CALL FOR TAMFT 2026 COMMITTEE SERVICE

TAMFT will seek applications from members for committee service. Committee members will serve 2-year terms. 

The TAMFT Committees are as follows:

• Governance Committee: Time Commitment: About 5-6 hours each year. Includes Board Secretary, President, Past-President or President-Elect, Elections Committee Chair, and 1 TAMFT Member. The Governance Committee enforces TAMFT rules and policies, reviews TAMFT Bylaws and Policies for needed revisions, conducts annual Board self-evaluation, organizes Board and Committee structure, and oversees the Elections Subcommittee. Members can also volunteer to serve on the Elections Subcommittee. 
• Finance Committee: Time Commitment: About 8-10 hours each year. Includes Board Treasurer, Board Member-at-Large, and 2 TAMFT Members. Finance Committee collaborates to develop TAMFT budget for Board approval, receives regular financial reports, reviews and recommends financial policies and operating guidelines, including possible investments, and, if requested by the Board, reviews TAMFT financial audit. 
• Education Committee: Time Commitment: About 1 hour each month. Includes Board Liaison, Chair, Co-Chair, up to 7 TAMFT Members. The Education Committee organizes and directs education opportunities, including online CEUs, serves as the Steering Committee for the Annual Conference, and explores additional opportunities for member education. 
• Legislative Committee: Time Commitment: About 1 hour each month. Includes Board Liaison, Chair, Co-Chair, up to 7 TAMFT Members. Legislative Committee maintains the relationship with the TAMFT lobbyist, helps establish relationships with elected officials and their staffs, prepares updates to members on legislative issues, helps direct TAMFT advocacy efforts, prepares members to meet with legislators or testify, appoints members to or attends TSBEMFT, and BHEC meetings, and oversees the Day at the Dome Steering Committee biannually. 
• Conference Committee: Time commitment: About 2 hours a month. Includes Board Liaison, Chair, Co-Chair, and up to 4 TAMFT Members. The Conference Committee organizes the annual conference by reviewing the conference budget, selecting the conference location, and setting hotel and speaker fees. The committee creates a theme, logo, and marketing content, and collaborates with the management company, which will implement the committee's work. The committee will assist with reviewing abstracts and making calls for the conference. The committee will choose and contact/contract with keynote speakers. 
• Ethics and Social Justice Committee: Time commitment: About 1 hour a month. Includes Board Liaison, Chair, and 2 TAMFT Members. The Ethics and Social Justice Committee reviews communications for Ethics CEUs, attends ethics hearings, and is a point of contact for BHEC. They also work to provide ethics articles to the quarterly newsletter and sessions at the annual conference. 
• Membership Committee: Time Commitment: About 1 hour each month. Includes Board Liaison, Chair, Co-Chair, up to 15 TAMFT Members. The Membership Committee establishes new member recruitment strategies, communicates with universities to engage potential new members, communicates with lapsed/expired members to encourage renewals, supports member marketing campaigns, and administers yearly member surveys. Also oversees the Awards Subcommittee and other newer subcommittees listed below. 

Membership Subcommittees

The structure of TAMFT’s Membership Committee and its subcommittees’ projects are described below.

You must be a TAMFT member in good standing to be eligible for a committee position. We will be accepting applications until all positions are filled. Questions about committees or the committee timeline may be sent to [email protected].

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