CAW Network USA supports and connects over 7,000 Chartered Accountants residing in the USA and is expanding to cover members in Canada and the Caribbean. Chartered Accountants Worldwide (CAW) brings together over 1.8 million members and students from 15 Chartered Accounting institutes. Details can be found on our website https://cawnetworkusa.com
For CAW Network USA to continue its growth and focus on providing education and networking opportunities to members in the USA, we have the following openings for volunteer positions:
- Director IQEX
- Director Education
- Director Member Services
- Director Social Media
- Director Programming
- Director Philanthropy
- Chapter President – Denver, Portland (OR). We can also consider additional chapters where there is local interest
- Chapter Team – Where we have existing chapters let us know if you would like to be considered to join as part of a chapter team
Our expectation is that if we can continue to expand our volunteer resources, we will be able to drive growth in both member engagement and revenue, enabling us to expand further the activities we are able to pursue.
If you are an interested candidate or would like to nominate a candidate, please contact chiefexecutive@cawnetworkusa.com
Open positions:
Term of Office
Duties may be assumed immediately upon appointment. With the exception of the Director Member advocacy West, the term of office is one year, renewable annually.
- Director IQEX – Open. Estimate 40 hours for annual updates and 1-5 hours a month support and guidance.
This position focuses on E-learning (IQEX, self-study)
- Annually for a July release: Reviewing and working with ChatGpt to agree what updates are needed to our IQEX class based on changes in tax / legal / ethics.
- Updating the class and associated tests / simulations for:
- Date changes
- Pdf links (annual changes)
- Content updates
- To work with Big Top support as needed to agree the updated course availability
- To be available for student Q&A as needed. Usually, a monthly checkpoint (30-60 minutes) and occasional email support.
- Monthly status report to feed into the Board pack as relevant.
- Director Education – Open. Estimate 10-20 hours / month.
This position focuses on ‘educating’ members and covers:
- Agreeing a program of CPE eligible events / webinars that match CAW, Institute and CAW Network USA priorities
- Any additional initiatives that add to ‘education’.
- Reviewing Institute and other accounting body / accounting practice / consulting firms’ initiatives, to look for ways we can engage, assist, make content available to members.
- Curating content – adding and updating classes.
- Monthly status report to feed into the Board pack as relevant.
- Director Member Services – Open – Estimate an initial ‘surge’ to set up and then 10-20 hours / month. (Works closely with CEO and Director of Engagement, who are both executive team members).
- Focus is on value we can add for members through assisting with networking and support activities. Championing the value of the CA qualification.
- Manage the jobs / careers and Practice-Team lead pages for our website.
- The jobs page to include links to recruiters / agencies / members who are hiring managers, that understand the value of a CA qualification, as well as featuring CA members that are in the recruitment industry as contacts. Note: Good organizations are always interested in talking to potential candidates who can add value to their organization.
- To also link to contacts at the major accounting practices (Practice Team leads) and with our home institutes, who can advocate the value of CAW Network USA to major accounting practices in our home countries (here the role can work in tandem with the Director – Alliances)
- Jobs page to feature referrals from ‘partner’ agencies with (for future) an associated fee agreement if our sharing postings results in placement.
- To add an FAQ section to answer most asked questions.
- To explore / outreach to other interested organizations i.e. British American Chamber of Commerce or similar.
- To summarize status / noteworthy items in a report to be included in the monthly Board pack as required.
- Director Social Media – Open – Estimate an initial ‘surge’ to set up and then 10-20 hours / month. (Works closely with CEO and Director of Engagement, plus our part time intern, when we have an intern engaged).
- Focus is on our social media activities comprising:
- Linkedin – private group and company page
- Facebook – currently dormant
- Reddit – to be agreed
- Any other channels – i.e. Instagram, Tiktok (to be agreed)
- Work with CAW and Big Top as necessary to co-ordinate activities.
- To summarize status / noteworthy items in a report to be included in the monthly Board pack as required.
- Director Programming – Open – Estimate 10-20 hours / month.
- To focus on our events program / calendar for each year.
- Building out chapter events with the Directors Member Advocacy East and West, as well as the chapter heads.
- Working with our home institutes and partners on agreeing key initiatives and focus for conferences and webinars.
- Building a calendar to feed into the annual business plan and a monthly update report for the Board pack.
- Agreeing who is leading / delivering each event – working with chief executive, Tech support, event management (ideally a future staff position if budget allows).
- Monthly status report for the Board pack.
- Director Philanthropy – Open – estimate 15 hours / month.
- Responsible for setting up and maintaining a Philanthropy page on our website.
- Page to feature charities that our members / former members are active with.
- Highlight a bio of each member and their role with the charity.
- Encourage members to consider supporting these charities and running a program to feature a specific charity each month.
- To report as needed to the Board (Monthly board pack updates)
- Chapter Presidents / Chapter Team.
We have several openings where a current chapter president has stepped down or is looking to do so. If members located in any of the following (or additional) locations are interested in taking on a volunteer role – we will be happy to discuss. This is a great way to get involved with other local members and be part of the overall CAW Network USA team. Open positions include Denver, Portland (OR), Austin. We can also consider additional chapters where there is local interest. In addition, if you would like to be considered to be part of a wider chapter team, where we have existing chapters, please let us know.
- Estimated hours – 10-12 hours a month, working with the Directors of Member Advocacy East and West, to agree events. The East chapters (Eastern and Central time zones, excluding Texas) report into ‘East” and Pacific, Mountain and Texas time zones report into West.
- Chapter presidents and Chapter team members are eligible to be ‘Board Observers’ and attend our monthly Board meetings. Each chapter has a chapter page on our website and each chapter president / team member is profiled in our ‘About-us’ section.