Key Facts

Remote From:

Austria , United States

Full time

English

Hard Skills

User Feedback Sensitivity Analysis

Other Skills

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Client Confidentiality
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Collaboration
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Communication

Roles & Responsibilities

Ability to give and receive feedback with minimal defensiveness
Capacity to work sensitively and cooperatively with others
Ability to keep confidentiality about personal conversations and assessments
Understanding of UUA structure, governance, and pressing associational issues

Requirements:

Publicize committee openings
Interview volunteers
Check references
Communicate with committee chairs, Board, and Appointments Committee

Unitarian Universalist Association

About Unitarian Universalist Association

The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a religious organization that combines two traditions: the Universalists, who organized in 1793, and the Unitarians, who organized in 1825. They consolidated into the UUA in 1961. Both groups trace their roots in North America to the early Massachusetts settlers and to the founders of the Republic. Overseas, their heritages reach back centuries to pioneers in England, Poland, and Transylvania. Each of the 1,000+ congregations in the United States, Canada, and overseas are democratic in polity and operation; they govern themselves. They unite in the Association to provide services that individual congregations cannot provide for themselves. Each congregation is associated with one of the UUA’s 19 districts. Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion with Jewish-Christian roots. It has no creed. It affirms the worth of human beings, advocates freedom of belief and the search for advancing truth, and tries to provide a warm, open, supportive community for people who believe that ethical living is the supreme witness of religion.

Founded: 2018

Company size: 201 - 500

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Job description

Purpose: The Nominating Committee nominates volunteers for all positions elected by the General Assembly except for President and Moderator.

Key responsibilities: Publicize committee openings (volunteer opportunities), interview volunteers, check references, communicate with committee chairs, communicate with Board, communicate with Appointments Committee

Skills needed:

Be able to openly give and receive feedback regarding presentation and style with minimal defensiveness.
Capacity to work sensitively and cooperatively with others.
An ability to keep confidentiality about personal conversations and assessments.
Have an understanding of the UUA structure, governance and an awareness of pressing associational issues and needs.
Have some experience with other selection and nominating committees i.e. at church or cluster level.

Length of Term: 3 years, with the possibility of one additional term

Meetings: 1 in person 2-3 day meeting, 1 meeting at GA, several videoconference meetings throughout the year

Additional Information: Volunteers on the Committee spend extensive time discussing candidates, recruiting, attending to reference checks, and interviewing.

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