Chair-Elect Position

Chair-elect is an elected position of the section leadership team. Chair-elect transitions into the position of section chair into the following section year. Chair-elect is primarily responsible for Quality Management Process (QMP) which lays the foundation for section’s operations and budget. QMP is the process for planning and implementation of services and programs to meet the needs of our section’s current and future members. It is simply a management process that emphasizes the importance of:
 

• Assessing member needs and expectations.
• Developing an annual business plan and operating budget.
• Measuring the Member Units performance.  
• Combining the Society’s goals of increased member satisfaction, loyalty, and retention with the Member unit’s own goals, QMP encourages Member Units to continually measure, address, and improve customer satisfaction by incremental improvement. QMP also recognizes Member Units for performance (based on results) through two awards:
  
• Quality Excellence Award
• Total Quality Award 

The requirements for receiving recognition include meeting the Member Unit minimum requirements, developing and implementing a Member Unit annual business plan, operating budget, meeting all the QMP deadlines, and showing improvement on specific measures.

• Must be a Full, Senior, or Fellow member in good standing affiliated with the section.
• Must have basic knowledge of society bylaws, policies, and procedures, and section operations.
• Must be willing to provide contact information for Society and section business purposes.
• Must be willing to provide e-mail address to headquarters for communication.
• Must possess leadership, management and organizational skills.