Knowledge Director

The Knowledge Director is one of the twelve members of the Board of Directors. Their mission is to ensure organizational transparency, clarity, and understanding for DVS.

Overview of Responsibilities

This section lists the core tasks of the Knowledge Director and links to relevant documentation.

• Manage the Knowledge Base
  • Technical details on the MediaWiki setup are documented here: MediaWiki installation
  • See here for the general page about the KB, which the Knowledge Director should update when needed: About the Knowledge Base
  • The Knowledge Director works with the other directors, employees/contractors, and committee members to make sure their responsibilities and processes are documented and supports them in structuring this information. The Virtual Assistant can support where appropriate and useful.
• Manage DVS domains and web hosting.
• Manage Google Workspace and other Accounts and Subscriptions, including the Systems Access Process.
  • This is particularly relevant during onboarding (for new directors as well as new employees or committee members), where it is the Knowledge Director's responsibility to provide the new person with access to all the relevant systems.
• Manage the DVS Resource lists.

Duties according to Bylaws

1. Set strategy for ensuring DVS is sufficiently transparent as an organization, and that membership perceives it as such.
2. Oversee and support other Board members with the creation of documentation for various DVS processes.
3. Develop and maintain processes for collaboration and transparency between board members.
4. Oversee the creation of documentation to provide information to all members and public.
5. Keep membership informed with relevant organization-internal updates.
6. Manage tools for internal Board organization, ensuring they are well-organized and information is kept up-to-date.
7. Manage DVS resources lists.
8. Manage website as an information resource.
9. Manage Knowledge Committee.

Tasks

• Ensure DVS is sufficiently transparent as an organization, and that membership perceives it as such
• Keep membership informed about relevant DVS-internal updates
• Manage website as an information resource
• Manage DVS resources lists
• Manage tools for internal board organization (GDrive, Team Slack, Trello?)
• Develop and maintain processes for collaboration and transparency between board members
• Oversee and support board members with creations of internal/process documentation

Guiding questions

• How might we increase clarity, understanding, and transparency for our membership as well as internally?
• What information is currently hard to find?
• Where should information live so that it is discoverable by the intended audience
• What prompts might I be able to supply to board members to help them think through the documentation necessary for the next person with their role?
• What information is currently missing?
• How can the website be more useful to potential and current members for surfacing information?