Overview
The SIGs Committee provides oversight of the Institute's Special Interest Groups (SIG) and serves as a platform for sharing best practices, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and escalating key topics to Council through the Council Executive Committee (CEC).
The Committee ensures that collective expertise is channelled into areas where the Institute can have the greatest impact.
A SIGs Committee member represents a number of SIGs within the Institute’s portfolio. A SIGs Committee member reports to the SIGs Committee Chair.
What you'll be doing
- Represent the SIGs to ensure there is suitable representation across the areas of engineering, science and technology relevant to IMarEST
- Drive consistent output from the SIGs and share best practices and knowledge
- Work with the IMarEST’s Technical and Policy Team on SIG engagement and output programme
- Work with the Technical Leadership Committee to ensure coverage of topics relevant to the IMarEST
- Ensure the SIGs Committee is visible to SIGs, branches and broader membership
In addition to the above, the SIGs Committee Chair is required to take a leadership role of the committee. The SIG Committee Chair attends our Council Executive Committee (CEC) and Council meetings.
About you
You will have:
- Subject knowledge based on personal and peer experience and/or the ability to draw this from others
- A balanced view of the SIGs outputs and activities
- The ability to coach and encourage SIG chairs and members in their contributions, and drive results through the collective contribution of members
Benefits
There are many benefits to volunteering on the SIGs Committee, including:
- A high degree of peer visibility and an opportunity to expand your personal network
- Sharing and building technical knowledge and experience through SIG interactions
- The gaining of exposure to a broad range of technical developments outside of your own experience
Volunteering contributes to your continuing professional development (CPD).