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Jobs at Wikimedia Foundation
Deadline of these Jobs: 17 September 2022
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools

Web Manager

You are responsible for:

Managing, maintaining, and enhancing wikimediafoundation.org

  • Developing the roadmap and strategic vision for wikimediafoundation.org, the Foundation's public website, aligned with Communications Department objectives
  • Serving as the main point of contact for website content updates, including standing up new webpages and adding content to existing pages, occasionally during time-sensitive situations
  • Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders with design, technical, and editorial expertise to create or update web content
  • Monitoring and ensuring website usability, health, performance, and security
  • Troubleshooting website as needed, identifying and solving issues through collaboration with colleagues and vendors
  • Creating and maintaining documentation about website practices

Leading special website projects

  • Managing projects from conceptualization to implementation, including: closely coordinating with colleagues and vendors for editorial content, design, and technical support; overseeing project timing and costs; proactively identifying project needs and solutions; and ensuring successful execution
  • Driving upcoming projects, which may include a refresh of the content on the wikimediafoundation.org homepage, microsite integrations, new campaign page development, and feature enhancements

Serving as a strategic advisor on Foundation web channels

  • Developing a unified approach for the strategy and maintenance of all web channels owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, with a focus on streamlining resources, improving processes, and achieving impact
  • Providing subject matter expertise for all initiatives related to wikimediafoundation.org and other Foundation-owned websites
  • Fostering relationships with internal stakeholders, helping raise awareness and understanding of our website best practices and processes
  • Identifying ways to advance our commitments to diversity, equity, and belonging within Foundation-owned websites
  • Guiding decisions on web standards, compliance, and improvements
  • Producing regular metrics reports and sharing insights to evaluate our impact and guide our strategy

Overseeing website resourcing

  • Managing relationships with external web vendors, and collaborating with vendor strategists, business analysts, UI/UX designers, and front and backend developers to improve and expand the Foundation's websites
  • Shaping and monitoring the Foundation's website budget, as well as making recommendations on how to prioritize projects
  • Proactively identifying website opportunities and resource needs

Skills and Experience:

  • 5+ years experience in website management
  • Experience and thorough understanding of WordPress, HTML, and CSS
  • Track record of successfully leading complex web projects with several stakeholders
  • An understanding of and passion for the web as a strategic communications channel
  • Strong organizational and project management skills
  • Ability to resolve a wide range of challenges in creative ways

Senior Software Engineer

You are responsible for:

  • Sharing our values and working in accordance with them
  • Understand, propose and pursue success metrics
  • Being impact driven and able to align with the Foundation’s priorities
  • Work together with management to define high-level timelines, solve blockers and avoid delays
  • Being open and able to ask for help from your teammates and learn from your own and other’s mistakes
  • Mentoring and supporting other engineers in the Foundation
  • Being able to change your opinion and compromise when presented with new evidence or product input.
  • Is able to propose solutions considering a complex array of inputs and needs

Skills and Experience:

  • Ability to give and receive feedback in a constructive and honest manner.
  • Familiarity with observability tools (such as Prometheus, or Logstash)
  • Basic knowledge about main performance metrics and tests
  • Ability to communicate well across different teams, roles, and contexts
  • At least 2 years of development experience in at least one language - PHP, python, Nodejs
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or the equivalent in work related experience
Job Info
Job Category: Several Jobs in one Advert jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 17 September 2022
Duty Station: several locations
Posted: 03-09-2022
No of Jobs: 2
Start Publishing: 03-09-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 03-09-2066
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