Call for Nominations: Executive Board Secretary, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations

ADHO is governed by two boards: a Constituent Organization Board (COB) and an Executive Board (EB); all of these positions have a relationship to both Boards and include highly visible and necessary responsibilities for ADHO’s work internationally.  If you’re interested in helping ADHO and the worldwide DH community become a more transparent, inclusive, and beneficial home for the many organizations and individuals that make up our community, then please consider becoming a candidate for one of these volunteer offices.

Terms will commence after the 2020 Digital Humanities Conference and will last for three years, ending after the DH conference in 2023. A description of the roles is below. All members of ADHO Constituent Organizations (COs) and Associate Organizations (AOs), listed below, are eligible.

• aaDH – Australasian Association for Digital Humanities
• ACH – Association for Computers and the Humanities
• AIUCD- Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digital
• centerNet
• CSDH/SCHN – Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques
• CzADH – Czech Association for Digital Humanities
• DHASA – Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa
• DHd – Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum
• DHN – Digital humaniora i Norden
• DH Russia – Russian Association for Digital Humanities
• EADH – European Association for Digital Humanities
• Humanistica, L’association francophone des humanités numériques/digitales
• JADH – Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
• RedHD – Red de Humanidades Digitales
• TADH – Taiwanese Association for Digital Humanities

Please nominate yourself or someone else for these roles by 19 July 2020 by sending an email to secretary@adho.org. If self-nominating, please send a brief statement of your expertise and motivation as well as a brief CV (2 pages). If you are nominating someone else, the ADHO Executive Board will contact them for the relevant materials.

ADHO Executive Board Secretary

The ADHO Executive Board Secretary works closely with the EB, the Constituent Organization Board (COB), and occasionally with various officers of the Constituent Organizations, to organize, record, and communicate ADHO governance meetings, documents, decisions, and action items. They also serve as record keepers, holders of institutional memory, and reference sources for ADHO policy, decisions, and custom.
In the first year (2020-21) the incumbent will act as ADHO EB Deputy Secretary, working in coordination with the current EB Secretary. In the following two years (2021-23) they will take on the full responsibilities of the role with a new Deputy Secretary appointed in the third year.  The Secretary is appointed by the COB and reports to the Executive Board (EB).

Responsibilities

• In consultation with the Chair of the EB, to provide notices of meeting times and places, and request contributions of items for, prepare and distribute agendas.
• To record and distribute the minutes of all meetings. To maintain and monitor a calendar of important dates, which includes times and terms of service, and action-item reminders.
• To maintain the records of the Alliance.