It’s time to create the full search committee for the Foundation Executive Director position. I previously posted key requirements. I’ve included them again below, along with some criteria our executive recruiter has found to be important in the past.
If you are interested in being part of the search committee and believe you meet (at least most of) the criteria, please contact me. If you know of someone you would like to see be part of the search committee other than yourself, please let me know. In other words, nominations and self-nominations are welcome.
I thought about creating a clear process for nomination and selection, but decided we can (hopefully) start informally and create process as we go. The one process point that I will start with is that if you contact me privately, or nominate someone else privately, I won’t make those names public until the named person is OK with this. If you have strong thoughts regarding the process, you can post them here as comments or in the governance newsgroup (available via newsreader or mailing list, or via the browser).
So please don’t self censor based on shyness, or on your employer.
Everyone should have:
- Deep understanding of the project and our culture.
- Ability to communicate the needs of the organization.
- History of “doing” things within Mozilla.
- Broad respect from chunks of the Mozilla community.
- Ability to internalize different perspectives.
- Ability to work collaboratively, incorporating other perspectives.
- High discretion, including perhaps willingness to agree to confidentiality obligations (we need to figure out how to treat candidates properly). However this is handled, we need a complete commitment to confidentiality.
- Commitment to speaking with one voice as a committee.
- Ability to be a liaison between the search committee and the Mozilla community.
- High degree of flexibility.
- Commitment of 15-20 hours for meetings and interviews.
- Good people assessment skills.
- Comfortable / excited about the focus of the job.
The group as a whole should have:
- At least one very good scribe.
- People with different background and focus areas for the project, (not everyone can be a Firefox only person; there should be one or more people who can articulate what it’s like to be on a non-Fx project) and views about staying broad.