Joining the Team

Introduction

Welcome to the BOP team! This guide will help get you up to speed on what you need to know to get started as a project team member.

Let's go!

If you have not read the Guide for New Volunteers, please do so.

Read Introduction to the Project if you haven't already read it.
Join our slack communities Code for America & Hack for LA
Join us on the team's slack channel #organizers-playbook and introduce yourself.
Join GitHub or if you already have an account, Slack us with your GitHub handle.
Slack our PM Sam or Aleiya with your Gmail address and GitHub handle.
If you are working as a UXR, Slack our PM requesting your UXR number.
Accept your Google Drive invite to access the shared folder.
Add yourself to the Team Roster and inform PM after you have done so.
Review the Glossary.
Attend our weekly meetings on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays for the core team, Wednesdays at 11 for the research team. You can find the links on our project board in the first column on a card called Team Meetings

Who are you?

Click the link that applies to you to find a sequence of immediate action steps:

Roles we are currently recruiting for:

Roles we will be recruiting for soon (express your interest now!):

we will be in contact when we start recruiting for these roles.

Web Developer
Data Scientist
Content Writer
Other Volunteer

If you are looking to join another project immediately, you can check out other projects staffed by Hack for LA, please see Hack for LA's Getting Started guide.

Role	Major Activities	Skills	Est. Time Commitment	Volunteer Need
ResearchOps Coordinator	- Own end-to-end interview management and analysis prep process, including: - Updating Calendly and GCal - Scheduling interviews and maintaining communication with interviewers - Handle interview issues (such as no-shows, cancellations, etc) - Creating and updating transcription sheets, Github issues - Identify gaps and opportunities to create more effective and efficient research processes (collaborating with Program Design Lead and UX Research Team Lead)	- Highly organized with excellent time management skills - Attention to detail - Self-starter, thrives in ambiguity - Good to have: Familiarity with GSuite, Miro, Slack, Otter.ai, Calendly, and GitHub	Generally on standby (as interviews come in) 5-8 hours/week Required meetings: - Tuesday 10am-11am PT - Saturday 11am-12pm PT	1
Interviewer	tbd	tbd	tbd	tbd
Transcription Verifier	tbd	tbd	tbd	tbd
Data Organizer	tbd	tbd	tbd	tbd
Qualitative researcher (thematic coding/labeling)	tbd	tbd	tbd	tbd
Quantitative researcher	- Exploratory data analysis interview data, such as data viz, bringing in census data or working on sentiment analysis	- Good to have: Familiarity with R - Willingness to learn and experiment!	6-10 hours/week Required meeting: - Tuesday 12pm-1:30pm PT	2 - 3
UX Researcher	- Take ownership of the analysis and delivery of insights for a predefined research question - Develop deep familiarity of research processes and tools in order to effectively scope work and estimate effort	- Self-starter, thrives in ambiguity - Comfortable with thematic coding, and other fundamentals of user research - Excellent communication and presentation skills - Good to have: Familiarity with GSuite, Miro, Slack, Otter.ai, Calendly, and GitHub	6-10 hours / week Required meeting: - Wednesday 11am-12:30pm PT	3 - 4
UX Research Team Lead (shadow current lead/standby)	- Oversee all research roles and lead main research team meetings - Create, prioritize, assign and ensure weekly follow-ups of tasks and the advancement of the team’s work based on deliverables -Be responsible for the integration and training of new team members - Collaborate with ReOps Coordinator, Program Design Lead for resource management, process improvement, support, etc - Ensure the usage of appropriate, ethical, and inclusive processes and methods leading to quality deliverables - Foster collaboration and open communication with	- Solid user research background - Ability to effectively prioritize tasks, identify and address blockers, and push projects forward from beginning to end with minimal oversight - Excellent communication and presentation skills - Good to have: Familiarity with GSuite, Miro, Slack, Otter.ai, Calendly, and GitHub	10-15 hours / week Required meetings: - Tuesday 10am-11am PT - Tuesday 12pm-1:30pm PT - Wednesday 11am-12:30pm PT - Saturday 11am-12pm PT	1

Accessibility standards

Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all websites be accessible to people with disabilities. The World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA function as the current legal standard for website accessibility.

Get acquainted with accessibility: https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm