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Leadership

JewishGen Sub-Carpathia SIG Leader Lara Diamond Contact Responsibilities Biography	Webmaster / Media and Communications Director Gershon Markowitz Contact	Projects Director This position is currently vacant Responsibilities
Towns Director This position is currently vacant Responsibilities	Information Systems Director This position is currently vacant Responsibilities	Discussion List Director This position is currently vacant
Volunteers Director This position is currently vacant Responsibilities	Translations Director This position is currently vacant Responsibilities	Data Acquisition Director This position is currently vacant Responsibilities
Special Projects Director This position is currently vacant Responsibilities

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Leadership Responsibilities

JewishGen Sub-Carpathia SIG Leader

Coordinate SIG projects

Projects Director

1. Manage projects and the volunteers working on them

2. Process completed datasets (mostly spreadsheets) for submission to the JewishGen Database (JGDB)

3. Enter project descriptions in the DBM

4. Update progress of projects/tasks in the DBM

5. Provide work news to the Media and Communication Manager for the production of news/newsletter

Towns Director

1. Compile e-mail distribution lists of YB Translation Project Leaders, KehilaLinks owners, people who submit data to JOWBR
2. Identify KehilaLink owners who are willing to provide a description of the data on their webpages
3. Identify YB Translation Leaders who are willing to prepare name/town indexes for their YB translations
4. Relay any queries, problems, or requests for assistance to the SIG Coordinator
5. Help SIG Coordinator create a “Town Leader” system using a modified JRI-Poland model
6. Create a list of towns within each district of each Guberniya
7. Work with Town Leaders to compile info for each town for entry into JewishGen Gazeteer (unless an entry already exists)
8. Compile a contact list of people who are interested in each town using JGFF and Discussion List postings.
9. Enter/update town and related-town information on the DBM
10. Provide work news to the Media and Communication Manager for the production of news/newsletter

Information Systems Director

1. Define Information Systems and Data Structure Strategy
2. Provide IS tools to support the projects and SIG management
2. Ensure that the the website is maintained up-to-date and in accordance with JewishGen guidelines
4. Ensure the technology watch and the evolution of the website and the IS tools to keep them "state-of-the-art"
5. Provide reporting tools to the different Board members (project follow up, statistics...)

Volunteers Director

1. Coordinate with the Translations Director and Projects Director
2. Identify, recruit and coordinate volunteers for our projects
3. Check progress and status of volunteers periodically
4. Keep the SIG's Survey results spreadsheet updated
5. Maintain the Ukraine SIG Volunteers Wall of Honor
6. Provide work news to the Media and Communication Manager for the production of news/newsletter

Translations Director

1. Is a specialist in Russian
2. This position will not execute or manage translation projects but:
3. Provides support and expertise to all different translation projects, defines standards, etc.
4. Work on developing "translation tools / documents" for helping the project managers and volunteers to easily execute their projects

Data Acquisition Director

1. Identify and negotiate the acquisition of new datasets
2. Obtain fundraising for those acquisitions

Special Projects Director

1. Get Board, Town Leaders, Project Leaders, and Key Researchers connected through Skype or a similar system for online voice and/or video conferencing
2. Manage Ukraine SIG surveys and report on results
3. Help Coordinator with LDS & Ukraine Archives negotiations to get permission for indexing and translation projects, cooperating with Mark Halpern’s “united front” effort
4. Adapt JRI-Poland “how-to” documents for Ukraine SIG
5. Provide work news to the Media and Communication Manager for the production of news/newsletter

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Leadership Biographies

Lara Diamond, JewishGen Sub-Carpathia SIG Leader

Lara Diamond is President of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland and has been researching her family for 25 years, since she was too young to have a driver's license and had to rely on her mother as a chauffeur. She has traced all branches of her family back to Europe and most multiple generations back in Europe using Russian Empire-era and Austria-Hungarian Empire records. Most of her research is in modern-day Ukraine, with a smattering of Belarus and Poland. She leads JewishGen's Subcarpathian SIG, is on Ukraine SIG's board of directors, and runs several town-focused projects to collect documentation to assist all those researching ancestors from common towns. She blogs about her mostly Eastern European research at http://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com.

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