Assistant Reviews Coordinator The Assistant Reviews Coordinator's duties include covering when other staff are unable to perform tasks. We are almost finished revamping our reviews section and expect activity to be at a constant high level. We're looking for a versatile quick learner able to put in some time daily. Pluses are good command of the English languag (syntax, grammar, punctuation, in that order,) some computer experience or ability to learn, and an interest in books.

Personnel Manager. The Personnel Manager manages this page, the Help Wanted section of simegen.com. In consultation with the owners and staff of simegen.com, the Personnel Manager decides what positions need to be filled, posts them here, advertises them elsewhere, corresponds with applicants, and proposes people to fill the positions. It is expected that the Personnel Manager will consult with staff directly involved with each position to determine qualifications and final choices. Only e-mail skills are required for this position; minimal HTML ability is helpful, but not necessary.

Assistant Personnel Manager. The Assistant Personnel Manager not only assists the Personnel Manager as necessary, but maintains the Staff Page(s). The first person holding the position will build that page, which should be designed with ease of future maintenance in mind. Only basic HTML skills are necessary, as this is an essential page that simply lists all simegen.com departments, Gatemasters, Assistants, Reviewers, etc. It is a constantly-changing list of staff with their positions, names, e-mail addresses, and AIM handles, making it possible for any simegen.com staff member to access that page and easily find out whom to contact and how. This position requires organizational skills and devotion of time at first to gather the information and build the page. Once the page is built, it must be maintained regularly, so this person must be able to give an hour or two at least once each week to update the page as needed.

Review Columnists. Here's your chance to have your own review column! We currently have whole areas of Romance, Horror, and Fantasy reviews, two Vampire review columns, a Mystery column, a Horror column, and a Rereadable Books column. In the works are columns on Science Fiction and Nonfiction Books for Writers. We would like review columns or areas on any other genre that you have expertise in. You may organize your site on either pattern--please look at the review sites we already have up. You may recruit reviewers and run a site similar to our Romance review site, or you may do all the reviews yourself, and write a monthly column such as the Vampire or Rereadable Books columns. Send us your credentials and tell us what you would like to do. This is a position with the potential for you to participate in our revenue sharing program, if you can get private advertisers for us.

Discus Expert. As we increase the number of boards (forums) on simegen.com, we need people who know how to run the Discus system. Ideally, we would like to have a separate person for each of our boards.

Course Coordinator. At the moment we have only a Startup Coordinator for all the courses taught in the WorldCrafters Guild. We need someone to take over details of courses already begun, to free the Startup Coordinator to help new faculty prepare to start their courses. E-mail, basic HTML, basic IRC, knowledge of how to post to boards (forums). Your job would be to help instructors keep the courses running smoothly once they have gotten started. Technically, you would not be creating boards or pages, but maintaining the ones created by the Startup Coordinator.

Author Spotlights Coordinator. In search of a budding journalist interested in interviewing writers for the Sime~Gen Author Spotlights page. The Author Spotlights Coordinator's duties include interviewing Sime~Gen writers and reviewed writers, creating and maintaining the spotlight pages in Dreamweaver, and editing and writing of other writer promotional materials. The Author Spotlights pages are part of our Worldcrafter's Guild school, and as such, we're looking for a good command of the English language (syntax, grammar, punctuation, in that order,) some writing experience, and an interest in writers biographical information.

This is a high level supervisory position and would require some demonstration of web skills. DREAMWEAVER is not essential, though the section is currently designed in Dreamweaver.

The Spotlights Coordinator is responsible for finding her own assistants as well as for creating the question sets for the interviews. The position can be expanded to include conducting online chats with various writers and posting the results. Some writers do better in live chat than just answering questions by email.

Assistant Webmasters. We can always use more people with basic HTML skills to post book reviews and similar materials, or to aid in setting up sites, using templates we provide. These are permanent positions with the possibility of growing into complete responsibility for some pages, or even an area of the domain. This is a position with the potential for you to participate in our revenue sharing program, if you can get private advertisers for us.

Graphic Artists. We can always use people to create graphics and banners. People who can make banners for our private advertisers can also participate in our revenue sharing program. While this is an ongoing position, it is sporadic. We may go for weeks needing only the occasional graphic that one of our webmasters can whip up in minutes, and then suddenly be deluged with the need for advertising banners for several customers at once. In the future, we hope to have paying customers building websites with us who may need specific kinds of graphics. Ideally, we would like to have a number of graphic artists we can call on for such projects, so that if one person is busy, another can take the specific job we have in hand.

Programmer. This position is ideal for the programmer looking for experience on a live Internet server. You will be called upon to create scripts to order, experience that will look good on your resume. Ideally, you will know the python scripting language, a general knowledge of cgi methods, as well as having a good grounding in unix/linux. You will mostly be writing scripts on demand. You will also have a chance to learn some basic sysadmin skills, and relieve our Webmaster from time to time in such tasks as setting up user accounts and email addresses, and listservs on the Mailman program. You may have the opportunity to learn to create boards and other tools. For this position only, please contact webmaster@simegen.com.