We are looking for one or more individuals for the role of standards researcher and technical author to help our community write open standards for data, knowledge and know-how related to hardware and manufacturing.We are interested in recruiting people to be part of our team, so we are less interested in companies (such as management consultancies or outsourcing firms).
The contractual arrangement can be as staff or as consultants, including through their own consultancy companies. The minimum contract duration is 2 months, and the current maximum is 18 months.The time commitment is a minimum of 4 days per month (20% FTE) and the maximum is fulltime.
This means that we may choose to appoint several people on shorter, part-time contracts to author different standards, or we may choose to appoint one person full-time on a longer-term contract to author all the standards. In short, we want to be flexible so that we don’t miss out on hiring great people for our different initiatives because of any contracting constraints.In your application, please let us know which arrangement you would be interested in.We are a small team working fully remotely across five countries supporting a global community.
Project descriptionSince its launch in 2018, the IOP Alliance has released 2 open data standards, part of a series of5. Open Know-Where (“OKW”) and Open Know-How Design & Documentation (“OKH-D&D”)were created by the IOP Alliance working groups, constituted as a network of people and organisations working together voluntarily within a light coordination structure.
The next 2 years will see a great leap for the Alliance: the first dedicated team has been hired, a foundation is being registered, work on further standards has begun, and ambitious goals of growing the membership of the IOP Alliance and the adoption of OKH and OKW have been set.In this context, we are hiring a person to the effort in documenting further standards.
These include standards for: designs and documentation, portability, interactivity.
