Board Leadership Volunteers hold key positions on the board of directors, such as the Board President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary. These roles are crucial for guiding the organization’s strategic direction and ensuring effective governance
Tasks include:
- Developing and implementing strategic plans to ensure the organization meets its goals and objectives
- Creating budgets and financial plans and ensuring departments that work with finances follow them
- Finding and onboarding new board members, and pairing them with more experienced members for guidance
- Recommending members for committees and appointing committee chairs
- Evaluating the board's performance to identify areas for improvement
- Upholding the organization's promises and obligations, and maintaining consistent attendance at board meetings
- Ensuring the organization is compliant with its bylaws and that board members read and follow them
Skills Needed:
- Strong leadership skills to analyze corporate structures, make key decisions, and act responsibly.
- Strategic thinking and planning: Executives need to be able to think "big picture" and analyze the full effect of a problem, how to develop a strategic plan, how to use it to focus decision making, and how to translate it into an operational business plan.
- Board leaders should communicate with Society members between meetings and in the boardroom. They should be honest and open, answer questions, and find out how they can help the directors.
- Board leaders need general knowledge of governance.
Training: You'll receive training by staff and other volunteers to succeed in your role.
Schedule: Attendance at monthly board meetings is required. Additional hours outside of board meetings will be required to accomplish tasks, Volunteers will make their own schedule, and spend 4-10 hours per month.
Qualifications: None
For Further Information Contact: Karyn Molines, 410-535-5327, Karyn.Molines@calvertcountymd.gov
Complete this form if you are interested in volunteering as a Board Member
