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