Hardware Grants Coordinator
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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