LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

If you are interested in running for a leadership position, please read the summary of elections criteria below. If you meet the elections criteria AND if you have not been invited by the Nominating Committee to run for office, but wish to submit a nomination for yourself, please complete the following form: Nomination for Election.

If you have been selected by the Nominating Committee or have been accepted for the ballot by petition please complete the Biographical Fact Sheet

Open Positions this Election Cycle  

President-Elect
Treasurer
Southern Branch Representative
MSW Student Representative
BSW Student Representative
Nominating Committee Member 1
Nominating Committee Member 2

Below is a summary of Standards for Elections. For the full document containing the Standards please click here.  

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING A NOMINATION TO THE CHAPTER OFFICE VIA THIS WEBSITE IS February 1st of each year.  Nominees will be notified if they were or were not selected by the Nominating Committee by March 1st of each year.   

An individual must be a regular, associate, or student member of the Association and in good standing to be a candidate for election to a chapter office. All candidates must meet all eligibility requirements before the preliminary slate is certified. The Utah Chapter also confirms that a member is in good standing with both the National NASW (current membership status and no ethical violations) and the Utah State Department of Licensing.

Regular, associate, or student members in good standing who have held national or chapter staff positions are not eligible to become candidates for chapter elective positions until two years after their last day of employment with NASW.

Nominating Committee members are not eligible to become candidates for an elective position while serving on the Committee or for the election year immediately following the expiration of their term.

Standard 4: Affirmative Action

Chapters shall have nominating procedures in place to ensure that affirmative action goals are met each election year.

The Nominating Committee shall meet at least once per year to conduct the selection process and to certify a preliminary slate to the secretary of the chapter board of directors.

The Nominating Committee shall assemble a slate that will ensure that the elective leadership of the chapter represents all geographical areas and population concentrations covered by the chapter and provides a balanced membership group reflecting the minority, sex, sexual orientation, and student distribution and the special interests of the members of the chapter (NASW Bylaws, Article XV, D.2.).

The Nominating Committee shall document reasonable efforts to select two candidates (double slate) for each statewide position and may select more than two, provided that the slate is assembled in such a way as to ensure that any combination of candidates receiving the largest number of votes will enable the chapter to meet its affirmative action goals and representational mandates. Single slating for local chapter positions is allowed. This includes elections for regions, units, districts or branches for board or Nominating Committee positions. The slate, however, must ensure that the Affirmative Action goals for your chapter will be met.

The Nominating Committee shall assemble a slate of positions that adheres to the terms and conditions of office set forth in the chapter bylaws.

Individuals selected by the Nominating Committee to become candidates for elective office are to be contacted by a Nominating Committee who formally issues the invitation for the elected position on behalf of the Nominating Committee.

Nominating Committee deliberations are confidential (including the selection deliberations for ballot candidates). Other than candidate notification, the preliminary slate shall be kept confidential until officially announced by the secretary of the board of directors.

Standard 22: Election Determination

Election of candidates to office shall be by a plurality of the total votes cast (NASW Bylaws, Article IX.C.3.).

When all votes have been tallied by the Nominating Committee and there is a tie, the winner shall be determined by a coin toss in the presence of the candidates (or their designees), under the supervision of the Nominating Committee, with the chairperson or her or his designee calling the toss.

* Please note that there are additional standards. Summary standards were selected based upon frequency of application. A full listing of the Standards and other related information can be obtained by selecting the link at the top of this document.

 The petition process allows a member to add his/her name to the slate by submitting a petition to the Nominating Committee AND the Chapter office within 30 days of the preliminary slate announcement.  If a candidate is not selected by the Nominating Committee for the ballot, an individual may nominate him or herself and complete petition process according the the guidelines. Please note that the Chapter may indicate on the final ballot that the given candidate is a petitioned candidate, rather than a candidate selected by the Nominating Committee.

For a statewide position, the petition must include signatures from at least 2% of the total number of chapter members with representation from each branch. For a branch position, the petition must include signatures representing 2% of the total number of branch members. The Nominating Committee must verify that petition signers are members of the Association, the Utah Chapter, and in the case of branch positions, the appropriate branch. The Nominating Committee must verify that the petition contains the number of eligible signatures required for the specific position for which it has been submitted.

The Secretary of the Utah Chapter Board of Directors announces the preliminary slate and the petition process to the Chapter members through publication in the Chapter newsletter (if deadlines allow) and on the Chapter website.