Southwest Region Area and Specialty Coordinator application

The USA Southwest Region's Area Captains program has been restructured and now includes an application process. 

There will be 3 levels of management. First level will be the RC and their Second/XO. Just below that will be Area Coordinators and Specialty Coordinators. The Specialty Coordinators will hold specific roles: PPTQs, Events, Advancement and Communications. There will also be an Administrative Coordinator. Below Area Coordinators will be Area Leads, which report to an assigned Area Coordinator and an assigned Speciality Coordinator.

Coordinator Level Roles

• PPTQ coordinator: Coordinates a team of area leads that organize PPTQs in their areas
• Events coordinator: Coordinates a team of area leads that organize Judge meet ups, conferences and other events that may come up.
• Advancement coordinator: Coordinates a team of area leads that help run judge classes for L1s and L2s and also keeps up with people interested in advancing
• Communications coordinator: Coordinates a team of area leads that work on the blog, updates Judge map leads discussions on slack. Anything to do with our online presence.
• Administrative Coordinator: Coordinates all the report outs for leadership and is responsible for recording meeting minutes.

For a full description of all of the roles, please refer to this doc: http://bit.ly/SWUSA_Roles

Lead Level Roles

Area Leads: There will be a lead for each quadrant of the region that specializes in one of the areas listed above. For example, SoCal will have a PPTQ lead, Advancement lead, Events lead and Communications lead. These leads will report directly to the Specialty coordinator and Area Coordinator for their area.

This application is the start of the process for Coordinator Level Roles only. Area Lead roles will be done through a separate application after coordinators are selected.

The Application Process

The Coordinator application will be conducted in two stages:

Stage 1 (Oct 8th - 23rd): Starts with this page and when you click on the apply link below you will be directed to a google form to fill out  with a cover letter, 2 questions and 3 references. The application and google form will close on October 23rd at 11:59pm PT. You must complete the application both here and on the google form for an application to be considered.

A Selection Committee of the RC, David Zimet (as RC emeritus), 4 current Area Captains who are stepping down (one per quadrant of the region), and one Level 3 (or, for each, someone they designate) will review the applications and select a group of finalists for each role.  This list will be made public no later than October 30th.

Stage 2 (Oct 30th - Nov 14th): Each finalist wll be presented with a series of questions based on the role they are applying for, their experiences as a judge, and any community feedback that is collected after the announcement of finalists. This back and forth through a google document will continue for up to two weeks or until the selection committee can come to a clear consensus.

If you have any questions about this process, the roles or the structure in general, please feel free to email Angela Chandler through judgeapps.