Hey Calum,
Yes this has been discussed a few times. I think it’s a great idea/direction. Problem is though, it’s taken rather a long time to raise the money in the fund (circa 8k a year or something) so we’re a long way off being able to fund even a part-time job. There’s also some complication in terms of think about where that person would take their lead from, and be based etc, so that the role was neutral or equally shared across the network.
Personally I think that the first step is to create a working group type of thing and see where we can get to, but bare in mind that we could be heading in this direction 
I’m in for the animating group!