Re: [ga] Manager of Public Participation

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Veni,

On 25 January 2006 I filed a complaint with the
Ombudsman's office regarding the failure to fill the
Manager of Public Participation position.  A message
to that effect was sent to the GA List (see 
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg03853.html
).

On 24 February 2006, I received the following message
from Frank Fowlie:

Dear Mr. Younger,

Thank you again for having contacted the Office of the
Ombudsman with your concerns about the post of
Manager, Public Participation at ICANN.  You have
indicated to me that as your are a member of ICANN's
public, and therefore,you feel that you are a person
directly affected by decisions or actions by ICANN
concerning this position.  Based on that personal
interest, I have conducted an investigation under the
authority given to me through Bylaw V.

I have made enquiries with ICANN Executive Staff, and
others, to determine whether or not there has been any
action, decision, or inaction which would
be an unfairness to you or the overall community.

Based on my review, I can inform you that is my
opinion that while the post has been vacant for a
period of time that this fact alone does not
constitute a violation of The Code of Administrative
Justice.

Based on my investigation I can inform you that, while
it is perhaps regrettable that any staff position
would stand open, that  there have been
active steps taken by ICANN to review staffing
requirements for this post, to look at resumes on
hand, and to take the opportunity to define and
re-craft the job description for the position, based
on the operational experiences.

I can also inform you that my review has indicated
that much of the work of the Manager, Public
Participation has been ably and competently carried 
out by various members of the ICANN staff in the
interim.

I can find no evidence that there has been any
intentional decision which would negatively impact or
delay the staffing of this post.  In fact, I feel
comfortable in informing you that the staffing and
selection process should be underway in the near
future.  Please do check from time to time at 
the ICANN Career Vacancies page found at 
http://www.icann.org/general/jobs.htm.

If you do not see the job posted on this site within
the next 28 days, please feel free to re-contact me
and I will follow up within ICANN.

Again, thank you for contacting the Office of the
Ombudsman with your concerns.


Best regards,
Frank Fowlie

Not having seen action within the 28-day time-frame, I
again wrote to the Ombudsman.  Mr. Fowlie's most
recent reply is the only correspondence I have had
from him since I sent my last "reminder" note.  You
may draw your own conclusions as to whether the
publication on the web site is a direct response to my
complaint to the Ombudsman.

I chose to cc Bret Fausett as he has previously raised
this same issue in the ICANN Public Forum regarding
filling the Manager of Public Participation position 
-- see
http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2006/3/28/1847337.html

Best regards,
Danny

--- Veni Markovski <veni@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Danny,
> I am a non-native English speaker, and therefore I
> have two questions 
> - may be somewhat irrelevant to what you write:
> 
> 1. Is the publication on the web site a direct
> response to your 
> complaint with the Ombudsman (as I read your mail)?
> 
> 2. Why are you CC: Bret Fausett in your original
> mail, or he has 
> something to do with that matter?
> 
> 
> best,
> Veni
> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 17:23:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ga] Manager of Public Participation
> To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: fausett@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> At 05:23 PM 04.5.2006 '?.'  -0700, Danny Younger
> wrote:
> >Subsequent to a complaint that I filed, I have now
> >received the following correspondence from the
> ICANN
> >Ombudsman:
> >
> >Dear Mr. Younger,
> >
> >Please note that the posting for this job is now
> >available at the following link:
> >
> >
>
>http://www.icann.org/general/jobs.htm#GeneralManagerPublicParticipation
> >
> >
> >Best regards,
> >
> >Frank Fowlie
> >
> >
> >Frank Fowlie, MACAM
> >Ombudsman
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