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Revision as of 13:45, 13 September 2019

Any CNM Cloud Project Coordinator (hereinafter, the Coordinator) is either a(n):

  1. WorldOpp fellow working at WorldOpp Fellow Staff (hereinafter, the Team) of Friends Of CNM; OR
  2. If the position is open and no WorldOpp fellow is available to fill it in, independent contractor,

who administratively supports, virtually and/or onsite, CNM Cloud Project (hereinafter, the Project) and owns CNM Servers.

The closest occupation at O*Net Online is Information Technology Project Manager.


Areas of operations

Documenting

The Team needs help with two types of documentation:
  1. Organizational documentation for the Team. This type shall include:
    • Minutes for meetings of the Team.
    • Processes and procedures developed for and used by the Team.
  2. Technical documentation for both CNM Digital and CNM Cloud.
All the types of public documentation shall be maintained at the CNM Wikis, so any Team's stakeholder, and a volunteer especially, be able to find needed information. All the types of private documentation shall be maintained at the CNM Labs.

Meeting organizing

The Team needs help with organizing of two types of meetings:
  1. Meetings of the Team, which can be either open or close to the general public.
  2. Hiring events for the Team.
Those meetings that are open to the general public can be organized using partner meetup groups such as Tech Fellowships and Hands-On Training.

Owning the role

The Team needs help with further development of the Coordinator's role. This includes both:
  1. Creating and editing general instructions, policies, and/or recommendations for the Coordinators.
  2. Contributing to and grooming of the backlog of the Coordinator's tasks.

Partnership building

The Team needs help with sourcing, selecting, and onboarding partners such as employers, training providers, governmental, and non-profit organizations.

Personnel managing

The Team needs help with volunteer time tracking, as well as helping volunteers to develop their personal plans.

Project support

The Team needs help with supporting its projects such as CNM Registration Project.

Public relations administering

The Team needs help with drafting newsletters to patrons of CNM similar to Friends Of CNM newsletters.

Training facilitating

The Team needs help with facilitating of three types of training:
  1. Onboarding training for new volunteers.
  2. Technology hand-on-training for CNM patrons who would like to explore CNM Digital.
  3. Mentor-protégé program for some Team recruits.

Volunteer recruiting

The Team needs help with sourcing and onboarding of new volunteers.

Using CNM Wikis, the Coordinator:

  1. Drafts general CNM Cloud requirements including the details of the procurement process and requests Gary Ihar to approve the developed CNM Cloud requirements.
  2. Details business requirements for CNM Wikis, CNM Certs, Fixett, Opplet, and other parts of CNM Cloud included into the embryo phase of the Project, as well as requests Gary Ihar to approve the detailed business requirements.
  3. Drafts solution requirements that are specific to the target software after the business requirements are approved and requests Gary Ihar to approve the developed solution requirements.
  4. Organizes procurement of software after the CNM Cloud requirements and those solution requirements that are related to the specific software are approved. That duty includes:
    • Developing the procurement process that shall utilize Fixett as the place of transfer of the developed software from the vendors to Friends Of CNM;
    • Sourcing, selecting, and onboarding of vendors;
    • Solving emerging problems and arranging the negotiated payments.
  5. Develops those wikipages at CNM Wikis that clarify those solution requirements that are directly related to CNM Cloud.

Sourcing

Sourcing of potential candidates is an ongoing endeavor, which cannot be limited to the following channels and tools.

Channels

The potential candidates may be sourced through various channels such as:
  1. CNM websites.
  2. CNM meetings organized in Vienna, VA on Tuesday evenings.
  3. Partner meetup groups such as Tech Fellowships and Hands-On Training and other partners.
  4. Newsletters to patrons of CNM similar to Friends Of CNM newsletters.
  5. Personal networks of the Coordinators.

Handout

Handouts with the following text are periodically distributed at CNM meetings on Tuesday evenings:

Discover your career, build your credentials, and land your job in the IT field with CNM Digital

What: The CNM Digital Services team seeks its IT Project Coordinator.

What help is sought: An incumbent will coordinate various aspects of the project as required including meetings, announcements, introducing new team members, and documentation of CNM Technology Board Decisions.

Where and when: The bulk of the job can be done remotely, so this position can be virtual. The schedule can be flexible too. The time commitments start from 2 hours a week.

Who should consider:

Anyone who is motivated to learn Information Technology in order to obtain real IT skills and experience that can be put on the resume and used as a leverage for a new position in the information technology field.

This might be someone thinking of transitioning to IT or increasing their IT skills/knowledge that have been working in IT or someone interested in working in the roles that interface the business with IT such as a business analyst, project manager, product owner, etc.

No prior tech training is required in order to get started; vice versa, this opportunity could be considered as hands-on training. We need people with any type of skill set, but being motivated to learn new, open systems technology, is what we need the most. We can provide technical direction to anyone that is motivated.

How to join: If you are interested (or know of someone who may be interested or looking for a way to become more involved), please consider one or both options:

  1. Physically, the team organizes recruiting events usually in Vienna, VA on Tuesday evenings. You are welcome to check the tentative schedule at https://www.meetup.com/TechDC/events/calendar in order to RSVP.
  2. Virtual meetings may be scheduled upon your request -- please email your inquiry to Michael Confoy or Gary "Igor" Ihar at cnmdigitalservices@gmail.com

About CNM Digital Services: This team of the Career Network Ministry (CNM) intends to provide CNM with a bundle of online and onsite services collectively called CNM Digital, which may include websites and video sharing resources, as well as customer relationship, project, learning, and enterprise management systems.

Onboarding

The promising Coordinators shall take three or four steps in order to onboard:
  1. Get graduated from the CNM Digital Orientation.
  2. If they are not familiar with project administration, get graduated from the CNM DT Placement.
  3. If they are familiar with project administration or when they are, perform activities described in the Areas of operations.
  4. Recruit another Coordinator in order to get graduated from the onboarding.

Orientation

Main wikipage: CNM Digital Orientation
The CNM Digital Orientation is designed to introduce promising Coordinators to the Career Network Ministry, the Team, CNM Digital, and CNM Cloud.

Placement

Main wikipage: CNM DT Placement
The CNM DT Placement that shall cover product ownership and project management.

Backlog

Graduation

Further ideas to consider

  • Orientation shall included one on one meeting with the project leads
  • One online welcome meeting and with Senior Coordinator
  • Participation at/in one of the bi weekly digital meeting via webcast and/or any other virtual meeting platform

History

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