College Alumni Volunteer Interest Form

Thank you for your interest in a volunteering with UCF Alumni.

UCF alumni are changemakers on campus, in our communities, and across the globe. By contributing your time, talent, and treasure, you become an integral part of the UCF Alumni mission to enhance the lives of UCF alumni, students, and friends while strengthening our collective ties to the university.

Whether you’re looking to serve on a college alumni chapter board or support UCF through other meaningful volunteer opportunities, this application is the first step in getting involved.

College Council Positions

Specific roles and responsibilities of the five executive committee position are outlined below.

Chair
  • Articulate and carry out the vision, mission and goals of UCF Alumni and the chapter.
  • Display a working knowledge of UCF Alumni mission, goals and administrative processes necessary to align the chapter’s initiatives with alumni engagement and giving goals.
  • Maintain a working knowledge of the basic facts of the university, UCF Alumni, chapter and affiliated college, department or school.
  • Oversee all chapter initiatives including but not limited to events, services and communications.
  • Preside over chapter and executive committee meetings.
  • Schedule regular meetings for the executive committee and chapter.
  • Develop meeting agendas in conjunction with Staff liaison.
  • Represent the chapter at meetings and events as needed.
  • Ensure committee members understand their roles and responsibilities.
  • Serve as immediate past chair for one (1) year upon completion of term(s) as chair.
  • Make an annual gift to UCF to an area of your choosing.
Chair-elect/Vice Chair
  • Assist the chair in the execution of their duties, acting on the chair’s behalf when necessary, including presiding over meetings and representing the chapter at official functions in absence of the chair.
  • Actively participate and support the planning and execution of all chapter activities.
  • Manage subcommittees as designated by the chapter.
  • Assume the role of chair at the end of the current chair’s term or at which time the current chair is unable to fulfill their term.
  • Make an annual gift to UCF to an area of your choosing.
Communications Chair
  • Assume the primary responsibility of internal and external communications, i.e. an alumni newsletter.
  • Maintain chapter social media sites and web content with staff liaison.
  • Notify executive committee and chapter members of meetings and send reminders.
  • Record or appoint a member to record minutes at all chapter meetings.
  • Ensure meeting announcements, agendas and minutes of all executive committee and chapter meetings are properly prepared and distributed in a timely manner.
  • Maintain a file of chapter materials for archival and business record purposes.
  • Send timely responses to inquiries received via email, social media and events.
  • Make an annual gift to UCF to an area of your choosing.
Philanthropy Chair
  • Maintain a working knowledge of UCF areas of support, ways to give and applicable campaign dates and deadlines.
  • Disseminate information about giving opportunities to the alumni chapter.
  • Serve as primary liaison between Alumni Engagement and Annual Giving regarding giving priorities and campaigns.
  • Ensure 100 percent annual giving of the board in coordination with the staff liaison.
  • Make an annual gift to UCF to an area of your choosing.
Immediate Past Chair
  • Serve as a mentor to new executive committee and chapter members.
  • Provide leadership during the nomination and election of new executive committee members in consultation with the executive committee.
  • Preside over meetings and represent the chapter at official functions in the absence of the chair and chair-elect.
  • Assume the duties of chair-elect in the event they are unable to fulfill their term.
  • Make an annual gift to UCF to an area of your choosing

All positions are expected to make a philanthropic contribution to UCF annually by Dec. 1, and encouraged to attend all chapter meetings and events.

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