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Social Signal is offering an unusual opportunity to come in on the ground floor of a business with the experience, reputation and credentials to go sky-high. If your enthusiasm for technology is matched only by your passion for social change, you'll find that the joy of working with kindred spirits can be matched by the thrill of helping communities use the Internet in ways they never imagined.

WHO WE ARE: Social Signal puts the web to work for social change, helping organizations turn online communities into a powerful force for progress. We have extensive experience in the non-profit, public and private sectors, and a large network of local, national and international colleagues and clients that you'll be working with on a regular basis. While you expand your professional network and skills, we also hope you'll enjoy being part of our personal network of technology leaders and community advocates in Vancouver and abroad.

WHO WE NEED: We're looking for a organized, progressive, tech-friendly person whose project management skills can make our work even more effective.  This fourth member of our team isn't just there to justify taking a four-person table during our meetings in the local Internet cafe. We need a boss: someone who can manage our business affairs, major projects and our team itself so that we make the most of our resources. The right person will enjoy our company's informal, friendly vibe but will help us balance friendliness with professionalism and efficiency.

WHAT YOU'LL DO: You'll business manage our business, project manage our projects, and prioritize our priorities. Your primary responsibility will be to manage our work priorities -- everything from client work to business development to financial and legal affairs -- to ensure that everything is getting done. You'll also help structure our client engagements by consulting on project scope, breaking down tasks, and assigning responsibilities. You'll know you're doing your job if everyone else on the team is clear about theirs.

Specific responsibilities include:

• managing business operations including h.r., finance and legal affairs
• project managing web development projects
• writing or editing project proposals
• identifying work priorities and assigning tasks
• maintaining friendly, productive relations with our clients (including non-profit organizations, governments and socially-minded businesses) and suppliers (including designers, web developers and hosting companies)

WHO YOU ARE: You're the person who gets things done: organized and detail-oriented while keeping your eye on the big picture. You're confident, diplomatic and a born problem-solver, with a gift for getting along with people even when deadlines are looming or computers are crashing. You like knowing that the work you've done each day has made a real difference – to your colleagues, your clients, and the world.

You're passionate about social change, and your community or activist history shows it. And while you're not a programmer, you're as psyched as we are about the web's ability to make that change happen: your idea of excitement is mastering a great new online task management tool, discovering a smart progressive web site or writing a particularly sharp blog post.

Your real-world and computer desktops are as simple and uncluttered as a Zen rock garden. You're able to point to projects you've guided to completion, chaos you've turned into order, and cats you've herded into neat little rows and columns.

This is a full-time mid-level position. You've already demonstrated your capacity to plan, organize and manage complex projects; now you want to put that capacity to work in a role that will engage and challenge you.

HOW TO APPLY: Please e-mail a résumé, cover letter and salary expectations to hiring@socialsignal.com by September 15th, 2006. Tell us why you’d like to work for Social Signal, and please describe your relevant skills and professional or volunteer experiences. We want to hear about your community, advocacy or public service experiences as much as about your project management and organizational skills and experience. We're particularly interested in hearing about your:

Skills:

• project planning and management
• personal organization and time management
• solid writing and communication skills
• attention to detail
• tech skills (Mac/Windows/Linux, software programs you know, web tools you use)

Experience:

• projects where you've been responsible for planning and coordinating (examples might include event planning, office management or web site development)
• writing for work or fun, on a regular basis; proposal/grant-writing
• situations where you've worked independently with minimal supervision
• work that has involved client relations or working with the public
• jobs that have required you to organize not only your own work but also to keep track of other people's responsibilities and deadlines
• volunteer work for community organizations or causes
• situations where you've gone the extra mile to get the job done

Interests:

• commmunity groups, projects or issues you're involved in
• web sites you like or web tools you're excited about

Bonus points for:

• having your own blog
• telling us your favourite tech tool for managing time or organizing tasks
• a strong opinion (pro or con) about Getting Things Done

Compensation will be commensurate with skills and experience. Please note that this is a mid-level position.

We look forward to hearing from you!

We're thrilled to be working with Vancity on a new online community project that will be unveiled this summer. The project will create an online community where people in the Lower Mainland & Victoria can find information, tools and connections to inspire and support change in their own lives, their communities, and the world.

And you -- or a fabulous blogger of your acquaintance -- could be a key part of this exciting project! Vancity has just posted a call for applications for the position of community moderator. Here are all the details, hot from the craigslist posting: 

Blog for Vancity.

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Canada's largest credit union is looking for a passionate blogger with good judgement, superb people skills, top-notch writing chops and tech smarts.

What you’ll do:

You’ll animate an online community where people in the Lower Mainland & Victoria can find information, tools and connections to inspire and support change in their own lives, their communities, and the world. You’ll...

• reach out to community members (on and offline), encouraging and helping them to contribute to our user-driven blog.

• research and write content on a wide range of topics.

• kick off discussions, moderate comments, defuse conflict and occasionally arbitrate disputes.

• keep in touch with Vancity members, staff and executives... as well as some of the most interesting community leaders in the Lower Mainland.

• maintain and groom the site, helping great user-generated content to rise to the surface.

• advise and deliver on a strategy to keep the community vibrant, diverse and growing.

Who you are:

You're at least as obsessed with what makes a great community as you are with online technology. Chances are you're involved with a volunteer or advocacy organization.

You probably have your own blog, a personal web site or an online community you call home. Basic audio and video editing hold no terrors for you, and you know your RSS from a hole in the ground.

You’re spontaneous, with an engaging, authentic online voice. You write quickly and well, with a distinctive style that works on the printed page, a static web site or a blog post, and adapts accordingly. You could interview the winner of a skateboard jam or a newly-hired CEO, and interact as comfortably and appropriately with either one.

You understand Vancity's mission, our values and what makes us different from the big banks. We don't necessarily expect you to have experience in the financial sector -- but you should have a demonstrated record of the kind of prudent judgment needed for someone communicating in the context of a regulated industry.

About the job:

We’re offering a chance to play a leadership role in a groundbreaking online community project. You get to work with a team that includes Internet innovators, change leaders and skilled communicators. If autonomy, change and making a difference are the things that rock your world, this could be your dream job.

This is a full-time entry-level contract position starting in mid to late June with some fixed hours, but we can be flexible. If you want to do a chunk of work from home or a net café, that's fine by us, but we'll need you to spend some time in the office, too. (Fortunately, Maclean's magazine has named us Canada's Best Place to Work, so you won’t mind hanging out here.) The position will run for a six-month term, with the possibility of an ongoing relationship.

How to apply:

Tell us about yourself -- your community involvement, your technical and Web knowledge, your skills as a writer and diplomat. Tell us why this position interests you, and why you’re the right person for the job. Attach a resumé that details your online, writing and community experience. Include a sample or pointer to your web writing, and a link to your blog, web site or other online presence.

Apply online here:

http://jobs.workopolis.com/jobshome/db/vancity.job_posting?pi_job_id=8267154&pi_search_id=502469871&pi_sort=POST_DATE&pi_curjob=3&pi_maxjob=15