NAEPP is run by practitioners for practitioners - and to take care of that day-to-day we have an Executive Committee and Officers.

There are two sorts of Executive Committee Members:

• representatives of regional or area empty homes forums (they are there by right and do not need to be elected).
• elected members - including all the Officers

We need to decide as part of the AGM who are to be the Officers and other elected members of the Executive.  That process starts with nominations.

To nominate yourself, or someone else (with their agreement please!), to go onto the Executive, please send an email to democracy@naepp.org.uk with your details, specifying any Officer role you want to stand for.  (The list of people nominated so far can be found at the end of this post at www.naepp.org.uk/forum-topic/executive-committee-elections-2010-nominations#comment-241

If you just want more information, email admin@naepp.org.uk

Process

• As nominations are received, the "nominations received" comment attached to this forum post will be updated.
• The nomination period lasts one week until Friday 14th May
• If there is contention for Officer positions then an election will be held in the following week.  Otherwise we would treat the nominations as being uncontested, and no elections would be required.
• When the whole process to decide who the Officers and other elected Exec members are ends, the existing incumbents fficers stand down and the new Executive takes over.

FAQs

Am I eligible?

You need to be a full member of NAEPP (Corporate, Collective, Individual, Honorary) to be elected to the Executive. 

I am interested - but do I have to get someone to nominate me?

No.  NAEPP members are too scattered to warrant making this a requirement.  You can nominate yourself.

What are the Officer positions?

Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-Chair,  Assistant Secretary.  These are important roles - it would be difficult for NAEPP to operate without people willing to take on these positions.

What about the other Elected Committee Members?

These are simply people who are keen to support NAEPP but don't feel able to take on an Officer role.

Who's on the Executive Committee at the moment?

See here

How does the Executive work?

The Executive recently create sub-committees to take care of as much of the detailed work as possible.  The aim is:

• to get most business dealt with by email between Executive Committee meetings, so that when the Executive does meet it can concentrate on the bigger issues facting practitioners
• to make sure Exec Members don't get overloaded with too much business

Each sub-committee has 3 or 4 members and any elected Executive Member would be expected to participate in at least one of these groups.  (The sub-committees, too, work by email).

What about Executive Meetings?

Physical meetings are currently scheduled as 3 per annum, alternating between London and Birmingham. This pattern is under review.  Ideally Executive Members would attend at least 2 out of 3 of these meetings a year. However, if an Executive member were able to make substantial contributions to on-line meetings (via email) then that would be considered sufficient commitment.

How much work would be involved?

We recognise the difficulties people have setting aside time for NAEPP alongside their day-jobs.  Most of the detailed work of NAEPP is carried out by David Gibbens trading as peer2peer services under a Service Level Agreement with NAEPP.  NAEPP does not have the capacity, organisational infrastructure or income to employ anyone under an employment contract..  David is effectively a part-time co-ordinator, producing most reports, minutes, agendas, budgets etc. maintaining and developing the website etc  Thus the main role of the Executive is to exercise oversight  - to consider new directions and changes to ways of working, to review documents such as budgets, to authorise expenditure and so on.

Overall, elected Executive Members are in a position of trust and are responsible for trying to represent the interests of the wider membership.  If you want to stand you may want to refer to the draft Job Description for Executive Member.