Our chapter is actively looking for several key leadership positions / new voting board members coming up in 2020. These leadership position needs are as follows:
- Women's Initiative Co-Leader (board position)
- The mission of TU’s Diversity Initiative is to create effective strategies and programs to recruit a more diverse membership profile in TU; encourage diversity within leadership at the chapter, state and national levels; and to ensure every chapter creates a welcoming environment for TU members of different genders, ethnicity, ages, and cultures to achieve the TU conservation mission.
Many chapters may choose to appoint a women’s initiative coordinator, a youth education coordinator and/or a veterans services partnership coordinator to work on these unique initiatives. Some have found value in appointing someone to the umbrella role of diversity coordinator, such that someone is responsible for driving the chapter’s diversity goals forward on a broad level. - The Women’s Initiative (WI) Chapter Coordinator provides opportunities for women to engage with TU locally, demonstrating TU’s leadership development. Guided by “the Women’s Initiative Leadership Best Practices – Position Task List & Responsibilities,” the Chapter Coordinator recruits new women members, engages them in TU’s mission, facilitates their retention, and promotes them in leadership roles. This individual actively develops or enhances women’s events at the chapter level, initiates new programs to provide meaningful engagement opportunities for women, facilitates membership drives to increase women membership, and communicates directly to women in the chapter. Once appointed or elected by the chapter board, the WI Chapter Coordinator will have access to all educational/event materials available from the National Leadership Council’s Women’s Initiative Workgroup, support from the Workgroup including access to experienced women in this role, as well as other operational resources found in the online Tacklebox and membership rosters and reports in the Leaders Only Tools section of tu.org. The WI Chapter Coordinator is encouraged to develop an annual WI Plan for the chapter, along with an associated budget. In this annual planning effort, the WI Chapter Coordinator, would be supported by the WI State Coordinator and all resources and shared experience available through the NLC’s Women’s Initiative Workgroup.
Feel free to reach out with any interest in or questions about these positions. Our best contact point is our email, northsountu@gmail.com. Cheers and thanks for looking!
