Call for Nominations: Director-Membership Services, Director-Industrial Relations, Director-Student Services and Chair, Young Professionals Subcommittee

Nikos Sidiropoulos
SPS Vice President-Membership

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) invites nominations for the positions of: Director-Membership Services, Director-Industrial Relations, Director-Student Services and Young Professionals Subcommittee Chair. The term for the Director positions, as well as the Young Professionals Subcommittee Chair position is three years (1 January 2018-31 December 2020).

The Director-Membership Services is responsible for identifying value/benefit/services to members and recommending policy/mechanism for recruiting members; developing programs and material to facilitate member recruiting and services; maintaining and developing contacts with leadership and membership constituents; and providing proper communication channels and feedback. The Director is a voting member of the Membership Board and a non-voting, ex-officio member of both the Conference and Publications Boards. The Director-Membership Services chairs the Membership Services Committee. The Director-Industrial Relations is responsible for identifying value/benefit/services to attract/retain industrial members; developing programs and material to facilitate industrial member recruiting and services; maintaining and developing contacts with leadership and industrial constituents; and providing proper communication channels and feedback. The Director is a voting member of the Membership Board and a non-voting, ex-officio member of both the Conference and Publications Boards. The Director-Industrial Relations chairs the Industrial Relations Committee.

The Director-Student Services is responsible for identifying value/benefit/services to Student members and recommending policy/mechanism for recruiting Student members; developing programs and material to facilitate Student member recruiting and services; maintaining and developing contacts with leadership and Student membership constituents; and providing proper communication channels and feedback. The Director is a voting member of the Membership Board and a non-voting, ex-officio member of the Conference Board. The Director-Student Services chairs the Student Services Committee. The Young Professionals Subcommittee Chair heads the Young Professionals Subcommittee and is responsible for identifying value/benefit/services to young professional members and recommend policy/mechanism for recruiting young professional members; develop programs and material to facilitate young professional member recruiting and services; maintaining and developing contacts with leadership and membership constituents; and providing proper communication channels and feedback.

The Young Professionals Subcommittee Chair is a voting member of the Membership Services Committee. Nominations should be submitted to Theresa Argiropoulos via t.argiropoulos@ieee.org on behalf of Nikos Sidiropoulos, SPS Vice President-Membership. When making your nomination, please provide the following information:

• Name of candidate,
• Member Number,
• Contact information,
• Brief biography including information about current SP, IEEE, or other Society, as well other volunteer activities (paragraph style, not bullets).

Nominations must be received no later than 9 June 2017. The call for nominations can be found on the Society’s website at this link.