Description of Duties for Board Members and Staff
PRESIDENT
- Function as CEO of a non-profit organization;
- Preside over all meetings of the Board;
- Set the time and place of meetings and notify all Directors of such meetings;
- Prepare the agenda with the Secretary for meetings;
- Act as the liaison to outside organizations;
- Initiate new programs and implement changes to league structure;
- Be empowered to co-sign, with the Treasurer, checks and other financial obligations of the Corporation;
- Liaison to Mid-American District of USA Hockey.
VICE PRESIDENT
- Discipline and safesport (committee)
- Perform all duties and exercise all powers of President when the President is absent or otherwise unable to act;
- Oversee and lead the Grievance Committee;
- Perform all other duties as designated by the President.
DIRECTOR OF HOCKEY
- Supervise the entire scope of hockey related activities
- Communicating with families
- Provide leadership and strategy for on-ice and off-ice development for each team and the overall program
- Work with team managers and coaches to resolve/minimize any team level issues
- Facilitate and participate in the coach selection process
- Assist in assignment of all ice times across all teams and levels within the hockey program
- Develop camps and other sessions for player development
- Oversee tryouts for all levels.
- Be a resource to coaches regarding practice plans, providing ideas, drills
- Implement organization wide program plan
SECRETARY
- Keep minutes of all Board of Director meetings;
- Maintain a list of all members, non-members attendance at meetings;
- Perform the duties of the President in the absence of the President and Vice-President;
- Post the minutes of Board meetings on the website;
- Send notices to EYHA families of upcoming events and league information.
- Coordinate elections.
TREASURER
- Maintain records of all funds received and payments made;
- Make payment for all expenses authorized by the Board.
- Prior approval of the Board will be required for all expenses to be charged EYHA for services rendered by members and non-members for any purchases.
- Submit a financial report at regular Board meetings;
- Be empowered to sign checks and other financial obligations of EYHA, provided that all checks shall be countersigned by another Director;
- Prepare the annual budget to be presented at the October Board Meeting;
- Sees to the performance of an independent audit on an annual basis;
- The results of such an audit shall be presented to the Board of Directors and the membership annually at the September Board of Directors Meeting;
- Perform all other duties as designated by the President.
TRAVEL COORDINATOR
- Due to the nature of this role, the Travel Coordinator should be a highly qualified individual with an advanced knowledge of hockey, including but not limited to coaching and playing experience at a high level.
- Mentors and gives feedback to coaches. Helps out on the ice as needed.
- Works with the Director of Hockey to facilitate travel tryouts. This includes but is not limited to helping to evaluate players and running or assisting on-ice activities.
- Uses "Ice Hockey Systems" in order to prepare practice plans for EYHA camps.
- Work closely with ice scheduler to ensure ice times are equitable across all teams.
SELECT COORDINATOR
- Work closely with league ice scheduler; assisting the ice scheduler with any needs for the teams;
- Assist in creating a budget and review expenses for select team members;
- Help to disseminate information to the teams (such as fundraising opportunities, house photos, etc).
- Work with the director of Hockey to facilitate tryouts.
- Coordinate jersey orders with the Jersey Coordinator for all players on teams.
- Promote the select program and associated on ice/off ice training opportunities.
- Promote the select program and associated on ice/off ice training opportunities
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF HOCKEY
- Due to the nature of this role, the Assistant Hockey Director should be a highly qualified individual with an advanced knowledge of hockey including but not limited to coaching and playing experience at a high level.
- Assist the Director by fielding questions and helping to resolve issues with the membership.
- Assist the Director by helping to develop and implement a strategy for on-ice and off-ice development.
- Work with team managers, coaches, and the director to minimize or resolve any team level issues.
- Assist in the development of camps and other sessions for player development. This may include on ice instruction.
- Help oversee tryouts for all levels.
- Be a resource to coaches regarding practice plans, providing ideas, drills or areas of focus.
- Assist in the facilitation of the coaches meetings
FUNDRAISING COORDINATOR
- Secure sponsorships
- Community fundraising for the organization
- Act as liaison between fundraising vendors and organization, collect funds and deliver to treasurer
- Act as fundraising spokesperson to organization members and answer questions through email, text and phone
- Work with organization treasurer to make sure fundraising funds are deposited timely in organization account and further applied to necessary accounts (provide spreadsheets)
- Use OneCause fundraising software to create sponsorship and other fundraising pages for sponsors to pledge.
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
- Responsible for coordinating and securing volunteers for EYHA sponsored events. (i.e. Evaluations, pictures, raffle baskets)
- Chooses a photographer for teams and coordinates the scheduling for that.
- Assists in securing volunteers for Premiere team games.
Social Media Coordinator
- Facebook and Instagram editor of official EYHA page
- Create infographics to post on social media and the website
- Promote and publicize EYHA events (camps, checking clinics, tryout registrations, etc)
COLUMBUS MAVERICKS REPRESENTATIVE
- Reports to EYHA about the Mavericks organization
- Organizes volunteers for Mavericks games
- Provides juniors team players to assist with EYHA practices.
UNIFORM AND SPIRITWEAR COORDINATOR
Uniform
- Source EYHA team uniforms, ensuring high quality, competitive pricing, and appropriate delivery timing;
- Coordinate with team managers and coaches proper sizing, players’ names, and numbers;
- Track deliveries and oversee distribution of uniforms to team managers, coaches, and/or players;
- Assist players in solving any uniform issues
Spirit wear
- Partner with Jr Mavs liaison to source EYHA logowear, ensuring high quality, competitive pricing, and appropriate delivery timing;
- Work with vendor to set up online spiritwear shop;
- Organize pop-up shopping events with vendor and Jr Mavs.
Staff: Ice Scheduler/Registrar
Registrar
- Assist the Director of Hockey in coordinating tryouts, camps, and clinics, by creating registrations on the website
- Verify that all players/coaches are registered with USA Hockey, and that all coaches are properly vetted
- Collect the following for every EYHA player: Lindsey’s Law paperwork, Code of Conduct policy forms, and USA Hockey Medical Consent to Treat form. Sort the medical forms by team and ensure that the team managers keep the forms with them, in their team binder, during all team events.
- Produce team rosters for all coaches and players submit to Mid Am for approval. Ensure team managers receive a copy of their approved USA Hockey Roster
Scheduler
- Obtain ice time from the Chiller Association and distribute amongst all EYHA teams and programs
- Communicate changes in established schedules to appropriate team representatives (coaches and managers)
- When ice cannot be used by assigned team(s), scheduler will work to reassign the ice time or give it back to the Chiller (must be done 30 days in advance)
- Complete weekly Ice Schedule Reviews with the Chiller scheduler, which will also assist Treasurer with reconciliation of the amount billed;
- Keep a record of all ice time scheduled for EYHA.
- Update the website with new registrations and schedule additions/changes.
- Procures referees through 614 Ice Refs.
STAFF: SKILLS COACHES
- Work with Hockey Direction and Assistant Hockey Director to run on ice camps and clinics.
- Pand and publish practice plans prior to ice times.
- Assist select program with practice plans and player development
- Promote EYHA program