Directorial remits

All directors

• Manage their own budgets in collaboration with our external financial adviser.
• Update public information about areas in their remit.
• Meet at six council meetings a year, usually online.
• Regularly contribute to discussions, action plans and decisions on the Council forum.
• Occasionally serve on Council committees or working groups.

Chair

• Oversee the work of staff, directors and volunteers.
• Steer the Institute as a whole, including its strategic plans.
• Liaise with the external financial adviser.
• Chair the Institute's annual general meeting and council meetings.
• Represent the Institute in dealings with external bodies.

Meet the team: chair

Vice-chair

• Support the chair and deputise for them as required.

Meet the team: vice-chair

Communications director

• Lead on strategy for how the CIEP communicates with members.
• Be the Institute’s brand guardian, including reviewing cross-remit member communications, guidelines and web page content for brand tone and user experience.
• Support the information and EDI teams on solutions-based content that promotes the Institute’s values.
• Assume responsibility for the Style Guide and Branding Guidelines.
• Organise monthly Council News.
• Ensure members know how to access tools and resources.

Meet the team: communications director

Community director

• Liaise with local group coordinators, including those of the International and Cloud Club groups, and support them in their roles.
• Raise the profile of local group membership, for example by collating and disseminating information about local groups and their events.
• Help local group coordinators organise regional events.
• Oversee the coordination of CIEP volunteers.

Meet the team: community director

Conference director

• Plan the conference programme, including making arrangements for any entertainment, displays etc.
• Find speakers and liaise with them.
• Liaise with the conference venue regarding all arrangements and details; research and visit potential venues.
• Prepare information for delegates and booking forms.
• Oversee the sponsorship campaign, working with the conference sponsorship coordinator.

Meet the team: conference director

Digital services director

• Manage and develop the CIEP website.
• Manage and develop the CIEP forums.
• Manage technical discussions with the CIEP’s IT suppliers, and corresponding action plans.
• Manage all CIEP domains and email accounts.
• Communicate with and manage web content team, forum moderators and other volunteers.

Meet the team: digital services director

Equality, diversity and inclusion director

• Plan policy, strategy and practical initiatives to promote equality, diversity and inclusion throughout the work of the CIEP and its members.
• Contribute to developing resources to enable members to practise conscious and inclusive editing.
• Identify and work to remove barriers faced by editors from minoritised and marginalised backgrounds in participating fully in CIEP activities and in progressing in the profession more broadly.
• Receive any reports made under the CIEP Dignity Policy and oversee action taken in response.
• Conduct periodic EDI audits of CIEP membership.

Meet the team: EDI director

Information director

• Lead on strategic thinking about the CIEP’s information provision.
• Advise on content/resource proposals and ideas.
• Assume editorial responsibility for information content published.
• Manage the information team, including giving moral support and reassurance.
• Manage and work with design coordinator to ensure all content published is correct and appropriate.
• Create/maintain guidelines and process resources

Meet the team: information director

Marketing director

Raise the profile of the CIEP, notably:

• Promote the benefits of membership.
• Publicise and promote take-up of CIEP training and mentoring.
• Encourage clients to use our members' services.
• Publicise and promote the CIEP conference and other events.
• Look after advertising, press releases, guest articles, publicity materials, media contacts and sponsorship.
• Manage the social media team.
• Oversee and schedule social media content, activity and campaigns, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Meet the team: marketing and PR director

Membership director

• Manage the membership renewal and joining processes, for individual and Corporate Members.
• Oversee the membership database and corresponding reports.
• Run the annual membership survey, survey of lapsed members and other surveys.
• Manage membership benefits with the benefits coordinator.
• Liaise with the Judith Butcher Award Committee.

Meet the team: membership director

Organisational director

• Carry out administrative duties for the council as a whole.
• Organise council meetings, preparing agenda, minutes and other relevant documents.
• Organise the CIEP AGM, preparing relevant documents, and any extraordinary general meetings.
• Keep the membership informed of the council's activities via Council News and other outlets.

Meet the team: organisational director

Professional standards director

• Maintain, publicise and update the CIEP’s editorial syllabus and standards, liaising with BSI and ISO as required.
• Create, update and evaluate editorial tests and develop the CIEP’s range of editorial qualifications.
• Manage the complaints procedure.
• Oversee the update of the Institute’s statutes: Regulations and Bylaws.
• Manage the (anonymous) Admissions Panel, including supervision and recruitment.
• Liaise between the council and the Admissions Panel.
• Ensure the upgrade process is updated as required, in agreement with the council and members of the Panel.
• Respond to queries about upgrading from individual members.
• Organise continuing professional development events on topics of interest to members.

Meet the team: professional standards director

Training director

• Create new courses, including commissioning, content and uploading, with the help of online content managers.
• Recruit trainers, induct them and coordinate their work.
• Manage the update of all course content.
• Manage workshops and in-house courses with the help of office staff.
• Manage mentoring, mentors and senior mentors.

Meet the team: training director