Position Description Information:
Listed are short descriptions of each role you may be applying to. If you'd like more information on the role before applying, please reach out to info@transaffirm.org for the entire role explanation!
Board Chair
The Board Chair provides leadership and structure for Trans Affirm's Board of Directors and helps ensure the Board fulfills its governance responsibilities. This role chairs Board meetings, works with leadership to develop and approve meeting agendas, supports Board accountability and follow-through, helps address governance concerns, and ensures decisions follow Trans Affirm's bylaws and policies. The Chair also serves as a primary point of Board follow-up with the Executive Director, helping maintain accountability and communication between the Board and ED. While the Executive Director guides the Board on organizational operations, needs, and strategy, the Board employs and oversees the Executive Director, with the Chair helping facilitate that relationship on the Board's behalf. The Chair should be comfortable facilitating discussions, navigating conflict professionally, delegating responsibilities, and keeping the Board focused on the organization's mission. This is a leadership and governance position and requires consistent communication, meeting attendance, and availability between meetings.
Board Treasurer (Priority- Experience required)
The Board Treasurer oversees Trans Affirm's financial governance and helps ensure organizational funds are responsibly managed, documented, and reported. Responsibilities include maintaining oversight of financial records, reviewing income and expenses, providing financial reports to the Board, assisting with budgeting, coordinating reimbursements and approved payments, supporting tax and nonprofit reporting requirements, and helping maintain appropriate financial controls. **Previous financial, bookkeeping, accounting, nonprofit finance, or comparable professional experience is required for this position. The Treasurer should be highly organized, reliable, comfortable working with financial information, and able to communicate the organization's financial position clearly to the Board.
Board Secretary
The Board Secretary helps keep the Board organized and ensures important governance records and processes are maintained. Responsibilities include coordinating Board meetings and Zoom invitations, supporting agenda preparation, recording and maintaining accurate meeting minutes, tracking Board votes and important decisions, maintaining governance documents and records, and helping communicate meeting information and reminders to Board members. This role is best suited for someone who is organized, responsive, detail-oriented, and comfortable independently keeping recurring Board processes on schedule.
Volunteer Specialist
The Volunteer Specialist helps Trans Affirm recruit, onboard, organize, and retain reliable community volunteers. This role supports volunteer applications and communication, helps connect volunteers with appropriate opportunities, maintains volunteer information, assists with event volunteer coordination, and works to build a dependable group of returning volunteers. The Volunteer Specialist should be comfortable communicating with a wide range of community members, following up consistently, helping volunteers feel welcomed and prepared, and working with Board members and project leads to understand where volunteer support is needed.
Social and Digital Media Manager
The Social and Digital Media Manager helps oversee Trans Affirm's public digital presence and ensures our online communication remains consistent, accurate, accessible, and aligned with our mission and brand. Responsibilities may include coordinating social media content and scheduling, supporting or supervising content creators, maintaining branding and design standards, reviewing posts when needed, helping plan awareness campaigns, and supporting updates across Trans Affirm's digital platforms. This role requires strong communication skills, familiarity with social media and digital content, and an understanding of communicating responsibly about trans and LGBTQ+ issues. The Manager should be able to delegate content creation rather than being expected to personally create every post, but will still possibly need to create content.
General Board Member
General Board Members participate in the overall governance, direction, and sustainability of Trans Affirm while also taking an active role in the organization's day to day work. As a small, grassroots nano nonprofit with limited capacity, our Board is a working Board, meaning members often take on responsibilities that might be handled by paid staff at a larger organization. This may include overseeing or supporting specific programs, coordinating events, assisting with community outreach, managing organizational projects, participating in committees, supporting fundraising, or taking responsibility for other areas based on their skills and interests. Members are expected to attend and participate in Board meetings, review materials before votes, contribute to organizational decisions, follow through on responsibilities they accept, support recruitment and fundraising efforts, and follow Trans Affirm's bylaws and policies. While members may take ownership of programs or projects, they are not expected to independently create programming in their own city or personally manage every aspect of the work they support. General Board Members should be communicative, dependable, collaborative, willing to take initiative, and committed to both the governance and hands-on work necessary to support Trans Affirm's statewide mission.