District 15 Leader District Leader Nominations
Here are opportunities to learn, serve, and enjoy the Toastmaster experience beyond your club. At the 2024 District 15 Business Meeting, we will elect our 4 division and 3 district leaders for the July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, Toastmaster year. Thereafter, the incoming district director will appoint 20 positions. Nominations are requested by March 09, 2024.
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Nominations for 2024 Officer positions are closed.
You may also submit a hardcopy of a Nomination Form. Nominations submitted by hardcopy will not be included in the automatically generated nomination report.
Nominated Toastmasters will be contacted by the District Leadership Committee (DLC) to determine if they meet the qualifications, understand the position, are willing to serve, and are then asked to submit an Officer Agreement and Release Form and District Leader Biographial Form. Review the positions below for a brief description of what is involved, or review the District Leader Handbook.
Serving in one of these positions is a wonderful learning opportunity. You serve the Toastmasters in an area, division, or the entire District 15. Area and division directors do not have to live in the area or division in which they serve.
Note that to become a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) you have to serve in one of these positions in the Toastmaster Pathways education program.
Nominees will be asked to confirm their willingness to serve by March 09, 2024. Those nominated for appointed positions will be notified by the incoming District Director, sometime after the elections.
There are eight elected positions:
Call for Nominations - District Leader Qualifications and Responsibilities information in hard copy, click here: Call for nominations role information.
- District Director
- District Program Quality Director
- District Club Growth Director
- Division A Director
- Division A
- Division B Director
- Division B
- Division C Director
- Division C
- Division D Director
- Division D
For state and boundary information for each of the divisions click here: District 15 State and Boundary Information
Nominations are open until March 09, 2024 for district officer positions.
District Director
As the District Director, you are responsible for directly overseeing and managing the District’s day-to-day operations, finances, and human resources. Fortunately, you have a team of District leaders to help you fulfill these responsibilities. You must empower your District leadership team to work together toward the District mission, while supporting each one in his or her development as a leader. This is an elected position.- Qualifications: At the time of taking office, the district director shall have served at least six (6) consecutive months as a club president and at least twelve (12) consecutive months as program quality director, club growth director or division director or a combination thereof.
Program Quality Director
As the Program Quality Director, you are responsible for all aspects of education and training within the District. This includes supporting quality club programming efforts, promoting the Distinguished Club Program, and planning and executing the District conference. This is an elected position.- Qualifications: At the time of taking office, the program quality director shall have served at least six (6) consecutive months as a club president and at least twelve (12) consecutive months as a program quality director, club growth director or division director or an area director or a combination thereof.
Club Growth Director
As the Club Growth Director, you are responsible for all aspects of marketing, club-building, and member- and club-retention efforts within the District. This includes defining an overall marketing strategy for the District, developing outreach and retention efforts with existing community and corporate clubs, and penetrating new markets. Additionally, the Club Growth Director supports challenged clubs and helps them to become Distinguished. This is an elected position.- Qualifications: At the time of taking office, the Club Growth Director shall have served at least six(6) consecutive months as a club president and at least twelve (12) consecutive months as program quality director, a club growth director or division director, area director or a combination thereof.
Division Director
As Division Director, your job is to lead and support the Division through the supervision and support of the Area Directors. One of your primary goals as Division Director is to ensure that each club achieves its mission and fulfills its responsibilities to its members. To achieve this, you coordinate Division activities, set Division goals, and assist in the training of Area and club leaders. This is an elected position.- Qualifications: At the time of taking office, the division director shall have served at least six (6) consecutive months as a member of a district council. The district council includes all the positions listed in this call for nominations, which comprise the district executive committee, plus club presidents and club vice presidents of education.
Area Director
The area director provides district contact, support and assistance to each club so that it may achieve the club mission and fulfill its responsibilities to club members. Help clubs by keeping in regular contact with club presidents in the area and by visiting each club at least four times during the year. Achieve distinguished area program goals and ensure that each area club is distinguished. This is an appointed position.- Qualifications: At the time of taking office, insofar as practicable, the area director should have served at least six (6) consecutive months as a member of a district council. The district council includes all the positions listed in this call for nominations, which comprise the district executive committee, plus club presidents and vice presidents of education.
District Public Relations Manager
As the Public Relations Manager, you are responsible for coordinating publicity efforts in the District. By establishing and maintaining lines of communication between the District and its members, as well as between the District and the public, you work to increase awareness of Toastmasters through all available media. This is an appointed position.- Qualifications: At the time of taking office the public relations manager should possess experience in and core understanding of public relations.
District Administration Manager
As the Administration Manager, you are responsible for maintaining the historical records of the District, recording and distributing meeting minutes, and otherwise maintaining accurate, timely records of District business. This is an appointed position.- Qualifications: At the time of taking office, the administration manager should be a reliable, prompt, well-organized Toastmaster who can accurately record meeting actions, has access to a personal computer and is able to reproduce materials.
District Finance Manager
As the Finance Manager, you are tasked with the fiscal oversight and management of the District. The Finance Manager works closely with the District Director, Program Quality Director, and Club Growth Director to ensure that the District is making cost-effective decisions—within policy—that result in effective fiscal management. The Finance Manager should have knowledge of accounting and be acquainted with the handling of financial matters. This is an appointed position.- Qualifications: At the time of taking office the finance manager should have accounting experience and understand basic bookkeeping practices.