Create Markdown: Special Projects Coordinator

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Overview

We need a Markdown file for the Special Projects Coordinator role to support the HfLA website and onboarding

Action Items

• [x] Format the text in Markdown in the comment from the general description
• [x] Create a Markdown file in role-1 branch, under role-1 folder
• [x] Check the box before this role in issue #99

Resources/Instructions

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Special Projects Coordinator

This position will touch every functional area of our organization and is an opportunity to work directly with our Executive Director, who is a seasoned entrepreneur, and Civic Tech movement leader. This role is ideal for someone who wants insight into what running a fast paced non profit looks like behind the scenes.

Hack For LA brings together civic-minded technologists to build digital products, programs and services with community partners and local government to address issues in the LA region. This is done by using the web as a platform for local government and community service.

Responsibilities

• A wide variety of deliverables, across a whole portfolio of civic tech projects. Your main responsibilities will be to get projects unstuck by clearing roadblocks. You will utilize Slack/Slackbots, Google Sheets/Data Management, GitHub Project Boards (no coding experience required), and more. If there are tools you need to use for the job, and you don’t know them, you will learn them.

Qualifications

• Online communication skills and follow through required. You will sometimes be the face of the organization so must be comfortable showing yourself on zoom. The ideal candidate will have patience and appropriate persistence with a busy executive. Must be a problem solver interested in knocking out deliverables WHILE rethinking how we could do things more effectively moving forward. Has a growth mindset.