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 <iab-chair@iab.org> 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 |
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