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Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 11:56
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Subject: RE: [nc-budget] Job
description
Philip,
One
of the problems I had with mixing the technical/operational support in with
the policy and financial support of the Secretariat role is that the
technical/operational role will overshadow the policy role. Whereas I
absolutely recognize the need for the operational responsibilities, I
personally believe that the long term success of the DNSO and maybe even ICANN
rests on the ability to succeed on the policy side.
Ideally, in my mind, it would be best if the
Secretariat function could be performed by someone different than the
technical/operational functions. But it is not clear that there will be
enough funds for that. If funding was not an issue, I would recommend
creating two job descriptions, one for the Secretariat function that focuses
on the policy and budget management side (objectives 2 and 4) and one for the
technical/operational support.
Why
don't you do a cut and paste job on the latest job description so we can see
what you would specifically recommend.
Chuck
Chuck,
I am not proposing two secretariats.
But from a budgeting perspective it is better to separate
and separately account for different activities.
This means that in the future should we need to prioritise
one activity over another
we can do so easily because:
- the activity will be well described in the job
description (Chuck drafting)
- a corresponding item for the activity will be in the
budget (Philip drafting)
(All it needs is a copy and paste job adding the new
detail you have under the corresponding obj 1-4.)
Philip