Board of Directors Elections

Open Positions

Board of Directors

• Senior Vice President (one-year term; automatic succession to one-year term as president-elect followed by one-year term as president)
• Director-At-Large (three-year term)

Requirements

To be eligible for a position on ASSP’s Board of Directors you must be a professional member.

ASSP seeks to develop a Board of Directors that has a strategic combination of demonstrated knowledge skills and abilities, personal attributes, knowledge/expertise and competencies that ensure that our board has a diversity of experiences, perspectives, information, connections, and skills to carry out our mission.

View the required and desired competencies for the 2018-19 Board of Director candidates.

Nominations

Please submit the following materials by Sept. 17, 2018.

• Board of Directors nominations form
• Biography (Limited to 250 words)
• Platform statement addressing your vision for the organization and OSH profession. (Limited to 300 words; senior vice president nominations are limited to 500 words)
• Signed employer letter of support
• Completed conflict of interest statement
• Photo [hi-resolution, small (2 x 3, 300 dpi) or low-resolution, large (8 x 10, 72 dpi]; JPG preferred

All Board of Director elections must be contested (two candidates). ASSP’s Nominations and Elections Committee will keep nominations open past the deadline if we have not received a sufficient number of qualified submissions for an open position.

Board of Director candidates may be asked to participate in a virtual interview process

Resources

• Read Article VI of ASSP’s Bylaws for information on the Board of Directors’ roles and duties
• Read our Society Operating Guideline on accountability for elected ASSP officers
• Read position descriptions for members of ASSP’s Board of Directors

Other Questions?

Please contact ASSP Governance staff.