• Fundraising Chair

Want to build scheduling skills to help WisCon organizers have some time to enjoy WisCon itself? Help to coordinate shift volunteers! You’ll work independently with support to help figure out what timeslots are needed (only 2 types for this year!), manage signup, communicate with potential volunteers, and identify potential “super volunteers” to cover multiple shifts. Curious? Email personnel@sf3.org (subject: Shift Coordinator) and we’ll see if it’s a good fit!

 

You’ll organize meetings and tasks and get team members engaged so that team members can update the website. In the process, you’ll refresh or build new WordPress know-how. Expect to start at 3-5 hours per week and drop off to about 1-2 hours a week in this position. If curious, contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Website Team Lead).

 

Have some WordPress skills you don’t want to get rusty, or want to build? Ask about joining our Website work sessions to continue to update the text, formatting, and structure of the WisCon website as a team. Starting at 3-5 hours per week and dropping off to about 1 hour per week.  For more info, contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Website Team).

 

Want to coordinate an essential service and ease the load of organizers? Pick up Online Con Team’s current efforts to hire Closed Captions transcribers to help make WisCONline 2025 accessible and welcoming. The process is starting, we just need someone to train and go through the steps! Please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Access Team) for more info.

 

Want a role that comes with surprises and new challenges? The Access Lead makes WisCon accessible and welcoming by being responsive to attendee requests. In addition to keeping tabs on Closed Captioning and Alt Text efforts, you’d remain available and flexible to meet some unpredicted needs using WisCon resources. Please email personnel@sf3.org (subject: Access Lead) if you want to know more.

 

Do you have access to your in-person public library and want to use that access to help WisCon be fully funded? This short-term role takes a burst of 5-10 hours per week, with possible recurrance.  If this looks interesting to you, please email personnel@sf3.org (subject: Grant Finder) to get connected!

Do you enjoy crafting brief, clear, and enticing communication? You could work with other staff to draft and schedule open recruitment calls for WisCon, like the one you’re reading now! This takes 2-4 hours per call, 1-3 calls per week. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Recruiter)

Want to meet new people, and also have something specific to talk to them about? Interview prospective volunteers and help them find their best fit with open positions. Also perform exit interviews as needed.  Time commitment varies from 1-2 hours per week. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Volunteer Interviewer) for more information.

Follow templates to set up new volunteers with their accounts, or remove outgoing volunteers.  Time commitment 3-4 hours per week as we approach WisCon, dropping to fewer afterwards. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Accounts member) for more information.

 

If you have experience with server infrastructure, we’d love your help with our server migration project. You’d build or practice your LAMP stack skills & knowledge. This 1-2 hour/week position can last until the end of the project or can be a longer-term role, depending our your availability and interest. If this might be a good match, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: IT volunteer).

 

Have (or want to have) a Discord server? Wondering how you might scale it up? We can train you on Discord configuration and management! For 2-3 hours per week, you’ll be a member of an active team to help create and set up the Discord server for WisCONline. You’ll also help with coordinating moderation volunteers. Volunteer hours may increase in May to around 5 hours per week for the last week or two before WisCon. If you’re curious, email personnel@sf3.org (subject: Discord).

Help choose our next Guest of Honor! Our process involves getting input of staff each year. As Guest of Honor Lead, you’ll also make sure each guest has a place on the program and coordinate liaisons as needed. Learn more by contacting personnel@sf3.org (subject: GoH Lead).

Do you want to help run a convention, but don’t know where to start? Want to organize with WisCon without being the only person doing something? Consider joining WisCon staff as an Apprentice Chair! As apprentice, you could set your own hours, with the understanding that you expect to take on more hours, months or years in the future. You’ll need & develop excellent skills delegating, organizating information, and communicating. Our Chairs now have limited areas of responsibility:

What really makes a convention sing? Its programming! In this role, you’d get to practice coordinating the grid to ensure that no scheduling conflicts occur and practice communicating with various participants. You’d then step up into the Chair role in June, tracking team progress and calling meetings starting in late fall.  To learn more, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Apprentice Programming Chair).

Want to spread the word about WisCon? Got a passion for documentation? As Apprentice Communications Chair you’d get to practice coordinating with other chairs and the Communications Team to send out the latest WisCon news. You’d then step up into the Chair role after this WisCon, when volume is relatively low. To learn more, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Apprentice Comms Chair).

Would you like to learn or practice volunteer coordination and management? You can help us be ready for the next WisCon! This remote role involves checking progress and follow-up with Personnel volunteers for a few hours per week. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Personnel Apprentice Chair) for more information.

 

Want in on the nuts and bolts? You could help the Ops & Hospitality Co-Chairs  connect people together to ensure the Leads for Access, Guest of Honor, Online Con, Safety, Safer Spaces, and Registration have what they need to run WisCONline this year. If this is an interesting opportunity, email personnel@sf3.org (subject: Ops & Hosp Apprentice) and we’ll see if it’s a good fit!

Are you curious about the digital bones of WisCon? Can you call a mean meeting, and also want to build your organizing skills? As a bonus, do you have a passion for translating between tech folx and mere mortals? For a few hours per week, help the Chair organize folx running the website, Sched, and general accounts. If this role seems interesting, email personnel@sf3.org (subject: IT Apprentice)

SF3 is the nonprofit that runs WisCon.

Are you fascinated by the big picture and happy to let others handle mundane details? Or perhaps you love connecting people to facilitate effective action. You may be the perfect candidate to become Vice President of the SF3 Board. Expect to spend 3-7 hours a month as the liaison between the Board and WisCon committee chairs. For more information, contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: SF3 VP).

Have you ever been curious what it takes to keep WisCon well-resourced and in good legal standing? If you become a SF3 Board Member at Large, you can become familiar with the SF3 Board and execute self-directed projects. This term will be renewed in October. Expect to volunteer about 2-5 hours per month, more at your option. Prior non-profit, non-profit board experience, and/or experience attending WisCon, is a bonus. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: SF3 Board member) for more information.