Wikimedia Foundation Remote Jobs

We have curated a list of 6 Wikimedia Foundation remote Jobs available.

1. Senior Manager, Major Gifts & Planned Giving

Job Type: Remote

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Major Gifts & Planned Giving to lead the team who are responsible for our $10,000+ fundraising and planned giving efforts.  These fundraising programs support both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment.  The person in this role will play a critical part in our growing major gifts program, as it becomes an increased focus of our diversified revenue plan. They will also lead the strategy and implementation driving the maturation of our planned giving program. 

The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$134,147 to US$203,434 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire.

Responsibilities

• Retaining, recruiting and managing a team of fundraising professionals and consultants
• Achieving annual major gifts ($10K+) and planned giving targets; collaborating with other leaders in the fundraising program to develop donor journeys that funnel mid-level prospects into the major donor audience. 
• Collaborating with the Sr. Director of Development on the development of a sustainable major giving strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment
• Leading the ongoing development of the planned giving program and building a robust pipeline of planned giving commitments that will provide support for the Wikimedia movement for decades to come
• Partner with the Sr. Director of Development, Major Gifts Stewardship Manager, and Fundraising Events Manager to further develop the events strategy to support increasing individual and planned giving fundraising; strengthening the stewardship and donor recognition program, with the objective of establishing a life-long, relationships with major and planned giving donors
• Collaborate with the Endowment Board of Trustees to develop fundraising strategy, lead fundraising implementation and identify potential new board members
• Ensuring the cultivation and stewardship of a diverse portfolio of existing donors and donor prospects, including undertaking direct individual donor solicitations and cultivating high value relationships. 
• In collaboration with the Major Gifts Stewardship Manager, overseeing portfolio management, major donor prospecting and systems support for gift officers to identify and qualify new major donors
• Partner with managers and subject matter experts across the fundraising program to define cross-team strategies, goals and help set up the structure for execution, including for planned giving marketing
• Generate creative solutions to improve donor experience and fundraising performance, considering current capacities and donor interests
• Coordinate with other teams and departments in the Wikimedia Foundation to realize opportunities and enhance organizational impact

Qualifications

• Seven plus years of successful fundraising experience
• Experience creating and implementing successful fundraising strategy ideally for an endowment and/or planned giving
• Experience leading teams including mentoring and developing staff with a wide range of experience
• Broad-based knowledge of various development campaign activities
• Experience building relationships through mission-supporting ventures a comfort with major donors and a respect for and understanding of their goals and objectives
• Ability to create and maintain strong internal relationships and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrable track record as an exceptional communicator in writing as well as verbally adept at writing solicitation letters, donor correspondence and other kinds of material for publication experience preparing and making effective presentations to diverse groups large and small
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of donor information and a finely-tuned sense of discretion
• Experience working in an organization with a distributed workforce using asynchronous and synchronous communication methods and an ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and accountability
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment.
• A strong international perspective with personal experience in cross-cultural communication is highly valued
• Compassionate communication both in speaking and writing and particularly able to recognize the alignment of a donor’s interests with the value of Wikimedia Foundation programs, communities, services and events
• Active listening and strategizing; comfortable receiving input from many sources, and able to act on information to develop increased support
• Detail-oriented, able to maintain systems, track progress and follow-up in a timely fashion
• Sharing a culture of constructive criticism and respect
• Desire to work in a mission-driven environment
• Experience working with technical and/or scientific donors

Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).

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2. Senior Process Analyst, Community Organizing Experience

Job Description

The Community Growth team seeks to hire a Senior Process Analyst, Community Organizing Experience to help guide our contributors to effectively reach shared goals in improving encyclopedic content, enhancing the contributor experience and building  connection and community on our projects and in our movement. The Senior Process Analyst, Community Organizing Experience will be responsible for co-designing organizing processes, and supporting organizers to use evidence-based workflows to reach our diverse community of volunteers globally.

The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$94,094  to US$142,196 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and co-creation of best practices for organizers looking to grow their skills, capacity and impact in efforts to reach new and established contributors to work on-Wiki.
• Assisting organizers in building alignment between their work and that of other cohorts of contributors, including on-wiki community facilitators and moderators working on-Wiki.
• Developing tested workflows in tool adoption and programme design for key organizer processes that improve newcomer retention and quality edits during organized activities.
• Helping existing organizers using data-informed decision-making to enhance the impact of their campaigns, events and collaborations.
• Facilitating cross-team alignment and support for organizers in the Wikimedia movement ensuring that the Foundation has knowledge of their work and provides access to relevant support mechanisms.
• Contributing to enhanced learning across the Foundation and the movement on the impact of organizers specifically and contributors more broadly.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s + 5 yrs related exp; Master’s + 3 years related experience; or equivalent work experience;
• Familiarity with the Wikimedia movement
• Experience developing workflows using online tools for project management, monitoring, evaluation and other organizing practices
• Experience designing learning materials, workshops and processes in multicultural settings
• Experience bringing an equity first approach to helping multidisciplinary teams meet their goals
• Experience working with a distributed and remote team with people of diverse skill sets and backgrounds.
• Strong written and spoken English. Non-native English speakers are welcomed.
• A passion for free and open knowledge and a willingness to get involved in the complex decentralized process of creating it.
• An understanding of and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion practices and power-sharing practices.
• Self motivated with a curiosity to learn and experiment.
• Collaborative, flexible and interested in feedback from people with diverse skills, experiences  and perspectives.
• A willingness to learn and facilitate learning experiences for diverse audiences.

Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).

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3. Senior Financial Analyst

The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 85,127 to US$ 129,271 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team, reporting to the Senior Manager of finance. As the Senior Financial Analyst on the team, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of our revenue channels and grants programs and provide analytical insight into the financial data for senior executives, managers and program owners.

This role is remote and open to candidates between UTC-8 to UTC-4 (ie. Pacific daylight time to Atlantic time.). Due to the nature of this role, which involves working with globally distributed teams, you may occasionally be required to work outside of standard business hours 

Responsibilities

• Build close relationships with leaders in the digital fundraising and revenue analytics teams to understand revenue scenarios and forecasting processes.
• Support department leadership and budget managers in operationalizing business strategies by analyzing resource plans and their alignment with our strategic business objectives.
• Facilitate department budgeting, financial modeling, expense forecasting and other planning processes.
• Build productive business partnerships across a globally distributed organization and serve as a trusted advisor to departmental leadership.
• Understand strategic revenue plans, including the potential benefits and risks of further investments, and assist the revenue analytics team in data-driven decision-making.
• Support budget managers in revenue-generating teams, like our API business and the Wikimedia Endowment, with data-driven analysis.
• Evaluate global grantmaking programs and synthesize information about spending with strategic grant programs and policies. Facilitate multi-year financial planning for our grant programs.
• Interpret, explain, and drive department performance by executing month-end close variance reporting and projection processes. Present insights to senior leadership.
• Provide budget managers in the department with operational analysis and reporting as needed by using our financial reporting system Workday Adaptive.
• Establish standards for processes in the Financial Planning & Reporting system and write internal documentation of assumptions, formulas, maintenance processes and integration with other systems.
• Develop and maintain reporting dashboards and visualization of reporting information for month-end close, program evaluation and financial planning processes.
• Support strategic projects across teams in the departments you support and in the Finance teams.
• Project manage different cross-functional projects as they arise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s + 5 years of relevant experience in FP&A, Business Analytics, Accounting, Program Management or similar. MBA/Master preferred.
• Experience with financial planning, analysis and reporting
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to successfully self-manage multiple priorities including urgent tasks
• Function in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment
• Understanding of non-profit fundraising strategies preferred
• You love solving problems and understanding the connections between micro decisions and macro systems.
• You believe in the mission of the Foundation and are excited to dig into numbers and processes to support that mission.
• You enjoy collaborating with a range of stakeholders, and you value knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
• You are capable of working with distributed teams using asynchronous and synchronous methods.
• You are a proactive problem solver and take initiative in identifying needs and taking action prior to being asked.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and are able to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment.
• You thrive in a results-oriented culture that favors collaborative decision-making.
• You have strong time management skills and plan and prioritize work to accomplish all tasks.
• You are a flexible and creative individual capable of managing multiple priorities and projects in a diverse environment while providing top-level attention to detail and ensuring work is complete.
• Previous work experience with Workday Adaptive Planning preferred.
• Finance Analyst or Finance business intelligence and reporting experience.
• Understanding of the free culture, free software or online rights movements.

Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).

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4.Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Security team to build new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role working alongside our other security team members to design and code new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.

Job Description

You will be working primarily on our MediaWiki platform which powers Wikipedia. As a top 10 website, we must meet stringent performance standards while addressing new security challenges such as supporting modern authentication technologies, detecting and preventing platform abuse from bots, and planning and rolling out improvements to our security architecture by defending against emerging security threats.

The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 105,309   to US$ 163,646   with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.

