We’re looking to hire someone excited by civic technology and open data movements, and who wants to help us build a community of people that elevate excellence within New York City’s government and the city’s civic tech community.

This organizer will work with a team of experts to help build and grow the WeGov community online and offline.

Main tasks:

• Curate news and event feeds collected by our community of experts and through your own research. Then publish this information on WeGov’s communication platforms. Experience with WordPress and a passion for social media is helpful.
• Work with data helping to clean, analyze and deliver insights in support of and using the WeGov tools.
• Help organize events, coordinating with venues, promoting the event being on-hand to help during the event.
• Do guided research projects with our board of advisors. You’ll learn a lot!

Pay: $1,000 a month for 32 hours of work, which comes out to $31.25/hour. Position will be reviewed quarterly (every 3 months). Applicants can work remotely or from a workspace in Soho. They must be available in person for events in NYC. There will be no more than 2 events a month, and likely much fewer.

Necessary skills:

• Writing and communication skills, online and offline, via Google Docs and Slides, social media, chat application (Slack), and email.
• Data skills -- comfort with spreadsheets, spreadsheet formulas, structuring and cleaning data to advance goals.
• Web publishing -- comfort learning and using WordPress to publish content online, Github to interact with software communities, Meetup and other popular web platforms.
• People skills -- comfort reaching out to people over email, phone and in person. Organizing stakeholders (volunteers/contributors) into teams that can help organize, produce and manage events and other in-person gatherings.

Email [email protected] with questions, applications, etc.