Membership Director

The Membership Director is one of the twelve members of the Board of Directors. Their mission is to ensure members feel part of the DVS community.

Duties according to Bylaws

1. Set strategy for ensuring members feel part of the DVS community
2. Create and maintain a structure that enables the creation of community initiatives such as self-organizing teams and focus groups.
3. Define local affiliated groups and manage the addition and continued involvement of each group
4. Manage member spaces and platforms, creating spaces for mutual support and critique
5. Respond to membership questions and suggestions
6. Manage membership database
7. Create structures that help to support members getting more involved with DVS
8. Manage committee recruitment
9. Manage Membership Committee

Tasks

• Enable creation of community initiatives / self-organizing teams/focus groups
• Define local affiliated groups, and manage the addition and continued involvement of each group
• Highlight members
• Iterate on membership fee structure, keeping inclusivity in mind.
• Facilitate critique and mutual support among the membership
• Managing member spaces/platforms
• Managing Committee recruitment
• Responding to membership admin questions
• Manage membership database
• Support the growth of members into leadership positions within DVS

Guiding Questions

• How do we make sure that members feel a part of the community?
• How do we ensure the community is healthy? And if not, how do we fix that?
• How do people know about membership?
• How do members get more involved with DVS initiatives?
• Do we have the right membership fee structures?
• How do we highlight members?