CNMC Outreach Administrator

Friends Of CNM Outreach Administrator (hereinafter, the Administrator) is the contractor for Friends Of CNM who virtually and/or onsite administers two meetup groups, Global DC and Culture Club DC (hereinafter, the Groups).

Groups

Both groups intend to help people organize cultural events online and invite the Groups' members to join meetings face-to-face. While Global DC is intended to host cultural events with some international twist, Culture Club DC is intended to host the other cultural events.

Culture Club DC

Culture Club DC is a meetup group at meetup.com/CultureClubDC. The Group's mission is to foster diverse cultures and the arts through organizing cultural events online and invite the Group's members to join meetings face-to-face.

Global DC

Global DC is a meetup group at meetup.com/GlobalDC. The Group's mission is to foster cultures beyond the mainstream ones through organizing cultural events online and invite the Group's members to join meetings face-to-face.

Recitals

Expected outcomes

1. Growth of membership in the Groups. In order to do so, at least 4-5 quality events shall be organized every week, where quality means that the events shall attract 20-25 new members of the Groups a week;
2. Having worldopp.org as the main sponsor of the Groups.

Job description

The Contractor:

1. Drafts Group's strategy. For every Group:
   • Monitors successful meetup groups in order to identify best practices and benchmarks;
   • Collects strategic ideas from the Group's members;
   • Analyzes the collected information and incorporates into strategic plans, which shall include:
     1. A renewed stated mission, Group's description, requirements for its outlook, newsletters, requirements for the members, etc.;
     2. A list of Group's businesses (ongoing activities called operations and new activities called projects) the Group would like to be involved in;
     3. A stated plan to recruit more organizers, both volunteers and contractors, for the Group;
   • Submits the strategic plans to Friends Of CNM for their approval or critique and follows up;
2. Monitors cultural events in the Washington DC metro area, including but not limited to:
   • Creating the Cultural Event Calendar at Google sites similarly to sites.google.com/site/dctangocalendar;
   • Developing guidelines for posting events at the Cultural Event Calendar;
   • Following the developed guidelines, the Contractor:
     1. Discovers, analyzes, and selects cultural events in the Washington DC metro area for posting at the Cultural Event Calendar;
     2. Posts the selected events at the Cultural Event Calendar;
3. Organizes cultural events through the Groups, including but not limited to:
   • Making decisions whether to promote particular cultural events in the Washington DC metro area using the Groups;
   • Creating guidelines for event organizing. The guidelines shall clarify usage of graphics used, ways of wording (ensuring that there are no spell errors etc.), and messages for event announcement, event support, and event follow-ups;
   • Based on the guidelines, serving as an event host assistant. In order to do so, the Contractor:
     1. Publishes event announcements on one of the Groups;
     2. Communicates with those members who chose to RSVP while sending pre-event, event, and post-event messages such as clarifications and additional info and answering members' queries on the Groups;
   • As a starting point, takes the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage. This stage hosts free cultural events every day -- kennedy-center.org/video/upcoming. This event announcement can serve as a source of ideas for the target event description: meetup.com/GlobalDC/events/224268302;
4. Collaborates with partners in order to organize special actions and events such as national days, celebrations, etc. Particularly, the Contractor:
   • Creates requirements for the Group's partners;
   • Creates a list of potential partners including legal entities and social groups. This list shall include points of contact and reasoning for the potential partnering;
5. Manages public relations, including but not limited to:
   • Serving as a point of contact for the public;
   • Posting all related information to this CNM Wiki;
6. Exercises any other legal and ethical duties in order to achieve Expected outcomes.

Compliance

Main wikipage: Friends Of CNM contractor

The Contractor shall comply with laws and policies of Friends Of CNM stated at Friends Of CNM contractor.

Compensation

Unless agreed on something else, the Contractor shall receive:

1. 90% of collected sponsor's cash; and
2. 10% of non-cash donations such as pizza, event space, etc., when those donations are approved by Friends Of CNM.

Hiring

Qualifications

The Contractor shall possess or be able to possess the following qualifications:

1. Being in-tuned with international, domestic, and local cultural events in the Washington DC metro area;
2. Proficient use of a graphics program so as to create adverts and group announcements (particularly, Canva or Microsoft Publisher will work);
3. Excellent writing and speaking skills in English;
4. Ability to communicate information and ideas in written formats;
5. Being familiar with Google Calendar or comfortable with Google Docs to create an editable Calendar (this calendar -- sites.google.com/site/dctangocalendar-- can serve as a good example);
6. Experience with coordinating events;
7. In-depth knowledge and understanding of social media platforms (particularly, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram) and understand how/when to use each platform for effective results;
8. Ability to jump from the creative side of marketing to the analytical side, must be able to demonstrate why their ideas are sound.

Sourcing

Candidate can be found by advertising on Social Media Sites such as Facebook, Instagram, etc., also via LinkedIn using that article -- linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/166/posting-a-job-on-linkedin. All of these sites with the exception of Instagram requires payment for advertisement. However the advert will target selected group of people. Instagram advert can be done free of cost. Just pay to create the Advert and post it out.

Onboarding

The successful candidate can start working immediately once all the terms are agreed upon by all the parties.

See also

• DC History And Culture, one of the best groups of all times: meetup.com/DCHistoryAndCulture