DRAFT Position Description:
AAUW State Technology Chair
Overview of the position: Champion the use of technology to improve
efficiency and effectiveness of AAUW members' efforts to advance the mission.
Overall responsibilities:
- Evaluate previous state
technology efforts and assess current needs.
- Develop a technology action
plan with specific and measurable goals and objectives.
- Convene a state technology
committee. Assign accountability for the various components of your technology
plan, such as web site development, e-mail list management, membership/officer
database management, desktop publishing of flyers and other collateral, strategies
that ensure data can be reused appropriately.
- With the committee and
representatives of the state board, develop or maintain the technology section
of the state policy document.
- Work with other state officers
and committees to understand their ongoing technology needs and make recommendations
for changing practices to improve overall capacity to advance the mission.
- Serve as a consultant to
branch officers in the areas of web sites, e-mail, data management, desktop publishing
and other aspects of technology, particularly those affecting projects that may
span more than one year or involve more than one branch.
- Develop and oversee the
technology budget in your state.
Specific responsibilities to branches in your state: Maintain regular
contact with branch technology chairs or web managers. Share successful technology
strategies with branches.
Specific responsibilities to the Association: Leverage AAUW initiatives
by disseminating AAUW technology strategies to the members in your state. When
representing AAUW, adhere to AAUW positions on key issues. Adhere to the AAUW
style guide.
Specific leadership skills helpful to the position: Web site development,
use of listservs and bulletin boards and other collaborative environments, database
management, desktop publishing, data security, planning, team building, consensus
building, written and verbal communication.
Time commitments: Along with the time necessary to accomplish the above
responsibilities, serve on the state board of directors and other committees as
assigned. Attend state conventions and board meetings. Attendance at regional
conferences and the AAUW national convention is strongly encouraged.
Available resources: AAUW’s website; AAUW in Action; AAUW Outlook;
Action Alert; Get the Facts; Leader Tool Kit; Diversity Tool Kit; President’s
Tool Kit; 21st Century Recognition Program materials; AAUW’s style
guide; and AAUW staff.
Note: This description is based on the Communications Chair position
description available at www.aauw.org.
AAUW NC has not had a Communications Chair or a Communications Committee. In states
where the web site and e-mail management falls under the Communications Chair,
a Technology Chair position can still provide a valuable service by concentrating
on the techniques of desktop publishing, database management, etc., though it
may not necessarily be a position on the board.
References:
SAR presentation:
http://www.rtpnet.org/aauwnc/01-02/SARConference/NC-SAR-Sharing.htm;
Tech notes, including Technology Sanity Check for branch/state projects:
http://www.acm.org/~shoemaker/nes/TechArticles/index.htm
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