[Osmf-talk] Hiring help for OSMF administrative tasks

[Dan S]

I like this one-year internship idea

Best
Dan


2015-03-11 10:16 GMT+00:00 Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>:
> Hi,
>
> It could be a paid full-time internship position (fr. un stage; ger. ein
> Praktikum) for an university graduate, with maximum duration of say 12
> months. A lot of university graduates have difficulty finding first job,
> paid, or even unpaid internship.
>
> Or a paid full-time post-retirement or near-retirement employment. By the
> way, I read recently of a statistical research which demonstrates that,
> contrary to expectations, advanced-age employees are absent from work due to
> sickness less than young ones.
>
> I would also suggest not only administrative help, but multi-tasking,
> including editing map, answering forum questions, community-organizing, etc.
> If a candidate is well selected, this could be possible. The workplace,
> perhaps, could be rented on a budget at the ImpactHub premises [1]. There is
> also nowadays technology which allows to work via telecommuting from a
> public library. For example, silent mouse Nexus SM-8500 (no clicking sound)
> [2], etc.
>
> I would also suggest a two - three months probation period, a control of
> presence at a workplace, a quality and quantity control of work results.
>
> [1] http://www.impacthub.net/
> [2] http://nexustek.us/mice/sm-8500
>
> Best regards,
> Oleksiy
>
> On 10.03.2015 22:15, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>    one of the things that came out of the board meeting in Berlin last
> month was that we decided to look into hiring part-time administrative
> help to take some of the day-to-day workload off of the shoulders of
> board members and other volunteers.
>
> I am writing to ask your opinion of this idea (what tasks would you like
> to see OSMF do more of, and where an administrative assistant could
> help), but even more so to ask for your experience: Are you involved
> with an organisation similar to OSMF (all volunteer work, budget in the
> £100k range) who pay for a part-time administrative assistant, and how
> do things work out for them? What works, and what doesn't, etc?
>
> You can reply to this message in public or send me email if you'd rather
> offer your advice in private. Also, if you should be in a position where
> you could actually help the OSMF plan and execute this (perhaps because
> you're working in the HR field), please do write and we'll gladly accept
> your help.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
>
>
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