Production Coordinator

Job description created April, 2007

Salary/Benefits
Salary is $30,000 per year. 3.6 weeks paid time off per year (combined vacation and sick time, based on an assumed 37 hours work week). Health care, dental, and vision plan. Employer-matching retirement plan
Work Hours
Four and a half to five days per week, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:30am to 7:30pm, some evening or morning meetings, with some flexibility.
To Apply
To apply, e-mail your cover letter and resume to jobs@freegeek.org, detailing your volunteer coordination experience and any other pertinent information. We will be contacting a small group of candidates via e-mail to take a tour of Free Geek prior to being interviewed. This position is open until filled.

Basic Gist

• Documentation:

• it makes everyone's job easier because we all know what to do and what needs to be done
• it monkey-proofs tasks
• it preserves institutional memory (what if a piano falls on you?)

• Volunteer Coordination

• recruit and retain appropriate volunteers for post-build, production area (strategy for doing this AND actually doing it)
• manage volunteers to keep them appropriately on task in production areas

• Other

• figure out what to do in all the areas (train)
• document the hell out of it all
• participate in other non-production committees, but don't get over-involved

Responsibilities:

• Recruit, train, and retain appropriate volunteers for production areas (Build, Laptops, Macs, Advanced Testing, Printer reuse)
• Create, update, and/or refine documentation in all production areas
• Create new testing procedures to explore new hardware avenues
• Locate and prepare items for the Thrift Store
• Coordinate with other members of the Production team, including helping to shape the long-term goals for Production
• Work floor shifts coordinating volunteers
• Participate in collective management structure
• Take on tasks and committees unrelated to Production coordination
• Attend staff and production meetings, and other meetings as necessary
• Live up to Collective Level Expectations

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