Hardware Grants Coordinator

Responsibilities

 * Evaluate incoming grants
 * Disperse grants
 * Coordinate volunteers dispersing grants
 * Create feedback loop
 * including general feedback to guide our processes as well as PR materials, such as testimonials
 * implicitly includes the creation of a procedure for acquiring and vetting this feedback


 * Create support materials for grant recipients
 * Track FG-PDX systems
 * Prepare FG-PDX reports for the City
 * Document as needed, which will be often
 * Attend and participate in RAD meetings
 * Coordinate with other staff members
 * Research new avenues for hardware grants
 * Work with PR committee to create publicity campaign for promoting hardware grants (to solicit recipients and to boast our impact in the community)
 * Work floor shifts coordinating volunteers

Required Skills

 * Experience managing volunteers
 * Demonstrated documentation skills
 * Work well under stress in an unusual setting, maintaining a positive attitude even in the face of adversity
 * Self-motivation
 * Friendly, outgoing personality
 * Patient and courteous with the public
 * Likes working with people
 * Good organizational skills
 * Good written and verbal communication skills
 * Able to work in an informal, friendly environment with a diverse staff
 * Ability to work and communicate well in a collectively-run organization
 * Ability to work in a consensus decision making process related to staff and policy issues
 * Not afraid to ask questions, but able to work on projects almost entirely without supervision
 * Able to remain flexible as Free Geek grows and changes