Latest version of this proposal posted to freeflarum:

https://atxdao.freeflarum.com/d/10-proposal-discussion-hire-operations-manager

(1st draft below)

Proposal: Hire an Admin for ATX DAO.

Motivation: ATX DAO is growing and has many good ideas that we could develop. However we have a bottleneck of important administrative tasks slowing down the accomplish of these projects like book keeping, contract signing, venue coordination, event ticketing, calendar syncing, website edits, receipt and invoice collecting, etc.

This new Admin position would be a resource to all committee heads. This would be the first paid staff member for ATX DAO. While many ATX DAO members work on a volunteer basis and work for the DAO when available, this full time admin would give ATX DAO a single point of contact with more reliable availability, and greater cohesion, organization, and professionalism.

The expectation would be to pay about $30-35/hr and earn $2-3k per month for ~20 hrs/week. With a current treasury of >$100k this would fit within our ATX DAO budget and give us comfortable runway to be able to pay the admin for many months to come giving this hire steady work. Meanwhile with the additional efficiency this person would bring to ATX DAO we can execute faster and more effectively on the several revenue generating ideas that have been proposed: (hackathons, government policy research, office space rental, networking events, NFT minting, Austin art murals, etc.)

Responsibilities would include:

• Treasury. Manage the Treasury Spreadsheet and Expense reimbursement. Ensure that the accounting is kept up-to-date and each expense and income item is categorized and has a description and receipts attached. Keep the Treasury spreadsheet in sync with the Gnosis transactions and the UST Terra transactions. Set up budgets for each committee for USD and for REP tokens. Ensure that we will be able pass any financial audit.
• Events and Partnerships Coordinate logistics with local venues. Manage contract and rent payment of ATX DAO office space.
• Engineering Help with logistics for hackathons including food, venue, volunteers.
• Marketing Help edit atxdao.com website and keep the event calendar up-to-date.
• See this list for additional potential tasks to help with: https://www.notion.so/atxdao/715fede3d5634bcaba43ea97e766d0ff?v=a5723307ddc447a8a7d2d999bbb3e72c

Members would work for REP tokens while the dedicated Operations Manager position would be paid in USD denominated stable coins. This would free up some of the committee chair's time to grow ATX DAO.

Having an Operations Manager will serve as a force multiplier for our committee chairs. All committee chairs are still needed, it is just that the treasurer becomes the accountant and financial analysts rather than the book keeper. The operations committee chair does the ground work of incubating future leaders for elections, and tooling research. The partnership and events work on fund raising rather than contract paperwork. Engineering can focus on the content of the hackathon rather than the site logistics. Legal can focus on working on encorporating ATX DAO as a Wyoming DAO rather than paperwork. The government committee can focus on recommending legistation to goverment officials to pass DAO friendly laws in Texas rather than venue and event logistics. The education committee can focus on curriculum creation and speaker scheduling while offloading some of the logistics.

It will be important to find a good candidate for this position so we propose paying above market rate. We also need to ensure that this person is taken care of and has a quality employment experience. Since there is no one person who is in charge of ATX DAO we will need to rotate the responsibility of prioritizing tasks for the Operations Manager.