Responsibilities

• Help design and build MediaWiki security capabilities
• Review and deploy security features developed by the Foundation and community members
• Work with other development teams to ensure that they make safe architectural and implementation choices
• Perform security maintenance and address technical debt in security-critical components
• Provide support for application security incidents and operations

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience with a focus on security
• Ability to work effectively in a modern, object-oriented PHP code-base
• Experience developing client-side JavaScript
• Experience in developing secure software or security-related product features
• A strong interest in working with a talented security team and learning more specialist security skills such as exploiting and mitigating application-level vulnerabilities
• Patience in explaining security issues and their implications on privacy and risk to non-technical audiences
• Sensitivity to the security challenges faced by participants in a large, international project
• Experience using Linux at the command line for tasks related to web application development and deployment
• Ability to maintain focus when working remotely
• Experience working on anti-abuse mechanisms such as CAPTCHA and bot detection
• Previous experience building security countermeasures against attacks on technologies at the web, backend and database level
• Experience finding and fixing security bugs and reviewing code for security gaps
• A working knowledge of threat modeling and secure design patterns

Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).

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5. Staff Software Security Engineer (PHP)

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Staff Security Software Engineer to join the Product Security team to build new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role working alongside our other security team members to design and code new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.

Job Description

You will be working primarily on our MediaWiki platform which powers Wikipedia. As a top 10 website, we must meet stringent performance standards while addressing new security challenges such as supporting modern authentication technologies, detecting and preventing platform abuse from bots, and planning and rolling out improvements to our security architecture by defending against emerging security threats.

The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$129,347 to US$ 200,823 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.

Responsibilities

• Help design and build MediaWiki security capabilities
• Mentor and lead a security development team
• Review and deploy security features developed by the Foundation and community members
• Work with other development teams to ensure that they make safe architectural and implementation choices
• Perform security maintenance and address technical debt in security-critical components Provide support for application security incidents and operations

Qualifications

• +8 years of experience in the software engineering area with a focus on security
• Ability to work effectively in a modern, object-oriented PHP code-base
• Experience developing client-side JavaScript
• Experience in developing secure software or security-related product features
• A strong interest in working with a talented security team and learning more specialist security skills such as exploiting and mitigating application-level vulnerabilities
• Patience in explaining security issues and their implications on privacy and risk to non-technical audiences
• Sensitivity to the security challenges faced by participants in a large, international project
• Experience using Linux at the command line for tasks related to web application development and deployment
• Ability to maintain focus when working remotely
• Experience working on anti-abuse mechanisms such as CAPTCHA and bot detection
• Previous experience building security countermeasures against attacks on technologies at the web, backend, and database level
• Experience finding and fixing security bugs and reviewing code for security gaps
• A working knowledge of threat modeling and secure design patterns

Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).

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6. Manager, User Experience Research

We’re hiring a UX Research Manager strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, human-centered research, open source and open data, transparency, privacy and collaboration to join the Research team.

The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ $120,791 to US$189,762 

Job Description

You’ll work remotely with the fully distributed Research team, with members currently spread between UTC+3 and UTC-7. You will be accountable for our UX Research function which serves stakeholders in the Wikimedia Foundation and the broader Wikimedia Movement.

This role reports to the Head of Research and requires working with senior leadership and stakeholders across the organization in different timezones. It is expected that the person who will join us in this role will be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 15:00 to 19:00 UTC. It is further expected that the candidate is open to traveling up to four times per year.

Responsibilities

• Building and managing a motivated, collaborative and high performing team of individuals from different disciplines with varying seniority levels and responsibilities in a remote-first organization.
• Identifying research opportunities and overseeing research that inform our product and technology teams in building the right products and features for the right users.
• Acting as a trusted and strategic partner for leaders across the organization and supporting them in the adoption of research-based user-centered recommendations.
• Lead and inform planning and strategy discussions through research by consolidating, analyzing, and synthesizing what is known about users, products, services and organizational needs.
• Proposing and executing an annual plan for the team and managing the team’s budget.

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of experience directly managing, coaching and developing UX researchers with varying levels of seniority in a large, matrixed organization.
• 3 or more years of experience working with senior leadership.
• 5 or more years experience conducting or overseeing UX research in product-focused  teams or organizations.
• Experience working as a UX researcher, individual contributor or manager, overseeing human centered research projects that go beyond a limited number of languages, cultures and geographies.
• Track record of translating research into design and product.
• Master’s or PhD degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Behavioral Economics, Linguistics, Psychology, Anthropology or a related field.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English, excellent at asynchronous communication.
• Able to manage and lead in the face of ambiguity, complexity and change
• Self motivated and proactive
• An effective and responsible communicator and an active listener
• Curious; a critical thinker; and a lifelong learner
• Able to methodically manage time
• Strive to deliver quality and high impact work
• Invested in the quality and health of our work place beyond the immediate team
• Comfortable with working in the open and public exposure in a multicultural, collaborative and transparent environment
• Experience overseeing teams with mixed method expertise.
• Experience working with international vendors and contractors.
• Experience working with volunteer communities and projects.
• Experience working in NGO, non-profit or social good oriented organizations.
• Experience contributing to Wikimedia projects.
• Fluency in languages beyond English.
• Published research in the past three years or contributed to research communities through service activities in the past three years.

Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR)

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