OSE Job Descriptions 2013

History

• From Jan. 2012 - File:OSE job desc.odt
• From Nov. 2012 - OSE Organization Chart

Current Development

Talent Search Specification.

Job Descriptions Overview

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Job Descriptions

Executive Director

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• Recruiting and Strategic Partnerships - Recruits and on-boards executive team - (1) Operations Manager, (2) Product Lead, (3) Community Manager, and (4), Documentation Manager. Approves all hires, contractors, and volunteers. Develops strategic partnerships (30%).
• Standards Development: Develops documentation and development standards with assistance from Executive Team, and oversees execution (30%).
• Structuring and Oversight - Implements legal/financial compliance and operations. Manages executive team. (20%)
• Plan and Budget - Defines development plan and budget (20%).

Operations Manager

• Responsible for overseeing/tracking/keeping records on full range of OSE Operations
• Maintains and Updates OSE Operations Handbook (everything from email handling for the Assistant, blogging procedures, to financial controls)
• Oversees facility, development, and recruiting. Keeps copies of all Operations Protocols (development, organization, documentation)
• Oversees all budgets and digests them for ED's approval
• Composes and negotiates cotracts, and assists other executives in composing/negotiating contracts.
• Helps ED in recruiting, and makes hiring suggestions to ED.
• Reports to ED, and all other Executives report to ED via Operations Manager.

Desired Outputs

• Executive Director - $2M in additional resources secured through strategic partnerships and strategic deployment; 3-5 major new strategic relationships started; high quality staff recruited; realistic Deployment Plan and Budget defined and executed
• Operations Manager - development and site operations stabilized, contracts for prototyping drawn up and managed effectively for full chain from design to documentation; site operations stabilized
• Documentation Manager - implements a solid documentation protocol; successful pipeline to crowd-sourced documentation and vidoe production established; organizes existing documentation for prototypes built.
• Product Lead (Head of R&D) - open hardware development protocol stabilized and beginning to scale; Deployment Plan for prototypes executed successfully.
• Community Manager - Successful pipeline of contributors developed to leverage the power of crowd-based contributions
• Fundraising - $500k raised

General Role Division Strategy

As the company grows, it is critical to focus jobs on critical tasks and nothing else. Only upon these tasks being executed with excellence should other tasks be added.

1. Extensive field testing established via collaborating Pilot Projects
2. Executive Director recruits Operations Manager to set up and stabilize Operations and legal compliance. Aggressive recruiting. If operations are pared down to the minimum essential (scalable platform for machine builds + documentation via careful contract management), then Ops Manager focuses on establishing Core Work contracts with Developers, in addition to money/legal/payroll.
3. Operations Manager handles compliance (payroll/accounting outsourced; book-keeper outsourced). Operations manager writes OSE Operations Handbook.
4. No dedicated video producer exists; Documentation Manager writes instructionals scripts and outsources video production from crowd contributions; Dedicated Project Visits for video work are also used. Potential H2 channel collaboration pending structuring/construction deliverables.
5. Product Lead manages design-outsourced prototyping-production runs.
6. Community Manager and Documentation Managers can live off-site
7. Grid connection being negotiated for infrastructure facilitation
8. Executive Retreat for core team bonding

Organization Chart

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