STAFF LIAISON - JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsibilities

Provides a National office perspective to group work.
- Brings knowledge of AACN activities and initiatives.
- Collaborates with chairperson and board liaison on group outcomes, agenda items, etc.
- Communicates information on pertinent issues or trends, which may impact group activities.
- Demonstrates knowledge of how the project is affected by, or affects, other AACN initiatives.
Assures operational support to the group.
- Provides input on available resources.
- Assures orientation of members to operational activities (e.g. expense reporting, travel arrangement).
- Assures that agenda, minutes, correspondence and proposals are created, distributed and responded to appropriately.
  - Assures that all meeting minutes are completed and disseminated within 3 weeks following the meeting.
- Actively prepares background information, including retrieval and analysis.
- Assures financial analysis and budget development of cost-effective options for projects.
- Facilitates meeting logistics.
- Provides feedback to chair, board liaison and group members as appropriate.
- Orients group members to annual evaluation process.
- Jointly conducts annual evaluation of group chair in collaboration with the Board Liaison.
- Jointly conducts annual evaluation of Chair along with Board Liaison.
- Submits leadership references for any current and/or past committee members applying for leadership positions.
Assures the group selection process is effectively implemented.
- Assures appropriate applicant information is provided to chairperson and Board liaison.
- Consults with chairperson and Board liaison regarding group needs and member qualifications.
- Orients chair to selection process.
Foster a collaborative working environment between the Staff Liaison, Board Liaison and Chair.
- Collaborate on development of charges for the group and forward recommended charges to the Board for approval.
- Develop all conference call and meeting agendas.
- Monitor progress of volunteer groups towards achieving the approved charges.
- Identify potential chairs for coming year, communicate with them accordingly and forward recommendation to President-Elect.
- Conduct the application review and if needed the interview process for group members for the coming year and forward recommendations to the President-Elect.
- Communicates regularly regarding the progress of the group and jointly resolves any challenges that may impede the group's progress.
- Jointly identifies potential chairs for coming year, communicates with them as needed and forwards recommendations to the President-Elect.
- Jointly conduct review of applications, interviews prospective group members as needed and forwards recommendations to the President-Elect.