Call for Candidates for NAQC Board of Directors
Monday, February 3, 2014
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Call for
Candidates for NAQC Board of Directors
All submissions
areneeded by Friday, February 28!
On behalf of NAQC’s Board of Directors and the Nomination Committee, I am
soliciting your recommendations for candidates for the NAQC Board of Directors.
NAQC members submitted terrific candidates in previous years and we were
able to add excellent directors to the board as a result. Thank you for
your participation in shaping NAQC’s future!
We are counting on you to help us find outstanding candidates again this year.
All NAQC members may submit candidate names.You are welcome to recommend
names of candidates whom you nominated in past years as well.
Please send all
recommendations for candidates to Chad Morris, Chair of the Nomination
Committee, c/o Board@naquitline.org by Friday, February 28.For
each person you would like to recommend, please provide the following
information:
1. Full name, contact
information and brief resume for the person;
2. Your rationale for
recommending this person as a candidate; and
3. Confirmation that you
have spoken to the person and know that s/he is willing to have her/his name
put forward to the Nomination Committee for consideration.
This year, we will be electing up to 3 new directors. It is our intention to
put forward up to 5 names to the membership for election. The Board chose this
approach to allow for a meaningful vote without invoking undue
competition.
The board is responsible for setting NAQC’s strategic direction, connecting
with its members and ensuring NAQC’s advancement and sustainability.
During the next few years
quitlines will experience many changes in the populations served, technology
used, and approaches to sustainability. NAQC seeks candidates for the board who
are innovative "difference makers” and who can help guide us through the
changes ahead.
Candidates for the board should have senior level experience, possess
leadership skills, be strategic thinkers and display professional and collegial
demeanor. Board members do not represent their employer or any specific
constituency, but instead work together to create a global vision for NAQC. The
board seeks members who are committed to NAQC’s mission and values, contribute
diverse viewpoints and cultural experiences, and have expertise in some of the
areas listed below:
- Finance: The Board is responsible
for financial oversight of the organization, and seeks candidates with
expertise in this area. Currently, there are no CPAs or MBAs on the Board.
- Relationships with health plans
and employers: Engaging private health plans and employers has become
an important activity for quitlines. The board would benefit from a member
who has relationships in these sectors.
- Addressing priority
populations: Addressing disparities in health is a key
objective for NAQC. We seek candidates with an expertise and background in
cultural knowledge and experience in reaching priority populations.
- Making quitlines sustainable: Ensuring quitline
sustainability is a key objective for NAQC. Recently, government funding
for quitlines and tobacco control programs has been decreasing. NAQC seeks
candidates who offer strategic leadership on new approaches to
sustainability planning for quitlines, including public-private
partnerships and integration of quitlines in health systems.
- Understanding issues related to
organizational sustainability for NAQC: Ensuring sustainability of the
organization is a key responsibility of the Board. NAQC seeks candidates
who offer strategic leadership in fundraising and working with donor
and/or grant-making organizations.
- Policy governance of a
not-for-profit organization: Experience on a non-profit
board is extremely helpful to candidates. NAQC follows a policy governance
model developed by John Carver which focuses on business issues and
strategic leadership. The Board does not focus on program development;
this responsibility is delegated to staff.
Board members are elected for three-year terms
and can be reelected once. The annual time commitment for board members
includes four meetings (1-2 in-person meetings for 1.5 days and 2-3 via
conference call), plus meeting preparation time, travel time and 10-20 hours of
committee work.
Next Steps: After
the February 28 deadline, the Nomination Committee will review all suggested
candidates, may follow up with selected individuals for additional information,
and will propose a slate of nominees to the full Board of Directors at the next
Board meeting. After approval of the slate, the nominees then stand for
election by the NAQC membership. A single representative from each
organizational member of NAQC is eligible to vote. The election will be
conducted online from May 30 – June 13. The new directors will be
announced in August.
If you have questions, please contact Chad Morris, Chair of the Nomination Committee,
at Board@naquitline.org or
Linda Bailey, President
and CEO, at lbailey@naquitline.org. You
can find a list of board members here and detailed information on the election
process here.
Thank you for your time and effort to participate in this important activity.
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