Production Coordinator

Job description created April, 2007

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