Elections: Leadership Roles
These elected chair positions serve on the Leadership Committee, which maintains general operational chapter decision-making and oversight.
CHAPTER CHAIR
The Chair must be a trained Climate Reality Leader
The Chapter Chair’s primary responsibilities include:
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- Oversee Climate Reality’s local, state and federal campaigns and policy priorities;
- Talk with Climate Reality staff monthly and participate in Chapters monthly calls;
- Fill out monthly reports on chapter’s work and progress;
- Help build relationships and coalitions locally;
- Represent the chapter on sign-on documents or delegate someone to;
- Take responsibility for monthly membership meetings and host them;
- Organize and chair twice-monthly leadership-committee meetings.
CHAPTER VICE CHAIR
The Vice Chair must be a trained Climate Reality Leader
The Chapter Vice Chair’s primary responsibilities include:
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- Assist the Chapter Chair with their responsibilities. Specific duties will be determined with the Chapter Chair, with an eye toward special skills and interests;
- Fill in for chair if needed at meetings or events;
- Learn about Chair’s duties;
- Participate on Leadership Committee;
- The Vice Chair is a likely successor to the Chair.
CAMPAIGNS CHAIR
The Campaigns Chair’s principal responsibilities include:
- Oversee all the teams;
- Help new teams get started;
- Attend as many team meetings as possible and give guidance as needed;
- Host the monthly Campaigns meeting;
- Help reach out to new members to get them connected;
- Participate on the Leadership Committee.
COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR
The Communications Chair’s primary responsibilities include:
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- Recruit a Vice Chair with whom to share responsibilities.
- Recruit members for a team that can support chapter communications;
- Maintain an editing team of one to two people to ensure accurate and clean copy on any public-facing messages;
- Create and send regular communications to members regarding chapter activities and local and regional activism news and opportunities via bi-monthly newsletter, action alerts, and MailChimp emails;
- Stay abreast of the work of partner organizations and important environment/climate news in our region;
- Be an active partner in campaigns communications aimed at the general public;
- Maintain a regular presence on social media accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. This should entail delegating posting responsibilities for each of these platforms;
- Participate on the Leadership Committee.
May also:
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- Maintain regular content on our blog; develop a group of regular contributors; edit content (with editing team) to maintain high quality
- Partner with other members of the Leadership Team to help maintain and regularly update content on our website.
MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT CHAIR
The Membership Engagement Chair’s primary responsibilities include:
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- Recruit a Vice Chair with whom to share responsibilities of the role;
- Maintain current member lists;
- Onboard new members and connect them to teams;
- Oversee member recruitment;
- Contribute materials to public tabling events;
- Offer ideas for member engagement activities;
- Participate on the Leadership Committee.
PUBLIC EDUCATION CHAIR
The Public Education Chair(s)’s primary responsibilities include:
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- Recruit a Vice Chair with whom to share responsibilities of the role;
- Plan and oversee tabling events, including recruiting volunteers;
- Encourage speakers to log their presentations; put profiles in website Speakers Bureau;
- Maintain slide share on Members Drive, offering new diverse slideshows related to campaigns, plus updated local and action slides;
- Participate on the Leadership Committee.
AT-LARGE CHAIRS (APPOINTED)
The Leadership Committee may appoint several At-Large Chairs to join them. At-Large Chairs may bring a specific knowledge base or skill set that helps the leadership accomplish the goals of the chapter.
The At-Large Chairs’ primary responsibilities include:
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- Provide leadership, governance and oversight to the chapter;
- Attend Leadership Committee meetings and provide input and advice on campaigns, events, activities, and chapter undertakings;
- Lead activities and tasks as may be assigned by the Chapter Chair from time to time;
- Help ensure the Chapter complies with and meets its obligations under the Climate Reality Project Charter Agreement;
- Represent the Chapter on coalitions or partnerships as assigned by the Chapter Chair;
- Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Chapter Chair.