Recruiter specifications

Job Description

• Identifies and recruits ideal candidates for designing and prototyping the GVCS.
  • Will include engineers, independent researchers, subject matter experts, and consultants.
  • Leverages TED Fellows community contacts for possible collaborations
  • Weeds out un-desirable candidates.
• Answers any questions candidates may have about working with OSE.
• Negotiates pay structure with potential candidates.
• Recruits volunteers to do jobs which do not require skilled labor.
• Reports to OSE Executive Director with findings on a daily basis.

Specific Qualities and Duties of Applicants

• Searching open source related initiatives, retired peoples' organizations, professional societies for subject matter experts in technical fields of engineering, metallurgy, precision machining, robotics, power electronics, automation, regenerative agriculture and building; and in organizational fields of open source technology development, open source economic development, rcruiting, video production, communications, grant writing, strategy, and other supporting functions necessary to develop a solid open source product development organization.
• Willingness to learn about all of the GVCS 50 technologies and product ecologies involved. See Product Ecologies Crash Course Video, forthcoming.

Required Skills

• Must have experience negotiating with professionals.
• Must have enough technical knowledge, or be capable of learning about the GVCS to determine if a candidate will be of use.
• Must be able to assess candidate qualifications and culture fit.
• Ability to work independently and set individual priorities and goal accomplishments.

Incentives

• Recruiters will be paid by commission. Commission will be negotiated during interview process.

Before Applying

• Read Status Brief page to understand up to date status on all projects - GVCS, Infrastructure, Organizational
  • Follow up with active project managers if you have any questions on status
• Candidates are required to have a thorough understanding of OSE mission and goals.
  • Read all materials presented in Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01 foreword and intro.
• Fill out a Team Culturing survey and post it on the OSE wiki.

Applying

• Send us a resume at opensourceecology (at) gmail (dot) com
• Explain in 1000 words or less why you'd like to work with OSE, a brief explanation of how you plan on recruiting, and what you would require from OSE to execute your plan. Make sure you consider the Status Brief for proper direction.
• We will contact you and plan an interview after receiving your application.