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iowapridenetwork college leadership team

Deadline: Monday, May 24, 2010

Membership Expectations

Job Description:
Iowa Pride Network’s College Leadership Team is a diverse group of youth leaders from colleges all over Iowa. As a member of the Leadership Team you will learn skills to become a stronger activist and work towards creating a safer climate at your school for LGBTQ youth and straight allies. You will get support around creating a campaign, event planning or starting a GSA club on your campus. In addition, Leadership Team members are responsible for giving input and helping guide the programs of Iowa Pride Network. Leadership Team members will represent the needs of GSAs and youth activists from their geographic region as well as plan events and lead peer-to-peer workshops, leadership trainings, conferences and other organizing projects. 

Schedule:
The Leadership Team meets once a month at the Regional GSA Coalition meetings. The Leadership Team will also meet with and lead statewide College Coalition, which will meet at least four times a year. To be fair to those members who live closer to the borders of Iowa we have schedule the coalition meetings to always meet in the exact center of the state, this is Ames, Iowa. Meetings will be announced on Iowa Pride Network’s website and via email/list-serve. Typically, Leadership Team members are also involved in planning these coalition meeting and may have to schedule more time to prepare for these meetings.

Objective:
As a member of the Leadership Team your objective will be to:

• Network with youth from throughout your region
• Get peer and staff support and feedback on your ongoing campaign, action or event
• Give input on Iowa Pride Network’s programs and organizing projects
• Educate your peers with Iowa Pride Network’s Thinking Queerly Coalition Curriculum

In addition you may have an opportunity to

• Help plan and run a youth led conference or present workshops at local conferences
• Plan and participate in Iowa Pride Network social activities
• Discuss emerging trends in the LGBTQ and greater social justice movement
• Provide occasional technical assistance to other GSAs

Membership:
While it is not mandatory that you be a member of a GSA, all Leadership Team members are encouraged to be a part of an established or underground (not an official club on campus) GSA or be working to start one. Members can also be a member of a diversity/tolerance club working on LGBTQ issues. All Leadership Team members must be committed to making change at their schools by making them more supportive and safer for LGBTQ students and working to defeat homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. Each year the Leadership Team will pick one or more subjects that the College Coalition will make into a statewide campaign for college LGBTQA organizations to forge on their own campuses and work to achieve the goals of the campaign set by the coalition.

Requirements & Expectations:

• Make a one-year commitment to serve on the Leadership Team
• Prepare for and attend all monthly meetings of the your regional coalition
• Agree that you will not miss more than three Regional GSA Coalition meetings in a year
• Agree that you will not consecutively miss two of Iowa Pride Network’s conferences/events
• Committed to creating change for LGBTQ youth and fighting homophobia and transphobia in schools
• Develop and suggest ideas to strengthen Iowa Pride Network
• A student in a community college, or a student of a public or private college/university in Iowa
• Identify needs of GSAs and LGBTQ youth and straight allies in colleges and guide the direction of IPN activities and programs
• Help plan and/or conduct workshops at Iowa Pride Network trainings and conferences
• Help coordinate youth involvement in events such as Leadership Training, Western Iowa Organizing Summit, Annual GSA Conference, Iowa Gay-Straight Alliance Day and LGBT & Allied Student Day at the Capitol
• Be a resource to new and/or struggling GSAs in your region
• Attend and participate in all six Iowa Pride Network trainings/conferences