2016 San Antonio Post Election Candidate Call

GENERAL INFO:

The Post is seeking candidates to run in this year’s Post elections. The positions available are as follows.

• 2017 Vice President/2018 President-elect: This is a 2-year position. The individual elected to this position will first serve as Vice President under Bonnie Hopke, our previously elected 2017 President, then assumes the role of Post President for 2018. Following the individual’s year as President, he/she will be asked to continue to serve as Past Post President on the Board for 2019.

• 2017 Treasurer: This is a 1-year position (elected/re-elected each year). This individual is the Chief Financial Officer of the Post is overall responsible for all financial matters and accounts.

• 2017 Secretary: This is also a 1-year position (elected/re-elected each year). This individual is overall responsible for all administrative matters related to Post operations.

• 2017-18 Director, Personal Growth (PG): This is a 2-year position. There are 4 elected Directors (two elected/re-elected every year) responsible for the 4 major Post program areas: Professional Growth, Professional Development, Leadership & Mentoring, and Relationships. This Director and the elected Director for Professional Development with the help of other applicable Board/Committee members is overall responsible for:

• providing a need-based Post Scholarship program for post-secondary education that includes sponsoring and mentoring of recipients
• organizing professional development meetings/other activities that provide professional development hours (PDHs) for members
• providing Post program(s) that support member credentialing beyond PDHs offered at meetings/activities
• organizing K-12 outreach activities to promote STEM careers
• sponsoring local high school students to SAME E&C Camps or other Post level summer camps
• organizing, sponsoring, co-sponsoring a STEM-based summer camp program
• mentoring and supporting the Post's College Student Chapters
• supporting/assisting with the development of the SAME Foundation in coordination with the SAME National Office
• organizing other activities to further the Personal Growth and Professional Development goals of the SAME Strategic Plan

• 2017-18 Director, Professional Development (PD): This is a 2-year position. This Director and the elected Director for Personal Growth with the help of other applicable Board/Committee members shares overall responsibility for the activities/actions listed above under the Director for Personal Growth. The individual filling this position must be a registered professional engineer or architect or have another related professional registration/license.

More details on how the Post Board is organized and the relationships and responsibilities of the various elected and appointed Board positions is in the Post Bylaws - see the Post website at http://www.same-satx.org.

ELIGIBILITY:

To be eligible to be a candidate for our elections, you MUST:

• Be a current SAME AND San Antonio Post individual member or sustaining/public, academic or non-profit agency member designated representative AND
• If a Post individual member, have the San Antonio Post as your primary Post affiliation AND
• Not be a candidate for or an elected/appointed member of another Post's Board of Direction AND
• If elected, keep your SAME and San Antonio Post membership current during your term AND
• For the Director, Professional Development position, be a regsitered professional enegineer, architect or have another related professional registration/license

These positions do involve a commitment of time. There are Board meetings, Post meetings and work related to your specific activities/areas of responsibilities, which all together involve several hours each month. If you travel frequently as part of your job, it may hinder you from effectively filling a Board position.

APPLYING:

All Post members should consider serving on the Post Board of Direction. We strongly encourage military and other public agency Post members to consider being candidates. The diversity and ideas from your job experience offer great opportunities to improve our operations and to make our activities more relevant to your respective organizations.

To apply simply complete the information in the application above.

QUESTIONS:

Contact the Post POC as indicated at the right