Please comment on the following ad, suggesting changes that would make it more specific/appealing.
Director of Community
photo.net, established in 1993, is looking for a part-time Director of
Community. If you like the site and the community, this is an
opportunity to help out and get paid.
The Director of Community is responsible to recruit and supervise a
network of volunteer moderators for the portions of the site that
consist of reader-contributed content. Note that we already have a
substantial group of volunteers on staff. You will report to the Editor
in Chief.
You will be responsible for maintaining a productive tone and
constructive environment at photo.net. Everything that readers post
should be a sincere attempt to help other readers. You will be drafting
policies and procedures as well as training new moderators.
Excellent written communications skills are required as well as the
ability to use Web forms for administration. No programming skills are
required, though it would be good if you were able to specify new
features so that our programmers can implement them.
We anticipate that this job should require 10-20 hours per week.
Please email a writing sample, a cover letter stating salary
requirements and your resume (in plain text or HTML preferred, PDF is
acceptable, Microsoft Word we can’t read reliably) to philg@mit.edu,
with a subject line of “photo.net director of community application”.
I think it would be beneficial to know what kinds of duties are expected in more specifics – is this an online job or are in person meetings with the publisher/editor necessary?
Is someone currently doing this job? I am curious how the time estimates were established.
As for appealing – I think it is very appealing in concept, but somewhat vague in terms of deliverables.