Friday, 29 January 2016

[YEP-DC] Join the YEP-DC Leadership Team! Several Positions Available

Are you interested in taking on a more active role with YEP-DC?  The Leadership Team is excited to announce that we have several positions open on our leadership team! We have the following positions open:

  1. Vice President of Finance
  2. Panels Chair
  3. Social Chair
  4. Operations Chair

 

To apply, email your resume and a cover letter explaining your interest and qualifications for the position to dc@youngedprofessionals.org. Please note that these are volunteer positions. The deadline is Friday, February 12th!

 

Vice President of Finance

Specific responsibilities for this position include:

  • Being an involved member of the YEP-DC Executive Board who is engaged in YEP-DC's strategic planning
  • Providing oversight to ensure that YEP-DC provides accurate and timely financial reports
  • Maintaining an annual calendar of reporting deadlines for both tax and grants/contracts and ensuring that all reports have been filed
  • Ensuring that incorporation renewals, business license renewals, and tax returns and other 501c3 requirements are completed and filed on-time
  • Ensuring the maintenance and implementation of sound fiscal management policies and procedures through internal controls and procedures
  • Retaining signing authority on behalf of the Executive Board for financial and legal purposes
  • Reviewing comparisons of financial statements with budgeted amounts
  • Reporting the financial condition/position at least quarterly to the Executive Board
  • Receiving, tracking and coordinating reimbursements
  • Keeping accurate, up-to-date financial records
  • Ensuring YEP-DC Leadership Team are aware and following 501c3 requirements
  • Maintaining YEP-DC's checking account
  • Maintaining YEP-DC's petty cash account
  • As applicable, reviewing the annual audit and presenting it to the Executive Board
  • Overseeing Finance Chair

 

Skills/Abilities:

  • Highly proficient with Quickbooks or similar accounting software (required)
  • Highly proficient with Excel (required)
  • Accounting or finance background (preferred)

 

Time commitment: 20-25 hours per month (includes 3-hour monthly meeting and 3-hour monthly event; note that monthly meetings are hosted by Executive Board members on a rotating basis)

 

Panels Chair

The Panels Chair's responsibilities include:

  • Planning, scheduling, and executing YEP-DC's substantive panel program, working directly with the Vice President of Programming. This program consists of four events per year featuring a diverse range of education topics and speakers [Note: Topics will be chosen loosely at the beginning of the year based on membership survey data, current academic and political education conversations, and Leadership Team input. The topics are subject to change as a result of unexpected opportunities.]
  • Selecting and booking panel venues
  • Selecting and inviting panelists and moderator
  • Coordinating the purchasing of refreshments
  • Coordinating with Vice President and Chair of Communications & Marketing on advertising
  • Coordinating with other chairpersons and Executive Board members as needed

 

Time commitment: 3-5 hours per month (with concentration of time around events)

 

Social Chair

About the Position:

YEP-DC is looking for a dynamic Social Chair to join its leadership team.  The Social chair plays a critical role in coordinating various happy hours to connect YEP-DC members. 

Specific responsibilities for this position include:

  • Planning, scheduling, and executing bi-monthly happy hours (approximately six per year). This includes any joint program and happy hour plus featuring volunteer programs in the DC area

  • Convening and managing happy hour committee

  • Updating and maintaining the happy hour location spreadsheet

  • Managing relationships with venues in the DC metro area

  • Coordinating with other chairpersons and Executive Board members as needed

  • Other duties as assigned by the Vice President of Membership

 

Time commitment:

3-6 hours per month

 

To apply:

Please email dc@youngedprofessionals.org your resume and a cover letter detailing your interest in the position.  This position is available in February. This is a volunteer position. 

 

Operations Chair

Overview:

The Operations Chair plays a critical role in the delivery of content to both Members and non-Members, managing key communications through multiple listservs and being the first point of contact to our constituents. As such, the Operations Chair must have a keen ability to think analytically about touch-points within the YEP-DC organization. The Operations Chair works closely with the VP of Operations, who oversees communications channels, content delivery, talent recruitment, knowledge management, and membership data. This is a role for someone who is savvy with communications, wants to grow in human resources/talent recruitment capacities, and is passionate about YEP's mission to connect and empower the next generation of education leaders through professional, career, and knowledge development.

 

Key responsibilities include:

 

  • Being an involved member of the YEP-DC Leadership Team
  • Managing external communications to YEP-DC members and non-members, including the YEP-DC listserv and YEP-DC email
  • Managing information flows to ensure all Executive Board and Leadership Team members are informed about cross-team initiatives
  • Supporting the VP of Operations in talent recruitment, onboarding, offboarding.

 

 

Key skills include:

 

  • Pithy and punchy writing skills
  • Experience with MailChimp a plus

 

Time commitment:

10-15 hours per month

 



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