Position Description:
As area director, you serve as the direct liaison between the district and the clubs. The District Administrative Bylaws provide for the selection of area directors either by appointment by the district director or by election by the area councils. Toastmasters International recommends that district directors appoint area directors. Area directors conduct club visits twice a year within their respective areas to understand and support club needs. In turn, these visits help district leaders understand how to support and meet the needs of each club. It is important that area directors have the support they need to serve clubs. The success of the district depends on it. Area directors are eligible for re-election or re-appointment for one succeeding term only.
Primary Responsibilities:
- As area director, you are responsible for leading your area by serving the needs of clubs.
- In order to understand clubs’ needs, the area director contacts club presidents monthly to discuss their performance in the Distinguished Club Program.
- Make at least two club visits per club per year to understand and support club needs.
- The area director also discusses district training and other district events with the area clubs.
- Facilitate club officer’s training for the club officers with in the responsible areas.
- As area director, you follow up on items identified during previous contact with club presidents.
- The area director is the area council chair and holds at least two area council meetings each year.
- At area council meetings, the area director discusses each club’s plans and goals in the Distinguished Club Program and reviews attendance at club officer training.
- In accordance with the district council’s decision to elect or appoint area directors as specified in the District Administrative Bylaws, Article VII, Section C, evaluate and assess area director candidates in order to either (1) provide one or more appointment recommendations to the district director or (2) elect the following year’s area director.
- Assess club membership and its leadership’s willingness to grow.
- Determine who fulfills education achievements and when these are completed.
- Submit the Area Director’s Club Visit Report online.
- The area director participates in area director training provided by the district.
- The area director reports regularly to the division director and district leaders on area progress.
- If the number of clubs in the area falls to fewer than four or grows beyond six, the area director contacts district leaders immediately.
- It is the area director’s responsibility to motivate and assist each club in the area to become Distinguished.
- As area director, you are responsible for coordinating area speech contests. You may ask the division director for assistance in planning these events.
Preferred Requirements:
- Ideally, area directors have served as members of a district council.