Guidelines

Executive Director

Recruiting - trains Executive Team
Strategic Partnerships - Recruits and on-boards executive team - (1) Operations Manager, (2) Product Lead, #(3) Community Manager, and (4), Documentation Manager. Approves all hires, contractors, and volunteers. Develops strategic partnerships (30%).
Standards Development: Develops documentation and development standards with assistance from Executive Team, and oversees execution (30%).
Structuring and Oversight - Implements legal/financial compliance and operations. Manages executive team. (20%)
Plan and Budget - Defines development plan and budget (20%).

Managing a full range of Open Source Ecology operations - design, fabrication, testing, pilot projects, documentation, production runs, special events, construction, communications, fundraising, office operations, facility maintenance and upgrades, and others.
Assisting ED in developing organizational structure, infrastructure, and protocols - including office, internet, collaboration, transparency, and prototyping infrastructure
Setting up and managing a production-based, for-profit branch of OSE operations
Maintaining and updating OSE Operations Handbook (everything from email handling for the Assistant, blogging procedures, to financial controls)
Overseeing facility and its development + production program
Overseeing all budgets and digesting them for review by the ED
Composing and negotiating contracts for staff and contractors, and assisting other executives in composing/negotiating contracts
Helping ED in recruiting, making hiring suggestions, and on-boarding new candidates
Building processes for effective team communication
Managing Public Affairs

Responsible for managing technical contributions from a broad range of dedicated staff and contract-based developers - designers, fabricators, engineers, consultants, and others
Assists ED in defining specific task priorities for the Prototyping Plan of 2013
Manages workshop and production runs
Assists ED in developing effective protocols and innovative tools for streamlining development
Specifies scopes of work, specifications, and clear conditions of satisfaction for design and prototyping work
Maintains and updates OSE Development Handbook, a guide for effective open source product development
Works with Documentation Manager to assure delivery of documentation
Engages in Talent Search for top machine design and prototyping talent
Reports to Operations Manager
Maintains a contributor database with assistance from Technical Community Manager
Publishes RFPs and solicits bids
Collaborates with Technical Community Manager on special development events

Responsible for managing technical contributions from a broad range of Open Source Ecology stakeholders - designers, fabricators, builders, architects, engineers, videographers, technical writers, students, and others
Leverages technical contributions from global community to augment the design/protyping/build efforts of the Product Lead
Maintains good community relations to facilitate contributions
Assists ED in streamlining a process for effective talent capture from a large pool of contributors by developing effective protocols and innovative tools
Assists ED in developing a scalable, replicable, open source product development process
Maintains and Updates OSE Community Handbook, a guide for remote collaborators
Feeds contributor output to Documentation Manager and Product Lead
Recruits, negotiates and formalizes participation of remote contributors
Reports to Operations Manager
Maintains a contributor database
Organizes special events, hackathons, Flash Mobs, and other Crowd Design and Manufacturing sessions

Responsible for managing delivery of technical documentation for the Global Village Construction Set
Assists ED in developing effective protocols and innovative tools for streamlining the delivery of documentation
Produces contract scopes of work and specifications to technical writers, videographers, and other documenters
Maintains and updates OSE Documentation Handbook, a guide for effective open source product development
Works with Product Lead to coordinate delivery of documentation
Engages in Talent Search to find key contributors
Reports to Operations Manager
Maintains a documenter database with assistance from Technical Community Manager
Publishes RFPs and solicits bids for documentation work
Collaborates with Technical Community Manager on special documentation-producing events, such as book sprints, video editing hackathons, and others.
Develops a remote video editing protocol