Mountaineers Board Self-Nominations Form 2023

Welcome

Thank you for your interest in The Mountaineers Board of Directors! At The Mountaineers, we believe a diverse and inclusive outdoors inspires unity, respect, and passion for the places we love. We are looking to discover members with a passion for The Mountaineers who bring a diversity of experience, skills, and expertise to help successfully lead our organization.

About the Board of Directors
The board of directors includes at-large directors, who are elected by the members of the organization, branch directors, who are elected by members of the branch they represent, and officers, who are elected by the board. The Governance Committee, chartered by the board of directors in our bylaws, is responsible for recruiting and nominating candidates for at-large board positions.

The Mountaineers board of directors is the governing body accountable for overall operation of the organization, as dictated by our bylaws. The board’s responsibilities include developing and approving the strategic plan, approving the organization’s annual budget and tracking overall financial performance, hiring the CEO, electing the board’s officers, and setting organizational policies and procedures. The board works with the CEO and staff to set the overall direction for the organization through the strategic plan. The board also reviews and approves the annual budget and reviews performance to that budget.

As a board member, you volunteer to steward the future of our organization. You commit to attending meetings (six times/year, with two of those meetings one-two day retreats), and actively participate in ad-hoc work, either as an officer, through committee meetings, by providing virtual support, being an active participant in our philanthropic fundraising efforts, and by attending events. You’d serve a three-year term, with the opportunity for an additional term.

Experience We Seek
We’re looking for people who want to be part of building and expanding the future of The Mountaineers. We seek to have a board that represents the broad diversity of the communities we serve, and we encourage people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, individuals with disabilities, and veterans to apply.

We are specifically looking for individuals with professional experience areas such as:

Capital project management
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Finance, accounting, and audit
Information technology
Legal
Marketing communications, public relations
Pricing strategy development
Project management
Public policy, lobbying, and advocacy
Real estate, hospitality, and property management
Risk management
Strategy development and implementation

Diversifying Our Board
Nonprofit boards too often do not fully represent the community they seek to serve. Our goal is to deepen the diversity of perspectives and lived experiences represented on our board to help inform better policies and to strengthen relationships between board members, Mountaineers members, and the wider outdoor community. The Mountaineers values different perspectives that are shaped by unique lived experiences. Since diversity can mean many different things, we are specifically considering nominees based on dimensions that shape a person's lived experience that include:

Ethnicity and/or race
Gender identity
Age
Disability status
Military status
Sexual orientation
Parent or guardian status
Branch affiliation
Primary activities
Involvement and engagement with The Mountaineers
Leadership and professional experience

We ask for information relating to these dimensions in this form to help further diversify our board and hold ourselves accountable to our strategic plan goals. Providing demographic information is encouraged but optional.