Wikimedia Foundation/People/Growth and Belonging
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People Growth and Belonging
At the Wikimedia Foundation, our vision of a world in which everyone can share in the sum of all knowledge drives all that we do. This vision inspires us to co-create an environment where every staff member feels supported, connected, and clear on how things work. The People Growth & Belonging team works towards this vision by ensuring Foundation staff have the support, tools, and opportunities to shape an inclusive, welcoming, and supportive workplace.
We achieve this in two ways:
- Through a focus on learning, development and performance, we help to equip staff with the skills and resources they need for career growth and development so they can meaningfully contribute to the Foundation’s mission.
- Through a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, we strive to create a workplace where power is shared among staff, and where we address and remove obstacles that stem from structural systems of oppression and injustice, so that everyone has equal access and can participate in our organisation.
We don’t always get it right, but – when that happens – we model accountability, learn from our mistakes, and try again.
The team
How we work
[edit]The People Growth & Belonging team works cross-departmentally within the organization to solve challenges that require expertise from various fields of knowledge. It also occasionally works with the movement to support committees, working groups and affiliates in improving their growth and belonging policies, programs and practices. You can contact the team directly by email people-growth-and-belonging@wikimedia.org
Selected & Ongoing Projects
[edit]- Constructive Conversations: offering Wikimedia Foundation frameworks and practice opportunities to hold sensitive conversations when the stakes are high;
- Employee Resource Groups: keeping a conducive space for staff members from historically marginalized groups to build community, drive change and offer perspectives;
- Engagement & Inclusion Survey: managing the tool that helps us build a thriving workspace, supporting our understanding of what’s working and what needs to change to make working at the Foundation a more engaging and inclusive experience;
- Equity Checks: our own approach to analysing the demographic composition of candidate pools, teams, training cohorts, or leadership circles, spotting potential under- or overrepresentation of groups and suggesting reconsiderations;
- Leading with Equity: a number of learning provisions that help leaders develop inclusive habits so that managing with an equity lens becomes second nature.
