Volunteer Opportunities

The PDM (Professional Development Meeting) Blue Ribbon Team is currently accepting applications for 2 volunteers to join this newly created team. If you enjoy meeting and helping people and are willing to go the "extra mile" for the safety and comfort or our Chapter members, particularly before, during, and after the monthly PDM meetings, this may be the job for you.

The charter of this team is to provide special services to our members who attend our PDMs and may need special assistance, for example, watching a member's car during an unloading/loading of material. The goal of the team is to insure that our PDM meetings are safe, friendly, and supportive of all special needs. The team will officially be launched on Jan 1st, 2008, and reports to the Director of PDM Logistics.

Duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Offering assistance to physically disabled members
• Walking members to their cars after the PDM if requested
• Assisting members by working with hotel staff to coordinate towing, battery jumps, etc.
• Understand ballroom layout, location of fire extinguishers, and hotel points of contact
• General observation that all members in the meeting are wearing name badges
• Act as a Chapter liason with the Hotel management, security staff and police
• Provide a presence during the PDM registration process
• During the meeting, be aware of outside weather conditions and provide updates to the Director
• Continually strive for process improvement of the PDM Blue Ribbon Team

Required Skills: Candidates should have:

• Good people skills with emphasis on empathy
• Good intuitive skills and a keen sense of observation

Preferred Skills:  Desire to help make a member's PDM experience a rewarding experience.

PDUs:  0 PDUs/year

Time Commit per Week:  1 hour

Team:  PDM Blue Ribbon Team

Chapter Level Team:  Programs

Job ID:  0125

Job Overview:   Mentor opportunities for PMI Phoenix Chapter members is viewed as an important program offering the PMI Phoenix Chapter. 

Key Objective

• The professional development Mentor Program will match PMI Phoenix Chapter professionals who want to become a mentor with PMI Phoenix Chapter members who request a mentor to discuss career path strategies, educational strategies, skill set strategies for project management and leadership, etc.

Job Duration: Position will be active until December 2008

Job Details:

The Director will be responsible for creating, executing and managing a Mentor Program for the PMI Phoenix Chapter. 

This position is responsible for creating and updating standard operating procedures for the Mentor program for the PMI Phoenix Chapter.

This position may be responsible for benchmarking and gap analysis activities.

This position will be responsible for finding volunteers for the Mentor Program.

This position may need to coordinate information dissemination and activities with External Relations, Communications, Programs and PMO areas with the PMI Phoenix Chapter organization.

There may be budget responsibility with this position.  

Required Skills:

Can do attitude

Preferred Skills:

- Communication is essential to a volunteer organization

- Excellent written and verbal skills

- Good people skills

- Good problem escalation skills

- Access to a computer with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet

- Strong leadership and project management skills

- Ability to participate in area checkpoint conference calls

PDUs:  3 - 7 PDUs/year

Time Commit per Week:  2 -4 hours

Team: Professional Development Team

Chapter Level Team:  Professional Development Team

Priority:  1

Contact E-mail:  Reply to education@phx-pmi.org and you will be sent additional information to get engaged on this team.

Category:            Communications team

Job Title:            Website Manager

Team:              Web Team

Chapter Level Team:   Communications

Job Description:                       The Website Manager will be responsible for coordinating and supporting the website maintenance using the user friendly web maintenance, enhancement activities tools provided by our web hosting company. This activity includes the following:

·         Updating content on the website as requested by various team members

·         Setup & Send email blasts as requested

·         Gather & publish monthly website usage stats

·         Grant access to new members & terminate access as requested

·         Update email alias lists as required

·         Escalate & Interact with web hosting company support team on critical website issues

·         Backup website content on a monthly basis

Required Skills:                       Candidates should have:

·         Basic HTML skills & understanding of internet technologies

·         Customer service skills

·         Willing to learn new technical skills

Preferred Skills:                      

·         Advanced HTML & Internet technology skills

PDUs:                                       8 PDUs/year

Time Commit per Week:          3-4 hours every week

Contact Name:                         Srini Jasti

Contact E-mail:                        Srinijasti@gmail.com

Contact Phone:                       

Job ID: 176     

Job Code:  0101NNO-01000100

Category:  Management

Job Title:  Associate Vice President of Programs

Job Description:  The Associate Vice President (AVP) assists the Vice President of Programs in the execution of the Mission of the Programs Team. This position reports directly to the VP of Programs, and in this leadership role, acts as the official back-up for the Vice President of Programs, should the Vice President be unavailable (out-of-town, etc.) or, upon the Vice President's request to take on a specific task or responsibility.

In the absence of the Vice President of Programs, the AVP has overall responsibility and decision-making authority over the Programs Team and all their functions to insure the team is operating effectively and efficiently.  In addition, at times the AVP may be asked by the Vice President to attend a Chapter Board Meeting or to lead a PDM Meeting on his/her behalf.  The position may also incorporate Administrative, Project Management, and Process Improvement tasks.

Required Skills:

• Candidates should have:

• Strong people and communication skills
• Strong analytical and meeting facilitation skills