Co-lead a non-profit that hires Wikipedia translators

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OKA (Open Knowledge Association) is a Swiss tax-exempt non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms. We provide Wikipedia training and monthly stipends (grants) to full-time and part-time translators to edit Wikipedia. We currently fund ~15 full-time translators (split among 20+ active translators).

OKA is led by a single volunteer, myself, during my free time (10% activity). Since its launch two years ago, the non-profit has seen tremendous growth and we have stabilized our operations such that most of the translators are self-sufficient (incl. picking their own work and training/reviewing each other's work). However, I would like the project to grow even further and make our non-profit self-standing, so that it doesn't entirely depend on a single individual.

I am therefore looking for one or more volunteers to co-lead OKA. The amount of time required and the nature of the tasks depends entirely on what you're interested in doing and how much time you're able to invest. Tasks could include, for example:

• Day-to-day team management (supervising the 3 "managers" who oversee the rest of the team, spot checks of articles quality)
• Operations improvement (internal processes, e.g., for translation, hiring)
• Fundraising
• Communications (e.g., external relations with the Wikipedia community)
• Software development (e.g., Wikipedia plugins to automate more translation and admin tasks)
• Ads Campaigns management (~120k annual ads credit from Google)
• Financial management (e.g., payment of monthly stipends to translators and other bills)
• Accounting and other administrative work (e.g., annual filings)

We're looking for people willing to spend anything from 2 to 10 hours a week, depending on how deeply involved you'd like to be. No previous experience is required. While we are based in Switzerland, we're open to people based anywhere in the world.

Note that we're already financially self-sufficient and able to cover the stipends of our ~15 translators team without additional fundraising.

More information at http://oka.wiki and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA