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PMISV Chapter Board of Directors

Election Nominations

Dear Members,
 
 
It is again time to conduct the elections for the Chapter’s Board of Directors. Based on our chapter’s current Chapter Bylaws, we need to nominate individuals who will serve in our Chapter's five member Board of Directors:
 
1) President: The role of the President is to be the chief officer of the Chapter.  The President chairs Board meetings, is the principal point of contact to PMI.org, and is responsible for the overall health and direction of the Chapter.  The President is responsible for educational and community outreach, Marketing and social media, and Member Services.

 

2) Vice President Administration: The VP Administration keeps the records of all Silicon Valley PMI Chapter business matters (except those relating to finance), interfaces with the PMI GOC, and manages the reporting of chapter business metrics.  The VP Administration also manages core IT infrastructure and Volunteer Services.

 

3) Vice President Finance: The VP Finance oversees the management of funds and financial matters for the Chapter. 

 

4) Vice President Operations: The VP Operations leads the operations of the Silicon Valley PMI Chapter. This position oversees Program and Workshop events, Event website Marketing, Operations Process Improvements, Speakers Bureau, and Event Facilities management.
 

5) Vice President Strategy: The VP Finance ensures continuity and sustainability of operations and overall transition of activities across PMI-SV board members between two calendar years. 

 

The above five officers will serve on next year’s PMI-SV chapter's Board. All the Elected officers will have a term that begins on January 1, 2022, and ends on December 31, 2022 except VP-Strategy, whose term will run from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.

All PMISV members in good standing are eligible for self-nomination. Members who are PMP certified and those having prior volunteer service within the chapter are preferred. Certain Board positions (such as President, Finance, Strategy) have specific requirements. Final slate of eligibility conditions regarding volunteering, etc. will be decided by the Nomination committee in accordance with the chapter by-laws.  If you are interested in serving the chapter next year as a member of the board, please log into the membership area of the chapter website to review the 2022 Election Process description. The online nomination form, position descriptions and other useful information are located there. If you wish to be considered for more than one role, please fill out a form for each. Nominations are open now, and will remain open until Friday, October 14th 2021.
 
General qualifications: All nominees are required to have the following experience and education:
  1. Three (3) continuous years of chapter membership, as an active volunteer, in a chapter leadership position(s) in PMI-SV, and is a current PMI member of good standing
  2. Must hold a 4-year college degree.
  3. Must have 4,500 hours of leading and directing projects.
  4. Must have 35 hours of formal project management education.
  5. Must reside or work within the area of PMI-SV’s core operations, defined as within a 25-mile radius of Mountain View, CA.
  6. Must not travel greater than 20% of the normal workweek.
  7. The President must be past Board member of PMI-SV, serving at least one full term of office
  8. Must not have been subjected to any sort of disciplinary action by PMI-SV; PMI or any of the PMI Chapters
 
Specific officer qualification: Each position has its own specific requirements, which have not been included in the name of brevity. The Nominations Committee will provide them, if you express an interest.
 
Click here to access the online Nomination Form.
 

As with our elections for 2021 board members conducted in 2020, we will be conducting this year's elections also electronically. Watch for voting information in the next several weeks!

Thanks,
 
Thiru Varadadesigan
VP-Strategy
2021-22 PMI-SV Board member 

 

Last Date for submitting Nomination is extended until "today": 11/04/2021