Senior Partnership Manager - Content Enablement

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Partnerships Manager Content Enablement to support our contributors by facilitating free access to quality source materials and databases. Reporting to the Director of Content Enablement you will partner with publishers aggregators libraries and media organizations to advance the Volunteer Support goal and Contributor Experience strategy .

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Securing new partnerships for The Wikipedia Library that address community requests gaps in existing coverage and potential for impact.

• Supporting partners in The Wikipedia Library to make their content accessible and troubleshooting issues when they arise.

• Regularly communicating with partners and renewing agreements to ensure continuity of access to resources.

• Developing your product knowledge of The Wikipedia Library and understanding of Wikipedia citation practices and policies and guidelines (such as Neutral point of view and Reliable sources ) in order to effectively communicate the proposition to partners.

• Identifying and communicating the needs of partners to the Product Manager to improve partner experience and the overall efficiency of the program.

• Collaborating with colleagues in Community Growth to develop a small menu of partner engagement opportunities such as events learning and research.

• Using both Wikimedia and partner data to analyse the impact of the program with support from the Data Evaluation & Learning team.

• Collaborating with the communications team to highlight the library’s partnerships and impact for internal and external audiences.

Skills and Experience:

• Professional experience in publishing media or a related field including collaboration with partners or networks.

• Proven flair for communicating ideas with excellent written and spoken English and the ability to analyze data to uncover insights and tell stories.

• A proactive and flexible approach to working across departments in a distributed and cross-cultural environment.

• Able to connect with partners who are typically based in UTC+2 to UTC-5 timezones and make 3 international trips each year.

• Typically requires 5+ years professional experience in addition to a Bachelor’s degree or 3+ years experience with a Master’s degree; or equivalent work experience.

Qualities that are important to us:

• You build trust and foster collaboration across complex and cross-cultural environments especially where shared ownership and influence without authority are key to success.

• You are a thoughtful communicator who believes in genuine inclusive and equitable engagement with communities.

Additionally we’d love it if you have:

• A passion for open access to knowledge and/or experience contributing to Wikipedia

• Experience meeting the information needs of service users.

• Fluency or proficiency in a language other than English.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects build software experiences for reading contributing and sharing Wikimedia content support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco California USA.

As an equal opportunity employer the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race traits historically associated with race religion color national origin sex pregnancy or related medical conditions parental status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability genetic information or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries * . Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive equitable and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US $94094 to US $142196 with multiple individualized factors including cost of living in the location being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills experience and location.

*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following: US States : Arizona California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia* Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico* Rhode Island Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming (*US Territory or Federal District) Countries: Australia Austria Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Canada Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Egypt Estonia Finland France Germany Ghana Greece India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Kenya Mexico Netherlands Nigeria Peru Poland Singapore South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Uganda United Kingdom and Uruguay. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR). We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.

All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.

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