General
Njombe Innovation Academy
Communication
Purpose:
We develop and implement projects in the area of WASH, environment and education that tackle local challenges while working in an atmosphere and being part of a team that makes all the staff grow personally and professionally
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Getting things done with care
for Support to NIA members and swahili speakersPurpose:
We are personally and structurally ready to get things done. We evolve as individual and as a team while taking care of each otherDomains:
- Drive & server structure
- GTD trainings
- Non-violent Communication (NVC) trainings
- Password manager
- Network Resource Planning (NRP) tool
Accountabilities:
- Mediating in internal conflicts if necessary
- Organizing celebrations for achievements
- Researching and helping SHIPO and its member smoothly move into Holacracy and use all its tools
- Researching, designing and facilitating processes to process tensions not processed through holocracy
- Ensuring we have a clear structure/organisation in Slack, in Drive and the server and in the office
- Learning, teaching and supporting members to adopt practices that allow them to get things done (GTD) and communicate non-violently
- Keeping BE passwords safely
- Collecting circles weekly goals and monthly OKRs on Slack, providing feedback on circles OKRs and organising evaluation sessions.
- Defining hiring processes that comply with SHIPO procedures
- Finding and researching tools that are aligned with our purpose
- Designing and facilitating internal design and learning (e.g. Ulab) sessions
- Creating and compiling templates
- Facilitating the creation of a space/environment of trust, respect and transparency for the team
- Facilitating the creation of a shared vision and motivation for the team
- Making sure inclusivity (gender, PWSN, etc.) and the environmental aspect are considered in all our activities
- Supporting external facilitators and trainers within MSP´s capacity development
- Coordinating the necessary activities and resources within the Capacity Development component of the IKI project (agile training, self-management training, reporting, M&E, strategic planning sessions, etc.)
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Rep Link
Purpose:
Within the Super-Circle, the Rep Link holds the Purpose of the Sub-Circle; within the Sub-Circle, the Rep Link’s Purpose is: Tensions relevant to process in the Super-Circle channeled out and resolved.Accountabilities:
- Providing visibility to the Super-Circle into the health of the Sub-Circle, including reporting on any metrics or checklist items assigned to the whole Sub-Circle
- Removing constraints within the broader Organization that limit the Sub-Circle
- Seeking to understand Tensions conveyed by Sub-Circle Circle Members, and discerning those appropriate to process in the Super-Circle
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Rep Link
from CommunicationPurpose:
Within the Super-Circle, the Rep Link holds the Purpose of the Sub-Circle; within the Sub-Circle, the Rep Link’s Purpose is: Tensions relevant to process in the Super-Circle channeled out and resolved.Accountabilities:
- Providing visibility to the Super-Circle into the health of the Sub-Circle, including reporting on any metrics or checklist items assigned to the whole Sub-Circle
- Removing constraints within the broader Organization that limit the Sub-Circle
- Seeking to understand Tensions conveyed by Sub-Circle Circle Members, and discerning those appropriate to process in the Super-Circle
Purpose:
Young people in Njombe find a community and act to create social and environmental impact while they develop personally and satisfy their needs (not only through income)
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Domains:
- Expenses and incomes sheet
Accountabilities:
- Using lean startup to test business models for NIA
- Performing all necessary tasks to fulfill to purpose
- Supporting members to keep track of NIA´s expenses and incomes: helping them to upload receipts and to update the expenses and income sheet in Drive
- Keeping track of NIA´s treasury and informing member of its status if requested
- Establishing relationships that can bring income to NIA and reaching agreements
- Deciding where NIA´s funds are stored (banks accounts, multisig, etc.)
- Disbursing funds to NIA members
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NIA in
for Legal, physical structures & assets and everything else not statedPurpose:
NIA is a great place to spend time atDomains:
- NIA inventory sheet
- NIA´s physical assets
Accountabilities:
- Researching to gather data to increase the credibility and robustness of the project
- Researching and testing tools that we can use to move NIA forward
- Developing and testing NIA´s economic sustainability model together with @NIA biz and finance
- Supporting NIA scholars to build their social enterprise
- Preparing and reviewing legal paperwork
- Ensuring legal agreements are fulfilled
- Establishing clear guidelines and facilitating conflict transformation processes
- Developing NIA´s curriculum and supporting NIA scholars to build their social enterprise
- Developing short term future plans
- Ensuring that NIA´s physical structures are built and/or renovated
- Organising NIA´s shared documents on Drive
- Supporting members excel with Holacracy and Getting Things Done
- Designing events that include and unleash everyone
- Selecting what Operating System and programs NIA laptops use
- Maintaining NIA laptops and supporting members to keep them in a perfect status
- Keeping NIA´s inventory up to date
- Managing NIA´s physical assets
- Ensuring that NIAns and scholars get food, accommodation and water
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NIA international
for Calls that SHIPO/Unai cannot apply toPurpose:
NIA becomes a reality thanks to great interaction with international stakeholdersDomains:
- NIA international phone number (+34674688416)
- njombeinnovation@gmail.com
- nia@socialinnovationacademy.org
Accountabilities:
- Learning about and documenting experiences that can inform what we do/build at NIA, e.g. Holacracy, Non Violent Communication
- Creating win-win relationships with international communities
- Fundraising and obtaining assets through conventional (e.g. grants) and non-conventional (e.g. crypto) means
- Updating NIA database with international connections
- Designing and facilitating online events
- Deciding which international networks, communities or groups to join and joining them
- Replying to general incoming emails and forwarding them to the right roles
- Deciding who NIA´s advisors are
- Requesting SINA funds approved in the financial proposal document
- Maintaining the relationship with SINA global
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Domains:
- NIA TZ phone number (+255752006700)
Accountabilities:
- Preparing letters to government authorities and keeping communication with them
- Networking and fundraising with key local stakeholders to bring the academy to life
- Selecting youth that are fit to live the SINA experience in Uganda and bring it back to Njombe
- Translating materials to Swahili
- Ensuring NIA complies with local regulations: government approval, MoUs
- Learning about local circumstances and places: behaviours, traditions, challenges, dreams, etc.
