Site Development Manual: Chapter 10

Exhibit 10-1: COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER BOARD MEMBER POSITION DESCRIPTION

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITES:

Human Resources:

1. Board membership (which includes recruiting new board members, recognizing and nurturing existing board members, and providing existing board members with opportunities to grow and develop as leaders).
2. Executive direct accountability (which includes hiring, firing, and ongoing evaluation of the executive director).
3. Personnel policies (which includes establishing policy for salaries, benefits, and grievance procedures).
4. Volunteer involvement (which includes setting policy regarding how volunteers should be used, in what areas, and generally how the organization should treat, recognize, and celebrate its volunteers).

Planning:

1. Setting and reviewing the organization's mission/philosophy and goals.
2. Planning for the organization's future, on a long- and short-range basis.
3. Deciding and planning which services/programs the organization provides.
4. Evaluating the organization's programs and operations on a regular basis.

Finance:

1. Ensuring financial accountability of the organization.
2. Overseeing an ongoing process of budget development, approval, and review.
3. Raising funds and/or ensuring that adequate funds are raised to support the organization's policies and programs.
4. Managing and maintaining properties or investments the organization possesses.

Community Relations:

1. Ensuring that the organization's programs and services appropriately address community/client needs.
2. Marketing the organization's services/programs.
3. Ongoing public relations, (which includes an awareness that board members are always emissaries of the organization in the community).
4. Cooperative action, (which includes occasions when the organization could/should take part in coalitions, joint fundraisings, etc.).

Organizational Operations:

1. Ensuring that the organization's administrative systems are adequate and appropriate.
2. Ensuring that the board's operations are adequate and appropriate.
3. Ensuring that the organizational and legal structures are adequate and appropriate.
4. Ensuring that the organization and its board members meet all applicable legal requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. A demonstrated interest in the agency's service goals.
2. Specific experience and/or knowledge in at least one area; human resources, planning finance, community relations, or organizational operations.
3. Representative of some aspect or segment of the population in the community.
4. A willingness to expand knowledge of board responsibilities through orientation and ongoing education.
5. A willingness to represent the organization to the community.
6. Six to ten hours per month distributed as follows:

3 - 4 Board Meeting - preparation and attendance
2 - 3 Committee Meeting - preparation and attendance
1 - 3 Special Requests
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6 -10 Total