Nominations for the 2024 Election of TAICEP Leadership | Positions beginning in January 2025
NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN! Click HERE for the nominations form!
General information:
- Nominees must be TAICEP members
- All positions, except President-elect, require a two-year commitment
- Term of office begins on January 1, 2025 and ends on December 31, 2027
- Committee chair-elects becomes the committee chairs the 2nd year
- President has a 3-year term: 1st year as president-elect, 2nd year as president, and 3rd year as past-president
- TAICEP leaders are NOT required to attend the annual conference
- TAICEP does not provide funds for TAICEP leaders to attend the annual conference
- The Board of Directors meets 2 times every month via Zoom
- Committee chairs meet with the Board of Directors 4 times a year via Zoom and regularly with the vice president responsible for their committee
Board of Directors Positions:
President-elect
- Shadows, supports and learns from current TAICEP president in preparation for assuming the role of president the following year
- Assumes the duties of the TAICEP president should he or she not be able to do so
- Special note on this position: the TAICEP president is occasionally asked to represent TAICEP at other conferences or events; the President-elect may be asked to be a substitute if the President is unable to attend the conference or approved event; TAICEP covers all costs involved
- Time commitment: 4-5 hours per week
Treasurer
- Oversees the management and reporting of TAICEP’s annual budget
- Prepares budgets and annual reports in conjunction with the Executive Director
- Ensures that audit and tax documents are prepared and filed by deadlines
- Has signatory authority for tax and financial purposes
- Special note on this position: familiarity with Quick Books accounting software is desirable, but not necessary; familiarity with US accounting practices and tax filing is
very helpful for this position - Time commitment: 1-2 hours per week
Secretary
- Takes minutes of all meetings, including Board of Directors and Board of Directors + committee chairs meetings
- Distributes the minutes in a timely manner after each meeting
- Schedules and sends out notices of meetings
- Takes minutes of the business meeting at the annual conference
- Special note on this position: because all meetings are conducted in English, the Secretary must be comfortable with writing in English
- Time commitment: 2 hours per week
Vice President of Professional Development
- Acts as the Board of Directors liaison to the Committee on Professional Development
- Meets regularly with the Chair of the Committee on Professional Development individually and with the Committee as a whole
- Provides leadership on TAICEP professional development and training opportunities for members
- Time commitment: 3-5 hours per month
Vice President of Standards and Quality
- Acts as the Board of Directors liaison to the Committee on Standards and Quality
- Meets regularly with the Chair of the Committee on Standards and Quality individually and with the Committee as a whole
- Provides leadership on credential evaluation standing on a global level
- Provides leadership on the global digital student data ecosystem
- Time commitment: 4-5 hours per week
Director-at-Large and Chair of Collaborative Relations and External Funding
- Establishes and nurtures strategic relationships that advance the mission of TAICEP
- Pursues, establishes and nurtures professional alliances with like organizations that are beneficial to TAICEP and its goals
- Heads fundraising efforts to ensure TAICEP’s viability and stability
- Creates and maintains an annual fundraising plan and budget
- Identifies and sets a timeline and goals for fundraising
- Time commitment: 10-12 hours per month
Committee Chair-Elect Positions:
Committee for Membership Outreach and Engagement
Together with the Vice President for Membership Outreach and Engagement and the committee chair,
- Develops and executes membership growth and retention strategies
- Develops member engagement initiatives
- Time commitment: 2-5 hours per week
Committee for Professional Development
Together with the Vice President of Professional Development and the committee chair,
- Identifies potential professional development programs and services based on topics and trends
- Organizes TAICEP’s webinar offerings
- Works with the Conference Committee to review annual conference workshop and session proposals
- Time commitment: 2-5 hours a week with more time required at during conference and webinar planning periods
Committee for Resources and Knowledge Management Chair-elect
Together with the Vice President of Resources and Knowledge Management and the committee chair,
- Provide and manage useful, up-to-date resources to assist credential evaluation professionals in their daily work, and to promote knowledge in the field. Committee-wide tasks include: TAICEP Talk Newsletter, Country and Regional Database, Glossary of Terms, Job Board, and Verification Database
- Time commitment: 2-5 hours per week on average
Committee for Standards and Quality Chair-elect
Together with the Vice President of Standards and Quality and the committee chair,
- Identifies trends to advance knowledge of credentials evaluation
- Develops credential evaluation standards, frameworks and processes
- Time commitment: 2-5 hours per week
Conference Committee Chair-Elect
Together with the committee chair and executive director:
- Provides leadership for the annual conference
- Reviews workshop and session proposals
- Establishes conference schedule
- Prepares conference venue prior to beginning of annual conference
- Supervises conference planning team
- Special note on this position: must attend the annual conference as the chair-elect and then as the chair the following year
- Time commitment: 3-5 hours per week; 10+ hours per week in the 6–8-week period before the beginning of the conference