Connections Coordinator

Job Description
(Approved by the Board May 16, 2024)

Rationale:  As a member of UURMaPA’s Board of Directors, the Connections Coordinator creates structures and facilitates affiliations through which UURMaPAns create, deepen and sustain personal relationships with one another.

Expectations:  The Connections Coordinator’s duties include:

  1. Upon receipt of a UUA “Intent to Retire” notice, send the new UURMaPAn(s) a welcoming email to provide an overview of opportunities to connect with other UURMaPAns and to connect the new UURMaPAn(s) with their Area Connector (if identified).
  1. Upon receipt of the Membership Coordinator’s notice of a UURMaPAn’s change of Local Area, notify both the prior and the current Area Connectors of the change.
  1. Upon notification of UURMaPAns’ interest in entering or forming a General-Interest-Zoom Group introduce interested UURMaPAns to ongoing Groups, or facilitate interested UURMaPAns to form & launch new Groups.
  1. Annually, in May-September:
  • Determine the willingness of current Area Connectors to continue service for upcoming year
  • (For Areas with no continuing Connector), send an All-Area-UURMaPAn email soliciting interest in serving as Connector
  • Contact Open Specific-Interest-Zoom-Group Facilitators to ascertain the Group’s plans for continuation and facilitation in the coming program year 
  • Send an UURMaPA-Announce notice soliciting interest in forming/facilitating new Special Interest Groups for the coming year
  1. Semi-Annually in October and April:
  • Contact General-Interest-Zoom-Group Facilitators to determine:
    —-The number of Group Members desiring to continue in the Group for the following six months
    —-The identity of the Facilitator of each Continuing Group
    —-The openness of each Continuing Group to welcoming new Group Members
  • In each All-UURMaPA Conference,
    —-Publicize opportunities to form or join General-Interest-Zoom-Groups
    —-Publicizing all Open Specific-Interest-Zoom-Groups 
    —-Solicit proposals to form new Specific-Interest-Zoom-Groups
  • Following each All-UURMaPA Conference, send an All-UURMaPA-Announce notice
    —-soliciting interest in entering or forming a General-Interest-Zoom-Group
    —-soliciting interest in forming any proposed Specific-Interest-Zoom-Groups
    —-publicizing all on-going Open Specific-Interest-Zoom-Groups 
  1. Annually in April, convene a Zoom-Conclave of General-Interest-Zoom-Group Facilitators to discuss best-practices and future plans/desires.

Drafted by Fritz Hudson, May 9, 2024