Seeking Board Members Committed to Creating a Healthy, Just, and Peaceful World

WPSR is looking for board members who are passionate about addressing the biggest threats to human health and survival. We welcome diversity of thought, profession, age, race/ethnicity, gender identity, ability, and sexual orientation. For current information about this opportunity, please visithttps://www.wpsr.org/joinboard.

WPSR is the Washington state chapter ofPhysicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). For over 50 years, PSR has worked to create a healthy, just, and peaceful world for both present and future generations.

WPSRs Board of Directors is responsible for the overall governance, success, and sustainability of the organization. As part of WPSRs commitment to gender diversity and racial justice, we seek board members with demonstrated commitments to these values, and who represent a diversity of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives. Previous nonprofit board experience preferred, particularly experience with boards of small, grassroots NGOs. Professional experience in business, healthcare, technology, policy advocacy, marketing, or nonprofit leadership is preferred, as is expertise in one or more of WPSRs program areas.

As a working board of healthcare and non-medical professionals, members engage in both organizational and programmatic activities that relate to our strategic goals. Board members are expected to be, or become, conversant with WPSRs major program areas which include: nuclear weapons abolition, climate change, and economic inequity.

Collectively, the board is responsible for:

• Determining and stewarding the organizations mission and vision
• Hiring, evaluating, and supporting the executive director
• Exercising financial oversight including budget approval, regular review of financial statements and status, and ensuring that proper financial controls are in place
• Ensuring adequate resources for the organization to fulfill its mission
• Ensuring legal and ethical integrity and accountability
• Determining, monitoring, and strengthening the organizations programs and services. The boards responsibility is to determine which programs are consistent with the organizations mission and to monitor their effectiveness.
• Ensuring effective organizational planning. Boards must actively participate in an overall planning process and assist in implementing and monitoring the plans goals.
• Assessing board performance. All boards have a responsibility to articulate prerequisites for candidates, orient new members, and periodically and comprehensively evaluate its own performance.

Individually, board members are responsible for:

• Making a personally significant annual financial contribution
• Recruiting and orienting new board members
• Enhancing the organizations public standing by actively serving as WPSR ambassadors
• Attending monthly board meetings, board planning retreats, and the WPSR annual dinner
• Serving on at least one board subcommittee
• Committing at least 8 hours of time per month

To learn more about WPSR, or to express interest in serving as a volunteer board member, please click "respond" and we will follow up with more information.