[foundation-board] Project Coordinator job description

Fri Aug 20 16:18:01 UTC 2010

On 20 Aug 2010, at 09:32, Becky Hogge wrote:

>> 1) What salary can we offer? How many of the projects (ongoing and in
>> train) have a project manager budget which would fill the project
>> coordinator pot, and how much of our operating surplus are we willing
>> to put in for the Board reporting work?
> 
> Rufus, since you have the best overview of the activities of the OKF
> over the next six months or so, I need your input here. Have you had a
> chance to put the budgets for future projects into Xero yet? Or are we
> waiting to hear from Jordan's lovely Xero folk how best to do this? In
> any case, for the project coordinator recruitment to move forward, we
> need a handle on how much project managing budget is available from
> the combination of projects (LOD, JISC, WDMMG etc) that we listed out
> at the meeting last week, so we can calculate a salary. Note that we
> can also make up the salary from this year's operational surplus.

I should have already forwarded the answer to the board -- we can do general forecasting using the budget function, we can't do project specific budgeting.  See below:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Catherine Davis <catherine.davis at urbanledgers.co.uk>
> Date: 16 August 2010 13:54:28 GMT+01:00
> To: Jordan S Hatcher <jordan at opencontentlawyer.com>
> Subject: Budgeting/forecasting by project
> 
> Hi Jordan,
> 
> It was great meeting you this morning and I hope you found the session useful.
> 
> I've spoken with Xero re adding budgets per project code, and they advised that whilst this isn't current functionality, it is a planned enhancement.  Unfortunately I wasn't able to coerce a timeframe out of them!  If it's not implemented in the timeframes you require it, I'm sure we can come up with a temporary workaround.
> 
> Look forward to speaking with you soon.
> 
> Kind regards
> Catherine

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