CNMC DevOps Administrator

Friends Of CNM DevOps Administrator (hereinafter, the Administrator) is an independent contractor for WorldOpp Fellow Team (hereinafter, the Team) who virtually and/or onsite administers operations of WorldOpp development (hereinafter, the Dev).

Events

The Team is launching two types of free events: (a) CNM standups and (b) roundtables.

Standups

The Team targets 15-20 CNM standups a month; all of them shall be offered free to the participants. The target audience is learners of Opplet incubators and everyone else who might join through a meetup group posting.

Roundtables

CNM Community Board may initiate some roundtables, which are community discussions, especially as a part of active learning techniques. The target audience is any part of CNM Community Board.

Recitals

Expected outcomes

1. Milestones of WorldOpp development.

Job description

The Administrator:

1. Drafts the Event's strategy, including:
   • Collects strategic ideas from the Team's members;
   • Analyzes the collected information and incorporates into strategic plans;
   • Submits the strategic plans to Friends Of CNM for their approval or critique and follows up;
2. Organizes the Events, including but not limited to:
   • Creates guidelines for event organizing. Those 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. They shall be published at:
     1. The WorldOpp event wikipage for free events; and
     2. The Careerprise event wikipage for paid events;
   • Based on the guidelines, serves as an event host assistant;
   • Develops and publishes all materials such as texts, graphics, and videos related to the Events;
3. Promotes the Events in the Washington DC metro area, including but not limited to:
   • Develops guidelines for promoting events;
   • Publishes event announcements on Tech Events for Managers and Entrepreneurs (hereinafter, the Group);
   • 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 Group;
4. 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;
5. Exercises any other legal and ethical duties in order to achieve Expected outcomes.

Platforms

Two meetup groups are planned to be used:

1. Own Tech Events for Managers and Entrepreneurs;
2. Partner CNM meetup group at meetup.com/mbc-cnm

Compliance

Main wikipage: Careerprise partner

Any Administrator shall comply with laws and policies of Friends Of CNM stated at Careerprise partner.

Hiring

Qualifications

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

1. Excellent listening, proactive research, and learning capacity;
2. Knowledge of the DADI and ability to apply it;
3. Good English speaking and writing skills;
4. Ability to communicate information and ideas in written formats especially demonstrated on the CNM Wiki;
5. Willingness to jump to where ever is needed.

Selection

The successful candidate will be:

1. Initially selected on the basis of his or her ability to introduce himself or herself on this CNM Wiki until the selection quiz is created;
2. Substantively selected on the basis of his or her answer to the key selection question, What would you do first if hired?, and knowledge of this wikipage;
3. Contingently selected on the basis of his or her qualifying performance.

Onboarding

With regard to:

• Administrative KSAs, the successful candidate should be gradually onboarded through Careerprise Orientation, WorldOpp Placement Seminar, and Septem Artes Administrativi;
• Event announcements, the successful candidate should join the Tech Events for Managers and Entrepreneurs meetup group and notify Gary Ihar, who would promote him or her to an event organizer role.

Development

The Administrator's role needs to be clarified and further developed. The ideas for that development are expressed in the Roadmap.

Roadmap

The following roadmap is proposed in order to develop this role:

1. To launch CNM standups in order to:
   • Facilitate the further development;
   • Develop the strategy and guidelines for the events;
2. To launch a prototype of Careerprise Orientation and Septem Artes Administrativi lectures, as well as Working with CNM Wiki session with objectives to:
   • Further develop wiki-materials;
   • Record the live sessions;
   • Publish the recorded sessions on YouTube;
   • Post links to the recorded sessions on the lecture notes of the wiki;
3. To develop the rest nine outlines of WorldOpp Placement Seminar sessions beyond Working with CNM Wiki. Currently, just this first session is outlined and the rest nine are not. As soon as the rest of the sessions are outlined,
4. To launch a prototype of the rest of WorldOpp Placement Seminar sessions with objectives to:
   • Further develop wiki-materials;
   • Record the live sessions;
   • Publish the recorded sessions on YouTube;
   • Post links to the recorded sessions on the session notes of the wiki;
5. To get into routine operations and, particularly, to:
   • Launch Careerprise Orientation and WorldOpp Placement Seminar in order to recruit learners for Opplet incubator; and
   • Launch Septem Artes Administrativi in order to generate income.

Q&As

(Excerpt from Talk: Friends Of CNM Event Administrator)

Looking at the job description for the candidates, I noticed you are a bit relaxed on the desired skills and qualifications. How complex would the tasks be and how elaborate is the interviewing process for these candidates?

From my perspective, I stated all the desired skills. That is why I prefer behavioral interviews over general ones. Usually, one particular question -- what would a candidate like to start with? -- is enough to assess the candidate.

Would we need to gauge their comprehension skills before bringing them on board?

Based on my experience, comprehension is not the biggest problem. The ability to find out what the client (i.e., me) wants is.

I would like to get some clarification on which of the services -- for the vulnerable, paying employers, or paying students -- takes priority.

We are not there yet -- hopefully, we will get there in a couple of years and then decide. For now, Friends Of CNM is hiring the Administrator in order to primarily facilitate learners' testing of the tentative materials and, therefore, to further develop the service. After the service is up and running, we will make one to three websites and look for donors, paying employers, and/or paying students. Whoever comes first will get the priority.