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Community Manager - Job Summary
Manage and grow a global open-source community focused on decentralised web technologies by facilitating collaboration, engagement, and communication across diverse stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Outreach, engagement and onboarding for stakeholders in the Solid community including building, deploying and using the technology.
- Create feedback loops between the community and internal ODI teams.
- Own community engagement strategy across digital platforms and in-person events such as hackathons, symposiums, webinars, and social channels.
- Schedule and facilitate internal and external meetings including specification, governance, and advisory committees.
- Coordinate and support community-led alignment on open specifications.
- Document key decisions to ensure continuity between contributors and leadership.
- Facilitate collaboration between the Solid community and adjacent technical communities and standards groups.
- Maintain and promote a catalogue of current Solid deployments, tools, use cases and related organisations.
- Contribute to outreach efforts targeting adopters, developers, and ecosystem partners.
- Coordinate and promote recurring community events and innovation challenges.
- Engage with related ecosystems for visibility and presence at key external events.
- Help consolidate communication infrastructure and improve accessibility of community communication platforms.
- Enforce clear terms of reference and manage access and roles across collaboration tools.
- Support business development and fundraising activities.
Requirements
- Proven experience managing open-source communities and projects.
- Technical literacy in web technologies, open-source licensing, or collaborative software development processes.
- Ability to engage and foster relationships across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Experience in business development including opportunity identification and client management.
- Extensive experience organising events such as conferences, challenge prizes, or hackathons.
- Strong networking skills with a record of building long-term partnerships.
- Expert communication skills including proposal drafting and presentation delivery.
- Strong organisational skills managing multiple workstreams.
- Experience with collaborative tools such as GitHub, Matrix/Discord/Slack, Google Workspace.
- Comfortable with open and transparent communication practices.
- Ability to work independently and manage communication across time zones.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
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- Opportunity to work on projects that have global impact in the field of data transparency and innovation. (theodi.org)
- Collaborative working environment with a culture that encourages lifelong learning and the use of open data for social good. (theodi.org)
- Access to a diverse and international network of partners and experts in data and technology. (theodi.org)
Challenges You Might Face
- Smaller organizational size may limit opportunities for rapid internal career advancement. (www.glassdoor.co.uk)
- Funding for roles and projects can be donor or grant dependent, creating some job security uncertainty. (www.glassdoor.co.uk)
- Roles may sometimes require adapting to changing priorities in a relatively fast-evolving policy and technology environment. (theodi.org)