Volunteer Opportunities

1-General Volunteers

AVP - Assistant to Board VP

Board Members for Elections

Director, Systems Administration

Events Marketing Team Lead

Board Sponsor: Kristen Vincenty, VP Marketing

Volunteer Hours: 4 to 8 hours per month

** Volunteer PDUs can be earned with this role, up to 5-10 per year**

Volunteer here:

Use the following form to submit your interest in volunteering for this role:

Volunteer Application

Questions/Inquiries: If you have any further questions about this role, contact: Kristen Vincenty, VP of Marketing, marketing@pmiswohio.org

Volunteer Role Description:

Lead Summit 2021 Marketing team and be the Marketing representative of the Summit Core Team, as an extension of the VP of Marketing. Ensure timely collaboration, escalation, planning, & delivery with overall Summit Coordinator & VP of Training.
Rope & wrangle the to-do's as an individual contributor and the team lead for overseeing the work of these roles that need filled:

Marketing Communications & Creative Creations Manager
Video Production & Editing Manager
Graphics Design Manager

Duties:

Prioritized as part of Summit 2021 Events Team and also working as part of overall Marketing Team:

Plan, collaborate, negotiate, & escalate to ensure quality delivery of event communications, graphics, and overall content to maximizes understanding & experiences for members & non-members for the Chapter Event(s).
Ensure timely and relevant collaboration with VP of Marketing on communications schedule to the Chapter membership and interested non-members through all social media avenues.
Ensure timely and relevant collaboration with Events & Marketing Team on communications schedule to the Chapter membership and interested non-members through all social media avenues.
Collaborate with overall Events Team to drive alignment & decisions on project deliveries.

Explore future opportunities for leadership & team development, including one’s own goals for professional development & Chapter involvement.

Prerequisites:

Leadership soft skills & comfort with negotiating work distribution. Works independently and brings experience using Microsoft Office/M365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & Teams. Comfortable coordinating with new teams to build work plans & develop relationships. Understands the basics of Kanban for managing work in a team.

Term Start Date: 8/1/2021

Term End Date: 12/1/2021

Number of Openings: 1

Checkout more leads on volunteer opportunites here - https://pmiswohio.org/volunteer/volunteer-opportunities

Graphics Design Manager

Highlighting Local Projects - Webinar Host

In-person Events Committee

Join our In-person Events Committee

All PMI Southwest Ohio activities and events will be held virtually through remainder of 2021, and we are launching an "In-person Events Committee" to provide guidance & policies in late Q4-2021 for returning in-person for early Q1-2022. Please sign up here to join the committee!

It has and still is a difficult & complex situation to navigate, and this was not taken lightly; it was decided by PMI SWO Board vote from information gathered in PMI public member forums, PMI public member survey, 25 July 2021 Guidance for PMI GHQ, local guidance across the Tri-state, local & regional employer guidance, and overall governing & advising bodies globally. We need help to charter & execute a Committee for:

Team Leadership and liaising between Board & Committee
Legal & advisory site navigation as well as coordination with PMI SWO Insurance Policy Guidance
Policy, process, & procedure creation as well as collaboration with PMI GHQ
Content to maximize understanding, experiences, and consistency
Execution Framework & structure to follow processes & procedures
Escalation Framework for handling obstacles, issues, & shut-down

Prerequisites:

Leadership soft skills & comfort with negotiating work distribution. Works independently and brings experience using Microsoft Office/M365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & Teams. Comfortable coordinating with new teams to build work plans & develop relationships. Understands the basics of Kanban for managing work in a team. Ideally have at least one team member who has worked on a COVID-19/Coronavirus taskforce before.

