[foundation-board] Tweaking my job title to help people understand what I'm here for!

Sat May 28 15:39:02 UTC 2011

On 26 May 2011, at 15:45, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Just catching up with this thread - I spoke with Rufus about this in
> Budapest a little while ago and we thought "Operations Manager" might
> be a better fit? Given our discussions over the past few weeks it
> seems clearer that the role will be mostly focused on finance,
> contracts, funding, and strategy in these areas - rather than
> coordination of the Foundation's activities overall. Trying to keep up
> with, let alone coordinate the latter, would probably require more
> time than Jason, qua councillor, probably has at the moment! The only
> reason this matters - is that I don't want to give the impression that
> Jason will or should know about all the things the OKF is currently up
> to. I imagine his role will be focusing on the OKF's financial health,
> HR, limited oversight on specific paid projects (e.g. LOD2), and so
> on.
> 
> Jason, all: what do you think?

Personally I don't think "Operations Manager" is appropriate, and I've also detected an OKF aversion to the use of the term "manager" which we should continue to stick with.

I think let's see how "Foundation Coordinator" goes. I've been using it all of a week or two; we can always review again in a few months.

All the best,
Jason

> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Jason Kitcat <jason.kitcat at okfn.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 17 May 2011, at 09:09, paula le dieu wrote:
>>> Me too. Makes sense.
>>> 
>>> On 16 May 2011 16:46, "Becky Hogge" <becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 16 May 2011 14:00, Jason Kitcat <jason.kitcat at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 16 May 2011, at 12:01, Jo Walsh wrote:
>>>>>> What about "Foundation Coordinator"?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm happy with that too. Views?
>>>> 
>>>> I like Foundation Coordinator too.
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Any other thoughts before I take the momentous step of changing my email signature...?!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>> 
>> 
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