Hi @gpereyrairujo and @pazbernaldo
You can see the budget for the Community Coordinator position in the Sloan Foundation grant summary that was shared in the June 2020 community call and on the forum. This covers a full time contract plus other materials and costs associated with the role so it is not directly equivalent to what is being paid.
The Coordinator is an independent contractor rather than an employee, which has different implications in different parts of the world. For this reason as well as others it was challenging to post an accurate contract range that took into account people applying globally with many different levels of experience. Anyone interested in applying for the role who requested the salary range via email was provided with additional information.
If anyone has good examples from other non-profit organisations of how they deal with advertising remuneration scales for remote global hiring then do send them over. It is more complicated than it first appears and there was too little time for sufficient due diligence before the advert was posted: it seemed better to not include them than to include the wrong information. For future hires by GOSH, a policy on job adverts and remuneration will be drawn up and passed by the Community Council once it is seated.
For selection of the Community Coordinator, the goal was that the Community Council would draw up the role description and a Council representative would participate in the selection process along with Shannon and I (who are named on the grant and are also legal signatories for the contract). Unfortunately, that assumed the Council would be seated by Nov/Dec last year and we’re now looking at Mar/Apr, as updated in the recent community calls convened by the governance working group. It was necessary to hire the Community Coordinator asap to move forward with planned activities (hiring should have happened in mid-2020 and was delayed in order to allow for the community governance process to be set up first). As a compromise, the GOSH governance working group gave their input on the role description and criteria then Shannon and I did the interviewing and selection.
We’re thrilled to have found Bri among a really competitive field of applicants and so excited about the amount of progress the community can make on bringing forward GOSH roadmap objectives, supporting new members, and delivering on many plans from the past five years with the help of a full time Coordinator. Shannon and I are now on-boarding Bri, who is already bringing enormous energy and experience to the role, and we’ll be supporting her on a daily basis as she works with the community, until such a time as the Council is seated whereupon they will play an active role as well.
I recognise that the lack of additional community representation on the selection panel was far less than ideal and it was neither the intention nor the plan! For future hires, the Council will manage community input into the process.
We will post updates here on the forum soon on how the grant budget is being spent, as of now with events being on hold due to COVID this has largely been hiring to the Coordinator position and the website RFP.
Jenny