[S15 Proposal - INTEGRATED] MMM Budget Request

[CoachJonathan]

Thanks for all the questions.

@Fishbiscuit

15/26 goals weren’t successful last season. This season you’re looking to do another 26. Based on S15 priorities, you’re working on mostly planning and strategising which means you’ll miss the GR15 period. This is, honestly, quite worrying. This is reminiscent of S14 where the notable accomplishments are mostly plans, strategies, decision-making processes too.

I agree that last season didn’t see a lot of success. I’m confident that under my and @Viriya 's leadership this won’t happen again.

@Fishbiscuit

I would suggest to improve accountability by implementing a performance based approach. @CoachJonathan and @Viriya perhaps you could withold 30% of the budget and if 100% if hit all 30% could go out as a bonus, 75% then 20% goes out etc. @kyle I hope this isn’t too controversial

I think when we start playing this game, it becomes quite difficult to time everything - some projects are completed early on, while others later in the season.
I also think this sets a dangerous precedent for setting “easy goals” instead of stretch goals that will actually move the organization forward.

@Fishbiscuit

I see the Social media manager role repeated across all 3 squads but in the diagram there is just 1 person. Previously I think we relied on just cynthia to manage it and I think this is still the model? Could anyone help clarify why we need more people to do it now? Especially if its one Twitter account @CoachJonathan @Viriya

We have 1 social media manager supporting across all 3 areas. Apologies for any confusion around this.

@Fishbiscuit

you’re missing a budget for a strategist under grants program marketing & growth (I know Laura’s handling it now but someone specialised in it would help). Suggest perhaps expanding the community engagement strategist role to encompass it. In fact, as a side note, I’m curious how do you view strategy? What are the outputs of a strategy? Because under S15 priorities I see that the outputs are ‘guidelines’.

Apologies for not making this crystal clear. For this season, I will be playing both the Ops and Strategy roles for Protocols marketing (alongside the amazing Julia Pepper). The strategists’ role is ultimately to understand our target audiences and create a cohesive game plan for how to effectively communicate with those audiences so as to increase long term adoption.

@Fishbiscuit

What is the high-level breakdown of responsibilities for contributors (esp. those who are PT)? There are 5 FT and 15 PT contributors and some are assigned critical functions like supporting GR side rounds.

The best place to find this at the moment is to look at our Notion page of who’s who. Not all roles have been documented. Our intention is to be at 100% fully documented roles by end of season.

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Hopefully this answers your questions and creates some clarity!