Serve as ORSA Leadership

The ORSA Presidential Track is a 3-year volunteer term. The position responsibilities and experiences change with each year. Below is a general breakdown of these duties. There may be other requirements that come up and are not specifically listed below. 

If elected to this role, expect to experience busier time frames throughout the year. On average, expect to spend 3-5 hours (max) per week on ORSA related work. Note: Time leading up to the ORSA State Workshop and other special events may require a few more hours of service per week. 

President Elect (Year 1) 

• Oversight of all ORSA Committees 

  • Schedules monthly calls for all committee (and/or committee chairs)  

  • Works closely with committee chairs to ensure yearly goals are developed, approved and progressing 

  • Prepares committee applications (going into year 2) 

  • Organizes committee updates for state/regional and annual conferences and workshops 

  • Requests yearly budgets and works with budget committee and committee chairs to approve new monetary needs 

• Works with the ORSA executive team (ORSA President, Past President and Student Representative) to serve the ORSA. 

  • Monthly or bi-monthly ORSA executive team calls 

    • Assists in all decision making and shares perspective and opinions when necessary

  • Helps develop the overall budget to send to the budget and allocations committee 

    • Helps ensure we are good stewards of the ORSA money 

  • Attends Regional Leadership Retreat 

  • Attends state, regional and national events as needed

    • This includes but is not limited to ORSA State Workshop, Regional Events and the NIRSA Annual Conference 

  • Attends site visit for upcoming ORSA conferences as necessary 

  • Assist the executive committee in decision making 

  • Represent the ORSA to the best of their ability 

  • In the instance the president can no longer serve in their role, the president elect would take over the presidential duties for the remainder of the term 

President (Year 2) 

• Works with the ORSA executive team (ORSA President, Past President and Student Representative) to serve the ORSA. 

  • Responsible for on-boarding the ORSA President Elect (using ORSA on-boarding document/checklist) 

  • Schedules monthly (or bi-monthly) meetings for the ORSA executive team 

  • Creates agendas for the monthly meetings 

  • Responsible for preparing a message for the monthly ORSA newsletter and ensuring all communications to the ORSA are done in a timely and efficient manner 

  • Ensures the president elect and past president are staying on track with duties as assigned in their roles 

  • Attends state, regional and national events as needed

    • This includes but is not limited to ORSA State Workshop, Regional Events and the NIRSA Annual Conference 

  • Attends Regional Leadership Meeting 

  • Attends site visit for upcoming ORSA conferences as necessary 

  • Represents ORSA to the best of their ability 

• Preside over all state business meetings, enforce laws and regulations of the association, and carry out the will of the members.

  • Prepares powerpoint presentations and Roberts Rules for all business meetings 

  • Ensures that they are then shared/posted for ORSA members not in attendance 

• Recruit and select members for appointed positions (if necessary) 

• Ensure the Past President is on track with all operational functions of the annual fall workshop 

• Develop goals with the ORSA Executive Team to execute during the term 

Past President (Year 3) 

• Works with the ORSA executive team (ORSA President, Past President and Student Representative) to serve the ORSA. 

  • Responsible for assisting in on-boarding the president elect 

• Attend meetings (executive team and committee) 

• Sounding board for president and past president throughout the year 

• Supports new initiatives using historical perspective 

• Attends state, regional and national events as needed

  • This includes but is not limited to ORSA State Workshop, Regional Events and the NIRSA Annual Conference 

• Attends Regional Leadership Meeting 

• Attends site visit for upcoming ORSA conferences as necessary 

• Represents ORSA to the best of their ability

• The past president is responsible for the organization of the upcoming ORSA State Workshop 

  • This includes but is not limited to: 

    • Assisting the host institution with all tasks related in planning and organizing the state workshop

    • Oversight of the state workshop budget 

    • Sounding board for questions and concerns related to the workshop 

    • Holds and attends state workshop meetings as necessary

The ORSA Student representative is elected to serve the student membership of Ohio.

• Work closely with the ORSA President, NIRSA Student Leader and Region III Student Leader.

• Act as the chair of the ORSA Student Committee.

• Serve on the Executive Committee and collaborate with the President on all association correspondence.

• Collaborate with the ORSA President, NIRSA Student Leader and Region III Student Leader to inform and educate students through conference presentation and committee involvement.

• Maintain communication with student members through social media.

• Receive a travel stipend to attend NIRSA/ORSA related event. The travel stipend is determined on an annual basis by the Budget and Allocation Committee.

• The Treasurer shall supervise all the association’s receipts, expenditures and deposits including scholarship reimbursements, social functions, awards, workshop fees, and event/auction deposits.

• Communicate with the Ohio Attorney General about the non-profit status (annually).