Role:
DataPortability Project Community Manager

A great opportunity to be at the forefront of the global Data
Portability movement, develop experience around growing a community
driven organization and become a key person in the interaction with
large vendors in the social media space as well as other markets that
are affected by data portability.

Note: this is currently a volunteer position with no immediate plans
to become a paying position- but the DataPortability project may in
the future be in the position to have part-time/full time staff.

**Final role description will be agreed to by the New Community
Manager and Daniela Barbosa who is leading the recruitment Taskforce
but will possibly include the following:

Responsibilities:

    * Become a leader in the DataPortability Project External
Communications Task Force
    * Creatively and proactively assist community members, project
members and participating vendors
    * Serve as the initial point of contact for inbound requests
    * Identify and analyze issues, patterns and trends in community
requests that DataPortability Project should address as aligned with
its Mission/Vision Statements
    * Transfer the information to the appropriate Project members so
that they can respond accordingly
    * Connect new members to existing members
    * Author blog posts, articles, podcasts, videos and screencasts -
whatever media you want to use -in conjunction with the External
Communication Task Force
    * Establish metrics & report on them on a monthly basis including
recommendations
    * Identify & engage advocates outside of the active community
    * Proactively escalate issues, observations, opportunities, and
insights to the approriate committees
    * Communicate issues, opportunities and insights to the Project
steering committee
    * Participate in professional networking by following the
prominent bloggers and online writers & attending events.

Qualifications:

    * You believe in the Vision and Mission of the DataPortability
project: http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/SoA0
    * You like working hard and thrive on the excitement of a goal
oriented Project that is making in impact on our digital lives
    * You are an independent, creative self-starter who loves running
with things while keeping everyone inside and outside the Project in
the loop.
    * You love to write & enjoy sharing your ideas with others.
    * You spend a lot of time online and stay up-do-date on new trends
for the tech elite as well as regular people.

Official posting:
http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/DataPortability+Projec...

Job description was created based on the following two resources:
http://conniebensen.com/blog/2008/07/17/community-manager-job-descrip...
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/11/25/the-four-tenets-of-the-...

Interested? Please contact me with your details and why you would like
to be our DataPortability Community Manager.