The Vice President reports to the President. The Vice President shall, in the absence of the President, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the President, and shall perform such other duties as specified below:

Overall Management

The Vice President supports TheArcLink's mission, and is familiar with all aspects of its operation. During the initial period of employment, the Vice President will participate in extension orientation and training by the President. At the end of training, the Vice President will assume responsibility for the daily operation of TheArcLink:  responding to online inquiries, conducting webinars to participating providers and to Roommates users. The Vice President will work jointly with the President on marketing communications to states and to providers. The Vice President will attend board meetings as a nonvoting member.

Marketing

Marketing activities include communicating via email, training webinars and direct personal contact to participating providers, potential participating providers, Roommates users, representatives of new potential state subscribers to Roommates, potential funders for the National FindFamily Registry and potential underwriters and supporters for TheArcLink in general. The Vice President will also staff exhibits at state and national meetings as requested by the President.  Product Development TheArcLink periodically develops new products in response to consumer demand or perceived market gap. Key to development are regular conversations with stakeholders, knowledge of the market niche, focus group results, and a knowledge of TheArcLink's internal engineering capacity to develop specific applications. Since the initial launch of TheArcLink in 2000, these new products have been developed and introduced: The TheArcLink Calendar, the Medicaid Reference Desk, MyPlan (an online individual needs assessment in conjunction with the Medicaid Reference Desk), Roommates and the National FindFamily Registry.  TheArcLink also hosts the websites of other disability organization on request. The Vice President will be a key participant in the process of all new product development, and will serve as the lead contact for new products as assigned by the President. Supervision The Vice President has no supervisory duties, except when functioning as the President.

Required Skills

* Advanced verbal and written communication skills

* Ability to function productively in a small team environment that includes the President, engineering staff and interns, and bookkeeping interns

* Knowledgeable user of Adobe DreamWeaver and all Microsoft Office 2007 applications

* More advanced technical IT engineering skills are not required

* Orientation to and familiarity with the field of cognitive disabilities

The application deadline is June 10, 2008.

For more information or to apply, see the ArcLink website or email vicepresident@thearclink.org.

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