Regional Directors

[AGDee]

I'm afraid the structure and terminology is so different that I can't figure out what our version of "Regional Directors" would be. Our paid Headquarters staff consists of an Executive Director, accounting personnel, Director of Chapter Services, Chapter Services Coordinators, communications staff to write our Quarterly, maintain the website, etc. They are primarily the business end of things but some assist in chapter issues if required/needed. Not all of them are members.. some are even men. There are between 5-7 traveling consultants who are new grads, usually first year out of college, highly trained in conducting recruitment and officer training. Our "board" equivalent is International Council.. our International President and 5 Vice Presidents. They are elected and volunteer. Reporting to them are Directors and Standing Committee Chairman. Each director and committee chair reports to a particular International Council member. Some of the director positions include recruitment, chapter development, alumnae development, member development, finance, etc. Each of those directors has a team with a "middle management" layer for "Areas" (we have 10 Areas in the US and Canada.. mine consists of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan). So for Chapter Development, we have 10 Area Coordinators. Each Area Coordinator has 4 Province Directors who report to her. Province Directors work closely with Chapter Presidents and the Chapter Advisor. We are the ones who get the chapter (alumnae and collegiate) reports, read through them, make suggestions, give kudos for good stuff, monitor for things that just don't sound right, etc. The Province Director is basically the resource person for the chapters. The Area Coordinator is the resource person for the PDs and acts as PD if a position is vacant. However, each Area also has finance specialists, house association specialists, recruitment specialists and alum development specialists. The Area Coordinator and Province Director lead the team that works with the same group of chapters.

All of those, from International Council to Province Directors/specialists are volunteers. Then each chapter has advisors who work directly with them, attend their exec board meetings, etc.

It's a pretty massive volunteer structure. I have no idea which of these people perform the kinds of duties that a Regional Director would Changes were made in processes years ago to reduce the liability for volunteers.

[preciousjeni]

Our RDs are all volunteers. They are members of the National Board of Directors, which is composed of the National Executive Board and the National Directors.

RDs are like Presidents/Governors of their regions and they handle all administrative functions for members and chapters. The National E-Board handles strategic planning and implementation, and policy setting primarily.

Each RD has a leadership team/cabinet that does much of the hands-on work and direct chapter officer oversight.

For me, as an RD, it's like I have a second full-time job. I'm available to all the members and chapters in the region 24-hours a day. I have no office hours. lol

We do not have any paid staff.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I'm afraid the structure and terminology is so different that I can't figure out what our version of "Regional Directors" would be. Our paid Headquarters staff consists of an Executive Director, accounting personnel, Director of Chapter Services, Chapter Services Coordinators, communications staff to write our Quarterly, maintain the website, etc. They are primarily the business end of things but some assist in chapter issues if required/needed. Not all of them are members.. some are even men. There are between 5-7 traveling consultants who are new grads, usually first year out of college, highly trained in conducting recruitment and officer training. Our "board" equivalent is International Council.. our International President and 5 Vice Presidents. They are elected and volunteer. Reporting to them are Directors and Standing Committee Chairman. Each director and committee chair reports to a particular International Council member. Some of the director positions include recruitment, chapter development, alumnae development, member development, finance, etc. Each of those directors has a team with a "middle management" layer for "Areas" (we have 10 Areas in the US and Canada.. mine consists of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan). So for Chapter Development, we have 10 Area Coordinators. Each Area Coordinator has 4 Province Directors who report to her. Province Directors work closely with Chapter Presidents and the Chapter Advisor. We are the ones who get the chapter (alumnae and collegiate) reports, read through them, make suggestions, give kudos for good stuff, monitor for things that just don't sound right, etc. The Province Director is basically the resource person for the chapters. The Area Coordinator is the resource person for the PDs and acts as PD if a position is vacant. However, each Area also has finance specialists, house association specialists, recruitment specialists and alum development specialists. The Area Coordinator and Province Director lead the team that works with the same group of chapters.

All of those, from International Council to Province Directors/specialists are volunteers. Then each chapter has advisors who work directly with them, attend their exec board meetings, etc.

It's a pretty massive volunteer structure. I have no idea which of these people perform the kinds of duties that a Regional Director would Changes were made in processes years ago to reduce the liability for volunteers.

This is pretty much the way Gamma Phi Beta is set up, too. The organization really functions through volunteers.