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Canberra Birds Committee
Do you want to influence the direction of Canberra Birds? Do you have ideas about how we could enhance our current activities? Are you passionate about birds, want to contribute to conservation, or just want to be more involved? Have
you considered joining the Canberra Birds Committee?
We are seeking members to join the Committee as we embark on our next phase as Canberra Birds.
About your Committee
The Committee provides leadership, direction and governance for Canberra Birds. The Committee comprises the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary and up to 10 general members.
Our range of activities and responsibilities offer opportunities for members with a broad range of skills and experience. Current Committee members have diverse experience and expertise drawn from conservation, education, the public
sector, research, science, and policy. You do not need specialist skills or experience in birds (although this would be highly valued), simply a willingness to work with others, to learn and to take responsibility for specific activities.
Role of a Committee Member
- Time commitment is on a yearly basis
- Participate in an online meeting once a month for 1.5 hours, and contribute to out-of-session discussion and decisions
- Prepare for the meeting by reading papers and contribute from your background and expertise.
- Ensure the business of Canberra Birds is carried out in accordance with the law under the terms of our Rules of Association.
- Contribute to a working group or project that builds on your particular talents and interests – designing brochures, drafting conservation submissions, rebuilding our website or databases, visiting
community groups.
- Share ideas, initiate projects, and keep Canberra Birds fresh and current!
If you have an interest in IT and/or web design, have a flair for writing, a talent for project management and/or ideas and enthusiasm for community engagement, then do consider getting involved.
Our areas of focus for next year include improving our community profile through social media and brochures/publication, organising how we record bird survey data and produce a new Annual Bird report, redesigning our website and streamlining
our membership processes.
‘Try Before you Buy’
If you’re interested, but unsure about how the Committee functions, you are very welcome to come to one or more of our meetings as an observer, or shadow another Committee member for a month, so that you can experience the range of
issues addressed and whether being a Committee member is for you.
Also, if you’re interested in participating in a particular activity planned for next year (or beyond), or any other ongoing Canberra Birds activity, but are unable to commit to being a Committee member, we’d love to hear from you.
There will be lots of scope for members to be involved in specific projects or activities, or parts of them, as we progress.
The nomination form is available from
https://canberrabirds.org.au/about-cog/annual-reports/. Nominations need the support of two members and the endorsement of the nominee. All three people must be members of Canberra Birds.
Completed forms can be scanned and emailed to Nominations must be received by the Secretary no later than 6 November.
Alternatively, members can nominate at the AGM, but these nominations can only progress if there are vacancies on the committee after accepting the nominations of members who are nominated a week in advance.
Interested?
Contact Kim Farley or Julie Hotchin to find out more about what being a member of the Committee involves or if you’d like more information about how to be involved in specific activities.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Kim Farley and Julie Hotchin
