Executive Director
The ROCK Center for Youth Development
Midland, MI
Highlight any employment, volunteer, or other experience relevant to NAA's mission, vision, values, core competencies, and strategic focus areas.
20 years experience successfully working with boards, community groups, state coalitions, and volunteers, combined with state, national and international relations, my extensive experience will help to lift our profession as a whole.
Based on your skills, dispositions, and expertise, explain how you see yourself contributing to NAA's strategic focus areas: Field Leadership, Professional Development, Advocacy, Community Building.
Leadership development and training; professional development creation and implementation; strong strategic relationships; and event planning.
Review the NAA Board Job Description. Using the job description as a guide, describe your experience, skills, and dispositions that prepare you to be an effective board member of a national professional association.
Scaling programs and systems; leveraging relationships with organizations, associations and elected officials; fund development; public speaking; financial management; knowledge of state and federal requirements related to a 501©3; collaborative spirit; human resource management; and event planning.
Why are you interested in being a member of the NAA Board of Directors?
System-level change starts with passionate people in critical positions. Working on a national platform we have a greater chance of being successful at that. Through intentional collaboration we can make changes that will enable thousands of OST professionals to impact millions of young lives. Out-of-school time is ideally positioned to address many of the challenges our young people face. My passion is to enable our future professionals to be even more effective than us and that we successfully transfer the current expertise and knowledge to those who come behind us.
