Hardware Grants Coordinator

About This Job

This job description is a proposed position for an Americorps volunteer. The purpose of this position is to ................

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