Board Sponsor: Dan Eslinger, President Elect

Volunteer Hours: 4 to 8 hours per month

** Volunteer PDUs can be earned with this role, up to 5-10 per year**

Volunteer here:

Use the following form to submit your interest in volunteering for this role:

Volunteer Application Form

Questions/Inquiries: If you have any further questions about this role, contact: Dan Eslinger, president-elect@pmiswohio.org

Checkout more leads on volunteer opportunites here - https://pmiswohio.org/volunteer/volunteer-opportunities

Marketing Communications & Creative Creations Manager

Mentoring

The PMI Southwest Ohio Chapter Mentoring Program provides mentoring opportunities for current members. This program is designed to encourage and facilitate growth in project management knowledge, professionalism, and skills in alignment with PMI and Southwest Ohio Chapter goals. The PMI Southwest Ohio Mentoring Team will facilitate the pairing of mentor / mentee after receiving completed applications. The mentoring relationships will be conducted between the mentor / mentee pairs with the meeting frequency and schedule agreed upon at the beginning of the program. The partners will then conduct their meetings, give one another feedback and rate the overall program. The time commitment will be up to the mentoring pair. However, a minimum of 1-2 hours per month is highly recommended. To apply for this program all participants must be a member of the PMI Southwest Ohio Chapter.

Mentoring is a professional relationship in which an experienced person (the mentor) assists another (the mentee) in developing specific skills and knowledge that will enhance the less-experienced person’s professional and personal growth. Thus, it is basically a learning and development partnership between someone with skills and expertise and someone who wants to learn.

The program provides mentors with an opportunity to:

Enhance leadership skills by sharing their knowledge and experience
Assist with skills like problem-solving and goal-setting
Act as guides and advisors
Create an innovative environment
Build present and future alliances
Grow their reputation within and outside their community

The program provides mentees with an opportunity to, for example:

Learn from experienced project managers
Reflect on effects of personal attributes and behaviors
Define professional goals and use relevant methods to achieve them
Have access to an alternate line of communication for project related matters

PMI Southwest Ohio Mentoring Program Application for Mentees
The following applications provides the basis for making appropriate pairings between Mentors and Mentees. The more detailed information provided, the better able the Program Manager is to match you with a mentoring partner.

Interested in becoming a mentor? Click here to apply.

Mentees, please click here to to apply.

For additional inquiries about our mentoring program, please email mentoring@pmiswohio.org.

Outreach

Outreach Opportunities

Check out our Outreach News

What can you do in Outreach?

VOLUNTEER

i. Academic Outreach – Secondary Education

ii. Academic Outreach – Colleges & Universities

iii. Community & Military Outreach

i. ACADEMIC OUTREACH - Secondary Education

Deer Park High Project Management Academy - 101

PMI Southwest Ohio Chapter needs Professional Project Managers who are seeking to contribute to "up & coming" academic communities as a Volunteer Subject Matter Expert for the Project Management Academy. Volunteers will help Students explore the ways a professional project manager earns his or her keep by sharing stories from real life careers.

No requirements to create anything, no certifications required - only bring your invested professional experience in project management & your time to help PM Academy students!

How long does it take?
Volunteers only need to commit a minimum of 1 hour to add great value. We are accepting volunteers for the current academic year. If you cannot attend onsite or remotely during the available time slots, we'd still be more than happy to have you contribute in other ways by emailing outreach-pmief@pmiswohio.org

5-10 minutes preparatory review online - of provided materials before scheduled sessions to fuel a good story.
Arrive 5-10 minutes before scheduled sessions - to setup with the Instructor, onsite or remotely.
Participate when guided by Instructor during scheduled sessions – at least 50 minutes per session.
Possibly answer questions after the session

Participate multiple times a week, month, or year across an entire academic calendar year.

Participate multiple times a day, week, or year across an entire academic calendar year, where Volunteers may choose to contribute as much as 4 hours per day covering all 4 sessions each day.

What do I need to do?
Volunteers will simply be themselves and have stories in mind to share with the topics the Instructor is presenting.

No requirements to create anything, no certifications required - only bring your invested professional experience in project management & your time to help PM Academy is students!
The Instructor distributes & presents all content, and then looks to Volunteers to help answer questions about real-world use of the concepts by rotating through Student Cohorts.
Volunteers prepare a story or two from their experience to enhance & relate to PMI best practices, with topics & materials in advance on a shared website for electronic review.

Materials were already created during the Academy Curriculum Creation Workshops held in 2015. Curriculum includes 7 Units plus exams and capstone presentation for each 18-week semester, with 2 semesters per academic year.

