Volunteer Opportunities

Job Overview:   The Monthly Saturday Workshop Series is viewed as an important and affordable professional development offering for the PMI Phoenix Chapter.

Job Duration: Position will be active until December 2008

Job Details:

The Director will be responsible for recruiting speakers for the monthly Saturday Workshop Series from the Arizona business community.  Topics include yet are not limited to the following:   Project Management, Business Analyst, Leadership, Financial Management, .Six Sigma, Procurement, etc.  There are several templates including project schedule, speaker criteria, topic ideas for the Saturday Workshop series management and execution. 

This position is responsible for updating existing procedures based on lessons learned from hosting each Saturday workshop.

This position will be responsible for finding volunteers to host and market the monthly Saturday workshop.

There is budget responsibility with this position.  

Required Skills:

Can do attitude

Preferred Skills:

- Communication is essential to a volunteer organization

- Excellent written and verbal skills

- Good people skills

- Good problem escalation skills

- Access to a computer with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet

- Strong leadership and project management skills

- Ability to participate in area checkpoint conference calls

PDUs:  3 - 7 PDUs/year

Time Commit per Week:  2 -4 hours (may be more for the first 2-3 months)

Team: Professional Development Team

Chapter Level Team:  Professional Development Team

Priority:  1

The PDM (Professional Development Meeting) Blue Ribbon Team is currently accepting applications for 2 volunteers to join this newly created team. If you enjoy meeting and helping people and are willing to go the "extra mile" for the safety and comfort or our Chapter members, particularly before, during, and after the monthly PDM meetings, this may be the job for you.

The charter of this team is to provide special services to our members who attend our PDMs and may need special assistance, for example, watching a member's car during an unloading/loading of material. The goal of the team is to insure that our PDM meetings are safe, friendly, and supportive of all special needs. The team will officially be launched on Jan 1st, 2008, and reports to the Director of PDM Logistics.

Duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Offering assistance to physically disabled members
• Walking members to their cars after the PDM if requested
• Assisting members by working with hotel staff to coordinate towing, battery jumps, etc.
• Understand ballroom layout, location of fire extinguishers, and hotel points of contact
• General observation that all members in the meeting are wearing name badges
• Act as a Chapter liason with the Hotel management, security staff and police
• Provide a presence during the PDM registration process
• During the meeting, be aware of outside weather conditions and provide updates to the Director
• Continually strive for process improvement of the PDM Blue Ribbon Team

Required Skills: Candidates should have:

• Good people skills with emphasis on empathy
• Good intuitive skills and a keen sense of observation

Preferred Skills:  Desire to help make a member's PDM experience a rewarding experience.

PDUs:  0 PDUs/year

Time Commit per Week:  1 hour

Team:  PDM Blue Ribbon Team

Chapter Level Team:  Programs

Job ID:  0125

Category:  Management

Job Title:  Associate Vice President of Programs

Job Description:  The Associate Vice President (AVP) assists the Vice President of Programs in the execution of the Mission of the Programs Team. This position reports directly to the VP of Programs, and in this leadership role, acts as the official back-up for the Vice President of Programs, should the Vice President be unavailable (out-of-town, etc.) or, upon the Vice President's request to take on a specific task or responsibility.

In the absence of the Vice President of Programs, the AVP has overall responsibility and decision-making authority over the Programs Team and all their functions to insure the team is operating effectively and efficiently.  In addition, at times the AVP may be asked by the Vice President to attend a Chapter Board Meeting or to lead a PDM Meeting on his/her behalf.  The position may also incorporate Administrative, Project Management, and Process Improvement tasks.