Head of Community

About Junction

Junction is a not-for-profit hackathon and tech community, with a mission to bridge the gap between creators by making everyone fall in love with technology. We organize hackathons and other tech events - around the year and around the world. The event-filled year peaks annually in November with our flagship event Junction: Europe's leading hackathon, bringing 2000+ hackers together for a weekend-long experience. Besides the events, we have built a hackathon platform, Junction App.

The Junction team consists of 8 full-timers in Finland, a bunch of amazing volunteers and our global JunctionX teams in countries across the world. Our team is rather young, and as most of us are students. We have a great team spirit and an independent work atmosphere. The work we do is very much self-directed, but we love cooperation and helping each other out. At Junction, we are able to mould our roles to the direction we want, which makes our jobs very motivating. So, as important as it is that you know the basic skills needed for this role, we are all still learning and that’s very much okay!

About the role

Are you a strategic mastermind with good leadership and operational skills as well as a passion for working with a fast-growing global community? As Junction's Head of Community, you’ll be responsible for managing our global hackathon communities! In practice, you will be the product owner for the global events of Junction and will be responsible for driving global growth.

Responsibilities

• JunctionX community management (JunctionX = International Junction events organized by the local communities)

• Cooperation and bridge-building with other hackathon communities around the world

• Global expansion of Junction's events (e.g. JunctionX, Junction Jumpstart)

• Organizing smaller pre-events around the world

The perfect candidate

This role is perfect for a student or for someone who has just hopped into the work life.

Here’s what we require from you and your know-how:

• You are passionate about community building and have experience with organizing and managing events

• You have strong communication skills you love to pitch things you are proud of

• You are excited to travel around the world in your work

• You are well-organized and self-motivated, you get to plan your job very freely so good self-management skills are required

• You have a basic knowledge of Google Workspace tools

• You’re not afraid to pick up the phone

• You are fluent in English

Recruitment timeline

Application deadline: 22.01.2023

We’ll invite selected candidates to a short interview through Google Meet. We’ll then have longer interviews with the best candidates face to face. We will inform all applicants about our decision.

We will fill the position as soon as we find the right candidate.