That Man Behind the Curtain

Job Description

Prebuild Coordination

• Develop and maintain process and documentation for Hardware Identification, and System Evaluation
• Teach volunteers working in those areas
• Coordinate prebuild needs with build, advanced testing, alt build, receiving, front desk, and recycling
• Train and wrangle volunteer interns in that area.

Bookkeeping and Budgeting Oversight

• Oversee paying of bills, recording of income, reconciling of accounts.
• Beancounting.
• Develop and maintain process and documentation for till management.
• Coordinate with front desk and store regarding tills.
• Write checks for reimbursement.
• Backup office coordinator as person who gathers hours from staff and ensure paychecks are created and disbursed.
• Work with treasurer, board, staff, and council to develop budget.

Big Picture, Organizational Development

• Think ahead of the organization and develop proposals for staff, board, and council.
• Build consensus around proposals for the direction Free Geek should take.
• Make sure people know how to implement their ideas.

Staff scheduling

• Schedule staff for work shifts
• recruit substitutes to fill in.
• Work with staff and co-schedulers Dave and Laurel on making schedule fit needs of Free Geek better.

Technical infrastructure

• General system administration
• Help users gets accounts set up
• Extract information from database
• Work with technocrats and coders on database application development priorities.

Moderate email lists

• This entails being on all the lists to handle incoming spam.
• I am now sharing some of the moderation duties with other staff members, especially in regards to approving new list members.