Interested in Volunteering with CAPSITE?  

Positions within the Leadership team are always available. We are a well-run supportive team that enjoys collaborating for camaraderie and shaping our local transportation community. Leadership team meetings are held monthly on the second Tuesday during lunch hour. The Board enjoys thanking the Leadership team with a celebratory dinner each December.  

The time commitment varies with position and is reflective of your availability, but we generally ask an average of an hour a week. The more you put into something the more you get out of it mantra applies here. If you have aspirations to serve on the Board, joining the Leadership team is a great place to start – we get to know you and you get to know us.  

Benefits of volunteering include

Fostering great connections with colleagues across companies and employers on the Leadership Team

Spreading your name and face across the local industry

Serves as a steppingstone to other positions across ITE – Section, District, or International

Current Openings & Role and Responsibilities 

Awards 

  • Run CAPSITE's awards process including establishing Awards timeline, soliciting nominees, working with CAPSITE's Communications Committee to advertise awards, reviewing submissions, and nominating candidates for each award to the Board. 
  • Process runs Spring through the Fall 
  • Attend regularly scheduled meetings 

Communications – Newsletter

  • Coordinate with the CAPSITE leadership team to collect content regarding Section announcements and meeting recaps  
  • Brainstorm and implement new ideas for the newsletter to keep content fresh and interesting 
  • Collaborate with the editorial team to release monthly editions of the newsletter

Communications – Social Media Support & Graphics

  • Works with Social Media Lead to develop a CAPSITE brand style guide 
  • Works with Social Media Lead to develop monthly LinkedIn posting schedules  
  • Develops graphics for social media advertising campaigns for events* 
  • Creates and schedules LinkedIn posts to support Social Media Lead on an as needed basis
  • Experience with Canva or other graphic creation software preferred, but not required.

Finance

  • Collaborates with Financial Assistant Board Member to track the Section's expenses and revenue throughout hte year, file taxes, coordinate with our Bank, etc.
  • May serve as a stepping stone to Financial Assistant which is a 3 to 5 year non-voting Board Member position
  • Help develop financial goals for the Section for an annual budgeting basis as well as long term

Membership – Chair *New Position* Make What you Want of it

  • Improve our relationship and value to our Section members 
  • Tracking membership numbers 
  • Coordinate with International on current and expiring members to update our records

Programming – Photographer

  • Attend Section events to capture enticing images for use on our communication platforms 
  • Upload and organize photos to our Teams/Share point 
  • Attend as many events as feasible is preferred, but request a minimum of an event a quarter

Scholarship

  • Work with Communications Committee to advertise Student Scholarships
  • Establish a Scholarship application review committee
  • Coordinate with the Sectional Annual Conference planning committee for recognizing winners during conference

Sponsorship 

  • Assist Vice President in developing annual sponsorship packages, soliciting sponsors/vendors, and planning a sponsorship social 
  • Tracking current and returning sponsors to help inform how to improve our sponsorship drive 
  • Most active period is during the annual sponsor drive held December through February

STEM 

  • Assist STEM sub-committee chair in finding opportunities for STEM activities 
  • Schedule and plan STEM activities, or find volunteers to plan and schedule 
  • Find volunteers for scheduled activities 
  • Guide development of materials and activities for scheduled events with identified volunteers

Student Chapter Liaison 

for Howard University, Morgan State University, and Catholic University of America (CUA)

  • Relaying information to the student chapters received from Section or District that will benefit students. These include scholarship opportunities, events, webinars etc.
  • Getting involved with the student chapters, doing monthly/ quarterly check-ins to aid student chapters with any Section/ Professional ITE support they may need in running their student chapters, like arranging for technical speakers if needed, brainstorming events that the student chapters can hold, opportunities for improving the student chapters etc.
  • Typical time commitment: 2-4 hours per month

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If there is something you are specifically interested in that is not listed or have questions, reach out to us at [email protected].