Conservancy is hiring!

[Software Freedom Conservancy]

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/nov/02/2020-11-hiring/

     Conservancy is hiring!

Software Freedom Conservancy is looking for a new employee with the 
special skills of working on a daily basis with FOSS projects and their 
leaders.

Conservancy is a resourceful, non-profit organization dedicated to 
helping people take control of their computing experience by growing the 
software freedom movement, supporting community-driven alternatives to 
proprietary software and defending free software builders with practical 
initiatives. Conservancy believes that the future of software should be 
for everyone. Our organization is involved in every area of the software 
freedom community: from handling bookkeeping and accounting; to license 
analysis, compliance, education, and enforcement; to project and 
community mentorship; to administration and devops work for and with our 
member projects; to software development in strategic areas.

We are seeking a full-time employee who can help us with several 
important areas in our organization. Accordingly, we are able to tailor 
the position for the right candidate and expect that person to grow and 
develop along with the organization.

This is a full time salaried position with benefits (including health 
insurance and paid time off), working remotely. Ideally, this employee 
would be in a timezone congruent with the continental United States. 
Excellent fluency in English, both oral and written, is required. You 
must also be extremely detail-oriented. This position will pay 
commensurate with experience, but will be a typical salary for charities 
in smaller US cities. A laptop running free software will be provided. 
Conservancy employees are never required to use or write non-FOSS as 
part of their job.

Job description

While the items below encompass many different roles, we welcome 
applications that focus on whatever areas match the applicant's skills 
and past experience best, including some of the following critical 
areas:

*   Communication: writing blogposts and other public materials, 
managing correspondence internally and externally with FOSS projects and 
the community. Willingness and ability to communicate clearly the 
organization's agenda, plans, and successes on many different platforms. 
Recognize from staff and contractor reports items for promotion and 
capitalize quickly on those opportunities.
*   Fundraising: helping us run our donation campaigns (from conception 
through execution), supporting relationships with donors (including 
running our Supporter program), pursuing opportunities for grant funding 
ambitiously.
*   Event organization (when events can be safely held): organizing up 
to multi-day, multi-track events with thousands of attendees, managing 
contractors who help handle such events. Until COVID-19 situation 
improves, figuring out how we can best do such events online and help 
our projects do them.
*   Administration: engaging in administrative duties and tasks 
including tracking obligations to third parties, data entry, mail, HR 
tasks, ordering supplies, and organizing various activities in support 
of Conservancy's mission. This stuff is no fun, but we all share this 
work here at our small organization, and we seek someone who fits well 
with our team to pitch in when the need arises.
*   Briefing staff daily: following all the news, events, details and, 
well, drama in FOSS communities, figuring out what parts of Conservancy 
staff needs to know, and plan and propose ideas for what we can do to 
help or improve any given situation.

For interested candidates, there is also the opportunity to work on 
copyleft compliance, public speaking, supporting Conservancy's member 
projects and participating in advocacy, education and policy work.

This is a unique opportunity for a highly-skilled tech non-profit 
employee to create a position that most fits their background while 
assisting a dynamic tech charity.

Applications can be submitted via email to jobs at sfconservancy.org. 
Please include a resume or CV, cover letter, short writing sample and/or 
links to published work online, such as articles, free software 
contributions, or conference presentation videos. All materials must be 
in a file format that can be easily viewed with free software, such as a 
PDF viewable by Evince, Text, or LibreOffice format.

We are open to candidates of a variety of backgrounds and experience 
levels. We are uncompromising in our mission and values, and happy to 
train a high- potential but less experienced candidate.

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