Leadership Principles, Roles and Expectations Guidelines
AEA Community Psychology Topical Interest Group
Updated September 2014
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TIG Leadership Principles
In – line with the values of community psychology and the ethical standards of evaluation practice.
- Organizational learning: knowledge acquired by each year’s leadership cadre is passed on to subsequent leadership cadres; knowledge acquired by each leader is shared with other leaders.
- Collegial dialogue, discussion and debate take place within the TIG leadership, between the TIG leaders and AEA, between TIG leaders and TIG members, and with other TIGs and organizations.
- Reflection and action foster continuous learning.
- Collaboration: TIG leaders actively collaborate with each other on all aspects of TIG business and operations for the purpose of shared decision – making.
- Involvement: TIG leaders seek the active and meaningful involvement of all TIG members.
- Leadership capacity building: incumbents help new co – chair, program co – chair, and webmaster acquire the skills needed to take on leadership roles for the following year, and help build the capacity of TIG members interested in taking on leadership roles in the future.
- Evolution: TIG leaders serve on the leadership for three years: a two-year term in their position, plus one year on the leadership council so that interested TIG members have an opportunity to take on leadership roles and help to evolve the TIG.
- Review of leadership roles and expectations: conducted on a regular basis or more frequently if need arises, as determined by each leadership cadre to determine if the status quo is sufficient or changes are necessary.
Roles and Expectations
TIG Co – chairs
Term: Three years (Two years as co – chair plus one year on Leadership Council)
- Communicates and liaisons/collaborates with the AEA office.
- Drafts emails to TIG members and sends them out upon the consensus of the other TIG leaders.
- Schedules and facilitates TIG conference calls.
- Drafts conference call agendas and sends out final agendas upon the consensus of the other TIG leaders.
- Actively and meaningfully participate in 2/3rds of TIG conference calls and share in decision-making.
- Drafts conference call minutes and sends out final minutes upon the consensus of the other TIG leaders.
- Responds to requests by the AEA office as appropriate and necessary.
- Responds to requests by other TIGS and professional organizations as appropriate and necessary.
- Liaisons with other TIGS (e.g., Systems TIG, Independent Consulting TIG) and professional organizations (e.g., SCRA).
- New co – chair learns from the incumbent during the first year and uses that knowledge upon becoming the incumbent during the second year.
- Co – chair incumbent transitions to the Leadership Council at the completion of a two year term in that capacity.
- Contributes to professional community psychology and evaluation scholarship through development and submission of TIG related conference presentation proposals, chairing conference sessions, serving as a session discussant, serving as a session panelist, or writing AEA365 blogs on any aspect of the relationship between evaluation and community psychology.
- Approximately 2 hours per month, with a range of 2 hours (in slower times) to 6 hours (in busier times).
Program Co – chairs
Term: Three years (Two years as program co – chair plus one year on Leadership Council)
- Coordinates the TIG’s conference program for AEA.
- Sends out the call for proposals to TIG members.
- Solicits reviewers for proposals submitted to the TIG.
- Organizes the review process.
- Takes the lead in making the final determination on which proposals are accepted based upon reviewer feedback.
- Communicates CP TIG convention program to the AEA office.
- Periodically reviews and revises the operations manual (?) as necessary.
- Incumbent co-chair offers training and guidance to new program co – chairs upon their joining the TIG leadership.
- New program co – chair learns from the incumbent during the first year and uses that knowledge upon becoming the incumbent during the second year.
- Incumbent co-chair transitions to the Leadership Council at the completion of a two year term in that capacity.
- Contributes to professional community psychology and evaluation scholarship through development and submission of TIG related conference presentation proposals, chairing conference sessions, serving as a session discussant, serving as a session panelist, or writing AEA365 blogs on any aspect of the relationship between evaluation and community psychology.
- Actively and meaningfully participate in 2/3rds of TIG conference calls and share in decision-making.
- Approximately 2 hours a month, with a range of 1 to 20 hours per month, depending on the season.
- See this link for more information about timing and tasks: http://tinyurl.com/ComPsychTIGAEA
Co - Webmasters
Term: Three years (Two years as co – webmaster plus one year on Leadership Council)
- Takes part in AEA provided website development and maintenance training.
- Collaborates with other TIG leaders to determine website content.
- Liaisons with other TIGs and professional organizations to cross – post information relevant to the interests of the TIG.
- Develops TIG website.
- Maintains TIG website.
- Updates TIG website with new web content as agreed upon by TIG leadership.
- Assists in the transition of new co – webmasters prior to the completion of their term.
- Co – Webmasters transition to the Leadership Council at the completion of a two year term in that capacity.
- Contributes to professional community psychology and evaluation scholarship through development and submission of TIG related conference presentation proposals, chairing conference sessions, serving as a session discussant, serving as a session panelist, or writing AEA365 blogs on any aspect of the relationship between evaluation and community psychology.
- Actively and meaningfully participate in 2/3rds of TIG conference calls and share in decision-making.
- Approximately 2 hours a month, with a range of 2 to 4 hours per month.
Leadership Council
Term: Three Years (May include two – year tenure in a leadership position plus one year on Leadership Council or three years exclusively on the Leadership Council)
- Serves in an advisory capacity to TIG leaders regarding organizational knowledge and memory.
- Assists in AEA conference proposal review and provides feedback on proposed CP TIG AEA Conference programming
- Takes on tasks as necessary and beneficial to the TIG (e.g., updating TIG documents and assisting in newsletter development).
- Contributes to professional community psychology and evaluation scholarship through development and submission of TIG related conference presentation proposals, chairing conference sessions, serving as a session discussant, serving as a session panelist, or writing AEA365 blogs on any aspect of the relationship between evaluation and community psychology.
- Actively and meaningfully participate in 2/3rds of TIG conference calls and share in decision-making.
- Approximately one hour a month, with a range of one to three hours per month.