Where do I need to go & when?
The Academy offers weekly unique Volunteer Service opportunities either in-person or attending remotely. Please participate with whatever time you have to give.

Onsite Live Volunteer - Deer Park High School in the Career Academies Building at 8351 Plainfield Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45236.
Virtual Live Volunteer - using Google Hangouts with Deer Park High School technology.
Scheduled classes occur each weekday. Student Cohorts are spread consistently across the scheduled classes per day consecutively - Student Cohorts are spread consistently across the scheduled classes per day consecutively, in PM 101 and PM 201 courses.

Can I Earn PDUs?
If you are required to achieve standards as part of the Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) Program, this opportunity is part of the “Giving Back to the Profession” category. Credential-holders may earn PDUs by providing volunteer, non-compensated project management services to a non-employer or non-client group. Project Management Academy allows volunteers to provide mentoring and coaching through this program that is relevant to project management, meeting the specified purpose per Topic in each of 7 Units, while using knowledgeable resources. PMP credential holders may manually self-submit to PMI one (1) PDU for each hour of this non-compensated service.

What is Deer Park Career Academies?
Deer Park Jr./Sr. High School added Deer Park Career Academies to the electives available to its students in 7th through 12th grades, enhancing the real world career experience in an exploratory setting. After successful completion in its initial 2015/16 academic year, Deer Park intends to continue “Project Management Academy” as its third academy offering. This was created in partnership with the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI Southwest Ohio Chapter, and curriculum architect Doug Arthur of Transform Consulting.

Partners involved in the program are piloting opportunities for Senior High School Students to advance to the next course levels in progressively applying their 101 course level work into enhanced, real-life project management application via joint projects with other areas of the DPHS Career Academies offerings in subsequent semesters.

This 18-week course will introduce high school students to the principles of project management and give them the experience of applying these principles to both their ultimate career aspirations and the everyday “project management challenges” of every high school student. The course will survey the PMBOK and touch all key domains, from scope, time, and cost to risk, integration, and stakeholder management. Teams will spend the semester working on a capstone community service project that they will pitch to a panel of PMI SMEs at the end of the course, simulating an attempt to “win the contract” to do the work.

Partners involved in the program will begin exploring opportunities to offer Senior High School Students the next course to progressively apply their 101 course level work into enhanced, real-life project management application via joint projects with other areas of the DPHS Career Academies offerings in subsequent semesters.

Click here to Volunteer for Deer Park High School's Career Academies!

ii. ACADEMIC OUTREACH - Colleges & Universities

Deer Park High Project Management 201

Course Summary
Students who have completed Project Management 101 are candidates to participate in Project Management 201 at Deer Park Career Academies.

In this 18-week elective, students are placed on teams of up to five members. They spend the semester planning and executing a project that they select from a master list of 30 approved projects, utilizing skills they learned in PM101. The role of “project manager” for each team is rotated around the team members during the semester to ensure each student has adequate time in the PM role.

Each team is assigned to a professional project manager as their coach. After an initial face-to-face kick-off meeting at the school, the coach joins his/her team on-line (Skype, Google Hangout, etc.) for a 15-minute guidance and oversight session at a minimum once per week during the remaining 17 weeks of the semester.

The first four weeks are typically used for project planning (project charter, scoping, WBS development, budgeting, staffing and risk management.). The remaining 14 weeks are for project execution, including monthly progress reporting.

The approved project list includes such projects as a book drive, a walk-a-thon, creating gift baskets for military personnel overseas, for example.

Selected project coaches have the choice of providing the services as a volunteer, receiving professional development hours credit from PMI (if they are a PMI member), or receiving a fixed stipend fee of $500 for services at the end of the semester. In either case, the project manager coach will be asked to keep track of his/her time on a time log.

Click here to Volunteer for Deer Park High School's Career Academies!

iii. Community & Military Outreach

Military Outreach

If you have specific questions locally about the Military Outreach and Transition program, please email military@daytonpmi.org

Questions can also be answered through the national PMI organization at http://www.pmi.org/military or military@pmi.org

Board Positions & Descriptions

Help Build Our Chapter Community - Nominate Yourself or Another Member for our Board of Directors!

