Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- Apply Now for ICANN Leadership Positions

Wed Dec 10 11:31:19 EET 2014

FYI,

The 2015 Nomcom website is now up and accepting applications <
https://forms.icann.org/en/groups/nomcom/apply>.  You can read the full
details below, but in brief Nomcom will be appointing:

   - Three members of the ICANN Board of Directors
   - Two voting members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting
   Organization (GNSO)
   - Three At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each
   from the Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific Islands and Latin America/Caribbean
   Islands regions)
   - One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting
   Organization (ccNSO)

All applications are confidential and should be received by 15 March 2015
(23:59 UTC) for full consideration.

Official outreach at various regional events is occurring. Please let me
know (offlist) if you have any ideas for events where it maybe useful to
have Nomcom make its pitch.

As mentioned in the October Nomcom report <
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/report-card-07nov14-en.pdf>,
the Nomcom received a visit at the LA meeting from the Board Governance
Committee, etc. We also reviewed the Advice from the ICANN Board on Board
Skills to the Nominating Committee. These inputs encapsulate their
"wishlist," and are often referred to during Nomcom deliberations.

Of specific relevance to our SG and to ICANN generally is the call for
Directors with *"board governance or equivalent experience with non-profit
organizations"*.  On that note, please, please make efforts now to reach
out to your personal networks and encourage interested and qualified
individuals to consider applying.  Many of the positions listed above have
substantial time commitments, which may require applicants to develop a
case and get necessary support from their employers, etc. So the sooner you
act the better.

Thanks and please let me know if you have any questions!

Best regards,

---------------------------------------
Brenden Kuerbis
iSchool, Syracuse University || http://internetgovernance.org
<http://internetgovernance.org>

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From: ICANN News Alert <communications at icann.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 6:37 PM
Subject: ICANN News Alert -- Apply Now for ICANN Leadership Positions
To: Brenden N Kuerbis <bnkuerbi at syr.edu>

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https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-12-08-en
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Apply Now for ICANN Leadership Positions

8 December 2014

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) Nominating
Committee (NomCom) invites interested individuals to submit applications
and/or to recommend candidates for ICANN's key leadership positions.
Applications in 2015 are invited for the following positions:

   - Three members of the ICANN Board of Directors
   - Three At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each
   from the Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific Islands and Latin America/Caribbean
   Islands regions)
   - Two members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting
   Organization (GNSO)
   - One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting
   Organization (ccNSO)

Individuals selected by the NomCom will have a unique opportunity to work
with accomplished colleagues from around the globe and help shape the
Internet's technical coordination and policy development.

Those selected will also gain valuable insights and experience from working
across boundaries of knowledge, responsibility, culture and geography. They
will be making a valuable public service contribution towards the
functioning and evolution of this essential global resource. Guided by the
broad public interest, those selected will work to fulfill ICANN's mission
to coordinate the global Internet's systems of unique identifiers, and in
particular to ensure its stable and secure operation.

Current NomCom-selected Board members include: Cherine Chalaby, Steve
Crocker, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Asha Hemrajani, Bruno Lanvin, Erika
Mann, Gonzalo
Navarro and George Sadowsky.

Please submit applications for the positions described above through the
on-line application request form at (http://nomcom.icann.org/apply) or by
emailing nomcom2015 at icann.org.

For more information, please visit the 2015 NomCom website. If you have any
questions or comments, please email: nomcom2015 at icann.org.

Candidate recommendations are encouraged and can be submitted through an
on-line form at http://nomcom.icann.org/suggest.

All applications are confidential and should be received by 15 March 2015
(23:59 UTC) for full consideration. Selections will be announced in August
or September 2015. Successful candidates will take up their positions
following ICANN's Annual Meeting in October 2015.

Fluency in English is a requirement for all positions.

These positions require regular participation in teleconferences and may
involve significant international travel, including travel to ICANN's three
annual Public Meetings. Recent ICANN Public Meetings were held in
Singapore, London, and Los Angeles. Meetings during 2015 will be held in
Singapore (8 – 12 February 2015), the Latin America/Caribbean Islands
region and Dublin.

Reasonable direct expenses incurred in the course of service will be
reimbursed.

Each Board Member has the option to receive compensation in accordance with
the resolution passed by the Board on 30 July 2014, but is not required to
do so. (*See*
https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2014-07-30-en#2.b
.)
Background:

The NomCom is an independent committee tasked with selecting eight members
of the Board of Directors and other key positions within ICANN's structure.

It is designed to function independently from the ICANN Board, Supporting
Organizations, and Advisory Committees. NomCom members act only on behalf
of the interests of the global Internet community and within the scope of
the ICANN mission and responsibilities assigned to it by the ICANN Bylaws.

NomCom members contribute understanding of the broad interests of the
Internet community as a whole, and knowledge and experience of specific
Internet constituencies who have appointed them.

The challenge for the NomCom is to integrate these perspectives and derive
consensus in its selections. Although appointed by Supporting Organizations
and other ICANN bodies, individual NomCom members are not accountable to
their appointing bodies.

NomCom members are accountable for adherence to the ICANN Bylaws and for
compliance with the rules and procedures established by the NomCom.

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