MYLead wouldn’t be MYLead, without the year-round time commitment these volunteers make planning conferences!
The planning team brings the heat when it comes to masterminding all of the details that go into planning our core program offerings. They do it all, from recruiting and managing other volunteers, to laying out program schedules and booking speakers, to managing all of the little logistical details that it takes to pull it off.
Multiple teams come together to form the greater “Planning Team” that makes it all happen. Keep scrolling to see what each team focuses on throughout the year.
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Conference Alumni (CA) Directors
Throughout the year, CA directors are responsible for recruiting, building relationships with, and monitoring requirements for all CAs that will be onsite during conference weekend. The CA team is our largest volunteer team, so keeping up with communication, answering questions, and providing direction is essential.
Leading up to the conferences, CA Directors setup mentoring, CA/GF pairings, as well as select leaders for all CA-led activities at conferences. Preparing for CA training is key and ensuring the Homegroup Facilitation Guide is up-to-date and available before conference weekend is a must.
Once on site, this team hosts CA meetings, provide direction, offer advice, facilitate discussion, and troubleshoot throughout the weekend.
In order to be a CA Director, you must:
- Have CA experience during at least one MYLead conference, multiple years preferred.
- Commit to a 2-year term, learning the first and teaching the second.
- Commit to directing at least one conference each year of your term.
- Commit to attending regular virtual planning meetings as well as in-person retreats and trainings as part of the 100 hours of service required for each year of your term.
- Successfully pass a criminal background check, if you are over the age of 18.
- Preference will be given to those under 21 at the time of conferences.
Conference Logistics Directors
Throughout the year, logistics directors are responsible for working through all of the logistical details to prepare for the conference. They recruit, build relationships with, and monitor requirements for all Logistics Interns (LIs) that will be on site during conference weekend. They plan for and deliver training, answering questions as needed.
This team manages all conference related merchandise. They take inventory of current stock, order staff shirts, create new designs, select new items, obtain price quotes from vendors, and order merchandise.
Conference weekend, this team runs all of the detailed work that needs to be done from our Conference Headquarters. They are the magic behind the curtain, making sure that all of the participants and volunteers have what they need. They manage check-in, run the MYLead store, distribute medications, coordinate with the venue, prep packets for homegroups, manage check-out, and handle all incoming calls/emails throughout the weekend, among a variety of other things.
They are our saviors, creating the magic, behind the scenes.
In order to be an Logistics Director, you must:
- Have volunteer experience during MYLead conferences, multiple years and positions preferred.
- Commit to a 2-year term, learning the first and teaching the second.
- Commit to directing at least one conference each year of your term.
- Commit to attending regular virtual planning meetings as well as in-person retreats and trainings as part of the 100 hours of service required for each year of your term.
- Minimum age of 18, preference will be given to those over 21 at the time of conferences.
- Successfully pass a criminal background check.
Group Facilitator (GF) Directors
Throughout the year, GF directors are responsible for recruiting and building relationships with GFs that will be onsite during conference weekend. The GF team is the second largest volunteer team at conference, so keeping up with communication, answering questions, and providing direction is essential.
Leading up to the conferences, GF Directors set up GF mentoring, GF/CA pairings, prepare for training and ensuring the Homegroup Facilitation Guide is up-to-date for conference weekend is essential.
Once on site, this team hosts GF meetings, provide direction, offer advice, facilitate discussion, and troubleshoot throughout the weekend.
In order to be a GF Director, you must:
- Have GF experience during at least one MYLead conference, multiple years of experience preferred.
- Commit to a 2-year term, learning the first and teaching the second.
- Commit to directing at least one conference each year of your term.
- Commit to attending regular virtual planning meetings as well as in-person retreats and trainings as part of the 100 hours of service required for each year of your term.
- Successfully pass a criminal background check.
Programming Directors
Throughout the year, programming directors are responsible for preparing the conference schedule, selecting all workshops and activities that will be included, incorporating changes based on previous years’ feedback, and coordinating volunteers needed to make programming run smoothly.
They recruit, build relationships with, and monitor requirements for all Programming Interns (PIs) that will be on site during conference weekend. They plan for and deliver training, answering questions as needed.
They book keynote speakers, workshop leaders, photographers (PVs), and any other staff required to run or debrief conference activities.
During conference weekend, they serve as the emcees, introducing speakers, letting folks know what is coming next, and injecting a little humor for everyone’s amusement. At conferences, they also oversee efforts of the Programming Interns (PIs) to make sure no matter where we are or what we are doing, volunteers and YLs alike know what is coming next, where to go, and how to get there.
In order to be a Programming Director, you must:
- Have volunteer experience during MYLead conferences, multiple years preferred.
- Commit to a 2-year term, learning the first and teaching the second.
- Commit to directing at least one conference each year of your term.
- Commit to attending regular virtual planning meetings as well as in-person retreats and trainings as part of the 100 hours of service required for each year of your term.
- Successfully pass a criminal background check, if you are over the age of 18.