The Sakai Foundation, established in December 2005, seeks an
extraordinary individual to fill the position of Executive Director.
The Sakai Foundation is the organizational home of the Sakai
community of institutions and commercial affiliates, the Sakai and
Open Source Portfolio software, and facilitates development effort
for open source learning and collaboration software. With over 100
educational and commercial members, the Sakai Foundation is a
thriving community of developers and educators who are working
together to design, create and support open source software.
The Executive Director will foster and facilitate community
engagement in the Sakai Foundation and will coordinate the design,
development and communication activities of the Sakai community. He
or she will facilitate the ongoing work efforts across the entire
project, and will collaborate with peer projects to foster
interoperability. The Executive Director is responsible for the
successful planning and operations of the Sakai Foundation, managing
a purposefully small staff, and managing the financial resources of
the Foundation.
Depending on the circumstances of the successful applicant, this
position could be established in a number of ways, including:
- as a grant to an existing organization, with an agreement to
second the employee to the Sakai Foundation, if the successful
applicant wishes to remain where they are;
- as a personal consultancy directly with the Sakai Foundation;
- or potentially, as a position at the University of Michigan. If
the latter, this would be a limited term appointment funded by a
grant from a UM project. The successful candidate would be seconded
to the Sakai Foundation for the duration of their employment.
The position description can be found at:
http://www.sakaiproject.org/jobs/director.pdf
Resumes and confidential questions should be submitted to:
Exec-dir@collab.sakaiproject.org
