IGFOA | Career Development Committee

CAREER DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

Provides technical, informational and skill-building courses widely recognized for quality, relevance to current needs and contribution to individual professional development.

IGFOA Career Development Teams	Accounting & Financial Reporting	Budgeting and Revenue	Cash Management	Debt Management	Illinois Public Pensions	Support Staff	Hot Topics & Admin	Government Finance Foundations	Cooperative Programs
Committee Chair Pam Figolah, Village of Roselle	Team Leaders Fred Lantz and Brian LeFevre, Sikich LLP	Team Leader Jim Egeberg, Village of Westchester	Team Leader Cynthia Evangelisti, Chicago Park District	Team Leader Richard Schnuer, City of Champaign	Team Leader Tim Sexton, Village of Lombard	Team Leaders Mark Horton, Village of Oswego and Mary Johnson, Village of Streamwood	Team Leader Bill Hannah, Village of North Aurora	Team Leader David Erb, Village of Mount Prospect	Open
Seminars	Basic Governmental Accounting	Basic Local Government Budgeting	Basic Public Funds Management	Basic Debt Management	Understand-ing Local government public pensions	Support Staff varying topics	Basic local government purchasing	Talking about government finance	Hot Topics for Overlapping Governments
	Intermediate Governmental Accounting	Advanced Local Government Budgeting	Public Funds Management Institute	Debt Management Institute	Illinois Public Pension Institute	Utility Billing	Hot Topic Conference	All About Local Government	Joint Conference with Wisconsin GFOA
	Advanced Governmental Accounting	Capital Improvement Planning	Hot Topics in Public Funds Management	Hot Topics in Debt Management		Payroll	Additional Hot Topics seminars as needed	Introductory 101 seminars on demand	Local Government Ethics Workshop
	Local Government Financial Reporting	Property Tax Institute	Local Government Investment Policies and Procedures						Public Finance Law Institute with ILGL
	Accounting & Internal Control Policies	Basic local government revenue	Cash Flow Analysis

Career Development Committee Volunteer Position Descriptions:

Committee Chair: The Chair of the Career Development Committee is appointed by the IGFOA President and typically serves a three-year term. The Chair’s responsibilities as outlined in the Executive Board policy include (refer to policies for additional information):
∙ Developing annual objectives and work plan for the committee,
∙ Advise the Executive Director of any particular needs for resources or services of the committee for inclusion in the annual budget,
∙ Work with Board Liaison to assure that the committee is responsive to the Board’s policy direction and goals,
∙ Coordinate activities with the Executive Director to assure committee activities do not conflict, but rather complement, activities of other committees, chapters and the Board,
∙ Review and update roster of committee members to assure all members are active and committee has adequate volunteers to carry out the work plan,
∙ Recruit new committee members as needed,
∙ Plan, notice and conduct meetings of the committee as needed to meet the objectives of the committee,
∙ Work with Executive Director to plan and host at Instructors’ Skills Workshops.
∙ Assign duties and responsibilities to all committee members and establish sub-committees as necessary to complete the committee’s work, and
∙ Prepare a written progress report of committee activities and status of attaining objectives.

Curriculum Team Leaders: are appointed by the Career Development Committee Chair and typically serves a three-year term. Team Leaders meet with the Committee Chair and Executive Director up to six times each year, with most meetings held by teleconference and at least one planning meeting held in person. The Team Leader’s responsibilities include:
 Participate in scheduled committee meetings to update the Curriculum Development Plan as needed, develop the annual schedule of training seminars, review seminar evaluation reports and discuss areas for improvement, recommend policies and practices to the Executive Board, and to share information and ideas to improve the IGFOA curriculum.
 Recruit Coordinators for each planned seminar and coach the Coordinator regarding their role and responsibilities. Team leaders may choose to also serve as Coordinator for seminar(s) as appropriate.
 Work with Coordinators and other volunteers as needed to develop new seminars, including agenda, attendees’ material, and instructional curriculum guides.
 Review draft agendas for each seminar with Coordinator and advise Coordinator in the selection of seminar instructors.
 Encourage Coordinators and instructors to participate in Career Development Committee Instructor Skills workshops.
 Monitor Coordinators progress in meeting deadlines and providing information and materials as specified in seminar planning calendar. Alert Committee Chair and Executive Director of difficulties in planning and delivering seminars. Work with Coordinators to assure seminars delivered as planned.
 Work with Coordinators and recruit additional volunteers as necessary to periodically review seminar materials and update as needed.

Seminar Coordinators: are appointed by the respective Career Development Committee Team Leader. The Team may hold a planning meeting in person or via teleconference. The Seminar Coordinator typically recruits and coordinates Instructors via conference calls and e-mails. Refer to the Career Development Planning Calendar for specific deadlines. The Coordinator’s responsibilities include:
 Participate in scheduled meetings of their assigned topic team to review the annual schedule of training seminars, assign responsibility for various seminars amongst the coordinators, review the seminar planning calendar and discuss how to meet target dates, review their team’s seminar evaluation reports and discuss areas for improvement, and share information and ideas to improve the team’s seminars.
 Draft agenda and potential instructor assignments for assigned seminar to review with Team Leader.
 Recruit instructors for assigned seminar and coach the instructors regarding their role and responsibilities.
 Monitor instructors’ progress in meeting deadlines and providing information and materials as specified in seminar planning calendar. Alert Team Leader of difficulties in planning and delivering seminars. Work with instructors to assure seminars delivered as planned.
 Encourage instructors to participate in Career Development Committee Instructor Skills workshops.
 Work with Team Leader and recruit additional volunteers as necessary to periodically review seminar materials and update as needed.

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