District Leadership Committee Member

Responsibilities

• Identify and seek out qualified candidates for each elected position
• Meet regularly to assess candidates, and complete the selection process on the bylaws’ timeline
• Confirm each candidate meets the qualifications, and review the duties of the role with them in detail
• Interview candidates (each is interviewed by at least two members) and evaluate them using the Candidate Evaluation and District Officer Competencies documents
• Vote in writing; a candidate needs a majority vote of the committee to be nominated
• Keep the committee’s deliberations and votes confidential, and declare any conflict of interest
• Don’t campaign for or endorse any candidate for district office

What you’ll gain

• Help choose the candidates who will lead the district
• Practise interviewing and independent judgment

Who we’re looking for

• An active, paid member
• Represent one division; every division is represented equally, and no member represents more than one
• Not the District Director, Program Quality Director or Club Growth Director
• Not an International Officer or Director candidate, a Board Member, a Region Advisor or a Region Advisor applicant
• You may be appointed again only after a year off the committee
• You can’t be nominated or run from the floor for any district office in the program year after the election the committee reports to
• Complete a Committee Member Agreement before the committee begins its work

How this role is filled

Appointed by the committee chair, with the District Director’s approval, by 1 December.