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General Responsibilities - Eligibilty for Election
General responsibilities and eligibility for election to UK ICF Board
UK ICF - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (Deadline 30th April)
The value of being a board member
Firstly, you may be interested in what previous board members say they have gained from fulfilling this voluntary role.
- Becoming involved in something outside of my normal environment
- Meet great coaches and those shaping the evolving profession
- Become more involved with the coaching community, and be more aware of what is going on in coaching in the UK
- Connecting with members and organisations that support the ICF
- Involvement in growing the ICF in the UK
- Knowing that in serving our members you are also serving the clients we support
- Using and developing existing skills and/or gaining new ones
- Working as part of a team to make a difference
- Having some fun and expanding your network
What the UK ICF Board is currently focused on
(A copy of the UK ICF Strategy & Goals will be sent for those interested in applying for a role).
The board have a challenging yet exciting set of objectives and work has already started on actions to support their achievement, for example:
- Generating PR (and creating links to media) to raise awareness of coaching, the ICF brand, and value of credentials and credentialed coaches
- Establishing a network of local UK ICF coaching groups and links to non-ICF coaching groups
- Creating events and structures to increase connection with business and coach training providers
- Maintaining the excellent professional development and practice development programmes and carry it into 2008-9
- Continuing the collaboration with other coaching bodies and organisations
The Board also identified other exciting opportunities that during the year may become possible deliverables.
What the Board feels is crucial to its success
Commitment: For each of the Board role descriptions there is an estimate of the level of commitment required. They range from President at 12-14 hours a week to Secretary at 4-6 hours a week. There is a recognition from experience that during the first months a greater commitment is necessary to help form a board team, agree on the priorities and identify the resources. In addition there will be six face to face and six telephone conference Board Meetings per year.
Many of the priorities can only be delivered by the board working as a team as well as the individual members adopting a 'can do' attitude in what they have committed to deliver.
Resource: UK ICF's current budget means that only a limited number of priorities can be resourced. The Board, therefore, has to be inventive relying on volunteers, other contacts and resources and fund raising to make things happen.
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ELIGIBILITY FOR ELECTION
As a voluntary group, the UK ICF Board of Directors works with limited resources and plays a vital leadership role in engaging with members and seeking appropriate resources and support from ICF's headquarters team to deliver its objectives and to support the sustained growth and development of professional coaching and the ICF in the UK.
The ability to engage and motivate members in supporting various initiatives is an important aspect of the leadership role played by individual directors. There has been significant progress in the last year or so in building support groups amongst members.
Here is the more detailed information to help you determine which, if you would like to play on the UK ICF Board of Directors.
Important – From Jan 2009 all UK ICF Board Directors will be legal directors of UK ICF.
- All Board Members will be practicing coaches. In addition, for some positions, they will be able to document a successful, sustained coaching practice, with fewer than 50% of their clients being coaches.
- All Board Members will be able to attend at least 6 90-minute telephone board meeting (pre-scheduled) and 6 face-to-face meetings (typically in Central London) each year.
- All Board Members, will be ICF Credentialed or can show they are actively working towards credentialing.
- All Board Members will agree to the guidelines for Board Membership detailed below.
- All Board Members will agree to uphold high standards of coaching, and model high standards and ethics to the wider membership, and the profession at large. As part of this modelling, all board members must have a coach of their own.
- The job description for each post indicates the eligibility criteria where appropriate.
- Board Members can apply for re-election to voting posts for a maximum of four years. Board Members may not serve in voting posts for more than five consecutive years. No Board Member who has served for that maximum period will be eligible for re-election until at least two years have passed.
- The Board currently consists of the following posts:
President
President-Elect
Finance Director
Board Secretary
Director of Membership
Director of Professional Development
Director of Brand Development
Director of Credentialing & Ethics
Director of ACTP Partnerships
- The immediate Past President will also serve on the Board, as a non-voting member, for one year and act as mentor to the President and the Board.
- In addition, the Board will be supported by paid administrative staff who will also carry out the member support, secretarial and book-keeping function for the Board.
- The time commitment indicated for each role description below is the realistic estimate of the average involvement spread across the year. Some weeks it may be more, other weeks less.
- The responsibilities of the President and the President-elect, whilst listed separately below, may well be shared across both roles and the Past-President role.
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