- Updating NIA database with local connections
- Deciding which national networks, communities or groups to join and joining them
- Organising logistics and facilitating events that include and unleash everyone
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NIA out
for Instagram, facebook, linkedIN, website, graphics, reviewing & everythign else not statedPurpose:
the outside world perceives how great NIA isDomains:
- Donation platforms (Gitcoin, Giveth, Open collective)
- Website
- Social media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin
Accountabilities:
- Managing websites (gitcoin, website) and social media accounts (twitter, facebook)
- Reviewing all the publicly available information about NIA and ensuring that it fits to the expected viewer (segmentation).
- Preparing and editing audiovisual materials for the innovation academy
- Reviewing and editing online publications to improve NIA´s SEO
- Presenting NIA in events
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Rep Link
to GeneralPurpose:
Within the Super-Circle, the Rep Link holds the Purpose of the Sub-Circle; within the Sub-Circle, the Rep Link’s Purpose is: Tensions relevant to process in the Super-Circle channeled out and resolved.Accountabilities:
- Providing visibility to the Super-Circle into the health of the Sub-Circle, including reporting on any metrics or checklist items assigned to the whole Sub-Circle
- Removing constraints within the broader Organization that limit the Sub-Circle
- Seeking to understand Tensions conveyed by Sub-Circle Circle Members, and discerning those appropriate to process in the Super-Circle
Purpose:
We build in public and thus, relevant people outside SHIPO (customers, (potential) collaborators, (potential) members) are updated about our activities and want to be closer to us
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Audiovisual creator and organiser
for IKIPurpose:
We capture useful audiovisual material and they are easily available for useDomains:
- Photos
- Videos
- Camera
Accountabilities:
- Taking pictures and videos
- Ensuring that good pictures and videos are easily accesible
- Taking pictures of plastic collected in clean ups and bought from suppliers to qualify for Empower plastic credits (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P9uHjScXFTId11F_AbYKC3Nsk-Nq3mVRX7dhChT1D-I/edit)
- Capturing testimonies of the initiatives
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Content creator
for IKIPurpose:
SHIPO followers, subscribers, customers and potential collaborators receive inputs that are relevant, easily understandable, have no typos and makes them want to know more or participateAccountabilities:
- Creating content for social media (FB, Insta, Twitter, Website)
- Creating emails in Mailchimp twice a year
- Writing articles related to environmental and NjomBE BEyond topics
- Creating offline and online marketing content
- Creating content to attract members, collaborators and participants (e.g. brochures, banners, posters, presentations´ templates, etc.)
- Reviewing all the content created before it is published
- Designing and arranging SHIPO premises
- Following, connecting and discussing with relevant actors on social media
- Creating NFTs
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Hello world!
for IKIPurpose:
Our “outside image” is active (making sure we do not forget to communicate to the world, rather than scheduling and controlling everything we publish)Accountabilities:
- Posting on Social media (FB, insta and twitter)
- Ensuring stories for instagram are captured and uploaded
- Deciding what we publish, where and when
- Assigning @Websites IT , @Audiovisual creator and organiser @Content creator tasks to fulfill the publishing goals
- Sharing reports with stakeholders
- Communicating with external stakeholders to ask them to create content for the projects (posts, pictures, articles…)
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Rep Link
to GeneralPurpose:
Within the Super-Circle, the Rep Link holds the Purpose of the Sub-Circle; within the Sub-Circle, the Rep Link’s Purpose is: Tensions relevant to process in the Super-Circle channeled out and resolved.Accountabilities:
- Providing visibility to the Super-Circle into the health of the Sub-Circle, including reporting on any metrics or checklist items assigned to the whole Sub-Circle
- Removing constraints within the broader Organization that limit the Sub-Circle
- Seeking to understand Tensions conveyed by Sub-Circle Circle Members, and discerning those appropriate to process in the Super-Circle