You are invited to join our not-for-profit board of directors and help shape the profession of project management. Your paticipation can make a difference in your community and your profession, it's an opportunity to serve and lead on a local board, it can enhance your local and global network, it will help you build your resume with prestige and experience.

Board Positions and Descriptions

PRESIDENT
The President shall be the chief executive officer for the Southwest Ohio Chapter and of the Board and shall perform such duties as are customary for presiding officers, including making all required appointments with the approval of the Board. The President shall also serve as a member ex-officio with the right to participate and vote on all committees except the Nominating Committee.

VP OF ADMINISTRATION
The Vice President of Administration shall keep the records of all business meetings of the Southwest Ohio Chapter and meetings of the Board.

VP OF FINANCE
The Vice President of Finance shall oversee the management of funds for duly authorized purposes of the Southwest Ohio Chapter.

PRESIDENT ELECT
When in office, the President Elect assist the President with operations and planning and represent the chapter in the absence of or at the request of the President.

VP OF MEMBERSHIP
The Vice President of Membership shall oversee all activities related to member recruitment and retention.

VP OF TRAINING
The Vice President of Training shall organize a minimum of one (1) major program event each year. They shall also have responsibility to oversee all activities related to Project Management Institute certification and micro-credential practice standards.

VP OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Vice President of Professional Development shall organize a minimum of two (2) educational sessions (e.g. workshop, seminar) each year. The general format shall be structured to provide participants an opportunity for advancing their skills in project management.

VP OF OUTREACH
The Vice President of Outreach shall coordinate Chapter activities related to Academia and Community (e.g., school programs, community connections) to promote and provide project management support to scholastic, partnership, and non-profit organizations.

VP OF MARKETING
The Vice President of Marketing shall oversee the chapter marketing strategy planning and execution. VP of Marketing maintains corporate and individual membership relations with specific focus on brand, reputation, business outreach and sponsorship endeavors.

VP OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY
The Vice President of Digital Transformation and Technology shall oversee the Chapter technology strategy, digital transformation (e.g., initiatives to make it easy to work with the Chapter), integration cross-platform with PMI, contracts and tools maintenance, and enablement for cross-functional tools & processes.

Let's do this!

Please submit your application here.
Have more questions? See our FAQ Page or contact our Elections Team Sponsor at past-president@pmiswohio.org

Thank you for your continued support of the PMI Southwest Ohio Chapter!

Sponsorship Coordinator

Board Sponsor: Dan Eslinger, Past President

Volunteer Hours: 4 to 8 hours per month

** Volunteer PDUs can be earned with this role, up to 5-10 per year**

Volunteer here:

Use the following form to submit your interest in volunteering for this role:

Volunteer Application Form

Questions/Inquiries: If you have any further questions about this role, contact: Dan Eslinger, president-elect@pmiswohio.org

Volunteer Role Description:

Partner with the Sponsorship Sponsor, VP of Marketing, Events Teams, and Webmaster to recruit & promote sponsors, coordinate & execute plans for agreement fulfillment, and embrace continuous improvement from collaborative collection of lessons learned.

Duties:

Prioritized as part of Summit 2021 Events Team and also working as part of overall Sponsorship Marketing:

Identify and engage with top membership corporations, small and medium size businesses and independent professionals to attract all types of chapter events sponsorship, cost coverage and revenue opportunity; keeping the sponsorship package up to date for all channels (events, print media, web site, training, etc.) and maintaining the value (services and dollar amounts) associated.
Grow business contacts, seek for corporate involvement into chapter event through sponsorship and partnership; identify partnership opportunities with small, medium and large corporations; maintain long term relationship with identified mutual areas of interests.
Explore future opportunities for leadership & team development, including one’s own goals for professional development & Chapter involvement.

Prerequisites:

Works independently and brings experience using Microsoft Office/M365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & Teams. Comfortable coordinating with new teams to build work plans & develop relationships. Understands the basics of Kanban for managing work in a team.

Term Start Date: 8/1/2021

Term End Date: 12/1/2021

Number of Openings: 2

Checkout more leads on volunteer opportunites here - https://pmiswohio.org/volunteer/volunteer-opportunities

Video Production & Editing Manager

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