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Co-Lead the Fellows Program - FULFILLED

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Fellows Program Co-Lead

Serves as a co-Lead for the Fellows Program (2-year term; 1 in training and 1 doing the training so we don’t lose institutional knowledge). The Fellows Team is part of the Membership Committee which meets once per month most months of the year. 

Contact Jeanette Swafford with questions or to express interest in volunteering for this role.

ESSENTIAL TASKS

  • Conducts outreach for Fellows applicants January/February

  • Organizes team interviews and makes offers to applicants March

  • Organizes Fellows Orientation May/June

  • Recruits Mentors for Fellows (with help from other leaders) and orients them to the program March/April

  • Plans quarterly professional development series

  • Organizes the Fellows “graduation” with assistance of second-year Fellows April

  • Attends monthly Membership Committee meetings as appropriate

HELPFUL SKILLS

  • Communication -- in person, by phone, by email, by collaborative software

  • Organization  

  • Collaboration and team building

  • Creativity and Flexibility (responding to the needs of the Fellows which varies)

TECHNOLOGY used is email, telephone, Google Drive/Docs, and Doodle

TIME COMMITMENT 

The busiest time of the year for the Fellows Team is March when it could take 2-5 hours a week depending on how you work and how many people are on the team. Other months it can be <1 hour/week up to 2 hours/week.