Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Ability Tree First Coast! Ability Tree (ATFC) is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization. We envision individuals and families living with disabilities being accepted and supported in their local community, enjoying healthy relationships in their neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and churches.
Fulfilling our vision involves people who are compassionate and willing to give of their time and serve on a team. If that sounds like something you might be interested in, take a moment to read about the Board Member position.
What is the Board Member position?
The Board will support the work of ATFC and provide mission-based leadership and strategic governance. While day-to-day operations are led by ATFC’s chief executive officer (CEO), the Board-CEO relationship is a partnership, and the appropriate involvement of the Board is both critical and expected. Service on ATFC’s Board is without remuneration. Specific Board Member responsibilities include:
Leadership, governance and oversight
- Serving as a trusted advisor to the CEO as she develops and implements ATFC’s strategic plan
- Reviewing outcomes and metrics created by ATFC for evaluating its impact, and regularly measuring its performance and effectiveness using those metrics; reviewing agenda and supporting materials prior to board and committee meetings
- Approving ATFC’s annual budget, audit reports, and material business decisions; being informed of, and meeting all, legal and fiduciary responsibilities
- Contributing to an annual performance evaluation of the CEO
- Assisting the CEO and board chair in identifying and recruiting other Board Members
- Partnering with the CEO and other board members to ensure that board resolutions are carried out
- Serving on committees or task forces and taking on special assignments
- Representing ATFC to stakeholders; acting as an ambassador for the organization
- Ensuring ATFC’s commitment to a diverse board and staff that reflects the communities ATFC serves
Board terms/participation
ATFC’s Board Members will serve a three-year term and then be eligible for re-election. Board meetings will be held quarterly.
What are the Qualifications?
This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual who is passionate about ATFC’s mission. Selected Board Members will have achieved leadership stature in business, government, philanthropy, or the nonprofit sector. His/her accomplishments will allow him/her to attract other well-qualified, high-performing Board Members.
Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications:
- A committed and active Christian lifestyle, based on a biblical foundation.
- Extensive professional experience in business, government, philanthropy, or the nonprofit sector
- A commitment to and understanding of ATFC’s beneficiaries, preferably based on experience
- Savvy diplomatic skills and a natural affinity for cultivating relationships and persuading, convening, facilitating, and building consensus among diverse individuals
- Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and a passion for improving the lives of ATFC’s beneficiaries
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
For more information about our organization, please visit http://abilitytreefc.org.
