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Web Lab
Web Lab develops and promotes innovative ways to use the Web as a transformative force in people's lives and in society, and catalyzes others to experiment with the medium's potential to serve the public interest.  In short, we do work it's easy to care about.

About the Position
Working closely with and reporting directly to Executive Producer Marc Weiss, the Coordinator of Planning and Administration will focus primarily on organizational coordination, development, and communications. In keeping with priorities established by the President, the Coordinator will concentrate on three types of activity:

• Planning: The Coordinator will oversee the organization's internal and external planning processes, convening, agendizing, and facilitating staff meetings, project planning processes, consultative meetings with advisory boards, etc., maintaining a comprehensive calendar incorporating all relevant events and deadlines, and overseeing other activities necessary to ensure that work proceeds in an efficient, timely manner.

• Administration: The Coordinator will supervise financial, personnel, legal and other administrative matters, maintaining records, issuing regular reports as directed, working with consultants (e.g., accountant, attorney, etc.), managing staff hiring, benefits, etc. and coordinating efforts with the President as needed. The Coordinator will also oversee some of the organization's income-producing projects, assuring efficient relationships with vendors, clients and partners.

• Communications: The Coordinator will ensure that Web Lab's correspondence and telecommunications are maintained in a manner appropriate to inquiries and to the organization's needs, responding directly to inquiries within his/her purview and ensuring that other inquiries are directed to appropriate staff members. Currently, there are no supervisory responsibilities, but as administrative staff are added in the future, they will report to the Coordinator, who will oversee their work assignments and evaluations.

This position is our organizational backbone, maintaining the infrastructure necessary to support a range of creative projects. Ideally, the successful candidate will have the following qualities:

- Comfort and facility with organizational systems, including strong skills in planning, facilitation, management, and communications - The ability to create clear, accessible written communications and good oral communication skills - The ability to work with a diverse array of professionals in administrative and creative specialties - The ability to reconcile differing viewpoints, arriving at workable, creative compromises that move the organization's mission forward - The ability to maintain equilibrium and a positive outlook under the pressures of a busy, growing organization - Self-motivated and able to handle multiple projects - Experience in new media preferred, but not required - Commitment to Web Lab's core values

Salary range in the 30's, depending upon previous experience, with opportunity for increases as organization expands. Web Lab is an enthusiastic equal opportunity employer.

TO APPLY
Please email a cover letter and a resume (both will be given equal weight), as well as two references, in an email (all in the body-- no attachments will be opened) to coord@weblab.org. A really fantastic cover letter is sure to catch our eye, so take a chance with it.

Deadline: Rolling (In your letter, please mention how you heard about us.)

Web Lab is an enthusiastic Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, people of color, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.