Vacancies Announcement and Request for Nominations to the Wild Planet Strategy Team The Conservation Governance Committee (CGC) wishes to solicit nominations and applications to fill four positions on the Wild Planet Strategy Team (WPST). Applications will be reviewed by the CGC with assistance from the WPST. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else for membership on the WPST, please complete the application below. For further information on the WPST please contact: Caroline Pufalt (WPST chair) 13415 Land O Woods #3 ST. Louis MO 63141 [log in to unmask] 314 878 3165 Please send your nomination to: Nick Aumen 3889 185 Trl Loxahachee FL 33470 2401 [log in to unmask] Deadline for nominations is June 30, 2003 APPLICATION FORM 1) Name, address, phone(s), e-mail address, and best times to reach you: 2) Club experience, including length of club membership, volunteer positions held, campaigns worked on 3) Other relevant experience and qualifications. 4) Why do you want to serve on the Wild Planet Strategy team? (100 words max please) 5) Names, phone, e-mail addresses of two references, including best times to reach them. THE WORK OF THE WPST: The WPST currently oversees the work of seven committees: Marine, Recreation Issues, Wildlife and Endangered Species, Rivers, Grazing, Forest Certification and State and Private Forests. Current members of the WPST are: Caroline Pufalt (chair) Dick Worthen(budget manager) Sharon Stepehns, Jerry Sutherland, Paul Wilson, Carolyn Carr, and Mike Prather. Staff liaison is Jessica Hodges and CGC liaison is Nick Aumen. In 2003 we will loose Paul Wilson, Carolyn Carr and Mike Prather due to tenure limitations and another commitments. The WPST welcomes applications from any Sierran interested in serving on a national level committee that deals with public lands, biodiversity, marine and other natural resource issues. These issues are at the core if the Club's mission. Our continiuing 2003 membership hails from the states of Missouri, Illinios, Minnesota and Oregon. Thus we are especially interested in applicants from regions not already represented in our membership. QUALIFICATIONS FOR STRATEGY TEAM MEMBERS Strategy Teams have from 5 to 9 members. The volunteer leaders on each strategy team should have broad knowledge and familiarity with many, if not all, of the issues for which that strategy team is responsible, have campaign experience, have good political judgment and some demonstrated management and people skills. Members of strategy teams should not advocate for one "pet" issue, nor represent one narrow issue focus, but be able to evaluate and establish priorities among all the competing demands in the core issue fairly. Strategy team members need to be willing to work on conservation and administrative matters. CHARGE TO STRATEGY TEAMS 1. Coordinate core conservation work, determining the best ways to address both priority and non priority issues that are the responsibility of the team. 2. Set issue work priorities and shift resources to reflect changing needs. 3. Create (and sunset) and fund committees, projects, working groups, and task forces to achieve the Club's conservation goals. 4. Educate, organize and support activist members. 5. Review the work of entities under the team and recommend budgets to the CGC. STRATEGY TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES WPST "jurisdiction" - National and International protected areas ( parks, wilderness, wild rivers etc.) biodiversity, wildlife, endangered species, public and private lands management issues ( such as forestry, grazing) watershed management, coastal and marine management, restoration issues, and Native American religious/holy sites. These issues at times overlap with the work of other strategy teams and in those cases strategy teams should coordinate and/or assign responsibility. Erin E. Jordahl Director, Iowa Chapter Sierra Club 3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280 Des Moines, IA 50310 515-277-8868 [log in to unmask] www.iowa.sierraclub.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask]