Step 4—Your Team
Last Updated on Friday, 02 July 2010 12:45 Written by Administrator Wednesday, 30 June 2010 20:54
Chapter Leadership
Chapter leaders are an essential part of AE's success both on a local chapter level and on a national level. Although holding a chapter leadership position requires volunteering your time, the personal and professional benefits of chapter leadership far outweigh the cost of commitment. Listed below are position descriptions in bullet form. In some capacity, the responsibilities of these positions need to be fulfilled for your chapter to be successful. Note: Full descriptions of the leadership team positions can be found in Appendix L of the chapter handbook.
Leadership Team
Strongly recommended for each chapter:
Faculty Advisor:
- Serves as a connector between students and administration
- Helps achieve cross-campus initiatives
- Facilitates chapter growth
- Serves as mentor to chapter
- Generally speaking, chapters have one arts advisor and one business advisor.
Executive Director:
- The touchstone for the chapter's members and leaders
- Supports and inspires all chapter members
- Facilitates and organizes meetings, programs, and funding
- Streamlines communication within the board and is the contact person between your chapter and the national organization
- Serves as an ambassador to campus institutions and organizations, faculty and administration, and the community
Director of Strategic Development:
- Is responsible for managing the finances and strategic plan for the chapter
- Creates and maintains a balanced budget
- Spearheads grant-writing and fundraising efforts
Director of Marketing:
- Works with the chapter's leadership board to strengthen and spread the AE brand
- Arranges for the design, dissemination, and funding of marketing tools
- Spreads awareness of AE activities to the campus and community
Directors of Membership (1 business, 1 arts):
- Manage the entire life cycle of AE members from prospective students to active students to engaged alumni
- Create a recruiting strategy for new members
- Maintain membership records
Recommended for each chapter
Director of Programming:
- Plans and executes a wide array of events adhering to AE's mission and guiding values
- Recruits and retains program officers and volunteers
Program Officers (one for each chapter program recommended):
- Envision and implement specific programmatic offerings
- Responsibilities are specific the events of one AE program
Secretary:
- Creates and maintains individual chapter records
- Facilitates communication between chapter members and leadership board
Director of Professional Development:
- Creates and publicizes job postings and career development opportunities to chapter members
- Develops relevant professional partnerships for the chapter
Director of Community Services:
- Develops community-based partnerships to create opportunities for service projects
- Promotes AE's mission to service by developing and implementing relevant and opportunistic community engagement programming throughout the year
