FFII open positions

Distribution of labor and competencies is a time-honored method of work. The following positions are open. Picking a position at FFII gives you insight into finding the workings of an international grassroots ngo working at hot political topics FFII currently has over 500 members and is entrusted by over 70,000 supporters for European patent policy.

Central positions are assigned without bias against gender, race, nationality or whatever, however basic communication skills in written english are appreciated (if you can read this they are probably sufficient). Generally to do your jobs you are free to choose the tools you need, asking for a (moderate) budget is welcome. If you subdelegate tasks that is welcome too.

If you are interested, here is the current FFII team. You can contact blasum(att)ffii.org for general positions or bkaindl(att)ffii.org / mwas(att)ffii.org for computing positions.

Central positions

• PR strategy and materials manager

Clerical part: Collect PR materials and make them accessible via web eg http://plone.ffii.org/prmat/, manage PR materials mailing list. Strategic part: Allocate PR materials budget, consider which gadgets should be done.

• Enterprise relations manager

Clerical part: Maintain contacts with supporter companies. (The data is already existing). Make sure that website is understandable and usable from a company perspective. Strategic part: Develop policies for companies, in cooperation with finance and events.

• Events manager

Clerical part: Maintain webpage with upcoming events. Strategic part: In cooperation with finance, pr and media decide which events to focus on. This also involves cooperation with other organisations.

• Finance

Clerical part: is done by Holger. Strategic part: fund-raising, long-term financial development.

• Lisp expert

Be a second person to master MLHT.

• Database admin

Clerical part: Help with efficiency issues (best indexing databases, views etc). Strategic parts: Choose db systems and installations. Close cooperation with Michael (admin).

• Zope admin

Clerical part: help maintaining petition, plone site, cps3. Strategic part: Optimal policy for content management.

• Web admin

Clerical part: Optimize apache.

• Regionalisation manager

Help regional groups.

Comment

Arebenti: regionalisation is formally done by me. Collect PR on a proper fileserver, not in Plone (too slow). Migrate content from plone to that fileserver. Description in a simple text file.