Pioneers of Change – Cultivation Team Renewal Applications 2008/2009
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Dear Pioneers,
We are selecting a new core team to host the Pioneers of Change Network. Please consider joining the Cultivation Team!
The current CT comes to an end at the end of March 2008. Working in this global team is a remarkable, challenging and worthwhile experience offering wonderful learning and many opportunities to grow and serve an ambitious and dynamic network. The network is still in a transition phase into a new level of maturity, and in 2008 we will celebrate it's 10th anniversary with an intergenerational dialogue. This offers a great chance for further growth and re-connection between old and new members.
We are inviting you to step forward and join the CT in a specific role by sending an email to cultivation@lists.pioneersofchange.net , by February 10th, with the answers to the following questions:
Why would you like to join the Cultivation Team?
What role(s), based on the descriptions below, do you want to play? If someone else is selected for this role, are there other roles you would consider?
What is the commitment that you can make? Please note that the commitment may be as much as 4-9 hours a week, depending on the role. Please be clear about what is realistic for you and state what you are and are not willing to commit to.
The CT is a global team that cultivates, governs and supports specific operations for the network globally. CT members serve from where they are based and connect with each other through virtual and probably at least one physical meeting throughout the year. Please feel free to talk to any of the current CT members, Maria, Lesley, Cristina, Jens or Mark, at cultivation@lists.pioneersofchange.net about their experience this year. The CT counts on mentoring from the Board and previous CT members throughout the year.
The CT requires people to fulfill the following roles. Depending of the applicants and the team-fit the role's tasks might be adapted. Each topic is based on last year's experiences combined with inspirational ideas from the recent PoC gathering in Brazil:
– Network Developer and Finance coordinator (former Host of CT)
Tasks: This role hosts/coordinates the CT. The focus is on the CT’s strategic and operational planning. It maintains contact between the CT members and between the CT and the board. It coordinates the financial flow and provides a short yearly financial report. In alignment and together with the harvester or the host of hosts it cares about the levels of engagement, including the commitment renewal process.
Opportunities: Explore the network's opportunities as a social enterprise and dig into the network's true potential
– Host of hosts (former Local Network and CoP Cultivator)
Tasks: This role cultivates the various nodes of Pioneers of Change by providing community building support/tools and being a reference and networking person. Its focus is hosting the stewards community, supporting new local networks and facilitating communities of practice. It holds wisdom and knowledge of the "art of hosting" to also support the CT in growing hosting capabilities. This role has tight interfaces with the Harvester.
Opportunities: Link with the "Art of hosting community", foster local exchange and international growth of the network
– Harvester (former Membership Cultivator and Newsletter Editor)
Tasks: Self-organisation in the network lives from transparency of the networks' activities. This role surfaces and confluences activities and uses journalistic approaches to spread them within the network (content responsibility of the website, editing and publishing the newsletter, Pioneers ventures and stories, storytelling, appreciative inquires, CONNECT calls, etc.). It documents learnings and encourages people to harvest learnings in handbooks and good practices. This role includes the welcoming and introduction of new members. This role has tight interfaces with the Host of hosts and network developer regarding the levels of engagement and with the virtual collaboration officer for online tools.
Opportunities: Exploit (online) and develop journalistic methods and approaches, learning and experiencing social acupuncture, exploring online campaigning approaches to drive the network and enable cross-community learnings. Making the network visible.
– Virtual collaboration cultivator (former online-tool cultivator)
Tasks: Enabling and supporting communities with online collaboration. The role will maintain existing online operations and host a community to explore new technologies. It provides an active innovation process harvesting the learnings from new technologies and offering ways integrating them into the virtual collaboration environment. The person will work closely with the harvesters and host of host.
Opportunities: Exploit innovative Web 2.0 features and culture, contribute to Plone development and tie into the developers community. Build a technology community to experiment.
– Sustainability cultivator (former fundraising co-ordinator, new structure implementation and global programmes coordinator)
Tasks: This role connects with other networks (like PoC Associates, AIESEC, Webindices) in close relation with the network developer. It counts responsible for fundraising, donations, enabling the membership fee model and external relations. As the annual gathering will be co-hosted with the intergenerational dialogue event and 10th anniversary, this role also links with other international activities like Learning Journeys.
Opportunities: Discover the potential of co-created knowledge (dealing with common creative licenses) and contributing to the discussion of a PoC as a social enterprise.
Deadline to receive applications: Sunday 10th February.
The selection committee will choose a new team by February 17th.
The results will be communicated to the Board and Cultivation Team and then to the network publicly at the end of February.
New Cultivation Team starts: 1st March
To apply and for further information please email cultivation@lists.pioneersofchange.net
We look forward to hearing from you!
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