Africa should it ever happen.
Wikimedia ZA intends to hire a single contractor for the 2019 grant year. The primary purpose of the contractor is to implement and report on the Wiki Loves Earth project. The secondary purpose is to support South African language outreach efforts in support of the chapter's language objectives. The third purpose is to provide administrative assistance to the chapter.
Period of contract: 480 hours over a three to four month period. March - June 2019.
Since the project will primarily focus on supporting Wiki Loves Earth 2019 (talking place in May) in addition to other WMZA projects such as furthering the chapter's language outreach efforts the contract period will focus on March, April, May and into June 2019.
Although this is not the firs time that WMZA has hired a full time employee the chapter would like to experiment with hiring a full time staff member in the future. This is being done to test the rediness of the chapter to take on a full time employee or hire contractors
Requirements
[edit]The job will require someone with the following skills:
- A high level of computer literacy
- Openness and proven ability to learn new technical tasks
- Be based in Cape Town, South Africa
- Proven track record of reliability
- Ability to speak multiple South African languages with fluency in English.
- A systematic approach to record keeping and project implementation.
Ideally with prior job experience running similar NGO projects in South Africa and Wikipedia editing experience.
Scope of work
[edit]The scope of work for the WMZA event contractor. As mentioned above there are three tasks for the contractor to focus on in the following order of importance:
- Organising, implementing, and reporting on the Wiki Loves Earth 2019 photographic competition
- Supporting the outreach effort for WMZA language outreach efforts
- Administrative support to free up volunteer resources and increase chapter capacity.
The contractor will be directly accountable to the Wikimedia ZA board of directors. WMZA board member Douglas Scott will be the point person with the contractor to provide training and guidance as well as provide a day-to-day oversight role on the contractor.
Wiki Loves Earth
[edit]Wiki Loves Earth is a project that WMZA has wanted to host for many years now but has been unable to do so for due to a lack of chapter capacity.
Tasks
[edit]The contractor will have the following Wiki Loves Earth related tasks:
- Partnership development for the successful implementation of the event.
- Organise Wiki Loves Earth by publicising the event and getting event by-in with event partners.
- Raise public awareness and encourage public participation in the event.
- Implement at least three outreach efforts similar to those organised for Wiki Loves Monuments ZA
- Setup and coordinate a panel of judges to fairly and independently judge the entries by the end of the second week of June 2019.
- Organise and award prizes to the winning entries by the end of June 2019.
- Collect data and document the organisational and implementation efforts related to the event.
Deliverables by contract end
[edit]The contractor will be required to deliver on the following Wiki Loves Earth related deliverable before or by the end of the contract:
- Impact report on Wiki Loves Earth in South Africa detailing the number of participants, submissions, event partners and use of images on Wikipedia.
- A financial report compiled with the WMZA bookkeeper.
- Mini-reports on supporting outreach events
Funding
[edit]| Position | Unit | Number of units (hours) |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event contractor (Wiki Loves Earth) | R81.25 | 480 | R39,000 |
| Total | R39,000 |