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 Oversite

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.