Co-leads spend an average of three hours a week working towards the following objectives (in collaboration with their co-lead and members, as appropriate):
- Recruit new members, and increase member participation
- Coordinate regular opportunities for engagement and community building (for example, weekly meetings)
- Help members in identifying and sharing their tacit knowledge (for example, by taking notes while members present to the guild)
- Drive consensus around what constitutes good research, and celebrate practitioners and projects modelling good research
- Establish and pursue annual goals for the guild
- Establish guild-sanctioned projects, as appropriate
- Solicit contributions from guild members, as appropriate
- Serve as a point of contact for other design- and research-friendly government communities (for example, GSA’s Customer Experience Community of Practice, and the Federal User Experience Community of Practice)
- Identify opportunities to evangelize research (for example, speaking opportunities or opportunities to co-author a digital.gov blog post), and connect members to those opportunities, as appropriate
- Raise awareness of research as a driver of value at TTS (For example, in collaboration with the 18F Methods Product Owner, collect usage metrics for research-related methods)
- Advocate for tools, policies, and other documentation that will enable broader adoption of design research
The TTS Research Guild co-lead should
- Read and review the TTS Handbook (specifically the research guidelines), the forthcoming (18F UX guide)[https://github.com/18F/ux-guide], and the Privacy Impact Assessment for Design Research.
- Understand the process by which we procure and pilot new research tools
- Be introduced to points of contact within other design- and research-friendly government communities. For example, GSA’s Customer Experience Community of Practice, and the Federal User Experience Community of Practice.
- Be introduced to points of contact in the GSA privacy office, Office of General Counsel, and PRA Desk Office
Term length: 1 year
Extendable: Yes
Reports to: TTS Guild Coordinator / TTS Chief of Staff