Board of Directors/Executive Positions
One-year terms

PRESIDENT: 

• Chairs Annual General Meeting and board meetings (2-3 times/year)
• Attends District Montessori Advisory Committee (LLC) meetings (1/year)
  
• Speaks and advocates on behalf of Surrey Montessori Society's board and membership
• Liaises with reps from other districts
• Liaises with Montessori Provincial Specialist Association (PSA)
  
• Formulates SMS goals and objectives with SMS directors and liaisons
  
• Delegates work to committees and volunteers
  

 
VICE-PRESIDENT: 

• Assists the president and takes on tasks as delegated
  
• Fills in for president when he/she is not available
  

 
TREASURER:

• Keeps books
  
• Prepares financial statements for Annual General Meeting and board meetings
  
• Pays the bills with board and liaisons’ approval
  
• Can be combined with secretary position
  

 
SECRETARY:

• Takes and types minutes at the SMS Annual General Meeting and board meetings
  
• Distributes minutes to directors and liaisons 
  
• Posts AGM minutes on website for membership 
  
• Maintains files, correspondence and register of members with the assistance of school liaisons
  
• Helps president ensures annual filings are up to date
  
• Can be combined with treasurer position
  

DIRECTOR(S)-AT-LARGE:

• Fills needed committee, liaison or special project roles
  
• One Director at Large position is required since five directors are required (as per bylaws)
  
• If the secretary and treasurer jobs are shared, a minimum of two director-at-large positions need to be filled
  

 
Non-executive Positions
The SMS is also looking for parents to fill various coordinator and committee positions.
 
SMS SCHOOL LIAISON (for each school):
School-based reps for the Montessori program

• Ensures communication between the SMS board, principals, teachers and school PACs
  
• Attends SMS and LLC meetings
  
• Attends school PAC meetings (when possible) or submits written reports of SMS activities
  
• Ensures news updates are distributed to school community via flyers or emails
  
• Ensures school-based SMS adult social fundraising is allocated to the school’s Montessori Resource Committees (see below) accounts
  

COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR(S): 

• Checks SMS gmail account
  
• Helps update the parent and membership community of important news and educational information via social media channels, website and flyers
  

 
ADULT SOCIAL COORDINATOR(S): 

• Organizes annual adult social
• parent education events, school-based fundraising and the annual adult social
• ​Helps prepare grant proposals

 
PRESCHOOL LIAISON: 

• Ensures the local Montessori preschools are aware of the district’s Montessori Information Night in January
• Updates the preschool directory on SMS website

 
CHAIR(S), MONTESSORI RESOURCE COMMITTEE (one at each school):

• Leads school-based committee that supports teachers through volunteerism, material making, inventory management and SMS school-based fundraising
  
• Maintains wish list for purchasing/replacements of Montessori materials

 
MONTESSORI RESOURCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS: 

• Helps support Montessori teachers with above jobs – small ones and bigger projects!

If you're interested in helping out, please email us at surreymontessorisociety@gmail.com.