4.05 Officer Responsibilities

ADD SPECIFIC OFFICER DUTIES

Each officer of a local chapter has specific responsibilities relative to his/her office. These responsibilities can be found in the National Chapter Management Handbook. In addition to the specific responsibilities, each officer should:

1. Serve on a local Executive Committee composed of all chapter officers, committee chairs, and the chapter advisers that meets regularly to plan chapter meetings and monitors the progress of the chapter’s Plan of Work.
2. Develop a working knowledge of parliamentary procedure.
3. Attend the RLW, RLC, SLW, SLC, NFLC, and the NLC in accordance with the attendance policy.
4. Maintain close communications with the adviser and other officers.
5. Encourage members to become active in local, regional, state, and national FBLA activities.
6. Be familiar with the Pennsylvania FBLA Policy/Leadership Handbook and the National Chapter Management Handbook.
7. Review communication from the state and national offices.
8. Be familiar with the local, regional, state, and national constitutions and bylaws.
9. Have an understanding of the duties of other officers.
10. Work to promote the activation of FBLA chapters at other schools.

Each local chapter officer may have additional duties. One additional duty might be to have each officer maintain a notebook of information relative to his/her office that will be helpful to the incoming officers. This information should be kept current. An officers’ training program may be an effective way to make officers aware of their responsibilities. should be conducted by the chapter advisers once new officers are elected to outline each officer’s responsibilities.