<aside> 📌 Discussing the director positions that you will need to run a successful chapter.

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Roles you need in a leadership team

At minimum, you would need the following roles filled on your executive board to get started for your first project team

1. Two Co-Execs (+ operations, finance, misc.)
2. Engineering
3. Product (+ project sourcing)
4. Design (+ marketing)

Below you can find more specific details on all of the possible director roles that could be helpful to have on your team. However again, to get started you are only required to have the above roles filled out.

Executive Director(s)

• Managing and Directing all the divisions
• Be the face of Hack4Impact for your chapter
• Make sure that all projects get delivered
• Check in with project teams
• Ensure social impact is kept at the center of our work
• Anything and Everything Else!

Engineering Director

• Support & educate devs and tech leads
  • JavaScript-based web applications using the MERN stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS)
• Run a development bootcamp
• Host workshops, speaker events, joint events, etc
• Work with deployment of all team projects
• Ensure high code quality

Design Director

• Supports and educates all designers
• Run a design bootcamp
• Host workshops, speaker events, joint events, etc
• Ensure accessibility in the designs
• Facilitate design critiques to provide feedback and resources to designers

Marketing Director

• design the brand of the chapter and other marketing materials (with some help from design potentially)
• Social Media management and campaigns → helping with recruitment and acknowledgment from the school especially, reputation
• highlight our nonprofit partners work!
• Brand guide is something you may also be interested in later on

Operations Director

• Keep people engaged and excited about H4I
• Providing opportunities for members of the club to socialize with and meet each other
• Maintain an active roster of members and alumni
• schedule and organize logistics for club wide activities like community events and general meetings
  1. launch party
  2. demo day
  3. social/community events
  4. etc
• Furthering the chapters relationships with the University and neighboring communities

Director of Finance

• Managing club finances and working with corporate sponsors.
• Maintaining budget (making sure you know what money you school could give you!)
• Getting reimbursed for club purchases
• Determining how projects will be paid for
  • Often times, domain costs for nonprofits thats cool, if not that needs to be clearly communicated to the nonprofit

Director of Product

• A Product Manager is the leader on a project team who manages the "product" — typically a web app — that the team ultimately delivers to their nonprofit, community, or internal partners at the conclusion of the project timeline.
• In practice, product management is about balancing the constraints of the project — things like the needs of the partner, the team dynamic, and the project timeline — to solve a problem for the partner that, when overcome, will enable them to achieve their own mission better.
• educate and help project teams

Outreach/Project Sourcing

• Improve the framework/process of building partnerships with new nonprofits
• Identify new channels to find nonprofits to partner with and help them find you
• Identify and communicate with nonprofits we're considering partnerships with for the coming semester by discussing their product needs and developing a proposal
• lead the decision making process to decide which projects will be taken for the following project cycle with the other directors based on metrics like cost, skill level, and time

The election process

Each division is important to the functioning of the chapter. To determine initial roles amongst yourself:

1. Decide how many and which positions you want to start out with (between 5 and 6 positions)
2. Talk through both interests and experience
3. Rank your preferred positions!

Most chapters don’t have an expert in every single one of these areas! If you don’t, there are several resources that you can tap in for help! Consider asking people you know who may be a good fit for the vacant Director role or reach out to different clubs to share the opportunity.

Week 1 Action Items

• Set up a reoccurring calendar invite for your weekly 1on1 with a Hack4Impact Nationals Representative