Executive Committee Elections

These roles are voluntary and of extreme importance to our association.  EACH can only thrive with the help of volunteers who take up positions of responsibility within the organisation and we encourage you consider becoming involved.

What’s in it for you?

  • These positions offer excellent personal and professional benefits that will help enable future career development for all successful candidates.
  • It will give you the opportunity to get to know the association and how it is run in detail. This will help you to further develop your personal/professional skills in a supportive and inspiring environment.
  • Grow your International network.
  • These leadership roles will help you further your understanding of and contribute to strategic planning within an association
  • Financial planning and budgeting (Treasurer)

What is expected of you?

Please click on the links below to view the job description for the role you are interested in applying for:

President Elect
Treasurer

How do you apply for this great opportunity?

Elections are held every two years. Details of how to apply will be advertised when applications are due.

President-Elect

The position of President-Elect is open to all members of EACH although candidates with some experience within the Advisory Committee or one of the sub-committees will be preferred. The ideal candidate:

  • has been a member of EACH for at least three years
  • has considerable personal experience in research, teaching, policy, or all three related to communication in healthcare
  • will be able to fulfill all the responsibilities of the President-Elect, President and Past President (a role that lasts 6 years in total) complying with the expenses procedures for the executive and without embarrassing EACH financially
  • is fluent in English (both written & spoken)

Additional desirable qualities include:

  • previously undertaken an active role within the association, e.g.
    • a member of the EACH advisory committee
    • chair, deputy chair or member of a sub-committee (rEACH, tEACH or pEACH)
    • a member of the EACH hosted International Conference in Communication in Healthcare (ICCH)
  • experience within leadership and management

To apply, you will be asked to provide the following information:

  1.  Your full name
  2. The name of the person you are nominating for President-Elect (if you are nominating someone other than yourself – please ensure you have their permission first)
  3. The CV of the nominee
  4. An application letter stating why you think you would make a good President-Elect for EACH

Click here to view the job description for President-Elect.

Treasurer

The position of Treasurer is open to all members of EACH. The ideal candidate has:

  • been a member of EACH for at least two years
  • experience in research, teaching and/or policy in the field of communication in healthcare
  • is fluent in English (both written & spoken)
  • is available for six, bi-monthly, online Executive Committee meetings, during UK office hours, every year

Additional desirable qualities include:

  • experience in financial administration and accounting procedures
  • previously undertaken an active role within the association, e.g. as
    • a member of the advisory committee
    • chair, co-chair or active member of a sub-committee
    • a member of the EACH hosted International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH)

To apply, you will be asked to provide the following information:

  1. Your full name
  2. The name of the person you are nominating for Treasurer (if you are nominating someone other than yourself – please ensure you have their permission first)
  3. The CV of the nominee
  4. An application letter stating why you think you would make a good Treasurer for EACH

Click here to view the job description for Treasurer.

Nominations from both categories will be shortlisted for interview by the EACH Nomination Committee. The EACH Nomination Committee is chaired by the current President-Elect, Marcy Rosenbaum, and made up of volunteers from the EACH Advisory Committee. The EACH Nomination Committee will then propose their preferred candidate to the EACH Executive for approval before seeking acceptance from the whole EACH membership at the Annual General Meeting of members in September 2020.

Please email elections@each.international if you have any questions or require any additional information about this election process.