VP, Community Development
Dreamfish mission and team
Dreamfish is a global work network, creating an open way to hire, be hired, manage projects, exchange value, and collaborate virtually. A member-operated work cooperative, our mission is to create a thriving world of work for millions of the world’s entrepreneurs and independents.
Realizing a really big dream, Dreamfish is unique as a work community. We get excited about figuring out how what we build helps to reduce global poverty and increase inclusiveness! Everyone is highly self-directed, smart, professional, and we work together extremely well as a team. Our members are diverse and include first time web users in emerging markets, seniors, disabled, as well as open source community and young workers. For more information on Dreamfish, see Dreamfish:Governance, Is Dreamfish for you? and Dreamfish Timeline.
Championing the Community
We, dreamfish, come to this community because we each want to realize our own dreams. There will be millions of us in years to come, even though there are small handfuls of us now. ‘Together, we share a dream for our community — We want a work community where we can bring our whole selves, where we are all welcome. We want a community where we can make a living for our selves and our families, while still having the flexibility and balance to have a life. Our community is a place where we can build skills, create social good and reduce our environmental footprints. Whereas the experience of most independents and startups can be isolating, our community can offer us feedback, nourishment and inspiration through peer learning, collaborative work, and a marketplace of a diverse open like-minded coworkers, mentors, and clients.
We experience Dreamfish as an empowering facilitator. We learn it is up to each of us to reach out and ask, show up to groups and projects, practice, stretch, and exercise our use of self to make Dreamfish work for us. It works as we work it. And as each of us works, we learn to reflect on the value of our work and learn to realize the kinds of Value that we seek. We learn that we do not dance our dreams through standing. We dance our dreams as we walk one step at a time. ‘
Tiffany von Emmel 13:27, 5 October 2009 (PDT)
Responsibilities
- Building and managing community team of facilitators
- Helping to recruit members that have consulting practices as facilitators, project managers, coaches and technical support.
- Developing Communities of Practices (CoP) of facilitators, project management coaches, learning content contributors and technical support practitioners.
- Facilitating collaborative peer learning experiences in a blend of online and in-person experiences — by wiki, social networking, email lists, conference calls, IRC chat and local in-person groups.
- Fostering effective interpersonal communication, online and in-person, among members.
- Facilitating the development of web-based learning content for adult learning that supports experiential, and collaborative inquiry.
- Develop and publish content to communicate Dreamfish thought leadership and stories of members.
- Identify and prioritize events, conferences, and other offline activities
Skills
- Highly skilled at engaging diversity in culture, class, gender, industry, skill, generation, learning styles, technical ability, and other differences. (For reference, see our Diversity Statement )
- Successful experience in the building of online community
- Experience in collaborative learning and group facilitation for adults
- Experience building and managing a team
- Experience working in a startup – as our members are all startups, as is Dreamfish
- Extensive and demonstrated social media, web, IM, phone, and in-person communication skills
- Understanding of information and communication technologies
- Living or having lived in a country other than the U.S and language skills are a big plus
- Willingness and desire to travel to the developing countries as needed
- MA or equivalent education in applied social sciences, e.g., Community and Organization Development, International Development, Adult Education, Communication
Joining
We are looking for a champion who is called to help build this community. This is an exceptional opportunity for someone who wants to build a transformative empowering world of work for entrepreneurs and independents throughout the world.
You can work from anywhere. We are globally distributed. We’ll ask you to travel to San Francisco for some bonding time early on and for quarterly Dreamfish Retreats.
We are a building a slow growth company that is sustainable for the long-term. In the short-term, we have the resources of a startup. We’ll work out together what kinds of compensation and benefits will support you. Most of us have volunteered some sweat to get Dreamfish to where it is today. We would want that you can pitch in time up front until our next funding event. Because everyone has different kinds of Value they want in work, and there are a lot of unique benefits to swimming in Dreamfish, we’ll work out the details with you.
Please share with us:
- Why Dreamfish mission calls to you personally
- Links to your online activity and accomplishments
- A resume showing your past work experience that’s relevant to this position
Please reply by email directly to Tiffany von Emmel, Founder