Dear WCA Community,

The WCA is calling for applications trom suitable individuals to lead the WCA Software Team (WST). The current leader, Gregor Billing was appointed to the role in June 2021 and has served two consecutive 24 month terms. The WCA thanks Gregor for his exemplary leadership during this time. As Gregor’s role cannot be renewed for an additional term, an open-election is required as per the WCA Motion 10.2025.0. Gregor is permitted to reapply.

Candidates are expected to fulfill their terms (24 months) and to spend at least 10 hours per week on average to work for the Team. The qualities expected of candidates are:

Strong technical expertise (including experience with tools, frameworks and platforms used by the WCA e.g. GitHub, React, NextJS etc)

• Exceptional communication skills

• Problem solving skills

• High level of trustworthiness and responsiveness

• Project management experience

• Strong leadership skills

The application period is open for candidates to submit their candidacy documents until June 1st, 2025, 23:59 UTC. Interested candidates should send their application to the Executive Assistants Team (assistants@worldcubeassociation.org), CC’ing the Board (board@worldcubeassociation.org).

The candidacy documents must be in PDF format, and must include:

1. Brief personal introduction.

2. Summary of activities done for the WCA.

3. Ambitions as the WST Leader of the WCA.

Candidates are additionally asked to send a copy of their applications which can be made public at the end of the application period.

The rights and duties of the WST can be found in WCA Motion 10.2024.11.

After the application period, the WCA Board will make a selection by voting and will announce the new Leader, as described in Section 5 of WCA Motion 10.2025.0.

Thanks for your candidacies and support.