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      <h1>Leadership Positions</h1>
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        <h2>Join our leadership team!</h2>
          <p>Some of you are already stepping up as leaders in Code for DC. Some of you have good ideas or skills that could help us improve. We’d like to recognize your contributions while building a more sustainable, successful organization.</p>
          <p>These are the positions we feel are important to running a successful brigade.
            <strong>Please apply even if you meet just a few of the qualifications. We can teach you the parts you don’t know.</strong> Or we can split up the role with someone else. These are not set in stone. What’s most important is your commitment to Code
            for DC, <a href="/projects">our work</a>, <a href="/about">our mission</a>, and our <a href="/resources/codeofconduct.html">code of conduct</a>.</p>
            <p><strong><a href="http://goo.gl/forms/QV1eoWKIyD">APPLY HERE!</a></strong></p>
          <p>Questions? Ideas? Please feel free to reach out to <a href="/contact.html">Code for DC leadership</a>. We’d love to help.</p>
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          <h3>Leadership positions:</h3>
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            <li><a href="#Delivery-Lead">Delivery Lead</a></li>
            <li><a href="#Member-Community-Organizer">Member Community Organizer</a></li>
            <li><a href="#Open-Source-Community-&-Documentation-Coordinator">Open Source Community Organizer</a></li>
            <li><a href="#Storyteller/Outreach-Coordinator">Storyteller/Outreach Coordinator</a></li>
            <li><a href="#Training-Coordinator">Training Coordinator</a></li>
            <li><a href="#Community-Data-Wrangler/Open-Data-Evangelist">Community Data Wrangler/Open Data Evangelist</a></li>
            <li><a href="#User-Experience/Usability-Coordinator">User Experience/Usability Coordinator</a></li>
            <li><a href="#Project-Lead">Project Lead</a></li>
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          <p>In addition to their individual duties, Code for DC leadership also:</p>
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            <li>Help organize and run hacknights</li>
            <li>Know and enforce the code of conduct</li>
            <li>Represent and promote Code for DC at events and meetups</li>
            <li>Meet monthly with Code for DC co-captains</li>
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          <h3>Delivery Lead</h3>
          <p>Delivery Leads help coordinate our projects. You will become familiar with Code for DC’s projects (we don’t expect you to know this all to apply) and help them deliver working software.</p>
          <p>Helpful qualifications:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Product/Project management experience</li>
            <li>Familiarity with agile product management, human centered design, and open source software</li>
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          <p>The Delivery Lead’s areas of focus will include:</p>
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            <li>Active knowledge of all projects being worked on in local Brigade</li>
            <li>Understands needs of those projects</li>
            <li>Connects new members to projects </li>
            <li>Works with project teams and project leads on project planning and accessing resources</li>
            <li>Understands the priorities and needs of the city</li>
            <li>Funnels relevant CfA Fellowship and Brigades apps to Brigade members for redeployment opportunities</li>
            <li>Gathering feedback and making improvements to Brigade processes</li>
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          <h3>Member Community Organizer</h3>
          <p>The Community Manager will recruit and welcome new members to Code for DC, manage and grow the existing community, and coordinate the new member training. They are the point of contact for members who have questions about how to get started
            or what to do next.</p>

          <p>Helpful qualifications:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Friendly, enjoys welcoming newbies and answering questions</li>
            <li>Familiar with Code for DC</li>
            <li>Enjoys organizing people, experience with community organizing</li>
          </ul>

          <p>The Community Manager’s focuses on building and maintaining community. This includes:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Recruiting and onboarding new members</li>
            <li>Making new members feel welcome and appreciated</li>
            <li>Managing Google group and Slack</li>
            <li>Helping members move up the ladder of engagement</li>
            <li>Keeping track of membership</li>
            <li>Gathering feedback and making improvements to processes</li>
          </ul>
          <h3>Open Source Community & Documentation Coordinator</h3>
          <p>As Open Source Community Organizer, your role is to make sure that Code for DC projects and members are good open source community members. You will also engage the larger open source software community on our projects. In collaboration with
            the captains, Delivery Leads, and teams, you will ensure projects and issues are well documented so the open source community can pitch in and pick up issues.</p>

          <p>Helpful qualifications:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Expertise with common OS languages</li>
            <li>Commitment to free open source software, familiarity with licenses</li>
            <li>Ability to work with teams</li>
          </ul>

          <p>The Open Source Community Organizer’s responsibilities include:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Help teams identify tasks that can be picked up by outsiders and tag with “help wanted”</li>
            <li>Work with teams to maintain good documentation and choose proper licenses</li>
            <li>Coordinate with the Delivery Lead on tech decisions</li>
            <li>Develop a preferred Code for DC stack</li>
          </ul>

          <h3>Storyteller/Outreach Coordinator</h3>
          <p>The Storyteller/Outreach Coordinator manages external community organizing and engagement. You will tell the stories of Code for DC projects and how they affect the community. Code for DC’s stories are not just about the tools we build and their
            impact. They’re about the hard work of our volunteers, what it’s like to attend a brigade hacknight or training, and the needs and ideals of the civic hacking and open government communities in DC. This includes writing blog posts, coordinating
            with local press and blogs, and working with the CfA Communications team to share stories nationally. </p>

          <p>Helpful qualifications:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Strong communication skills</li>
            <li>Familiarity with DC media and blogs</li>
            <li>Passion for online engagement</li>
          </ul>

          <p>The Storyteller’s areas of focus include:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Writing or helping members write and edit stories and other content to tell Code for DC’s stories and goals</li>
            <li>Sharing Code for DC’s stories and soliciting feedback from the public on social media (Twitter primarily), the website, and blog</li>
            <li>Coordinating collaborations with local blogs and press</li>
            <li>Finding and sharing content related to civic hacking and civic tech in DC</li>
            <li>Maintain Code for DC’s commitment to staying nonpolitical and nonpartisan</li>
          </ul>

          <h3>Training Coordinator</h3>
          <p>As the Training Coordinator, you will organize training at Code for DC hacknights. When we offer intro to tech training at our meetups and hackathons, we see a stronger, more diverse turnout and a more supportive atmosphere. There are several
            classrooms available in our hacknight space, and we want to put them to good use!</p>

          <p>Helpful qualifications:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Experience leading or developing training</li>
            <li>Having a network of contacts who could provide training</li>
            <li>Friendly and patient with new learners</li>
          </ul>

          <p>The Training Coordinator’s areas of focus include:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Organizing a schedule of training that will be offered at hacknights</li>
            <li>Working with the captains and Membership Community Organizer to develop and lead onboarding training for new members</li>
            <li>Gathering feedback from attendees and making improvements</li>
          </ul>

          <h3>Community Data Wrangler/Open Data Evangelist</h3>
          <p>The Community Data Wrangler/Open Data Evangelist helps Code for DC projects obtain, munge, and liberate data. You will work with the community and local officials to access and share data and help projects use or find open data to improve or
            jumpstart their projects.</p>

          <p>This role requires some depth of technology experience and understanding of data sets. Ideally, this person has the bandwidth to answer emailed questions and attend Brigade meetings on a regular basis.</p>

          <p>Helpful qualifications:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Familiarity with the DC open data, the FOIA process</li>
            <li>Expertise munging, liberating, improving data</li>
          </ul>

          <p>The Community Data Wrangler/Open Data Evangelist areas of focus include:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Managing the DC open data portal</li>
            <li>Working with Brigade projects to obtain and use data</li>
            <li>Working with the community, local officials, and the media to access data</li>
            <li>Helping members file FOIA requests</li>
            <li>Coordinate with the Delivery Lead</li>
          </ul>

          <h3>User Experience/Usability Coordinator</h3>
          <p>You fight for the users! As a Usability Coordinator, you will help Code for DC projects build useful, wanted tools. You will help teams plan and conduct user interviews and usability testing by working with the Project Lead. </p>

          <p>Helpful qualifications:</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Familiarity with user experience testing and design</li>
            <li>Passion for making sure our projects build with (not for) our communities</li>
          </ul>

          <p>The UX Coordinator focuses on:</p>
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            <li>Coordinating with the Delivery Lead and Project Leads to ensure all projects incorporate user needs and testing throughout the entire development process</li>
            <li>Help coordinate and run usability testing and user-centered design workshops</li>
            <li>Teach Code for DC members about the basics of user-centered design</li>
            <li>Work with Project Leads and their community partners to develop lists of possible users interested in helping test and provide feedback about our projects</li>
          </ul>

          <h3>Project Lead</h3>
          <p>As a Code for DC Project Lead, you lead an officially recognized Code for DC project. Official Code for DC projects are the leadership team’s priority in helping you build and ship software. Official projects have a community partner (a local
            organization or community organizer) and a municipal partner who help advise and work with users to build helpful, usable software. The Delivery Lead and leadership team will work with you to help you ship minimum viable working software.</p>

          <p>Helpful qualifications:</p>
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            <li>Passion for your project and users</li>
            <li>Desire to lead a group (patience, people skills, and an ability to delegate)</li>
            <li>Ability to break your project’s needs into discrete tasks that can be accomplished by volunteers</li>
          </ul>

          <p>As a Project Lead, you will coordinate with the leadership team. A small amount of work with them will pay off significantly.</p>
          <ul>
            <li>The Delivery Lead can help you identify a minimum viable product and how your team will build it in agile sprints.</li>
            <li>The User Experience Coordinator can help you work with your community and municipal partner to design and test your tool.</li>
            <li>The Open Data Evangelist can help you obtain and use any data you may need.</li>
            <li>The Outreach Coordinator will help promote your tool and your team’s hard work.</li>
            <li>The Brigade Captains can help you with overall strategy and anything you need. Just let us know, we’re here to help you succeed!</li>
          </ul>

          <p>A Project Lead’s additional areas of focus include:</p>
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            <li>Manage hacking on your project at Code for DC hacknights</li>
            <li>Coordinate with a local community organization and a municipal partner for help designing, testing, and promoting your tool</li>
            <li>Identify members on your team who could help manage onboarding new staff</li>
          </ul>

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