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
  • Getting things done with care

    Purpose:

    We are personally and structurally ready to get things done. We evolve as individual and as a team while taking care of each other

    Domains:

    • 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.)
  • Mtu wa Njombe

    Purpose:

    Create the best working environment ever

    Accountabilities:

    • Improving our listening skills
    • Being ready to get feedback and acting on it
    • Giving great feedback
    • Improving our GTD skills
    • Prioritising work according to Holacracy constitution and circle goals
    • Having fun
    • Building in public
    • Being honest
  • Njombe Innovation Academy

    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)

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.
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)
  • Lead Link

    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)

    Domains:

    • Role assignments within the Circle

    Accountabilities:

    • Assigning Partners to the Circle’s Roles; monitoring the fit; offering feedback to enhance fit; and re-assigning Roles to other Partners when useful for enhancing fit
    • Allocating the Circle’s resources across its various Projects and/or Roles
    • Establishing priorities and Strategies for the Circle
    • Defining metrics for the circle
    • Structuring the Governance of the Circle to enact its Purpose and Accountabilities
    • Removing constraints within the Circle to the Super-Circle enacting its Purpose and Accountabilities
  • NIA biz and finance

    for Films for translation, events

    Purpose:

    NIA has income streams to pay for its operations

    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
  • NIA in

    for Research, digital documents, holacracy, GTD, events

    Purpose:

    NIA is a great place to spend time at

    Domains:

    • 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
  • NIA international

    Purpose:

    NIA becomes a reality thanks to great interaction with international stakeholders

    Domains:

    • 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
  • NIA out

    for Gitcoin, twitter, giveth, linktree, substack, events page

    Purpose:

    the outside world perceives how great NIA is

    Domains:

    • 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
  • NIA scholar

    for BE

    Purpose:

    Transform local challenges into social enterprises

    Accountabilities:

    • Creating social enterprises with NIA in & out´s support
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
  • Hello world!

    for Websites, bazaar, twitter, Giveth

    Purpose:

    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…)