Areas of Responsibility

You can find our current list of Faculty Program Members here, and they oversee five broad areas of responsibility in the Faculty Program. Volunteers can take part in any of these as suited to their area of expertise.

If you are just getting started as a Faculty member, be sure to review the Faculty Member Getting Started Guide. If you have any questions, please reach out in the private Faculty SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel, and/or contact a Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts..

Administrators

Administrators perform the management and operations work involved in the Training Team and Learn WordPress. This involves things like task and project tracking, facilitating meetings, taking notes in meetings, vetting new applications, managing the Help Scout queue, and anything else that keeps the wheels turning.

For more information, see: Administrator

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Content Creators

Content creators are people who contribute new content to Learn WordPress. This can be in the form of lessons, courses or online workshops. Content creators can write lessons, run online workshops, record lesson videos, write lesson scripts, edit lesson videos, or perform any other task related to content creation.

For more information, see: Content Creator

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Editors

Editors assist with editing content created by the content creators. This can mean testing content or editing for accuracy, grammar, instructional effectiveness, accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility), localizability, SEO, or anything else that helps to improve the content that is created.

For more information, see: Editor

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Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

SMEs work with content creators and editors to provide expertise in their relevant subject area to ensure that the content is accurate and complete. Ideally, content creators would work with an SME from the very beginning of the creation process for any piece of new content.

For more information, see: Subject Matter Expert

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Translation Coordinators

Translation Coordinators work alongside Content Translators, assisting and empowering them as they translate content on Learn WordPress. They also bridge the Training Team and their local community to help drive the mission of ensuring equal access to quality WordPress learning materials for all locales.

For more information, see: Translation Coordinator

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