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Senior Program Delivery Specialist @Wikimedia Foundation

[Hiring] Senior Program Delivery Specialist @Wikimedia Foundation

Mar 05, 2025 - Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a remote Senior Program Delivery Specialist. đź’¸ Salary: us$43 to us$66. đź“ŤLocation: USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, India, Brazil, Australia, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Poland, South Africa, Italy, Colombia, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Egypt, Finland, Denmark, Singapore, Czech Republic, Croatia, Israel, Spain, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Uganda, Uruguay.

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Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Program Delivery Specialist, Fundraising to join our team, reporting to the Online Strategic Projects Lead in the Fundraising department. In this role, you will play a key part in coordinating efforts across the Online Fundraising, Fundraising Tech, Major Gifts, and Fundraising Operations teams.

  • Drive projects to completion
  • Co-create new projects of significant impact to the fundraising efforts of the Foundation and develop strategic approaches to ensure their successful execution
  • Facilitate dialogue across teams to drive shared understanding of goals, commitments, and desired outcomes
  • Manage the delivery of multiple projects, including project planning, facilitating standups, and retrospectives
  • Motivate teams to follow through on commitments, deliver outputs, and uphold a culture of accountability
  • Ensure that the team understands its commitments to its goals and to other teams
  • Identify the resources projects require and ensure they are available to the team when necessary
  • Develop and report upon relevant qualitative and quantitative project metrics
  • Coordinate commitments and dependencies, within and across teams
  • Coordinate sequencing of projects and their dependencies, and facilitate a shared understanding of timelines across multiple customer teams
  • Use tools like Asana and Slack for task management
  • Identify stakeholders and keep them aware of progress
  • Coordinate communications and processes with other teams
  • Build and maintain coalitions both inside and outside the Fundraising team
  • Document essential information about projects
  • Facilitate healthy stakeholder groups
  • Collaborate as part of ad hoc cross-functional teams on high-priority issues
  • Support healthy team dynamics and a culture that welcomes diverse perspectives
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement
  • Maintain a broad and deep awareness of the strategic, tactical, and operational situation on each individual project
  • Proactively identify risks and opportunities related to individual projects
  • Produce solutions and use responsible judgement to determine when and how to enact or escalate

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience managing multi-stakeholder groups with staff, partner organizations, and volunteers
  • 5+ years experience managing volunteer-facing initiatives
  • Strong knowledge of theoretical and practical aspects of project management including identifying stakeholders, defining requirements, crafting schedules, ensuring testing, and facilitating implementation
  • Ability to anticipate risks, resolve conflicts, and initiate escalation paths
  • Strong program management skills: prioritization, organization, planning, time management, facilitation, problem solving, and decision-making
  • Ability to build rapport and influence with distributed teams representing various cultures, featuring different communication and learning styles
  • Ability to build relationships and trust, influence without authority, and effectively enforce accountability
  • Strong interpersonal communication skills
  • Very detail-oriented with an ability to keep the big picture in mind at all times
  • Passion for process improvement
  • Significant experience with project management tools such as Asana

Requirements

  • Fearless communication
  • Orientation toward action
  • Data-driven adaptability
  • Collaboration
  • Team building
  • Sound judgment
  • Ability to operate independently
  • Diplomacy

Benefits

  • Experience working in an international organization that has a distributed workforce
  • Experience working within a movement with strong culture and values
  • Experience working with online communities, particularly as part of the free culture movement
  • Fluency in languages other than English
  • Experience contributing to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
  • Global perspective, with significant experience living or working internationally
  • Bonus points for non-profit experience

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Senior Program Delivery Specialist @Wikimedia Foundation
Project Management
Salary đź’¸ us$43 to us$66
Remote Location
USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, India, Brazil, Australia, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Poland, South Africa, Italy, Colombia, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Egypt, Finland, Denmark, Singapore, Czech Republic, Croatia, Israel, Spain, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Uganda, Uruguay
Job Type contract
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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