What Being A Board Member Means
Board members are the support system of this organization. With goals so big, we need immense organization and leadership to accomplish anything. That's why we are calling you to apply to be a board member of The Young Writers Initiative!
Being a board member means that you get to be part of a great team of passionate people who want to make a change in the world. It also means that you will grow your leadership skills, meet new people, put in hard work, and grow this organization so it can help all the young writers out there.
If you are interested in applying for a board, read the following guidelines, information, and requirements.
Available Positions
Beta Reading External Director
Public Relations Director
Education Director
Engagement Director
Executive Intern
Administrative Intern
Marketing Intern
Beta Reading External Director: The beta reading program is one of TYWI's oldest programs. Our previous beta reading director external has been promoted. This position entails the following.
Interested? Apply HERE
Public Relations Director: Our newest addition to our Marketing Department. The PR Director deals with a couple things.
Education Director: The Education Director handles our IG Live Workshops, our volunteer workshops, our summer programs, and our lesson plans for our local workshops! It's a pretty intense job, but it's fully worth it. Education is such an important pillar to our mission, so we really value you! Of course, if you need help, we'll be glad to lend a hand, but you do need to be well versed in education and have a good amount of time to fulfil the responsibilities of this role.
Interested? Apply HERE
Engagement Director: This is the funnest role by far! TYWI wants to add more things than benfits and hours to being involved. Instead, we're creating a community. And engagement director will do the following:
Interested? Apply HERE
INTERNS: Interns are vital parts of our organization, and will likely be promoted if they show excellence
Interested? Apply HERE
Variety of Departments
Executive Board: The Executive Board currently consists of the Executive, Creative, and Technology Director.
Services Department: The service board is composed of our editing, beta reading, book reviewing, and cover designing services.
Marketing Department: This department deals with marketing. This includes our two marketing directors, our PR director, and Engagement Director
Education Department: This will be composed of the education director and the publications director.
Board of Graphic Design and Art: The board of graphic design and art deals with artistic submissions to our literary journal. They also handle the editing and reviewing of comics and other forms of artistic digital writing. They should appease any issues with the group and properly vet or review artistic submissions.
Commitment
Being a board member is an honorable, yet tasking job. It requires responsibility and dedication to the organization. Please do not apply if you do not have 4-5 hours a week at least to spend for The Young Writers Initiative. Also realize that resigning as a board member will require one weeks notice. Being a board member will look good on resumes, college applications, and will provide you with valuable leadership skills. The Executive Director will gladly award you with recomendation letters and such.
Communication
Staying in contact is a very important aspect of this organization. For these reasons, you will be required to download/access Slack and Discord, our team management platforms! Both are mandatary.
Asana will also be a method for us to keep track of projects. It is mandatory if you have access to it.
Temporary Break Policy
We understand things happen, so we are very giving with our break policy. All we ask of you is this: communicate with us.
Removal from position
If you do not respond to any communication for two weeks without notice, you will be removed from the position.If you are unable to complete your job at the standard we uphold, we will give you a warning before removing you. If you behaved inappropriately or rudely to fellow board members, volunteers, or clients, you will be removed. Removal will erase all of your service points and benefits.
Application Process
The application is extensive, so we recommend that you take some time on it. We will actually read these and pick board members carefully.
Board members are the support system of this organization. With goals so big, we need immense organization and leadership to accomplish anything. That's why we are calling you to apply to be a board member of The Young Writers Initiative!
Being a board member means that you get to be part of a great team of passionate people who want to make a change in the world. It also means that you will grow your leadership skills, meet new people, put in hard work, and grow this organization so it can help all the young writers out there.
If you are interested in applying for a board, read the following guidelines, information, and requirements.
Available Positions
Beta Reading External Director
Public Relations Director
Education Director
Engagement Director
Executive Intern
Administrative Intern
Marketing Intern
Beta Reading External Director: The beta reading program is one of TYWI's oldest programs. Our previous beta reading director external has been promoted. This position entails the following.
- Receiving and processing beta reading requests
- Pairing beta readers with the client.
- Moderating the volunteer-client relationship by sending out the assignments, staying in contact with client, asking both sides for feedback and thoughts.
- Constantly aiming to improve the program with volunteer and client feedback.
- Self Motivated
- Organizational skills
- Good with dates
- Professional email writing
- Client dealings
- Volunteer management
- Problem Solving
- Innovative
- Leadership
Interested? Apply HERE
Public Relations Director: Our newest addition to our Marketing Department. The PR Director deals with a couple things.
