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

Sat May 28 22:01:36 UTC 2011

Agreed!

I guess this also resonates with recent discussions about
Foundation/Network - i.e. you will coordinate the finances, HR, etc of
the Foundation (OKF) - and there is lots of other stuff happening in
the Network (OKFN) too.

J.

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Jason Kitcat <jason.kitcat at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> 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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>>
>>
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