A visual of the new Southwest Regional Leadership structure

| mercuryangel3

Yesterday I announced that there would be a new structure in the Southwest for Leadership. It involved links for applications and explanations of what it would look like. Sometimes though, a visual guide can really improve our understanding of complicated systems. So let’s take a look:

The Leads will all report to two coordinators, one Area Coordinator and one Specialty Coordinator. All of the Area Coordinators are outlined in a color and their respective leads are also outlined in the same color. All of the Specialty Coordinators are filled in with a color and their respective leads are also filled in with the same color. Makes sense, right? But what do these roles mean?

 

Here is a document we attached with the application we pushed out yesterday:

 

To facilitate this change, we are creating four sub regions for the USA Southwest. These four areas will be: Northern California (including Bakersfield and Santa Maria as the southernmost cities), Southern California, Nevada, Arizona.

There are three tiers within our new leadership program:

Regional Coordinator

Area Coordinator | Specialty Coordinator

Area Specialty Lead

 

At the Area Coordinator level there are 6 unique roles. One of these roles is repeated for each of the four sub regions, for 9 total Area Coordinator positions.  We anticipate these roles to take up approximately 20 to 30 hours per month of work per month.

 

Area Coordinator (4 positions, AZ, NV, NorCal, SoCal)

  • Maintain a current roster of judges, tournament organizers, and store/community contacts within your quadrant of the region.
  • Act as the first step in conflict resolution within the quadrant.
  • Attend conferences with regional leadership on an as needed (currently annual) basis.
  • Report out with regional leadership on a monthly basis to discuss current affairs within the quadrant.
  • Additional duties as assigned by the Regional Coordinator
  • Specialty leads will report directly to Area Coordinators.
  • Specialty coordinators will collaborate with Area Coordinators.

Events Coordinator (1 position)

  • Maintain a current list of all judge program events organized by the events team
  • Manage a team of leads for all regional conferences, meet ups, mock tournaments and other potential judge events that are not tournaments within each quadrant
  • Attend conferences with regional leadership on an as needed (currently annual) basis
  • Provide reports to regional leadership on a monthly basis to discuss current plans in progress for events.
  • Make sure post event reports are completed in a timely fashion
  • Additional duties as assigned by Regional Coordinator
  • Events leads in each quadrant will report directly to the Events Coordinator.
  • Collaborate with each Area Coordinator on event needs for each quadrant.

 

PPTQ Coordinator (1 position)

  • Maintain a current list of stores running PPTQs and the Head Judges
  • Manage a team of leads for PPTQ coordination system in each quadrant
  • Attend conferences with regional leadership on an as needed (currently annual) basis
  • Provide reports to regional leadership on a monthly basis on status of PPTQs
  • Additional duties as assigned by Regional Coordinator
  • PPTQ leads in each quadrant will report directly to the PPTQ Coordinator.
  • Collaborate with each Area Coordinator on PPTQ needs for each quadrant.

 

Advancement Coordinator (1 position)

  • Maintain a current list of potential candidates for level 2 and level 3 advancements
  • Collaborate with leads on creating and running advancement programs
  • Coordinate access to tests
  • Work with leads to create practice test content
  • Work with leads to create study content
  • Report out with regional leadership on a monthly basis on status of advancement each month
  • Attend conferences with regional leadership on an as needed (currently annual) basis
  • Additional Duties as assigned by Regional Coordinator
  • Advancement leads in each quadrant will report directly to the Advancement Coordinator.
  • Collaborate with each Area Coordinator on advancement needs for each quadrant.

 

Communications Coordinator (1 position)

  • Maintain all regional content calendars
  • Provide reports to regional leadership on a monthly basis on status of regional communications
  • Attend conferences with regional leadership on an as needed (currently annual) basis
  • Manage the regional blog
  • Manage the Judge Maps resources
  • Ensure that regional communications are well edited and language is clear
  • Additional duties as assigned by Regional Coordinator
  • Communications leads in each quadrant will report directly to the Communications Coordinator.
  • Collaborate with each Area Coordinator on communications needs for each quadrant.

 

Administrative Coordinator (1 position)

  • Creating a schedule for report outs each month with Area Coordinators, Specialty Coordinators, RC and Leads
  • Keeping detailed minutes from each report out and ensuring distribution through leadership
  • Creating agendas for monthly report outs
  • Maintain reminders for area leadership in regards to critical deadlines

 

Within each area there will be four leads. Each of these leads will be designated to one speciality, for a total of 16 lead positions in the region.  The leads are responsible for general oversight of their assigned specialty within their area and for creating teams to help implement and maintain the duties of each specialty.

 

Leads report to their respective Specialty and Area Coordinators.

 

Pretty cool, right? We are very excited about this new structure and the application process that we have created to go with it. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reach out to me at mtgjudgechandler@gmail.com