Community Coordinator

The Community Coordinator is a service position focused on increasing participation and connections within Hackrva

Community Coordinator

• Robert E Kramer
  • [email protected]
• Expected term: May - August 2015
• Time commitment: 2 - 5 hrs / week
• "My primary purpose is to increase our feeling of connection to Hackrva and to each other. I believe by collaborating together we can all get more out of our Hackrva experience."

Current Challenges (May 2015)

• A few members do the vast majority of administrative work and general maintenance of the facilities
• Safety and equipment training needs to be standardized, easily available to all members, and followed.
• It typically takes a while for members to feel comfortable and start making projects

Goals

• Increase member service participation.
  • The long term health of the organization requires the work of maintaining Hackrva be distributed.
  • We've tried different volunteer strategies. I hope to make incremental improvement.
• Provide a framework for future development and improvement
  • Find some useful metrics to gauge how effective policies are.
  • Document the experience so that the role of Community Coordinator is defined and the next person can easily step in and continue progressing

Initial Strategy

• Gather data and find couple simple metrics to measure effectiveness
• implement a plan improve volunteer participation
  • Use a shared purpose, opportunities to be useful, and play to increase connection
• Create a training record program and find someone who would like to take on a Member Training service position
• Create an avenue for feedback and events designed to reduce fear around beginning to make things