AVEN is now taking nominations for a PT member for the office of Resources and Survey Director.
Update: nominations have closed, and we have now moved to candidate Q&A in this thread: http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/151245-new-project-team-member-needed-resources-and-survey-director-campaigns/
For those of you who are/were also active on AVEN, just in case you might have missed it: the Project Team is currently taking nominationa and applicants for the office of Resources and Survey Director, which is the person nominally in charge of the AVEN Community Census. (Note that the rest of the survey staff remain the same).
Responsibilities: The primary responsibilities of this position are to run an annual asexuality community survey, to write up an analysis of the results, and to work on developing asexuality related resources. It is expected that these will be accomplished through putting together and leading small teams to work on these issues. This position is intended to ensure that a survey is conducted each year to help document the state of asexuality organizing and to address various questions of interest, to analyze the results and keep interested people informed, and to work on developing other asexuality-related resources. It is expected that during the first year of this position, the survey will be their primary responsibility, as it will require conferring with a number of individuals to put together standard items to be largely reused each year. After the first year, the survey will already be largely constructed, and so less time will be involved in running the survey. It is expected that for a few months each year, the annual survey will be this person's primary responsibility, and during the rest of the year, working of development of other resources will be their primary responsibility.
Requirements: People applying for this position should have familiarity with Excel, be able to lead small teams working on developing resources as needed, have good writing skills, and either have a general familiarity with basic statistics or be able to learn.
To run, qualifications include that a person must have been a member for at least 6 months, and have at least 100 posts that are not in the Just For Fun or Welcome Area forums. You also cannot run with an active, current, warning. A bio is required by voting time, which starts one week after nominations.
To throw in my own two cents:
This is largely a project manager role, so while analysis and excel experience is nice to have, the main thing you need to be able to do is keep on top of tasks and be good at regularly checking in with other survey team members to make sure they are doing so as well. The rest is just a nice bonus.
Unfortunately, this role does require being already involved in AVEN, but past posts there totally count, even it’s a few years ago.
If you are interested, the recruitment thread is here, but it closes soon! http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/150879-new-project-team-member-needed-resources-and-survey-director-nominations/
