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Begin forwarded message: > From: "IAB Chair" <[email protected]> > Date: December 2, 2011 12:53:35 PM EST > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: IAB Seeks Executive Director > Reply-To: [email protected] > > The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is seeking a candidate > to succeed Dow Street as IAB Executive Director. Dow has been > in the role for nearly 4 years and is planning to step down > due to other commitments. > > We are looking for a replacement to start working with the IAB as > of January 1, 2012. > > The Executive Director is a non-voting ex-officio member of the IAB > (RFC2850) who assumes, in close cooperation with the chair, the > responsibility to assist the IAB in the organization of its day-to-day > activities and workflow, and maintain the public face of the IAB. > > A great deal of the work is of an administrative nature and needs to > be performed in a timely fashion. In general these tasks include: > > + Management of the preparation of the agendas > > + Collecting and tracking action items. This includes regular > round-ups of the status of the action items, IAB documents, and > liaison reports. > > + Assisting in running meetings: roll call and agenda tracking. > > + Publishing actions and correspondence of the IAB on > the IAB website. > > + Tracking and maintaining the status of IAB projects. For instance, > this includes keeping track of timelines during nominations and > confirmation (e.g. for ISOC BoT member selection or IETF IESG > confirmation) , coordinating invitations for workshops, management > of documents, etc. > > + Maintenance of the IAB website, IAB related mailing lists, and > realtime communications facilities such as the IAB jabber room > and conferencing services. > > Given these tasks an Executive Director should ideally: > > + Have sufficient time available and be able to allocate that time to > IAB tasks when needed. For example, it is preferable that the > candidate not be chair of more than one IETF WG, or a member of the > IESG or IAB. The Executive Director is expected to attend all IETF > meetings and IAB Retreats and Workshops (typically two per year). > The IAB has approximately 8-10 hours of teleconferences per month > which require preparation and follow-up. > > + IT management skills. The Executive Director oversees IT services > supporting the IAB as well as handling sysadmin tasks such as > administration of the IAB websites, maintenance of tools such as > Wikis, Jabber servers, conferencing facilities, email lists, etc. > > + IETF experience. The candidate is an ex-officio member and may > participate in discussion. It is desirable for the candidate to > have at least some experience with the IETF. > > + Organizational skills. The Executive Director serves as a program > manager for IAB work items. It is desirable for the candidate to be > able to juggle many outstanding tasks simultaneously. > > If you are interested in the position, please send email to the > IAB Chair <[email protected]> explaining your interest in the job > and the abilities that you bring to it. The information will be > shared with voting members of the IAB, but will otherwise be > treated confidentially. > > The IAB would like to thank Dow for his service to the community. > > For the IAB, > > Bernard Aboba > IAB chair > _______________________________________________ > IETF-Announce mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
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