# Roles and Responsibilities ### Overview This is a chart of Uchaguzi team & community members tasks and locations. Some of these slots are open, and we welcome volunteers to take up roles( email Cecilia AT ushahidi DOT com). A full schedule will be created for the Elections Day. This list of Roles and Responsibilities is to aid planning for the deployment with the Uchaguzi Digital Response Teams. ### Ushahidi Staff | **Staff Role** | **Responsibility** | **Main Lead** | **Location** | **Backup** | | -------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ---------------- | ---------- | | Project Manager | Lead on Partnership/Relationship building and management, point of contact for Uchaguzi at Ushahidi | Daniel Odongo | Nairobi, KE | | | Deployment planning, Engagement and Training | Lead on local and international outreach, documentation and training for deployment + Support | Cecilia Hinga | Nairobi, KE | | | Product Management | Roadmap, feature definition for Uchaguzi | Jess Shorland | Seattle, WA, USA | | | Technology Lead | Bug fixing, feature development, manage volunteer devs | David Losada | Budapest | | | Communications | Manage Media and Communication plan | Jedidah Wanjiru | Nairobi | | | Social Media | Keep Ushahidi/Uchaguzi social media streams up to date | Rhoda Omenya | Nairobi | | | Design | Provision of design assets required for Uchaguzi | Jeff Maina | Nairobi | | | Research | Review Uchaguzi deployment data and help in provision of research material | Joseph Kirai | Nairobi | | | Quality Assurance | Lead on testing/Quality assurance of Uchaguzi platform | Walter Obadha | Mombasa | | | Admin - Support | Support Monica and Angela | Diana Gacheru | Nairobi | | | Sysadmin, Security and Backend management | Monitor servers and ensure tech lead doesn’t think about servers | David Losada | Budapest | | | Emergency Desk operator | Manage and coordinate critical urgent matters | June Mwangi | Nairobi | | ### Digital Response Teams | **Community Role** | **Name** | **Responsibility** | **Location** | **Backup** | | ------------------------------ | ------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | ---------- | | **Media Monitoring Team Lead** | | Monitoring citizen reports via different social media streams | | | | Nairobi co-lead | Rhoda Omenya | | Nairobi, Kenya | | | Global co-lead | | | | | | **Structuring team Lead** | | Converting posts from SMS, Email and Twitter into structure of existing surveys. | | | | Nairobi co-lead | Cecilia Hinga | | Nairobi, Kenya | | | Global co-lead | | | | | | **Translation team Lead** | | Translation of posts from local languages to English. | | | | Nairobi co-lead | Diana Gacheru | | Nairobi, Kenya | | | Global co-lead | | | | | | **Geolocation team lead** | | Reviewing all posts for location information, and mapping posts that require geolocation. | | | | Nairobi co-lead | | | Nairobi, Kenya | | | Global co-lead | Brendan O'Hanrahan | | | | | **Publishing team lead** | | Reviewing( ensuring correct structure and categorization) and publishing posts | | | | Nairobi co-lead | Declan Ottaro | | Nairobi, Kenya | | | Global co-lead | | | | | | **Verification team** | | Verification of posts. They will work to corroborate incoming posts using other existing citizen reports and mainstream media | | | | Nairobi co-lead | Baraza MediaLabs | | Nairobi, Kenya | | | Global co-lead | Irene Wairimu | | | | | **Technology Team** | | Maintenance of uchaguzi.or.ke for the duration of election monitoring. | | | | Nairobi co-lead | | | Nairobi, Kenya | | | Global co-lead | Arnav Kapur | | Cambridge, UK | | | **Analysis and Research Team** | | Analysing data within the platform, and providing situation room reports in the form of data visualisation, pdfs etc. | | | | Nairobi co-lead | Joseph Kirai | | Nairobi, Kenya | | | Global co-lead | | | | | ### Additional Teams | **Community Role** | **Name** | **Responsibility** | **Location** | **Backup** | | ---------------------------------- | --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | | **Emergency Desk Operator** | | Fagging posts for urgent processing and escalation to response partners | | | | Nairobi co-lead | Declan Ottaro | | | | | Global co-lead | | | | | | **Uchaguzi Volunteer Coordinator** | | Coordinate all volunteers in Nairobi/Globally Ensure that training, code of conduct and scheduling is complete. Coordinate food, breaks, questions and human awesome suppor | | | | Nairobi co-lead | Diana Gacheru | | | | | Global co-lead | | | | | | **Project Runners(NAIROBI)** | X6 | Project runners will assist the core team with delegated tasks. Daniel, Angela and Comms lead should each be assigned 2 project runners to assist with the communication workflow in the ihub. | | | | **Key Master** | Diana Gacheru | Verify participants completion of checklist and guide, and provide access to platform. | | | | **Social Media Outreach** | Jedidah Wanjiru | Sharing uchaguzi situation room updates via social media i.e twitter/Blog | | |