Join the board, make an impact.
At UXPA-MN, we are dedicated to fostering the growth of the Minnesota UX community by providing valuable resources and opportunities for professional development. By being part of the Board of Directors, you’ll:
- Nurture Emerging Talent: Support the growth of Minnesota’s UX community by providing emerging professionals with the essential training and education needed to excel in User Experience Design.
- Enhance Community Impact: Elevate UXPA-MN’s role as a cornerstone of community-building within our local industry, amplifying our impact through education, networking events, and vital support for professionals.
- Grow your professional skills: Grow your network, leadership skills, and ownership by directly contributing to our local chapter and UX community.
We invite you to apply for our 2025 Board of Directors. The application will close August 30, 2024.
Open Roles for 2025
Vice President
Overview:
- Elected from UXPA membership
- Responsibilities:
- Assists the President
- Provides organizational guidance
- Plans World Usability Day and Annual Summer Social
- Maintains a special awareness of all Chapter operations and confers frequently with the Chapter President, not only to advise and assist, but also to gain knowledge that could prove useful if the Vice President becomes President
- Helps formulate policy and establish the Chapter’s long-term and short-term goals
- Monitors the Chapter’s finances on a continuing basis
- Assumes the duties of Chapter President when the President is unavailable
- Performs other duties as defined by the President
- Commitment: 12 month commitment as VP, then moves to President, then Past President. 3 year commitment total
- Requirements: N/A
Associate Program Director
Overview:
- Elected from UXPA membership
- Responsibilities:
- Assists the Program Director in their duties, which include organizing programming for the upcoming year
- Arranges locations for events
- Acts as the liaison between UXPA MN and speakers
- Other duties as assigned
- Commitment: 12 month commitment as Associate, then moves to Program Director. 2 year commitment total
- Requirements: N/A
Associate Treasurer
Overview:
- Elected from UXPA membership
- Responsibilities: assists the Treasurer in collecting membership dues and payments, reporting on financial health during board meetings and assisting with membership management (dues collection, refunds, etc.) and other duties as assigned.
- Commitment: 12 month commitment as Associate, potential to move to Treasurer after 12 months
- Requirements: Adequate financial literacy and willingness to learn cash flow statements.
Associate Educational Director
Overview:
- Elected from UXPA membership
- Summary: Assist Educational Director in educational operations. Provide continuity in the Education Director role.
- Responsibilities:
- Create and post monthly Educational Resources pages with the Educational Director.
- Assist with planning full day workshops/webinars/trainings
- Help to drive other development activities such as mentorship programs and special interest groups
- Other duties as appropriate.
- Commitment: (12 month commitment as Associate, then moves to Educational Director. 2 year commitment total
- Requirements: N/A
Social Media Manager
Overview:
- Elected from UXPA membership
- Responsibilities:
- Manages communities on members-only Slack, Facebook (deprecated), Twitter, and Linkedin (page and group)
- Posts updates on all upcoming UXPA member events and educational opportunities
- Live post and recap events
- Works to increase business and public recognition of the chapter and UXPA
- Publicizes UXPA goals, programs, and services to members, prospective members, and their management
- Publicizes special seminars and workshops held by the Chapter
- Serves as a liaison with other UXPA Chapters
- Serves as a liaison with chapters and branches of other usability engineering organizations
- Develops publicity for the chapter and its activities
- Assumes joint responsibility for the quality, accuracy, and content emails and social media posts
- Understands and complies with standard guidelines for the ethical and responsible social media use
- Commitment : 12 months
- Requirements: Background in writing or social media/marketing
Associate Social Media Manager
Overview:
- Elected from UXPA membership
- Responsibilities:
- Helps to manage community social media channels
- Helps to promote upcoming UXPA-MN events through social media
- Help to check in attendees at events
- Help post live updates during events such as speaker quotes, responds to and communicates with members via social channels
- Other duties as assigned.
- Commitment : 12 month commitment as Associate, then moves to Social Media Manager. 2 year commitment total)
- Requirements: Background in writing or social media/marketing
Secretary
Overview:
- Elected from UXPA Membership
- Responsibilities:
- Records monthly UXPA board meeting minutes notes (or arranges for a substitute)
- Documents to-do’s/actions/decisions
- Prepares and distributes copies of meeting minutes to officers within ten days
- Prepares correspondence related to Chapter business at the direction of the Chapter President
- Maintains board calendar
- Oversees annual board member on- and off-boarding
- Commitment: 12 months
- Requirements: Detail-orientation; interest in organizational operations
Web Director
Overview:
- Elected from UXPA membership
- Responsibilities:
- Oversees, maintains, troubleshoots and updates https://uxpamn.org/
- Ensures positive user experience and performs quality assurance
- Supports the board by creating pages on site (blog posts, informational pages, etc)
- Maintains plugins and automations
- Assists our members with technical issues on website
- Manages subscriptions with third-party vendors
- Monitor website analytics
- Commitment: 2 years
- Requirements:
- Must be familiar with WordPress (or similar CMS)
- Basic knowledge of hosting platforms (GoDaddy or similar), CSS, HTML
- Resourceful – things can break, need to be able to work with customer support to implement fixes
- Willingness to learn
Digital Media/Live Events Director
Overview:
- Elected from UXPA Membership
- Responsibilities:
- Responsible for setting up and breaking down audio/visual equipment at in-person UXPA-MN events
- Coordinates streaming and recording of in-person events
- Responsible for setup of Zoom/virtual meeting rooms for virtual events
- Coordinates with Program Director and Associate Program Director on A/V needs
- Responsible for maintaining UXPA-MN Zoom account
- Not required to attend all board meetings but must attend all UXPA-MN events
- Upload event recordings to Youtube as (accessible by link)
- Customize Youtube videos to add clickable “chapters”
- Document New Process for following board members
- Commitment: 12 months
- Requirements: Detail-orientation; technical aptitude.
Director of DEI
Overview:
- Responsibilities:
- Compliance: Ensure adherence to the organization’s code of conduct.
- Outreach: Engage diverse communities to promote awareness of UXPA Minnesota.
- Professionalism: Foster a culture of respect and collaboration among members.
- Program Development: Lead DEI-focused initiatives.
- Strategic Planning: Integrate DEI goals into the organization’s mission.
- Empowerment: Promote an environment where board members as well as community members are valued, respected, and empowered to share their experiences and viewpoints.
- Commitment: 12 months
Invest in your professional growth and local ux community. Apply for the UXPA Board and take the next step toward achieving your goals in the field of user experience.
For any inquiries or assistance, please contact us at uxpamnboard@gmail.com.