- Reaching out to papers, publications, and press to promote TYWI's reach
- Reaching out and communicating with partners
- Reaching out and communicating to potential sponsors
- Working with partners and companies that want to work with TYWI
- Professional yet approachable business outreach
- Well versed in the writing industry
- Clear communication skills
- Sociable and fun to work with
- Experienced in outreach
- Skilled at persuasion
- Self Motivated
Education Director: The Education Director handles our IG Live Workshops, our volunteer workshops, our summer programs, and our lesson plans for our local workshops! It's a pretty intense job, but it's fully worth it. Education is such an important pillar to our mission, so we really value you! Of course, if you need help, we'll be glad to lend a hand, but you do need to be well versed in education and have a good amount of time to fulfil the responsibilities of this role.
- Accept and organize IG Live workshops
- During the summer, their focus will be on the summer program
- Manage teacher volunteers
- Create/monitor lesson plans
- Manage education volunteers
- Connect with schools and educational departments
- Dedication
- Time Management
- Willing to commit at least 4-5 hours per week to the role
- Good with kids
- Volunteer Management
- Well Versed in Lesson Plan Development
- Communication skills
- Organization and Collaboration with the rest of the board
- Self motivated
Interested? Apply HERE
Engagement Director: This is the funnest role by far! TYWI wants to add more things than benfits and hours to being involved. Instead, we're creating a community. And engagement director will do the following:
- Moderate and engage the Community Writing Slack
- Organize team bonding events for directors and volunteers
- Collect feedback and data
- Create fun games and events
- Community awards and activities, like "volunteer of the month"
- MUST be sociable
- Creative engagement ideas
- Really fun and great to work with!
- Good with tasks
- Self Motivated
- Patient and kind
- High Emotional Quotient (EQ)
Interested? Apply HERE
INTERNS: Interns are vital parts of our organization, and will likely be promoted if they show excellence
- Executive Intern: Shadows the Executive Director, learns valuable leadership skills, learns adminastrative skills, files information, organizes drives, update guidelines, documents events/projects, and more.
- Skills:
- Dedication
- Knack for leadership
- Helping hand
- Open to advice and information
- Easy to work with
- Eager to learn
- Desire to learn administrative tactics
- Skills:
- Administrative Intern: Updates Guidelines, keeps record and account of events, documents transactions and deals, addresses client or volunteer general concerns, updates website.
- Skills:
- Well organized
- Not a procrastinator
- Self Motivated
- Team Worker
- Willing to float and help where needed
- Develop and update guidelines
- Documentation skills
- Record keeping
- Proactive
- Skills:
- Marketing Intern: Works under the Marketing Directors, helps out with what is needed, manages some social media, willing to learn in-and outs of marketing
- Skills:
- Social Media Marketing
- Deadlines
- Email Marketing
- Willing to learn
- Committed
- Outreach and research skills
- Flexible to help with anything in the marketing department.
- Skills:
Interested? Apply HERE
Variety of Departments
Executive Board: The Executive Board currently consists of the Executive, Creative, and Technology Director.
Services Department: The service board is composed of our editing, beta reading, book reviewing, and cover designing services.
Marketing Department: This department deals with marketing. This includes our two marketing directors, our PR director, and Engagement Director
Education Department: This will be composed of the education director and the publications director.
Board of Graphic Design and Art: The board of graphic design and art deals with artistic submissions to our literary journal. They also handle the editing and reviewing of comics and other forms of artistic digital writing. They should appease any issues with the group and properly vet or review artistic submissions.
Commitment
Being a board member is an honorable, yet tasking job. It requires responsibility and dedication to the organization. Please do not apply if you do not have 4-5 hours a week at least to spend for The Young Writers Initiative. Also realize that resigning as a board member will require one weeks notice. Being a board member will look good on resumes, college applications, and will provide you with valuable leadership skills. The Executive Director will gladly award you with recomendation letters and such.
Communication
Staying in contact is a very important aspect of this organization. For these reasons, you will be required to download/access Slack and Discord, our team management platforms! Both are mandatary.
Asana will also be a method for us to keep track of projects. It is mandatory if you have access to it.
Temporary Break Policy
We understand things happen, so we are very giving with our break policy. All we ask of you is this: communicate with us.
Removal from position
If you do not respond to any communication for two weeks without notice, you will be removed from the position.If you are unable to complete your job at the standard we uphold, we will give you a warning before removing you. If you behaved inappropriately or rudely to fellow board members, volunteers, or clients, you will be removed. Removal will erase all of your service points and benefits.
Application Process
The application is extensive, so we recommend that you take some time on it. We will actually read these and pick board members carefully.
- Online Application: here you will answer some information, upload your resume, indicate the best time for an interview, and write some short responses to some questions we have. You will be taken to a form, where you will fill out the entire first section. Then, depending on your desired position, you will fill out the applications for that position. You DO NOT have to fill out all the sections unless you are interested in all the positions
- The application will ask for a resume. This isn't mandatory
- The application will ask for a referall. If you do not have one, it will not hurt one. Also optional.
- Interview: We will host online interviews through zoom in your preferred time and ask a series of questions. It should be no longer than 15 minutes. Everyone may not get an interview.
