President - Role Description

Primarily, the President provides leadership to the Management Committee. This includes: • Ensuring that Management Committee Members understand their roles and responsibilities. • Setting the Management Committee Meeting Agenda and Management Committee Calendar. • Presiding over meetings including equitable participation by all attendees. • Promoting rigorous discussion of issues and ensuring clarity of decisions, resolutions and responsibilities. • Providing leadership to BCN. • Ensuring, [in partnership with the Management Committee] that BCN operates in an ethically, environmentally and socially responsible manner. • Serving as the primary BCN spokesperson to the media and other organisations. • Promoting BCN and its activities to governments and in the community as opportunities arise.