Director: 4 year term, renewable, elected by the Leadership Team
Requirements: Five or more years as active Leadership Team member
Responsibilities:
- Guide the overall work of the Project, based on policy decisions of the Leadership Team
- Prepare agendas for Leadership Team meetings, with input from the Team and Co-Director
- Notify Leadership Team of materials needed for meetings
- Chair meetings
- Provide a Director’s Report for each meeting
- Represent IWP in contacts and negotiations with various organizations including NWP, the host university, other universities, and school districts
- Coordinate Advisory Board
- Guide the writing of the annual NWP grant re-application and reports
- Prepare and oversee the IWP budget
- Serve as contact person for workshop requests from schools and districts
- Schedule workshops and assign workshop leaders
- Answer inquiries from interested educators
- Seek annual performance feedback from LT
- Other duties as assigned by the Leadership Team
Co-Director: 4 year term, renewable, elected by the Leadership Team
Requirements: Five or more years as active Leadership Team member
Responsibilities:
- Assist the Director with all responsibilities listed above
- Organize and oversee mentorship of new Leadership Team members, workshop interns, and PD providers
- Seek input on professional development needs of the Leadership Team and arrange for PD at LT meetings
Three Assistant Directors: 3 year term, renewable, and staggered so that one new Assistant Director is elected each year, elected by Leadership Team
Requirements: Three or more years as active Leadership Team member
Responsibilities:
Secretary/Treasurer
- Meetings
- Arrange location for Team meetings
- Maintain attendance information
- Take minutes at the meetings
- Disseminate minutes to Leadership Team in a timely fashion
- Finances
- Act as second signatory on IWP accounts
- Process workshop payments, bills, and payments to workshop leaders, and other financial matters
- Chair the Grant Writing Committee
- Serve as point person for NWP and other grant applications
Events Director
- Arrange IWP events, including the following:
- Secure location
- Secure speaker(s)
- Organize program: distribute call for proposals, lead selection of breakout sessions, schedule time sequence
- Oversee food needs for events
- Manage printing needs for events
- Manage events’ budgets
- Chair the Planning Committee
SLI Director
- Organize the Summer Leadership Institute
- Work with Director to identify location
- Plan and deliver daily instruction at Institute
- Serve as Lead Author for SLI grant writing
- Chair the Curriculum Committee
Marketing Director
- Oversee marketing initiatives
- Identify contacts and venues for publicity
- Maintain mailing and email lists
- Maintain (or oversee maintenance of) Facebook page
- Maintain (or oversee maintenance of) website
- Chair the Publicity Committee
Annual Reports and Continuous Improvement:
Each Director will provide an annual report at each year’s Annual Retreat. In addition, each Director will seek performance feedback at the same event. One Leadership Team member, not a Director, will compile the data and return each Director’s feedback to him/her.
Stipends:
Each member of the Director’s Team will receive a stipend for his/her work, to be determined annually as part of the budgeting process. If a role on the Director’s Team is shared between two individuals, that stipend will be split.