Volunteer Opportunities

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The Great Lakes Chapter is always looking for members who want to be more involved with the chapter. This is a great way to support the growth of the chapter and earn valuable PDUs for re-certification. We are currently in need of volunteers for a number of committee projects in progress. In an effort to match your interests and skills with the Chapter's needs, we need some information from you. If you are interested in helping out on one of our committee projects, please fill out the Chapter Volunteer Information Form and send it to our Director of Volunteer Program  and you will be put in touch with the committee chair.

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Manager of Publicity

Summary:

Assists PMI-GLC VP Sponsorship and Marketing by planning, developing, and generating all chapter external publicity.  Participates in development of marketing initiatives and PMI-GLC event publicity.  Almost exclusively uses phone and email for communications, and rarely conducts personal visits to offices of prospective marketing outlets within the region.  Expected time requirements are roughly 4 hours per month.

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Proactively seek information from Programs, Professional Development, Outreach teams to identify member facing activities.
  • Prepare materials to be sent out via emails by the Communications team or by Marketing using Vertical Response tool in a format that draws attention for events and GLC offerings.
  • Attend events and take video clips and pictures of events to be placed on website.  PMIGL has a camcorder that we can provide.
  • Attend events and provide support for TVOD (Transactional Video on Demand) efforts with Professional Development and other groups – set-up of equipment, recording of event, technical support and loading of videos to TVOD vendor/application and/or website.
  • This person will receive no-fee admission to PMIGL activities/events including: Dinner Meetings, Forums, Symposium, and some of the PD and Outreach activities that require day of event attendance to collect pictures, surveys, etc.
  • Explore other opportunities to publicize the Open House, Scholarships, PD classes,... etc. such as other news websites, radio etc., and get cost estimates.
  • Maintain a rolling publicity plan for internal communication review/development and external publicity development and push using Vertical Response tool.
  • Maintain a forward-looking activity/event Publicity coverage plan.  The volunteer obviously cannot attend ALL PMIGL events.  So, the volunteer shall plan for Publicity coverage using other Marketing volunteers and PMIGL volunteers to provide coverage and ensure event attendance and Publicity the function operates smoothly.
  • Store event pictures and videos, and work with Communications to provide event picture access to PMIGL members using Picasa.
Sponsor Care Specialist

Summary:

Assists PMIGL Director of Sponsorship and Marketing by growing professional relationships with contacts at local area companies and cultivates a sponsoring partnership agreement with the company and PMI Great Lakes (PMIGL).  Participates in development of marketing initiatives.  Almost exclusively uses phone and email for sponsor communications, and occasionally conducts personal visits to offices of prospective sponsors and marketing outlets within the region.  Expected time requirements are roughly 4 hours per month.

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Uses sponsor historical involvement and contact information provided by Director, his/her own personal research, and other PMIGC Board Of Director member contacts to follow-up during regular working hours and occasionally in person with prospective sponsors.
  • Uses Marketing annual income goals to target and present various sponsorship offerings to prospective sponsor companies.
  • Proposes different event and advertising sponsorship options with PMIGC to prospective sponsoring companies.
  • Participates in identified efforts to increase PMIGC exposure and business relationships with new companies thru new marketing efforts.
  • Schedules discussions with prospective sponsors by phone call and/or email.
  • Meets with current sponsoring companies to retain sponsorship
  • Dresses in professional business casual attire while visiting prospective sponsors.
  • Participates in brief, periodic sponsorship and marketing status phone calls with Director and others, as required.
One-day, One-Month Gigs

Description

  • One-Day and One-Month volunteer support roles with PMIGLC are available, as-required, and on a FCFS basis based on project headcount needs.  In addition to the event one-day, the project team will likely have planning meetings leading up to the event that you will be required to call-in to.  If you'd like to be considered for a One-Day Volunteer Gig like Symposium, PDD, or another event, please complete a volunteer application and indicate that role.
  • Keep in-mind that PMIGLC has many full-year volunteer roles that require no more than an hour per week time committment to fulfill.  However, sometimes work schedules and life demands inhibit a year-long volunteer role for a brief period of time. 

Contact Information

Director Volunteer Management, director.volunteermangement@pmiglc.org